St. Patrick's Day Drink Printables

Create cute themed party drinks for your
St. Patty's Day party in no time with OUR

FREE ST. PATRICK'S DAY PRINTABLES! 

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You will need.... 

a printer
scissors
paper trimmer (optional)
1/4" paper hole punch
straws
drink containers - glass bottles, plastic bottles, or jelly jars



♣ It's Easy!
 
1.OPEN these files:
St. Patricks Day Drink Wrappers
St. Patricks Day Shamrocks
Shamrock Pattern Paper

If you can't open the files you may need to download the free software, ADOBE READER here.

2.SAVE (optional) them to your computer so you can print as many as you wish, whenever you wish! *for personal use only*

3.PRINT on your color printer or at a copy or office supply shop. ( TIP= Print the pattern sheet on the back of the shamrocks sheet for double-sided shamrocks!!)

4.CUT out the drink wrappers using scissors or paper trimmer. Cut out the shamrock shapes with scissors. Punch a hole in the shamrock centers with your hole punch.

5.ASSEMBLE DRINK WRAPS by wrapping around your drink containers and secure with a bit of scotch tape. If you don't want tape showing, apply a bit of glue stick on the excess overhang before wrapping around your container.

6.ASSEMBLE SHAMROCK DRINK SLIDES by simply sliding the shamrock shape onto your straws!

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Now you've added a wee bit o' fun to 'yer

St. Patty's Day Party table!

Good Luck!

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How simple! You can also create fun

ST. PATRICK'S DAY GARLAND

using the shamrock shapes.

Thread the shamrocks with a string to hang. ( TIP = You can also chain stitch using a sewing machine, if your machine allows sewing on paper.)

ALL Whirligigs Party Co. printables are *FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY Do not sell, share or sell items made from these printables. ©2013 Whirligigs Party Co. All rights reserved.

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A Train Party to Remember

Choo! Choo!

Look who's two?!

My sweet little Lincoln loves "choo-choos" (trains), so I wanted to give him an exciting train party for his 2nd birthday. I looked into different venues,  including the zoo, that had trains but settled on a Portland original, Oaks Park. It turned out perfect. The guests have a fee-free entry and there was easy access to a train ride for the kids.

As it turned out the train ran along the open seating picnic area so it was chugging by every 20 minutes - which thrilled the boys at the party!

This wooden train centerpiece was purchase from Aero1 Toys and was the perfect size to hold the train-shaped fruit gummy snacks. It was actually very easy to paint. I used a 1-1/2" sponge brush to quickly coat the big areas. I taped around the wheels with masking tape and then using a tiny paintbrush, I finished painting the cars. I left the wheels natural wood, but dotted the middle of the wheel to tie it all together.

For the invitations we featured an old time locomotive running along the tracks with the entire family - and even the dog - on board!

It was clearly a birthday celebration flocked with our "birthday crossing" signs posted on 3/8" dowels.

My mom, Connie, and I created a food-safe train centerpiece using recycled milk cartons! We filled it with toddler friendly goodies: a fruit car (grapes), coal (black olives), railroad ties (pretzel sticks), and steam puffs (popcorn).

Our Cupcake Train Kit has freight car cupcake wrappers and a 3D paper engine featuring our little engineer, blonde and blue-eyed, just like the birthday boy himself!

The cupcake toppers were customized with "Happy Birthday Lincoln" and the number "2". With little touches of orange ribbon just for fun! These can be customized with any wording and for any age.

Our sister, Katie of  Katie's Cake Creations , made some delicious railroad crossing sign cake pops! And she knows what she's talking about when she says keep them out of the heat! Not that we minded gobbling them up as soon as we noticed them start melting down their sticks! Yum :)

Lots of fun was the blackberry lemonade. We are lucky to have wild blackberry bushes growing at the park next to our home and we've been over there a couple times this summer picking away! Right before his birthday, with Grandma in tow, Lincoln enjoyed picking the berries we served to our guests.

Enjoy them with our Railroad Crossing Straws.

~~♥~~ blackberry lemonade ~~♥~~

mash 3-4 blackberries at the bottom of jelly jar

pour over lemonade to fill cup

we found our jar lids from Mindy Mae's Etsy store

Our kids had the most exciting time! The fun thing about toddlers is you know when you've helped them create some memories because they talk about the experience for months after the event. Lincoln shared his " choo choo " story often.
 

 Take a peak at all of our

TRAIN PARTY SUPPLIES

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Classy 50th Wedding Anniversary

For my husbands grandparents 50th Wedding Anniversary I wanted to design something elegant and timeless. Inspired by the vintage lace tablecloth in their wedding pictures, I created a beautiful damask print for the party collection that reminds me of the era 50 years ago.

The collection is available in gold and in black. This party set is unique with it's custom guest book and directional event signage. Each page of the matching guest book features an Anniversary Love Quote. Which are also on printable tent cards. 

