Did you know in addition to our newly introduced Colored Paper Fan colors, we also have brand new Silk Fan colors? Your customers will love the idea of floating down the aisle accompanied by a cool refreshing breeze. Ideal for a spring or summer event when everyone knows temperatures can go from sunny and mild to blazing and humid in the blink of an eye or to add to an Asian themed event. We have added 9 bright new colors that pop, along with our already popular Blue, Pink, and White.
Fans can make stunning place card holders as well, simply add a place card made of thin paper and weave it through the bamboo stems or open up the fan and place the name card on top.
These practical and pretty fans will keep guests as cool as cucumbers and can even double as favors. Just add one of our personalized tags for a special Thank You note to guests.
REMINDER: Event Blossom will be closed on Monday, September 1st in observance of Labor Day. Our office will be closed and shipping will be paused. Note that UPS is also closed for the holiday and will not be shipping. Please keep this in mind as you are ordering and budget extra days for shipment timings.
Summer is upon us and we all know customers want to keep their guests cool and comfortable at their events, while keeping a stylish atmosphere. Event Blossom has the chic, modern Summer Favors they’re looking for with new design updates. Party planners will get to customize labels with chosen text, colors, patterns and new icons that include flip flops, palm trees, and seashells just to name a few.
Our popular Personalized Summer Favors include:
Personalized Fans
Paddle Fans
Rosette Paper Fans
Silk Fans Available in Blue, Pink, & White
Sandalwood Fans
Colored Paper Fans with all new colors New colors: Deep Purple, Lavender, and Lime Green available July 28th!
Personalized Water Bottle Labels
These labels come with a weatherproof option to keep those bottles nice and cold.
Personalized Wedding Theme Sunscreen
We’ve even got a Beach Party Mod Party Kit that guests can personalize or use the starter kit to have all matching favors and decorations.
All of these Personalized Summer Favors are sure to keep the party planners and their guests cool and happy!
Are your customers already looking for favors that will warm up their guests at a Winter event? Don’t stress because we’ve already got Personalized Winter Favors ready to go. Planning ahead will leave customers happy and stress free.
Our Personalized Winter Favors are decked out with our brand new design icons, layouts, and colors. New icons featuring holiday trees, snowflakes, and even a “Happy New Year” wish are more detailed than ever. Party planners will also be able to pick a background color, accent color, and pattern for their custom labels.
Our most popular Personalized Winter Favors include:
Personalized Winter Hot Cocoa + Optional Heart Whisk
Nothing says Winter like a warm cup of hot cocoa. Guests will feel cozy when making this decadent hot cocoa after a night of celebrating.
Personalized Winter Mint Tins
Customers can show their guests they are “Mint to Be” with our contemporary Mint Tins.
Personalized Winter Sugar Cookie Mix
Warm baked goods are a favorite at holiday parties. Guests can take a bit of that sweetness home with this sugar cookie mix.
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.
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.
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.”
Planning parties can be a headache! Since a lot of you are probably preparing your houses for visitors this Easter Sunday, I thought it was appropriate for today’s update to be all about party planning! After you have finally decided and agreed on a theme for your celebration, you have to spend countless hours at a variety of party stores searching for decorations, favors, games, and all that goes into having a successful party. Well look no further party people!! Our 2014 Mod Party Collection has gotten bigger and better!
Whether you’re hosting a child’s birthday, a shower, or even a bachelorette party, the 2014 Mod Party Collection has all the party supplies you’ll need. Party games? We’ve got five to choose from! Would you like invitations matching your theme? No problem! What about cupcake wrappers and toppers? You know we have them! Mod Party supplies make it easy to get that custom look matching your theme with ease.
All it takes are three simple steps:
1) Pick a theme!
2) Choose the party supplies you need!
A Party Sign
Party Favors
Water Bottle Labels
3) Personalize your favors!
DONE!!!
With over thirty theme options to choose from, our Mod Party Collection is sure to have what you’re looking for!
You can also order a Starter Mod Party Kit! Each Kit includes six key components for dressing up a food or dessert table. You can always build on this kit for a more personalized look by purchasing some of our other accessories.
The Starter Mod Party Kit Includes:
1 Pennant Banner – nine triangles total
1 Party Sign
25 Striped Straws
24 Cupcake Wrappers/Toppers with themed Labels
12 Menu / Place Cards
32 Decorative Stickers with assorted designs Just note! The items in starter kits are NOT PERSONALIZED. Some assembly is required.
Since this weekend is Easter, I thought I’d share a few interesting facts I’ve come across about the holiday!
Did you know?
-After Halloween, Easter is the largest candy consuming holiday.
-90 million chocolate bunnies and 700 million marshmallow peeps are made in the US every year.
-76% of people eating chocolate bunnies eat the ears first.
-91.4 billion eggs are bought.
Have a safe and fun holiday weekend with family and friends! I look forward to seeing your egg dying techniques next week.
Hello, Blossomers! Today, we are celebrating a very momentous occasion. One year ago, this little blog of ours was created and the first post was published. I can still remember how excited I was to announce to everyone (I mean, everyone) that the blog was officially launched and that there were published posts ready to be read. Forty-four posts later and we’re ready to take our little blog to the next level. Expect some exciting changes in the near future. In the meantime, we’re going to celebrate!
Remember our friend, Kate from Sugar Therapy who made some delicious cupcakes for our Mod Party Kits?? Well, she and I worked together to surprise the office with some delicious cupcakes styled up with the help of our Cupcake Party Mod Party Kit.
I would like to thank a moment to thank everyone who has contributed: our wonderful retailers who have participated in our “Quick Q+A’s,” Kate from Sugar Therapy, and of course the entire Event Blossom Family for all their support from getting their pictures taken to helping me brainstorm some good topics. I would especially like to give a huge thank you to everyone who has stopped by our little corner of the internet and read our posts.
