We are finding it hard to believe that the holidays are literally just around the corner, and we could not be more excited to announce the arrival of our new Cake Pop / Lollipop Display Insert.

This fantastic wee product is designed to fit inside our existing  4″ cube blumebox. So what ever the color of your holiday Dessert Table or festive Candy Bar, select a  4″ cube and the insert fits snugly inside!

Each insert Cake Pop / Lollipop Display Insert has 13 holes that can be used to hold your sweets. Depending on the size of sweet, you may use all or only half the holes.

We have been spotting a ton of fabulous Peacock Inspired Holiday Decor that forced us to design an Inspiration Board.  Showcased is our 4″ gold blumebox with the new cake pop insert housing delectable macaroons from Nuvrei.

Please contact us for adding these fabulous Cake Pop / Lollipop Display Inserts to your holiday orders!

Table decor inspiration courtesy of Hostess With The Mostess and Liberty, Wreath Ideas from Sears and Santa’s Quarter.

Posted on November 30th, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Tags: cake pop stand, candy bar, candy containers, dessert table decor, lollipop stand

With cold weather comes the holidays, and we could not be more excited to start entertaining. After endless “ahhh” inspiring hours of scouring Pinterest for amazing holiday ideas, we have built ourselves a fab Holiday Inspiration Board, that bookmarks ideas we hope to use someday!

We melted over these snowman doughnut holes and were excited to re-create them to fit into our new cake pop/lollipop inserts! This is a very simple, fun and fabulous kid appropriate cooking project that would make a great addition to a holiday hot chocolate table!

Dessert tables and candy bars have become a very popular addition to parties and blumebox is excited to announce the release of our cake pop/lollipop insert, that is ideal for displaying all things sweet on a stick. Just like all other blumebox products, the insert easily pops into place and has been designed to fit securely inside our standard 4″ cube blumebox. With 13 holes to select from, the insert displays a good number of sweets. But if you should need more, simply add another 4″ cube and cake pop/lollipop insert and cluster the boxes together with ribbon.

The holiday season is all about sweet delicacies, so consider adding a stick to your desserts and displaying them in the eco-chic cake pop/lollipop insert and blumebox cubes. For ordering these fabulous, new cake pop/lollipop inserts, contact us.

Please note that you will want to find a fun filler that covers the top of the eco-friendly, kraft cardboard insert! In this project we relied on mini marshmallows.

Goods Needed: powdered mini doughnut holes, candy corn, chocolate chips, chocolate jimmies, marshmallows, lollipop sticks, 4″ cube blumeboxes, NEW blumebox cakepop/lollipop insert.

 

Posted on November 16th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Tags: cand bar display decor, dessert table decor, hot chocolate table

Holiday Season has officially kicked off and we could not be more excited to announce our Edge Collection, that features solid black blumeboxes with white trim edges. After years of creating this look by hours of DIY(ing) efforts, atlas we can offer an easy solution for your entertaining needs.

Available in all three sizes, the black and white collection makes for great gifts or suits a holiday table nicely. The 4″ black and white cube blumebox is a fabulous fit for red or white 4″ poinsettias, succulents or mini trees, making a terrific and desirable hostess gift. Keep a few 8″ black and white edged blumeboxes on hand for giving wine, seeing as it fits wine bottles nicely. And for the perfect sized flower vase, the 6″ black and white edged blumebox is a go-to for festive holiday arrangements.

So what are you waiting for, start planning out your holiday gift giving and entertaining needs!

Posted on November 2nd, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Tags: black and white centerpieces, black and white edged blumebox, black and white wedding

What’s not to love about the arrival of Fall? Fabulous vegetables, sunflowers, gourds, red wine and hearty meals! We particularly love to see the transition of colors that occurs with the blumebox orders. Going from summery pinks, purples, and lime green to mocha, black, orange and yellow, we see first hand the change of season.

Whether it an Oktoberfest Fete, Halloween Hallows Dinner Party, Rustic Fall Celebration or Thanksgiving Feast, eco-chic Blumebox offers fabulous centerpieces for all your Autumn entertaining needs.

Featured above are the 6″ and 8″ black blumeboxes decorated with strips of elegant wrapping paper and raffia.  And nothing ties in a theme more successfully that added decor, such as this assortment of gourds.

This is a very easy Fall centerpiece solution that is perfect for adorning your Thanksgiving table. Featured here is an 8″ mocha blumebox with decorated satin orange ribbon edges. The dried corn husk was attached by hot glue. Fill with some sunflowers or branches and you have one festive centerpiece, that is sure to turn heads.

Posted on October 17th, 2011 at 10:49 am
Tags: Autumn Centerpiece Ideas, Fall Centerpiece Ideas, Oktoberfest Centerpiece Ideas, Thanksgiving Centerpiece Ideas

Christmas Decorations in October…Seriously Ikea? Is it really that absurd to assume that we could actually enjoy one holiday at a time? Apparently so. So…If you can’t beat ‘em join em’!

For all those brides to be, with save the dates to be wed this Winter, here is some holiday inspiration from Stem’s Floral Design Studio. The vibrant red carnations paired up with white blumeboxes and black & white damask ribbon rang out Winter Weddings to us! Of course, this popular red, white and black color combination could be just as fabulous year round!

