We posted these doilie & heart jars a week ago and wanted to try and recreate them on the 4″ blumeboxes.

While we love the vintage appeal of the mason jar version by crescendoh.com, the blumeboxes offer a pop of color.

Did we mention how easy this was to make? You will need a pack of doilies, felt (red and pink), and string and that is it. The only adhesive needed was to tie down the ends of the string. It was that simple.

How heart-a-licous would a table of  4″ cube blumeboxes in white, pretty n pink, red and passion pink decorated with assorted colored hearts and doilies be for a valentines party?

Posted on January 26th, 2012 at 12:22 pm
Tags: DIY kids activities, valentine's day art project, Valentine's Day Craft Ideas

Love Sweet Love is what we have for our new cake pop/lollipop display box. We here at blumebox have a “thing” for sweets and when we got introduced to cake pops…man oh man it was love at first bite. So we saw fit to design a carrier to house these sweet suckers!

The cake pop /lollipop display simply fits into our 4″ blumebox cube and VOILA! You have yourself one tasty looking display! Of course sky is the limit as to what else you can put into these new displays. We are loving brainstorming all the options.

For Valentine’s Day we tested mini cupcakes that we stuck a stick into. They held up well for the shoot, but we could see that the weight of the cupcake could force itself down the stick overtime.

A party is not a party without something to do, and this bubble gum bauble necklace is by far the cutest thing out there! If you have not met One Charming Party, do! They crafted up this adorable how to and have oodles more!

Inspiration and Photo credits: 1)NHayes Designs 2)One Charming Party

Posted on January 25th, 2012 at 4:10 pm
Tags: boxes to display candy, cake pop insert stands, cake pop stand, dessert table centerpiece ideas, lollipop display boxes

Say it with a heart!  For this shoot we used the 4″ pretty n pink blumebox with the NEW cake pop insert, heart lollies, tiny cinnamon heart candies to fill the bottom, and a heart chalk decal.  The bottom photo is a 6″ red burst blumebox with white mums and mini red carnations along with our heart chalk decal.

We fell in love with these heart chalk details and know you will too! We have a limited quantity of heart chalk decals for Valentine’s Day, so call today to get you order in, to send a message of love on your flower and candy bouquets!

The doilie & hearts project was just too cute for words. It came from Jenny Doh’s Blog, Crescendoh.com, and is inspiration for us to try out on our cubed blumeboxes.

Inspiration and Photo credits: 1) Blumebox  2) Crescendoh.com 3) Blumebox

 

Posted on January 16th, 2012 at 11:05 pm
Tags: chalk board decals, personalized valentines day bouquets, Valentine's Day Craft Ideas

How about a cookie pop for your valentine sweetheart?

These cookie pops are made from two sugar cookies sandwiched together with frosting, on a lollipop stick. The outside cookie was frosted on one side decorated with skittles or whatever other decor you would like to use.

Hostess Tori used a 4″ white cube blumebox and our brand new cake pop insert to display her fun sweet treats. Simple, easy, and cute!

This idea is a easy to tailor for any event or holiday.

For info on ordering cookie pop, cake pop, lollipop inserts, contact us.

Inspiration and Photo credits: 1) Thoughtfully Simple

Posted on January 16th, 2012 at 4:51 pm

Did someone say gumdrops?  I’m there.  Seriously who doesn’t love gumdrops?  Such a fantastically bright and cheery Holiday party from Paper and Pigtails and also featured on Hostess with the Mostess.   We love all of the colorful creative details that were included in this party.  The gumdrop trees, the gumdrop cake, gumdrop necklaces, gumdrop shaped cookies, and of course the gumdrop bouquets in the 6″ white bright blumeboxes.

All of these great details would also work well for a Candyland themed party!

Posted on December 21st, 2011 at 10:53 am
Tags: blumebox gumdrop bouquet, dessert table centerpiece ideas, gumdrop centerpiece, sweet table decor

Yesterday, I got to spend a few hours amongst some awesome gals showering the most wonderful mama-to-be.

I especially loved spotting the blumebox arrangements throughout the house, that one of the hostesses arranged of which included a gorgeous collection of white flowers and extremely cool (as in awesome) greens!

Boy or girl no one knows just yet! So an assortment of 6″pretty n pink and 6″baby blue blumeboxes throughout the party, made for a very festive baby shower celebration!

