60th Birthday- Football Tailgating Party

My next party feature goes to this unbelievable SURPRISE 60TH BIRTHDAY FOOTBALL TAILGATING PARTY submitted by Jennifer Carver of Banner Events. Woah, what a party!! Jennifer went all out! I'm sure her father was beyond thrilled when he walked through the doors.

Here is what Jennifer siad about the party- "My sister and I recently styled a surprise 60th football tailgating themed birthday party for our father on the eve of the big college rivalry football game. Dozens of family & guests flew/traveled into town to be in attendance. Close to a dozen wonderful vendors contributed towards this event. 

Resource/Vendor Credits:

Jennifer Carver (Banner Events) & Cami Crosby: Party Styling

Anders Ruff Custom Designs: Custom graphic designs/invitation

Shindig Parties to Go: Custom printable graphic package

Nashville Wraps: glassine bags, white window bags, football basket boxes

The Twinery: denim twine

JP Creatibles: custom football cookies

Edible Details: custom football fondant cookie toppers & 3-D fondant football

Two Sugar Babies: custom football fondant cupcake toppers & football helmet cake topper

Pretzels Pleaze: custom football pretzels

The RPM Studio: Custom graphic designs/football field banner

Cupcake Chic Utah: cupcakes

Pop.O.Licious Cake Pops: football cake pops

Christine Olsen Photography: photography

Details:

'Tis the season for tailgating. How do you honor a football fanatic on the occasion of his 60th birthday? By surprising him with the biggest football themed tailgate party of his life, complete with gridiron goodies from some of the most talented dessert artists around. Of course some of the best graphic designers were also recruited to design the invitation, party printables and coordinating banner. Fabulous vendors were called upon for packaging, party favor and display needs.

We kicked off our event with a custom invitation designed by Anders Ruff Custom Designs. They scored big with their incredible design work, which set the stage for a crowd pleasing surprise event. The honoree's college alma mater is Brigham Young University (BYU)--home of the Cougars. Anders Ruff Custom Designs was sure to capture the team colors and college logo perfectly!

Guests arrived to our event on the afternoon of the biggest BYU rivalry game of the year! That evening, the BYU Cougars would host their cross-city rivals, the Utah Utes. Our honoree's immediate family all had custom designed matching navy and white team shirts with Cougars on the front and PRICE and 60 on the back (the last name and age of our guest of honor). 

Guests 'signed in' on mini printable footballs (courtesy of Shindig Parties to Go) where they were able to write their name and a little birthday message on the back. They could then tack up their birthday wishes on our football field banner, created by Ryan Murray of The RPM Studio.

Guests sat down to tables outfitted to look like a piece of the football field itself. Astro turf was cut to fit round tables. White ribbon and die cut numbers were glued on to look like yard lines and markers. Centerpieces were made from coordinating college logo balloons, gift bags, pom poms, footballs and coordinating candy. Each place setting was designed using eye-catching printable designs from Shindig Parties to Go. Notice the custom "60" water bottle wraps, napkin rings and coordinating pennant straw flags.

A delicious lunch was served buffet style with menu items like: 

Hail Mary Honey Bacon Club Sandwiches

Face Mask Fruit Salad

Chips to Cheer For

Buttonhook Baked Beans

Sideline Salad

Jumbo Jello cups

Shotgun Shrimp Pasta Salad

Half-Time Hot Dogs

Safety Soda

Runningback Rootbeer

Wide Receiver Water

Fun faux football leather food labels added some fun tailgating appeal to the buffet table. Adorable football boxes from Nashville Wraps helped house chips on the buffet table and fun party favors on the kids' table.

The highlight of the event was definitely the dessert table. Also, decorated to look like a football field, with astro turf used as the table covering, the dessert table was the focal point of the party design. Striped pennant flags were hung using denim twine from The Twinery. PVC pipe was cut, assembled and painted to look like field goal posts and held letters which spelled out the honoree's name: DALE. (Thank you to Shindig Parties to Go for inspiring the field goal design!) Bleachers were fashioned out of foam core board to house delicious 'quarterback' cupcakes (Cupcake Chic) with custom fondant toppers by Two Sugar Babies. JP Creatibles outdid herself with the most stunning football cookies I have ever laid eyes on! Footballs, custom BYU jersey and BYU logo cookies with the most detailed design work I have ever seen, were the talk of the party! Many other 'gridiron goodies' also played starting roles on our dessert table. 'Corne rback' cookies were iced and topped with gorgeous fondant cookie toppers crafted by Edible Details. Strawberries were dipped in chocolate and decorated to look like their pigskin counterparts. Beautifully hand dipped and decorated 'play action' pretzel rods were prepared by Pretzels Pleaze. Notice the cute sugar footballs adorning the pretzels! No detail was spared! There where 'wideout whoopee pies', 'blocker brownies', 'touchdown treats' in apothecary jars, maple bar 'cougar paws', 'goal time' cake pops (lovingly created by Johanna Dellino of Pop.O.Licious Cake Pops), and more!

