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Newly Designed Sweet 16 or 15 Favors

Hello Blossomers!

We’re continuing our journey through the new design update. Today I’ll be giving you the details about our Personalized Sweet 16 (or 15) Favors. I’m sure you all know customers love to go all out for their teens on this milestone celebration. We’ve got just the right amount of glitz and glam or elegance and class to complete the girls’ dream party.

To start, we’ve boosted the amount of design icon options up to 25. There are flashy Sweet 16 & Quinceañera icons such as glittering “16”s and 16/15 Crowns and there are also elegant icons like a Sweet Sixteen banner and modern 16/15 pink cupcakes. All of our new and updated icons include more detail to make our favors POP! In addition to the new icon designs, new options for custom labels include a choice of a background pattern, a background color, and an accent color.

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Our most popular Personalized Sweet 16 & Quinceañera Favors include:

Personalized Sweet 16 (or 15) Sweet Shoppe Candy Boxes
Even though she is turning into a young woman, your customers’ girls’ will still have a sweet tooth! These shimmery candy boxes are a great way for guests to fill their own goodie bag at a Sweet Treats Candy Bar or they can be pre-packaged with party favors for guests to take home and enjoy.

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Personalized Sweet 16 (or 15) Cupcake Toppers & Wrappers
Homemade confections will never look so pretty! Customers can dress up their cupcakes for their Sweet 16 (or 15) party with these cupcake wrappers and toppers.

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Personalized Sweet 16 (or 15) Candy Bar Wrapper Covers
The theme of “sweetness” is always popular for Sweet 16 or 15 events. These Candy Bar Wrapper Covers are eye-catching and original. Plus, they’re the simplest way to customize a candy bar.

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Personalized Sweet 16 (or 15) Frame Labels
These Frame Labels are a convenient options for customers looking to customize their favors and decorations. They can be placed on almost anything and come in a wide variety of colors!
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Sweet Sixteens & Quinceañeras can never be too sweet!

-Julie

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Candy Bar Wrapper Covers Feature in Gifts & Decorative Accessories Magazine

Welcome Back Blossomers!

We are delighted to have our items featured by our friends at Gifts and Decorative Accessories Magazine! Our Personalized Candy Bar Wrapper Covers are highlighted, showcasing the ease of assembling the covers on the candy bars, compared to re-wrapping them with foil before adding a custom label.

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Our Candy Bar Wrapper Covers have over 40 categories to choose from such as Wedding, Birthday, Vegas, Graduation and more all including numerous icons, color options, and patterns from our brand new update.

Thanks again to Gifts and Accessories Magazine for producing such a wonderful feature on our Candy Bar Wrapper Covers!

-Julie

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Newly Designed Birthday Party Favors

Hello Everyone!

We know our customers work hard to plan and decorate their birthday parties to ensure they are celebrations their guests and the Birthday Star will remember. Today I’ll be taking you on a tour of our newly designed Personalized Birthday Party Favors so that you can help your customers give a birthday celebration that won’t be forgotten.

The new layouts for our Birthday Party Favors are more stylish and modern than ever. Party planners will have the option of choosing a background color, an accent color, and a design pattern for their custom labels. New design icons consist of birthday balloons, banners, and candles, just to name a few. Our icons have brighter colors and amazing details.

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Some of our popular Personalized Birthday Party Favors include:

Personalized Birthday Chevron & Dots Goodie Bags
Customers can use these stylish goodie bags to give out party favors or at a sweet treats candy bar where guests can grab & go as they please.

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Personalized Birthday Mini Mason Jars
Party goers will love these trending Mini Mason Jars! Suggest baking individual cakes in them, filling them with loose-leaf tea, spices, or candy. They’re also great as reusable take home containers for dips and salsas.
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Personalized Birthday Mini Candy Bar Wrappers
These bite-sized candy wrappers are a simple and unique way for your customers to add some extra pop to their décor. Spreading these on tables, filling goodie bags, and adding them to a candy buffet are just a few ways to use these little pieces of heaven.
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Personalized Birthday Frame Labels
These custom labels are a great way for the host to personalize items and decorations they already have.
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Find these Personalized Birthday Party Favors and many more on our website and stay tuned for more updates on other categories we’ve redesigned!

-Julie

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Newly Designed Vegas Favors

Welcome back to The Blossomer!

