My daughter’s birthday is at the end of August, right before school starts and with her being in Kindergarten this year, we decided to wait and have her 5th birthday party a little bit later so that we could invite all of her new school friends. Just as we started to plan her party, I received the opportunity to participate in a promotion for the new Barbie movie, The Princess & The Popstar. My daughter LOVES anything Barbie, so the decision about what kind of party we should have was too easy!

I recruited Debbie from Wants & Wishes Design to design the invitation and all of the other party printables for our party. She was AMAZING and captured my vision for the party perfectly! It all started with these cool “backstage pass” invitations, which all the girls (and mom’s) absolutely loved…I got tons of compliments on how fun and cute they were!

As the girls arrived at the party, they were directed to a seat at the table where some Barbie coloring pages and a box of crayons was waiting for them. The crayons were covered in matching scrapbook paper and a 2″ party circle. Little girls this age LOVE to color so this was the perfect activity for them while we waited for all of the guests to arrive.

I used silver stars I bought at a local party supply store to serve as a table runner and then added a glass jar full of pop star sunglasses and a tray of little pink and white boxes. They all took home a pair of glasses as part of their favors and the little striped boxes held necklaces we made.

After everyone arrived, the girls ate a snack which consisted of a sandwich, strawberry yogurt, a fruit cup and drinks. The party was held right after school so I wanted them all to have a healthy snack before we dove into all the sweets

I added more 2″ party circles to the fruit cups to dress them up a bit.

While we were waiting for all the girls to finish eating their snack, they were able to play with the new Barbie characters in the movie, Tori and Keira along with the Barbie The Princess & The Popstar Music & Lights Castle. They were all so cute and absolutely loved playing with the new dolls and castle. They especially liked how the stairs in the castle lit up when you walk on them and then you push a little button and a snippet from the theme song plays.

After our snack, we gathered up our popcorn and candy to watch the movie. The girls could choose from strawberry, grape, or white chocolate popcorn and then they filled their bags with all sorts of fun candy to munch on while enjoying the show.

As you can tell, they totally enjoyed the movie and looked so cute wearing their princess crowns, eating their yummy treats.

Now it was time for cake, cupcakes & ice cream. My sweet friend Ashlee from I’m Topsy Turvy created THE MOST AMAZING cake for the party! I told her it was a Barbie Princess & The Popstar party and that I thought it would be cool to have a guitar cake and this is what she came up with. I was seriously floored. It was so cool and the girls thought it was the neatest thing!

I didn’t want to cut the cake, but Madi insisted. It was chocolate flavor inside and it was delicious! We also had vanilla cupcakes with cute toppers for those who didn’t want chocolate cake.

I saw these darling microphone cupcakes here on The Baking Spot and attempted some of those for the party as well. They turned out okay, but not as cute as the professionals.

The girls went home with a favor box that I embellished with bright pink ribbon and a large round sticker favor tag that Debbie created. Inside the box was a Barbie Princess & The Popstar fairy doll, sunglasses, a tiara, crayons, bottle cap necklaces & keychains that we made and a CD with some of Madi’s favorite songs on it.

All of the girls (and of course Madi) had such a great time…they were so darling and just loved the new Barbie The Princess & The Popstar movie. I’ve already been told by a couple of moms that their daughters now want them to buy the movie and dolls. Not surprising!

Vendors:

Invitation, 2″ circles, food labels, favor tags, CD case, 1″ circles, popcorn boxes- Debbie of Wants and Wishes Design

Cake – Ashlee of I’m Topsy Turvy

Gable boxes, sunglasses, pink & white containers, party plates, straws – Zurchers

Pink & white striped bags, white fruit cups – Gygi’s

This is a sponsored post from One2One Network. Mattel product and additional incentives were provided to me.  All opinions stated are my own.

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I’m SO EXCITED, I can’t even control myself!  My little girl Madison’s Beach Barbie Party was featured on Amy Atlas Events today!!!  Amy is such an inspiration to me…her dessert tables are just AMAZING  and I would love to be her someday

The whole idea for the Beach Barbie party came about because Madi’s favorite movie (since she got it for Easter) is Barbie in a Mermaid’s Tale.  She watches it ALL the time!  She kept saying she wanted a Barbie party, and with her birthday right at the end of summer, I thought a Beach Barbie party only seemed appropriate.

Madi’s favorite colors are pink, purple and violet (that’s exactly what she says!) so I knew I had to incorporate these colors into her party theme.  When I was searching for printables on Etsy, I came across a Malibu Barbie collection from Cathy at Five O’ Five Designs+Paperie and she gladly worked with me to change up the colors of her original collection to match my ideas.  Cathy also created this darling invitation to go along with the party theme – it turned out so cute!

The Barbie silhouette and hibiscus flowers were used throughout the party theme, including the dessert table, printables, and favors.

For activities at the party, the little girls colored Barbie pages, decorated flip flops with sparkling jewels, and made charm bracelets.  To take all their goodies home, I found these baskets at the dollar store and added the striped ribbon around the bottom, the Barbie silhouette vinyl cutout and the Thank You tag and ribbons to the handle.

Also included in the favor basket were hair elastic lollipops I found at Michaels and a hand sanitizer from Bath & Body Works because Madi is obsessed with hand sanitizer

After the girls finished their activies, we had hamburgers, hot dogs, chips and fruit for lunch and of course dessert.  I found the bamboo placemats at HomeGoods on clearance and then most of the other place setting pieces were purchased from Shop Sweet Lulu (including the blue and white striped plates, pink ice cream bowl, utensils and straws).

I saw those bamboo utensils and thought they would be perfect for the party – so fun!  Each girl had a placesetting with her name on it and a water bottle with the cute wrap from Five O’ Five Designs+Paperie.  I also used a cupcake topper as a sticker to hold the utensils in a napkin.

I found the cute purple tulle poms at Heart to Heart Gifts to hang from the chandelier over the food table.  I added some candy in glass containers as decorations for the table as well.

And finally the dessert table.  You probably recognize the surfboards from my son’s Surf’s Up! party earlier this summer.  I decided to put them to good use by flipping them over and painting the other side to match the colors of the Beach Barbie party.  I added vinyl cutouts of the Barbie silhouette and hisbiscus flowers to keep with the overall theme.

At the center of the dessert table was the darling cake that Jill at Sprinklebelle Cakes made.  Again, I absolutely LOVE what she did – she’s so creative.  I showed her the invitation and printables and she took it from there!

Jill also made these darling cupcakes with fondant hibiscus flowers on tops…so cute!

I’m so happy I found Jen at All Things Exquisite…she can do amazing things with cookies.  Her Barbie silhouette and hibiscus flower cookies turned out gorgeous!

I was able to use my cute new cupcake holder that I found at HomeGoods to hold some more cupcakes embellished with cupcake toppers and a large round Barbie silhouette circle from the printables that Cathy created.

Other desserts on the table included these fun fruit ice pops…the girls LOVED these!

Rice krispie treats in the shape of ice cream cones.  I found the aqua baskets at the dollar store and just stuck the sticks into foam and covered with white paper shred.

A few glass jars filled with candy in the colors of the party were also displayed on the table for the girls to fill their treat bags with.

I couldn’t resist showing you this picture of all the cute girls that came to the party.  It was seriously so much fun and all of them were such darling little things.  Madi had such a fun time and she’s already talking about what she wants for her next party…oh boy!!

And a very special THANK YOU to my amazing friend Laura Sheneman for taking all of these gorgeous photos!

Linking up to: Design Dazzle

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