Not to be overshadowed by the other desserts, a delicious 3 layer cake was displayed on its own table, topped with an amazing fondant cake topper by Two Sugar Babies. Notice how the helmet design matches the design work on the invitation by Anders Ruff Custom Designs! I love it when professionals collaborate to make an event even more amazing!

A separate table housed take home party favor window bags and glassine bags from Nashville Wraps. I just love their eco-friendly packaging options! Each was adorned with coordinating ribbon and printable tags by Shindig Parties to Go. They were the perfect thing to allow our guests to take home all sorts of desserts! 

Our event included a tribute slideshow and a presentation of autographed sports memorabilia from BYU's starting quarterback, Jake Heaps, as well as basketball standout, Jimmer Fredette, the 2011 NBA #10 draft pick."

Superbowl Party Ideas!

Need some fun and easy Superbowl party ideas?!

Well today is your day!

I am showing you TWO great SUPERBOWL parties!

This first Superbowl party was submitted by Spaceships & Laserbeams.

You can purchase this printable Superbowl party pack in their etsy shop here!

To create this exact party you will need to buy/find/make:

A bag of large pretzels, bag of your favorite flavor of chips, bag of popcorn, water or other drink

An 18 "novelty" cupcakes or make on your own! {there's was from The Cake Box - cakebox.ca}

At the craft store buy a pack of small kraft bags

At the hardware store buy some small wooden dowels {each dowel makes two flags}

At the Dollar store buy a roll of twine, 3 small bamboo cutting boards, small clothes pins, wine boxes {painted white to act as risers}

Around your house find containers for popcorn and chips {they used ramekins and mason jars}, table cloth, napkins, bull clip for sign

Buy Spaceship & Laser Beams football collection on Etsy: Which includes a banner, sign, 1 inch decals, straw decals, favor tags, napkins rings, bottle labels, cupcake wrappers, place mats {for popcorn}, tiles {for flags}

From other Etsy sellers you can buy the Felted Football {GARsticksandstring}& Straws {HeyYoYo}

Awesome party, Spaceships and Laser Beams!

Thanks for your submission!

AND THIS NEXT SUPERBOWL PARTY

was submitted by Simply Creative Insanity!

This is a "Hail" Mary Bar to create your own bloody mary....

You can buy this whole party pack in her etsy shop here for just $3!!!!

Garnish Labels included:
limes, pepperocinis, pickled okra, olives,
lemons, celery, pickles, and green beans.

Brandy used blue and rust colored bottles for the vodka,
mason jars for the glasses and galvanized buckets
for the garnishes.

The mason jars included a
"Hail" Mary tag and a mini Tabasco bottle!

Thanks so much, Brandy!

Congratulations on being the winning party feature today!

Football Birthday Party

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

My first winning party feature of the week goes to this

Football Birthday Party

submitted by Shindig Parties To Go!

This whole printable party pack can be purchased here! {You can choose your own teams colors!}

And the best part...this whole party table cost less than $100!!

Here's Amanda's explanation of how she created the table...

"The dessert table was styled with gameday fun in mind -- a little astroturf for a tablecloth, a few pennants, team colors and of course, the field goal post. Using PVC pipe from the plumbing section of the hardware store, I made the goal post to display the birthday boy's name. After creating the post from pvc, I put a little hot glue on all the fittings to make sure they would stay in place, and then I painted the whole thing bright yellow with spray paint. I used a Dollar Tree trash can in white with some plaster of paris to secure the goal post in place. After the plaster dried, I cut a small piece of the astroturf to cover the plaster.
The letters for Chap's name were purchased at Hobby Lobby. They were the chipboard capital letters sold in the scrapbook section. I then printed out 4 sheets of the polka dot papers that come with the Team Colors Football printable collection, and traced a letter onto each sheet, alternating colors. Next I cut the letters out and used some Elmer's glue to adhere the paper to the letter. The number 6 also came from Hobby Lobby but was found in the paper machie box section.

I used megaphones and foam footballs, also from the Dollar Tree, to create the cupcake stand centerpieces. I covered them in 12"x12" scrapbook paper (which didn't completely cover the back, but you could piece it together to cover or you could just leave the back unfinished) and then used blue and white polka dot ribbon (Hobby Lobby) to finish off each end of the megaphone.

The cupcake stands were made from boxes covered in a football-leather looking fabric that I purchased at Hancock Fabrics. I then cut a piece of astroturf (Home Depot) to fit the top and added an orange and white polka dot ribbon (Hobby Lobby) for some color.

And the backdrop was made by covering a 4'x4' board with a $4.00 navy blue sheet from Walmart. Easy peasy and inexpensive, too!

The rest of the party table features more of the Team Colors Football printables.... cupcake toppers in 4 designs (2 of which you can add your own text), football-look cupcake wraps, 2 colors of toothpick pennant flags, larger striped pennant flags in 2 colors, polka dot water bottle wraps with personalization of the birthday child's age, favor tags with name personalization, and I also used the striped papers from the collection to cover plain white snack boxes that I purchased from the Dollar Tree (wedding section)."

Thanks so much for your submission, Amanda!

Congratulations on being the winning party feature today!