Summer is approaching faster than we realize. Whether you’re celebrating a birthday, a marriage, or just going on a trip to get away, Vegas is a number one spot to visit over the Summer. Customers are already ordering favors to share with their fellow vacationers on their trips to Vegas or to give a taste of sin city to attendees at their Vegas themed event. Today we will be giving you all the details of our newly designed Personalized Vegas Themed Favors that you can suggest to your customers.

With over 20 favors to choose from, your customers will have no problem finding the best item that will bring some extra luck on their trip. Not only are there more design icons to choose from, but Vegas goers will also have more color and pattern options.

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Some of our popular Vegas Themed Favors include:

Personalized Vegas Playing Cards
Allow your customers to hone in on their Poker and Black Jack skills or practice card tricks with these Playing Cards. Personalize these decks with custom colors, patterns, designs, and names or a special message.

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Personalized Acrylic Luggage Tags
Vegas goers will feel at ease with the ability to keep track of everyone’s luggage when they use our Acrylic Luggage Tags. Personalize these tags with custom colors, patterns, designs, and names or a special message.

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Personalized Vegas Suitcase Tins
What better way to symbolize a fun trip than with suitcase favors? Vacationers can fill these suitcase tins with memorabilia like poker chips or white dice. Personalize these tins with custom colors, patterns, designs, and names or a special message.

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Personalized Vegas Frame Labels
If your party planners are looking to personalize their own items, suggest decorating their favors with our Vegas Personalized Frame Labels. These labels can be placed on almost any item of their choice. Personalize the labels wiyh custom colors and names or a special message.
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Whether they’re traveling to Vegas or throwing a Sin City Bash, Vegas vacationers are sure to hit the jackpot with our newly designed favors.

Don’t forget to wish them luck!

-Julie

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New Designs & Favors to Congratulate the Class of 2014

Hello Blossomers!

We know the school year is ending and graduation parties are being planned. A graduation is absolutely a cause for celebration. Allow your customers to congratulate their graduates with Event Blossom’s celebratory Graduation Favors!

Make decorating easier on your customers with our Graduation Decorations Starter Kit. This kit comes with 6 key components for dressing up a food or dessert table.

After, your customers can build on this kit for a more personalized look by adding some of our personalized Graduation themed favors.

Offer to congratulate their graduate’s sweet success with Personalized Graduation Candy Wrapper Covers.

Suggest using our Personalized Graduation Goodie Bags as a “pack your own” favor their guests can take home.

If your customers are worried about sitting in the heat during those outdoor ceremonies & celebrations, they would appreciate our Colored Paper Fans matching their school’s colors or our Personalized Graduation Water Bottle Labels, which are available in a durable weather proof material, so the bottles can be chilled.

All of our Graduation Favors have new, eye-catching 2014 design options your customers can choose from.

Continuing with the Graduation theme, the Tip today is a gift for the graduates. If you or your customers are looking for inspiration for an inexpensive and creative gift for a grad, check out an idea we found on Pinterest from Think Crafts!.

We all know every grad wants and needs money. What an original way to gift it! Check out this project and more party ideas on Event Blossom’s Graduation Time! board on Pinterest.

Congratulations to the Class of 2014!

-Julie

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2014 Favor Design Update

Hello Blossomers!

Event Blossom is ecstatic to announce our newly updated favor designs.  Our staff has been working hard for the past few months, brainstorming ideas to refresh our classic Event Blossom themes. When Event Blossom first began, we only had a few key designs for wedding events and baby showers. The company then expanded, covering themes such as seasons, Vegas themed events, birthdays, and graduations. As time has passed, we felt the need to refresh and add contemporary designs to our collection. This week, we are introducing the brand new, refreshed designs. Here’s a quick run down of what we have just released:

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Our Theme favors are your ideal set of designs for any kind of celebration. We have newly designed icons from a love arrow for wedding celebrations to a stack of yummy macaroons to celebrate the opening of a new bakery, plus more color and pattern options for our Theme designs. Choose from patterns like colorful dots, stripes, chevron zig-zags, and more for the background of labels, plus a variety of bright accent colors. Popular Favors include:

Personalized Milk Bottle & Seed Packet Favors
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Baby Shower
Our Baby Shower favors have new design icons as well.  Choose different icons from cute sayings such as, “Sugar & Spice” or “Little Man”, blue and pink storks or showering umbrellas. We’ve also added icons for Baptisms and Christenings. Customers will have more color and pattern options for our Baby Shower designs. Choose from patterns like colorful dots, stripes, chevron zig-zags, and more for the background of labels, plus a variety of bright accent colors. Popular Favors include:

