Rain Shower Baby Shower

"Shower" the mom-to-be with love with this modern, gender-neutral, rain drops & clouds decorated baby shower! I designed the party printables for my sis-in-law who knows that the gender of her baby is a girl, but she is NOT a girly-girl kind of mama, so I wanted to make something that reflected her style...

Each guest received a pop of sunshine in the mail... With a vibrant and bright yellow chevron pattern and mint colored accents, this invitation set the tone for a fun event to come!

Each invitation asked the guests to bring a children's book in replace of a card and included a printable bookplate for the guest's to adhere in their book. Now, the new mama and dad will be able to read each book to their new bundle and know which book came from a guest from the shower!

At the shower, the drink station was one of the focal points. Fun tissue-paper-clouds with paper rain drops framed a darling printable banner. Water bottles were spruced up with printable paper wraps and mason jars were filled with a darling yellow striped straw and paper cloud-shaped tag.

We managed to add a pop of pink in for the baby-girl-to-come with pink lemonade!

Yellow and mint green was the perfect color palette for this non-girly mama, but would also be perfect for showering a mom-to-be who doesn't know the gender of her baby.

Tissue "poms" made the perfect white clouds with paper rain drops hanging from each...

Each place setting had a printable place mat to add a pop of color...

Everything had a label, from the napkins to fruit kabobs...

Its always great when you have a talented family member who can contribute to the party... we hired "Aunt Linda" to make her famous, and delicious, cake pops! Perfectly matching bows and yellow frosting made these cake pops the biggest hit of the party!

Can't get enough of the details!

Guests scooped lemon drops into their own chevron-printed baggie...

Cloud and Rain drop shaped cookies made for fun, playful and tasty take-home favors...

Every baby shower needs games and prizes... riiiight?! We didn't want to give a gift that would end up in the trash {you know what I'm talking about} so winners of Baby-Shower-Bingo and Guess the Celeb Baby won these bad boys... Custom made chalk boards, by my fabulously talented sis-in-law, at Leisure Living Furniture ...

Here's the party in action!

Create your own modern Cloud & Rain Drop Baby Shower using nellie*design's printable party package...

Close up of the invitation suite...

Be sure to break the ice with these FUN baby shower games! Here are those FREE Printable Game Sheets...

Guess The Celebrity Baby Game
and Answer Key

Baby Shower Bingo

Celebrity Baby Game Answer Key Found HERE! :)

New Year :: New Domain :: New Lessons Learned

So, I recently learned some life lessons. Aren't those the worst. I "lost" my old web domain {for reasons somewhat out of my control}. Ol' "nellie-design.com" is a goner. Thankfully, because we're only talking about a blog here, this is a life lesson that only bruises the ego! I'm truly blessed that today's lesson isn't something really serious. In fact, from this lesson, I've mostly learned that this isn't THAT big of deal! There is SO much worse in the world. Of course, at first, when my web address was bought out, I had a pity party.... I thought about all the links out there going to my old site... all that hard work, gone. Of course, people can still find my past posts, but, in today's world, with the easy-access-link-sites like pinterest... that's a lot of lost links! :( But, it's okay.

So! I hope you will all stick with me here, at my new domain! It's a long one, so you'd better write it down or update your online readers! Nope, there's no www{dot}. ;P

http://nelliedesignblog.blogspot.com/

Keep your eye out... I'll be posting about an adorable gender neutral baby shower very soon!

P.S... Happy New Year! Here's a peek at our Christmas Card from this year. Our beautiful family photos are by my very talented friend, Katie, over at Ivy in the Bay!

-Nellie

Customer Approved! Preppy Seersucker 1st Birthday

Take a look at this darling party a customer of mine created for her son's first birthday. We worked exclusively to create the printable invitation and select party decor. We created the entire printable design around the Seersucker Onesie Stickers, offered in my Etsy Shop.

Little Brooks looks like quite the ham! Isn't he darling in his head-to-toe seersucker! I love a mama who has fun with ALL the details!

Green polkadot paper, on each table top, made for a great contrast against the soft blue seersucker designs! Don't all those sweets look stunning! I like how Brooks' mama, Alison, used the 2" party tags as cupcake toppers, lollipop tags and even candy jar labels.

Each guest could fill up their own bag of candy and enjoyed a tasty whale cookie as a take-home favor!

Every detail, from flagged fruit kabobs, to green sprinkled marshmallow pops, to green striped straws, all brings together a fabulously thought out presentation! This is one darling first birthday!

The mantle, adorn with home-made-pennant, large block letters, gorgeous photos of  the birthday boy and a banner of month-to-month pics makes for stand-out focal point. Aren't those water bottles so sweet with a tiny blue ribbon wrapped on each?

The candy jars, filled with color-coordinating treats and spruced up with a printable tag, add a light-hearted charm to this baby's first birthday!

I just love little Brooks' vintage wooden high chair... and those paper streamers behind... so fun! His mama tied a printable banner and had a bib and party hat made to match the party decor, too!

Ah, sweet success! Great job, Alison, on making such a special event to celebrate your little guy. He is adorable!

Create your own Seersucker Party! Choose from a selection of motifs and blue or pink seersucker to have it fit your little birthday boy or girl perfectly!