It’s been an exciting year, but we’re only getting started. Here’s to more happy blogging!
Change is in the air. Yes, it’s still hot outside. No, leaves haven’t really begun changing colors. But my route to work has changed now that the kids have started shuffling back to school, and today I was able to order my first Pumpkin Spice Latte of the year at the coffee shop (it was amazing). As far as I’m concerned, these two occurrences signify the beginning of Fall. In celebration of this lovely season, I wanted to show you some of my favorite Event Blossom products just for Fall.
Fall is when I start spending a lot more time curled up on the couch with a book. Even though I love my e-reader, this would be my bookmark of choice for those times that I just have to have a real book in my hands.
Eco-Friendly is “in” every day of the year, but I think that the texture of the plantable leaves on these place cards add an extra dose of style.
Hot Apple Cider? Yes, please!
Our “Fall for Love” collection has plenty of great label designs to match the season as well. My favorite label combo for the Fall would have to be Green Chocolate labels with the Branches design. You can check out the entire collection and all of the Fall designs here. Now, I anxiously await the day I can comfortably wear boots and scarves.
I’ve got another fun Q+A for you next week, stay tuned!
One of the wonderful things about living in Southern California is being able to go to the beach all year round. I’ll say it time and time again, we’re pretty spoiled with great weather and great scenery around these parts. While I enjoy having the crashing surf provide a soundtrack to whatever book I happen to be reading, braving the waves and attempting (and usually failing) to body surf, and moseying down the pier or into quaint little stores, my favorite part of the beach has to be the bonfires. A good beach bonfire can beat the winter chill and can cook up some of summer’s best BBQ — an amazing activity for all year round. So if you love the beach just as much as I do, you’ll also love throwing beach themed parties. And the perfect companion to every seaside bash: our Beach Party Mod Party Kits
My perfect beach party would start when the sun rises, end long after it sets and include a very specific list of things. Components I deem necessary for a beach party:
Body board
Swimsuit
Towel
Something to read
Football (I WILL learn how to throw one properly, someday)
Sunscreen
Firewood and all things to start a fire (including someone else to do it for me)
Lots of water
Good friends
Good food
Nothing too fancy or complex. I’ve gone to the beach completely alone and on a total whim plenty of times and still managed to enjoy myself; if you haven’t already gathered, I don’t require much to have a a good time. I know what you’re thinking, “so why would you need a mod party kit?” Well, because despite the few needs I have in order to pull off a fun day at the beach, when you throw in a big group of people, organization and planning is your best friend. Also, not everyone shares my let’s-just-go-and-see-what-happens philosophy especially when they don’t know whether or not they’re going to have something to eat.
A great teacher of mine (and the school’s activities director) used to quote a clever fellow named John Heywood, “many hands make light work.” It applied to my life when I was on student council helping out with campus events, and it still applies years later in my adult life — especially when it comes to planning events. In my opinion, nothing beats a potluck when it comes to making “light work” of a party. With proper planning, a potluck ensures that there’s enough food for everyone and that no one person has to break their small (tiny, in my case) budget. The brand new mod party kit you received can help you get all the pieces organized. Here’s how:
Each Beach Mod Party Kit comes with twelve menu cards with four different designs: palm tree, seashell, starfish, and seahorse. Break down your menu into four categories represented by each of those four designs. Include these cards with the invitations you send out. The categories I use are: snacks, appetizers, side dishes, and dessert. Yes, there is a difference between snacks and appetizers. Snacks are things you can eat on the go and usually grab by the handful, like chips or pretzels. Appetizers are still bite-sized, but a little more substantial like pigs in a blanket or deviled eggs. The snacks will stay out as long as they last while appetizers usually go out when we start cooking dinner.
As the host, I usually provide the main course, plates/cups/utensils/etc., ice, and drinks (or ask everyone to bring their own beverages). I always like to let everyone know this in the invite as well.
Invitations should include all the important stuff plus the potluck information giving everyone a key for the different menu categories. If you feel it’s necessary, add in a note about using disposable and covered food containers. The disposable part is optional but a cover is definitely a must-have at the beach.
When your guests RSVP, ask them what they’re bringing and create a master menu list. This way, if there are any duplicate dishes, you can call and ask if they have an alternative item to bring. This would also be a good time to ask your friends to bring umbrellas, coolers, and folding tables if you don’t have any/enough yourself.
I mentioned earlier that when I host, I usually provide the main dish. When it comes to bonfires, I stick with the classic hot dogs and veggie dogs (with their own a separate skewer — this is important!) for my vegetarian friends. I also make sure to bring all the fixings. After all the details practically sort themselves out, you can focus on which pair of sunglasses goes best with your newest swimsuit.
Usually, I am so excited to take pictures of my creations, but this week’s project turned out to be me just writing things on the menu cards with a permanent marker. Good idea? Yes. Interesting picture? Not so much. So I did something a little different…Here’s a glimpse of what I see when I go to the beach, just for you, Blossomers! Photos taken one lovely morning in Laguna Beach, compliments of my iPhone.
my new friend, Mr. Seagullwearing a long dress didn't stop my from getting my feet wet!taken right before those very waves somehow managed to splash me in the face.
Other ways to use your mod party kit at the beach:
Decorate the volleyball net with the pennant banner or mark off an endzone for football.
Top your masterpiece of a sandcastle with the party icons
Keep up the summer theme and make these Margarita-Flavored Cupcakes by Sugar Therapy and dress them up with the cupcake wrappers and toppers. These zesty and refreshing cupcakes make a great summer dessert for all ages!
