Today I’m sharing some cute printable Happy Easter tags that actually coordinate with our Spring banner, to use for all of your Easter gift-giving needs.

I always like to give little gifts or treats to friends and family for most holidays and these Happy Easter tags are perfect for just about anything!

Simply print the PDF on your color printer at home, or download and bring the file to your local office supply store (Office Depot is my personal fave!) and have them print out the tags for you. Cut out the tags with your pretty gold scissors or a paper trimmer, punch a hole in the corner of the tag and attach with coordinating ribbon to your gifts.

Use the tags and attach to little candy treats or small gifts.

If you love to use printable for holidays as much as I do, then I know you’ll love a new product and program we launched at the beginning of the year – our printable subscription program – where you get new printables delivered directly to your inbox or mailed to you each month! Click HERE for more details. Our Spring & Easter collections are perfect for this time of year!

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Hello to everyone who happens to be visiting after seeing my segment on Studio 5 about Valentine’s Day party ideas for kids today! Thanks for stopping by!!

3 key elements to a kids Valentine party

1. Decor – make it pretty and fun and colorful by using banners and balloons. Banners can be printed, purchased at Target or a party store or you can make them yourself! A giant heart made out of mini heart balloons makes a great and inexpensive backdrop for a food table or create it on a wall for a photobooth area.
2. Activities to keep the kids attention – make a place setting for each guest with a special name card. I found cute little paper milk cartons for $1.99 on sale at Michaels for a pack of 12. Construct the milk cartons beforehand and add a name tag for each child to find their place at the table. Then have them decorate the milk cartons with washi tape, stickers, ribbon, bows, scrapbook paper, etc. The milk cartons serve as a favor bag as well to hold little Valentine’s Day treats! Another fun and easy activity is to have the kids make their own Valentine’s Day cards using the same supplies as the milk cartons. Valentine’s Day bingo & stack the conversation hearts are 2 fun games to play.
3. Food & Drinks – treats for a kids don’t need to be elaborate. Find some cute Valentine’s Day heart shaped treats (like Little Debbie brownies and snack cakes, Hostess ding dongs & classic pink snowballs) display them on cake plates on top of doilies and add a food flag to dress them up. Add a printable water bottle wrap or some pretty ribbon to the mini water bottles to make them look super cute.

Apologizing in advance for the bad iphone photos!

Here are some links to ideas I mentioned. If you don’t see something I covered here, just ask in the comments below and I’ll be happy to answer!!

Pics & details of my daughter’s Valentine’s Day party

Purchase the Valentine’s Day printable package (which includes the heart banner, art prints, cards & tons more!)

Purchase the mini heart shaped balloons from my online shop

Purchase the pink & red heart shaped confetti in my shop

Click HERE to download the small food flags for treats

The pretty fans & heart banner across the front of the table will be available in the online shop within the next few weeks so stay tuned!

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Last month I had the pleasure of filming a segment on one of our local TV lifestyle programs – KSL’s Studio 5 where I was asked to share some new party trends for 2016. I had a great time and could have talked for hours, lol! Here’s the segment if you want to watch it. This was only my 2nd time being on TV so I’m definitely no pro yet!

In a nutshell the 4 ideas I touched on as party trends for 2016 are:

1. Letter banners made out of glitter cardstock, balloons & pre-made kits are going to continue to be popular.
2. Layering banners and garlands to give you color and texture
3. Balloons will continue to be popular. In particular mylar balloons are back and fabulous when grouped with a bunch of other pretty latex balloons. Confetti filled balloons are a great new trend. And graphic balloons are following the fashion industry and will be on trend. Balloon garlands are the new hot party item.
4. Confetti is larger and comes in all shapes and colors – perfect to dress up a food, dessert or activity table.

What do you think?? Do you agree with some of my picks for 2016 party trends? What would you add to the list? I’d love to hear!!