Another fabulous compliment to such a vibrant bouquet as these, would be our brand new black with white edge collection, arriving the end of October!

 

Posted on October 13th, 2011 at 11:04 am
Tags: black and white damask bridal bouquet box, holiday bridal bouquets, recyclable bridal bouquet transport boxes, recyclable floral container for the toss bouquet, red and black and white wedding centerpieces

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

When we spotted these fabulous Halloween Treat Buckets via Pinterest, we could not help ourselves by re-creating them with blumeboxes!

These projects lend themselves perfectly for little’s too, who love to craft! So whether you fancy pumpkins, mummies, ghosts, spiders, bats or Frankenstein, blumeboxes are a great base to start creating spook-tacular centerpieces and candy boxes!

At first glance, we thought this Frankenstein popcorn box might have been constructed from a blumebox, but we read that it was made from construction paper. The 4″ lime slice cube makes for a very rigid base, easy to adhere foam paper, googly eyes, buttons and candy too! No template required for this one, just draw, cut, paste and your monster will start to take shape in no time!

The wide winged bat, inspired by another pinterest post, was constructed from a 6″ black blumebox, foam paper for the wings, googly eyes and a white paint pen. We particularly loved the accent of striped wings, featured on our inspiration board, and think that an assortment of bats with various patterned black and white wings would make for a horrifically fabulous Halloween table!

So what are you waiting for…start cutting, gluing and creating and get your “BOO”on!

Posted on September 28th, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Tags: Bat treat box, DIY Halloween candy boxes, DIY Halloween treat boxes, Frankenstein treat boxes, Halloween candy boxes, Halloween centerpiece

With Back To School season arriving sooner than most would like to admit, perhaps throwing a party could help the little ones ease back into the swing of things.

Hatter & Hare Events threw this adorable Back To School Lunch Party for a few kiddos the day before school started and we had to share. Be sure to check out their blog for many more details to this clever party.

We particularly love how she transformed an 8″ blumebox by covering it with a collage of crayon boxes. Another fun idea would be to paint a blumebox with chalk board paint and write directly on it.

Rely on toys to serve as props or serving pieces like seen here with the plastic school bus. And these rice crispy treat crayons are just too darn cute…almost too cute to eat!

Posted on August 15th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Tags: Back To School Party, Crayon Centerpiece Idea

You know Summer is nearing when you see sweet corn at the Farmer’s Market and in the grocery store aisles. And when we spotted this fabulous idea over at Hostess with the Mostess, we had to fire up the grill and recreate this corn on the cob kabob (repeat that phrase rapidly) display using our new 5.5″ white blumebox cube!

Grill the corn to your liking, adding any additional seasoning required.  Cut ear of corn in half and insert a kabob stick through each cob. While we filled the cube with 9 small ears of corn, we recommend using 6-8 ears of corn per 5.5″ blumebox cube in order to space out the cobs and to see the corn chip filler. And we have to agree with HWM, that we too managed to tax a fare few corn chips when we were creating this corn on the cob display box.

With 4th of July approaching, we added some of our patriotic paper ribbon to the 5.5″ white blumebox cube.

Posted on June 20th, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Tags: 4th of july party ideas, patriotic party ideas, summertime bbq ideas

With 4th of July just around the corner, we wanted to provide you all with some super easy and cost effective, DIY ideas that ensures your picnic and dessert tables to be as patriotic as they come!

We set out to prove that blumeboxes are not just for flowers, in fact, whatever the size or color, blumeboxes can hold/display just about anything! Starting with the cookie stand; we took a 4″ cube blumebox (color does not matter seeing as it will be covered) and wrapped it with two sheets of our patriotic blue stars on white paper ribbon. Using the 4″ blumebox as a base, we topped the cube off with a plate full of shortbread cookies. See close up image below!

Fruit kabob centerpieces are an easy, healthy and fun way to dress up the table and we figured that we could make quite an eye popping display for these! To add height variation to the table, we stacked two 4″ blumebox cubes and wrapped them in our white stars on blue paper ribbon. See above for a “how to” description. An easy way to arrange the kebabs is to use floral foam or styrofoam that can be bought at any craft store. But seeing as these materials are terrible on the environment, we simply cut a piece of cardboard and folded it in three’s to provide a shelf inside the cube. Poke desired amount of holes in top of cardboard shelf with skewer and then insert fruit filled kabobs. To cover up the join of the two cubes, we wrapped fabric ribbon around the middle.

For larger fruit kabob arrangements, the 5.5″ blumebox cube would be the ideal size!

For cost effective and EASY decoration idea this centerpiece requires three small helium filled, star shaped balloons arranged in an 8″ red, white, blue or even silver blumebox. To hold the balloons in place, we filled the blumebox with patriotic garland we picked up at the craft store. Sheets of tissue or shredded paper would also work as filler. Use our patriotic themed paper ribbon to line the sides of the blumebox, adding just a bit more fire cracking flare!

Flowers are a great addition to any table. And blumebox makes it easier than ever to add accents of colors where necessary! We incorporated two 6″ red blumeboxes (decorated with our white stars on blue paper ribbon) filled with white gerberas.

So what are you waiting for…begin shopping for your Patriotic Party!

Posted on June 18th, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Tags: 4th of July centerpieces, 4th of July table decor, cookie display stands, fruit kabob bouquets