Saturday, January 25, 2014

Disney Cars 3rd Birthday Party

My son is a huge Cars fanatic so it was a no brainer to have this as his
theme for his 3rd birthday. I will try to explain everything I did for his party
because I know some blogs will post the pictures but don't really explain what 
they did exactly. First and foremost, I'm a Graphic Designer so that will
pretty much explain a lot of the things I did for this party.

I'm going to start of with the party invitations I designed
below using Photoshop. I did the invitations 3 different times
until I was satisfied with the outcome. As you can see, I create my son's 
own personal Cars logo that you will see used in various photos.
I wanted this Disney Cars theme party to be personal and creative throughout.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.


Instead of creating the normal dessert/candy table using just gumballs and etc.
I wanted to use candy that was already boxed and just redesigned the packaging 
using full label sheets to re-wrap them.



I didn't want play any games during the party so I decided 
to create blank Disney Cars themed license plates for kids to create their own. 
Again, I designed everything in Photoshop and used full label paper.
I got these cute little white license plate from the Etsy website.



I did not want to use the same boring plastic party bags so I came up with the
idea to get tool boxes instead and customized them. It took weeks to find these at a decent price
and the color that I wanted as well. I found these boxes on sale at Lowes for $3.99 
each and that was the cheapest I was going to find considering that I had to make
12 of these toolboxes. I measured the front of the box, designed the labels
and printed them on full label paper, and cut to fit.


Here are the VIP Passes I created for all the guest.
I got lucky and found the passes at the Dollar Tree and 
I just designed the passes and inserted them into the blank passes.


You always see custom Hershey labels but I wanted to personalize it
while keeping the word Hershey's visible. Hershey changed the way they
package their candy so I wrapped the prepacked candy in aluminum
foil then wrap the labels around it to give it that old time affect of how they use 
to look, besides it looks a lot better that way.


Below are more pictures of the party....

Here are the custom water bottles I did and the tool box favors in the background


The labeling I did for each table for decor as well as letting people know
what it is.


The party favor table.....


Some of the tables had a road that was actually black cabinet liner
I got from Lowe with yellow duct tape to resemble a race track.


Balloon centerpieces


Refuel Station....
I custom designed engine fluid labels to go on each drink
according to the actual color the fluid itself and I threw in some elements
from the movie such as Rusteez and Donoco.









Cupcake tower with custom cupcake toppers 
I ordered from Etsy.com


Custom Cars Cookies I ordered from Etsy.com


Peanut and Candy mix "Nuts & Bolts"


Twizzlers Candy "Mater's Tow Cables"









The birthday boy!!!!
He has on a Lightening McQueen Tshirt :-)


The Cake!!!
I got the cake sitting on top of a lawn mower tire for decoration.



Sister of the Birthday Boy!!!
I got this cute TuTu outfit custom made from Etsy.com





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