Personalized Small 4 oz Mason Jars & Clear Candy Bags
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Birthday Party Favors
Our newly designed Birthday Party favors add a splash of color to any party. Choose from new icons like birthday banners, balloons, or even milestone birthday candles. Party planners will also have more color and pattern options for our Birthday Party designs. Choose from patterns like colorful dots, stripes, chevron zig-zags, and more for the background of labels, plus a variety of bright accent colors. Popular Favors include:

Personalized Mini Mason Jars & Goodie Bags
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Sweet 16 or 15 Favors
Our brand new Sweet 16 or 15 Party Favor designs range from elegant cakes and party dress to fun, glittery 16 icons. We also have more color and pattern options for our Sweet 16 or 15 Party designs. Choose from patterns like colorful dots, stripes, chevron zig-zags, and more for the background of labels, plus a variety of bright accent colors. Popular Favors include:

Personalized Candy Bar Wrapper Covers & Cupcake Wrappers & Toppers
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Fall Favors
The Fall Favors offer new designs featuring inviting earthy color tones with icons of falling Autumn leaves and trees. Your customers will also have more color and pattern options for the Fall Favors including designs like dots, stripes, chevron zig-zags, and more for the background of labels, plus a variety of bright accent colors. Popular Favors include:

Personalized Square Candle Tins & Sweet Shoppe Candy Boxes
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Winter Favors
Our new Winter Favor designs are sure to warm up any occasion. New design icons include jolly reindeer and penguins, brightly wrapped gifts, and even a “Happy New Year” wish. Customers will also have more color and pattern options for our Winter Favor designs. Choose from patterns like dots, stripes, chevron zig-zags, and more for the background of labels, plus a variety of bright accent colors. Popular Favors include:

Personalized Mini Mason Jars & Hot Cocoa + Optional Whisk
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Graduation Favors
Congratulate new graduates with our new Graduation Favor designs. Choose from graduation hats and diplomas to their graduation year. More color and pattern options for our Graduation Favor designs are available. Choose from patterns like dots, stripes, chevron zig-zags, and more for the background of labels, plus a variety of bright accent colors. Popular Favors include:

Personalized Water Bottle Labels & Mini Gable Boxes
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Kids’ Birthday Party Favors
Our newly designed Kids’ Party favors offer fun and stylish designs. New icons include superhero boys and girls, tutus, trucks and tractors, and much, much more. Our birthday party designs match a variety of party themes including sports, pirates, and princesses. Your customers will also have more color and pattern options for our Kids’ Birthday Party Favor designs. Choose from patterns like dots, stripes, chevron zig-zags, and more for the background of labels, plus a variety of bright accent colors. Popular favors include:

Personalized Mini Mason Jars & Sweet Shoppe Candy Boxes
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Vegas Favors
Offer Vegas vacationers some extra luck on their trips with our new Vegas Favor designs. Icons include white dice, the Welcome to Vegas sign, and a “Lucky in Love” wish. Customers will have more color and pattern options for our Vegas Favor designs. Choose from patterns like dots, stripes, chevron zig-zags, and more for the background of labels, plus a variety of bright accent colors. Popular favors include:

Personalized Playing Cards & Acrylic Luggage Tags
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With over 250 skus being refreshed during this update, we understand that it takes time to add these newly designed products to your websites. In order to make sure you have time to make these changes, we will not completely deprecate the old designs from the Event Blossom site until June 30th.  We’ll be using our next few blog posts to give you more information specific to each category.

Although we will be refreshing our classic designs, our Vintage, Chalkboard, Mod Party, and many lines will remain unchanged. This update only affects some of our oldest skus which were due for reengineering.

-Julie

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Spring Themed Favors

Hello Blossomers!

Still have customers looking for last minute Spring party favors? Look no further because we’ve got a whole category dedicated to Spring Themed events. Many inspiring and creative bloggers, such as Lindy from Dandy Lion, believe Spring is the season when people brighten up by getting out of their homes and into to the sun. Lindy shares ways to make a Spring event special, including personalizing favors and incorporating flowers in all focus pieces of your event.

If your customers would like to offer their guests bright and fresh Spring favors, suggest our popular Mason Jar Drinking Glasses with Flower Cut Lids. Guests can add a striped or chevron straw to these favors for cocktail hour or fill them up with fresh fruit.

Another popular item you can suggest to your customers are our “Please Be Seeded” Seed Packet Place Cards & our “Plant With Love” Seed Packet Favors. Both items include seeds guests can take home and plant to remember the newly bloomed love. The place cards can even double as party favors.