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I’ve professed my love for the Sugar Paper + Blue Sky Planners collaboration AND the Whitney English Day Designer + Blue Sky Planners collaboration and today I’m sharing another fabulous collaboration…this one’s between the fabulous designer Nicole Miller and Blue Sky Planners!

You probably know Nicole Miller as the eclectic fashion designer from her clothing, jewelry and handbag lines that are sold at top retailers nationwide. Well, now she has partnered with Blue Sky Planners to create some fabulous paper products such as calendars, planners, notebooks, padfolios, desk accessories and more! And they’re available exclusively at Office Depot/Office Max right now, just in time for you start planning your new year in style.

The collection includes over 50 products and the designs feature beautiful stripes and florals along with animal prints and canvas textures and were inspired directly by Nicole Miller’s runway shows. They’re perfect for those women who want to stay organized and do it beautifully as well.

Head to your local Office Depot or Office Max to pick up some great gifts for yourself and those stylish women in your life! And if you want to WIN some of these goodies for yourself, head over to my Instagram account where you can enter to win some fun products from this great collaboration.

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Yay, you’re back!! As I mentioned yesterday, I’m excited to announce that we’re giving away one of these beautiful black and white stripe weekly format Day Designers from the Day Designer Blue Sky collaboration to one lucky winner via the Rafflecopter entry system below!

One of the entries is to comment here on the blog post about your favorite tool or app or “thing” that you use to stay organized and on top of everything. I seriously love to hear what works for other people!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

If you’re an Instagram user, head on over to our Instagram page where we’re giving away 2 of the gold & white stripe daily planners seen below!

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Last month I had the opportunity to attend Alt Summit – a conference for creative bloggers held here in Salt Lake City, Utah. On the first night of the conference, attendees have the opportunity to go to dinner with some of the conference sponsors. I chose to attend the dinner sponsored by Blue Sky, which was held at the restaurant Finca. I chose the Blue Sky dinner because I was already a fan of Blue Sky, who I am familiar with because of their collaboration with Sugar Paper and other designers to create fabulous planners, calendars, notebooks & more. And when I heard that Blue Sky had teamed up with Whitney English and the Day Designer, I was even more excited to hear all about it!

When we arrived at the restaurant for dinner, we had our own private room which was beautifully decorated with gorgeous flower arrangements and a special gift was waiting for each person at their table. Dinner was delicious and the company was just as wonderful. At the end of the night, we opened our little gifts which included some of Whitney’s favorite things: washi tape, her favorite pen, fun lip balm and pretty nail polish. Then Whitney revealed one of the beautiful new products she created in collaboration with Blue Sky – it was a daily edition of the Day Designer product – very similar to her flagship product, but with a few new features including a 3 column format with half hour increments for planning your day.

I started using my planner when it started – on July 1st 2015 and have seriously loved it so far! I’ve never owned a Day Designer before so I am definitely loving the column for my day’s to-do list and top 3, plus having everything on one page for each day is wonderful and keeps me on track. The daily gratitude box is another favorite feature to help me reflect on the day and jot down at least a couple things I was grateful for that day.

I attended a class that Whitney taught at the conference titled: Taming the To-Do List: Eliminate Procrastination, Fuel Productivity, and Find Profitability. I really enjoyed the class and each attendee was given this beautiful floral binder and this classic black and white stripe weekly planner plus a chance to see all the other products that would be available in the collaboration. You all know I’m a total paper, notebook, calendar, planner lover and I was just in heaven checking them all out!

On June 22nd Whitney and Blue Sky announced that all the beautiful products in this collaboration would be available at Target stores nationwide beginning July 12th – that’s only a few days away!! I’ve definitely been seeing Instagram posts of the products available sooner though, so you might want to go stalk your local Target to see if you can find them at your store now! Sadly I haven’t seen them on the shelf at my Target yet. I absolutely LOVE that Blue Sky is collaborating with fabulous designers to bring beautiful planners and calendars to everyone through Target stores.