Posted on November 7th, 2011 at 5:09 pm
Tags: baby boy shower, baby girl shower, Baby Showers

We have an unhealthy obsession with Pinterest and have been known to scour the site for endless party and decor ideas that could applied to blumeboxes. Of course along the way we have built boards for our dream house, but that is another post. Upon one of our searches, we came across Chalkboard Table Centerpieces that got us thinking that blumeboxes are the perfect medium to apply chalkboard paint! What an easy DIY and cost effective way to personalize centerpieces.

Just about any craft, paint or hardware store sells chalkboard paint, we happened to get our hands on a quart of Benjamin Moore and it worked great! Determine the size and shape you are desiring, create a stencil and stencil the shape directly on the box. Note: Pen works best to outline the shape!  And don’t fret about seeing the pen lines, as the paint will cover any guides. Then carefully and steadily apply the chalk paint to the outline shape. Two coats will due. Let dry and apply chalk!

Featured here is our 5.5″ white cube that we applied chalk paint to our trellis shape outline, and then proceeded to chalk out table numbers. A variety of succulents filled the blumeboxes, which added depth to the table design. What fabulous way to turn centerpieces into table numbers that would make for terrific gifts for guests at the end of the event.

The ideas are endless with this super easy DIY project especially when you discover that there is colored chalk paint! What an adorable idea for treat boxes at a birthday party, or personalized centerpieces for a baby or bridal shower!

Posted on September 29th, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Tags: chalkboard table number centerpiece, DIY chalkboard centerieces

Colorful blumeboxes are good enough for the Royals…well at least this group of royal princesses who gathered for a Royal Tea and Lunch Birthday Soiree.

It all started with the invitation . . . “Hear Ye, Hear Ye! By order of their Royal Families Princess Adrienne and Princess Zoe cordially invite you to Zoe’s Castle for a Royal Princess Tea Party and Luncheon! Please have your Princess wear her favorite Princess Attire to this Royal Celebration.”

From there the planning unfolded to create one royal afternoon of crafts, tea and lunch!

Posted on September 28th, 2011 at 8:29 pm
Tags: colorful centerpieces for a tea party, kids tea party, royal tea party, tea party, tea party with a modern twist

Our daughter celebrated her 2nd birthday in June and when we began brainstorming themes, she was all about monkey’s and butterflies and the colors green and blue.

In fact…Everything is blue or green, seeing as she isn’t quite able to identify true colors yet. And butterflies and monkey’s are the BOMB! But I was at a loss with ways to incorporate the two themes, so we narrowed it down to Monkey’s in all shades blue and green (and accents of chocolate brown).

Birthdays are a big deal in our family and the longer you can extend them the better! So we planned a beach weekend to the Oregon Coast to ring in the big TWO! So where possible/suitable, I tied in “beachy” elements.

Above are 4″ white cube blumeboxes that were covered in full sheets of the mocha stripe paper ribbon and filled with salt water taffy which is a signature candy at the coast! Normally the ribbon is meant to be used as individual strips, but it worked well as one whole piece to cover the entire cube. We had to use two sheets to cover each 4″ blumebox cube. Each taffy centerpiece was topped off with a paper monkey on a stick, which was made by taking extra invitations and gluing them back to back with one another and inserting a paper lollipop stick in the center.

The monkey plates, hats and decor all came from a fabulous party supply store in Portland called The Lippman Co., but could also be found via the internet.

Another huge favorite amongst the birthday girl at the moment are cupcakes, so it was no question that all the monkey’s present at this party would be noshing on these tasty treats baked by Saint Cupcake.

The cupcakes were displayed on a blumebox cupcake stand and decorated with accents of mocha striped printed ribbon. Tying in the theme, each cupcake had a monkey head topper inserted inside. I am not to thrilled about the sparseness of the stand, so in the future, to fill in this empty space, we recommend colorful cut tissue or even wrapped candy.

The end result of this lime green and turquoise monkey birthday party is one happy two year old birthday girl!

Posted on July 11th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Tags: candy containers, colorful candy containers, lime green and turquoise, monkey themed birthday party, recyclable candy containers

We heart this sweet take on a Valentine’s Day bouquet designed by Signature Sweets.

Shown here is the 8″ lime slice blumebox accessorized with thick passion pink ribbon lining the sides. The bouquet itself is made up of assorted candy, tissue and ribbon making for a colorful arrangement!

Candy bouquets are a fabulous addition to children’s parties as well as baby showers and can be an easy, cost effective way to add color, food and style to party themes of all kinds.

Posted on June 1st, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Tags: candy bouquets, centerpieces for children's bithday parties, lime and pink candy bouquets