Customers looking to show off bright, colorful Spring flowers, offer our Flower Favor Boxes. These favor boxes can be filled with treats, mints, or even flower seeds. We offer seven different bright flower color options.

All these Spring Themed Favors can be personalized with stylish labels including icons specific to your customer’s event, color and pattern options, and their names or a special message.

Our Tip of the day is an easy, inexpensive project you can share with your customers in need of beautiful center pieces or customers looking for crafty décor for their homes. Pink Pistachio shows us how to transform ordinary glass bottles into bright vases for all your Spring blooms. Check out this Spring project and more on our Pinterest board Spring Themed Parties.

Until next time!

-Julie

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Mother’s Day Gift Ideas

Welcome back to The Blossomer!

Now that we are in the month of May, there is plenty to celebrate including Mother’s Day. According to Block Talk on HRBlock.com, $14.6 billion dollars are spent on Mother’s Day for about 85,400,000 Moms.  Thankfully, we’ve got favors that will help your customers show their Mothers how appreciative they are.

A great small gesture you can offer your customers is making their Mother’s favorite baked goods and presenting them in our Mini Cookie Jars. Add baked goods or candies to these jars and adorn with decorative embellishments such as ribbon or twine, which are both sold separately for an added touch of personality.

For customers looking to give their Mothers multiple, small gifts, suggest our Sweet Shoppe Candy Boxes. These boxes can be filled with sweet treats or pampering goodies, such as nail polishes, nail filers, or our Hand Cream.

For those customers looking to have these favors at their Mother’s Day event, they have the option of including a stylish personalized label sharing a special message or leaving them blank to add their own creative touch.

Our Tuesday Tip today is a gift idea that any Mother is sure to appreciate. We found a fresh Lemon Mint Sugar Scrub by Keri from ShakenTogetherLife.com. Her bright scrub will relax and rejuvenate and fits in 3 of our 4 oz Mason Jars.

Find Keri’s Lemon Mint Sugar Scrub & other creative mason jar projects on our Mason Jars Pinterest board.

-Julie

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Mod Party Kit Stationery Trends Magazine Feature ~ Spring 2014

Hello Blossomers!

We are so thrilled to have our items featured once again by our friends at Stationery Trends Magazine. Our Mod Party Collection is highlighted in a two page spread in Stationery Trends’ National Stationery Show issue, which will be distributed to everyone attending this year’s show in New York City. Specifically, our Pink Circus Party theme kit is featured in the article.



Our Head Designer, Heather Swanson, is interviewed in the article and talks about the struggle she had finding party favors and decorations that matched the jungle theme for her son’s birthday. She was inspired to create a collection full of different themes to make it easier on party planners to find coordinating supplies. Heather also gives insight to how the Mod Party Collection was developed and designed. When asked how she would recommend these kits be promoted and merchandised at retail, Heather advised, “We recommend clients keep Starter Kits in stock. These are pre-packed kits to get a party started and dress up a food or dessert table. They include cupcake wrappers and toppers, a welcome sign, striped straws, and tent cards. Most customers are happy with just the items in the kit, plus it’s offered at a discount rate over buying things individually. The customer who wants to get fancy can order (coordinated) personalized items.”

Thanks again to Stationery Trends Magazine for producing such a lovely feature on our Mod Party Collection.

-Julie

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DIY with our Blank Favors

Welcome back to The Blossomer!

As a lot of you already know, people enjoy working on projects and showing off their favors and decor that they’ve created themselves. Many like the satisfaction of seeing an idea in their head come to life using their own hands. Trendreports.com, a site that keeps a variety of companies updated on the latest trends, published a report in April of 2014 titled “The DIY Trend Report”.  It included DIY market research & consumer trends relating to: home renovation, weddings, crafts & craftmanship. DIY crafts are a trend that have gained a lot of ground.

One of the questions we get asked quite often is whether or not we offer our favors without having to purchase the labels, and the answer is, we do. Your customers are more than welcome to order blank favors that are included in our DIY Blank Favors category. This way they’re able to decorate and customize them to their liking.

Some favorite DIY favors include:

DIY Mini Cookie Jars

DIY Sweet Shoppe Candy Boxes

DIY Mini Mason Jars

We also offer great accessories to our favors including:

Satin Bows

Chevron Straws & Striped Straws

Baker’s Twine

Event Blossom has over 25 DIY Blank Favors, along with 6 add on accessories. Make sure to offer these options the next time your customers want to “Do It Themselves”.

-Julie

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