I think everyone’s going to have their own favorite format/layout depending on their specific needs, but I personally love the gold stripe daily planner because it keeps my days organized and focused on everything I need to get done each day. Plus I’m a sucker for stripes!

I’m also excited to have the classic black and white stripe desk calendar to pretty up my desk!

So…have you seen these gorgeous goodies at your Target yet?? What item do you think is going to be your favorite??

Stay tuned tomorrow for a fun surprise!! (hint: it starts with g and ends with away)

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Hello everyone! Today I’m over at Bloom Designs sharing a fun printable Summer popsicle gift tag as part of Jenny’s Summer in Bloom series. I’d love for you to hop over there to check out my cute popsicle gift tags that can be used for any summer event, celebration or gift.

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This post is sponsored by We R Memory Keepers and HSN but all opinions are my own.

It’s no secret that I love planning parties and creating handmade elements to make a celebration extra special. I’m helping with a baby shower next week for a cute girl in my neighborhood who’s having a little boy. The colors I chose for the shower are the same ones in this fabulous tissue paper tassel garland we sell in the shop: royal blue, aqua, mint gray and silver.

I’ll be using the tissue tassel garland as decor but wanted to add some additional DIY elements as well, including this fun paper bowtie garland in a coordinating color scheme and a colorful felt ball garland as well. You can never have too many garlands in my opinion!

To make my paper bowtie garland I used supplies that came in this fun new punch board party pack from We R Memory Keepers. You guys, this kit is AMAZING! It comes with everything you see above: 123 punch board, banner bunch board, twine, packing tape, 12×12 patterned paper pad and a project idea book. You know how much I love to make bows & banners for parties (as evidenced here and here and here) and this kit will make those things PLUS envelopes, envelope liners and boxes – so fun!!

And here are the specific supplies I used for my paper bowtie garland: paper trimmer, 123 punch board, 12×12 paper, twine, adhesive and a small 2 hole punch. All instructions for making 6 different sizes of bows are included and they were very easy to make. The instructions tell you how to make a more fancy bow, but since I’m making bowties I eliminated 1 piece of paper and 1 step in the process. The basic steps are shown below.

Here’s where I used my little 2 hold punch to create holes for my twine to string through.

And here’s my twine strung through the holes on my bow. Just keep making bows and stringing them onto the twine to create the length you need.

I hung my tissue paper tassel garland over my mirror in my entryway and added the bowtie garland and felt ball garlands on top of it. But they’ll all be coming to the baby shower with me next week!

The awesome We R Memory Keepers 123 Punch Board Party Kit is available to buy exclusively on HSN next Tuesday March 24th so set your alarms and head on over there Tuesday! The kit is a one time special and will be discounted below retail pricing.

I can’t wait to make the banners, envelopes & boxes with my punchboards next!

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Who’s ready for St. Patrick’s Day?? Are you decorating for the upcoming rainbow and gold Irish holiday? Last year I created some fun St. Patrick’s Day art prints using stripes with a gold clover in various color schemes. I’m still loving those colors for St. Patrick’s Day and created another free St. Patrick’s Day printable – a Kiss Me I’m Irish art print in 4 different color options – black, kelly green, light green and mint green. And who doesn’t love those gold lips?? Totally digging them right now!

All you need to do is download the PDF file in the color of your choice by clicking on one of the boxes at the end of this post. Then print on white cardstock on your home computer or take to a local print shop like Office Depot or Staples.

Once you’ve downloaded & printed your file onto cardstock, simply cut along the lines with a paper cutter or scissors to create an 8×10 inch print. Then insert into a picture frame and you’re all set!

For all my newsletter subscribers, stay tuned for an exclusive matching decor item that pairs perfectly with our new art print! If you’re not already on our newsletter list, sign up in the box below or on any of the sign up areas on the blog!

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Hello everyone! Just wanted to pop in & let you know I’m over with Cindy at Skip To My Lou sharing a fun printable Valentine’s Day game for kids if you want to head over there & check it out! This game is a classic and is great for classroom parties or just playing at home with siblings or friends!

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