The other party activities included making Valentine’s Cards for each other and painting and decorating their own puppy houses for their 3 mini plush puppies that they each received as a take home favor. The girls also made Valentine’s Cards to accompany the puppies, decorated the puppy boxes and after the event, delivered them to our local hospital’s children’s ward. However, to meet the budget restriction, I asked each mom if they would be willing to provide a new, unused plush puppy for the girls to accessorize instead. I initially came up with the idea to have the girls do a “build-a-bear” type of activity where they would stuff the puppies and make a wish on the star that goes inside (that would have put me way over budget), and then deliver them to our local hospital’s children’s ward to give to 4 little girls. I wanted to incorporate a way for the girls to do a community service project as part of the party to show love to others. Valentine’s Day is all about love but more importantly, it’s about showing love to others. I consider myself a “design rebel” and I fought with the urge to do a non-traditional color palette for Valentine’s Day but after deciding on the theme and facing reality on the limited budget, I ended up with the traditional pink, white, black and of course, true to my style…added silver and bling! The “Puppy Luv” party printables were all custom designed and are now available for sale from our shop I sent a copy of the designs to my girl Lynlee of Lynlee’s Petite Cakes and she created fondant toppers that matched PERFECTLY! Thanks Lynlee for participating in this challenge with me! Little girls’ idea of “love” is innocent and their love of puppies TOTALLY fit the bill! That was my jumping off inspiration point. My daughters LOVE puppies! The theme “Puppy Luv” was born out of my 3 year old’s current complete crush on the 5 puppies from the Disney Air Buddies movie series. When I found out the budget was only $100 I knew too that I must do a theme that my daughters like and in a color palette that I’ve done before since I may have to raid their room (and my design stash) to use some of their toys and some of my own items to pull it off. I knew right away that I wanted to do a super girly party that my 2 daughters & their 2 BFF’s would LOVE to come to. Wait…did I mention the esteemed panel of judges? Sandra Downie Event Designs, Chris Nease from Celebrations at Home, Kristy from The Purple Pug, Laura from Eye Candy Event Details and Courtney from Pizzazzerie! OOOHHHH….THE PRESSURE! All 7 of us event designers were given the theme of “Valentine’s Day Love” and we had to come up with a event design interpreting the love theme any way we wanted with a main table, activity, sweets and favors…all for…WAIT FOR IT…WAIT FOR IT…$100 budget! WHAT? Impossible, right? NOT EXACTLY. Most of you know that I was one of 7 designers asked to compete in the 2nd Designer’s Challenge hosted by the fabulous Sparkling Events & Designs.
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