The cupcake toppers simply say "50". And as always with our 2" party circles, the cupcake toppers can be printed on Avery 22807 labels for beautiful 2" circle stickers.
 
ORDER HERE

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Summer Sorbet - Deluxe Ice Cream Party

What could be better on a sweltering summer afternoon than the sweet creamy chill of an ice cream cone, complete with crunchy waffle cone and pretty pastel sprinkles? …The answer, of course, is sharing that perfectly sweet afternoon treat with all your friends!  For my young daughter those two ingredients, friends and treats, are the perfect recipe for a fabulous party!

We started at the ice skating rink, with about 10 little girls all decked out in matching polka dot mittens and scarves.  They were giggling, twirling and racing their way around the ice for an hour, full of charm and enthusiasm.   When everyone was ready, we returned our skates and headed outside to an adjacent park.

Our original plan had been to decorate with snowflakes and ice skates, but, since it was summer, and we were doing ice cream outside after ice skating, a change in theme seemed appropriate. (However, we are looking forward to releasing a wintry party package… something to look forward to when the season arrives.)  The final product: "Summer Sorbet"!

This beautiful ice cream party combines soft, but vibrant summer colors with plaids, stripes and polka dots to create a memorable Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor feeling.  From the enchanting font to the soft swirls of pink ribbon, it is the perfect combination of vintage and newly fresh.  The banner was pieced together with white tulle and a lovely entwining satin ribbon.  The table was delightfully sweet.  Personalized plates coordinated with custom napkin bundles, and the barbershop stripes on the straws matched the tent cards and jars of candy.  

We had, of course, done our best to transform our ice cream cones into stunning works of tasty art.  The cones were dipped in white chocolate and sprinkles.  After adding their choice of ice cream, each girl decorated her treat, choosing from our assortment of coordinating sprinkles. Each sprinkle variety filled a small crystal teacup and had a little silver spoon. (In my opinion, one of the most adorable things I added to the party!) Refreshing Berry Watermelon Lemonade was the perfect pink beverage and Chocolate éclairs with cupcake toppers were the birthday girl’s choice, in place of cake.

Party favor bags were cut in a scalloped edge on top, with pink striped bakers twine looped through as a handle.  They were each labeled with a personalized name sticker, and I used the coordinating paper to make cones; filled with nail polish, stickers, and file, then topped with cotton balls and tied up in a pastry bag with bakers twine and a thank you tag… So cute!

At the birthday party, the weather was sunny and beautiful, with a cooling breeze. The park was green and shady, ringing with the joyful sounds of children playing.   The pleasant colors and complimentary patterns of the Summer Sorbet Party were exactly what we needed to celebrate a glorious afternoon escape, sweet treats and a young girl’s happy birthday!

To experience your own perfectly sweet ice cream party, ORDER SUMMER SORBET HERE

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Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a giveaway winner!

Thanks to all who participated in our giveaway!

We compiled all your names into a spreedsheet and used a random.org to generate the winning number.... 

number 6:  TAMMY SHEFFER!

Tammy please contact us to collect your gift certificate!

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Free Fourth of July Printable Craft

We put together some paper fans to embellish our Fourth of July cupcake toppers. Using these instructions you could also:

• Make hot-weather fans with a handle made from a wooden stick. 
• Attach to string or clear thread and hang from the ceiling or several along a ribbon for party decorations. 
• Arrange a cluster of the patriotic fans on top of a cake or in a glass jar as a center piece.

Here's How:

1. Download these FREE cupcake toppers and blue stripe pattern sheet.

Happy Fourth of July 2" Circles

Let Freedom Ring 2" Circles

Blue Stripe Pattern Sheet

2. Print 2" circle rounds and fan pattern sheet on your color printer or at a copy or office supply shop. For each sheet of circles you will need to print 5 copies of the blue stripe pattern.

3. Trim the 2" rounds into three strips, according to dotted line guidelines so they easily fit in your paper punch.

4. Trim the blue stripe sheet into 10.75" x 1.5" strips.

5. Punch with a 2" paper punch, centering the image in the circle shape of your punch.If you don't have a punch, print and trace this 2" circle shape onto your cupcake topper and cut with scissors.

6. Fold your pattern sheet accordion style at 3/8" increments, making sharp creases with the back of your fingernail or a bone folder.

7. Adhere the ends of two accordion-folded strips together with a double-stick tape or a glue stick.

8. Tape end-to-end using the double stick tape to create your circular fan.

9. Optional: Add a dab of hot glue to the hole in the backside for enforcement.

10. Glue your sucker stick to the backside using hot glue

11. Adhere your 2" circle to the front of the fan using double stick tape or glue stick.

Thanks for partying with us!

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Grand Opening Giveaway

We are thrilled to announce our first ever giveaway!!!

And the official "grand opening" of 

the Whirligigs Party Co. Etsy store.

Enter our drawing for a $25 gift certificate by helping us expand our Pinterest presence. Pinterest is a image-based social website where users can "pin" pictures they like to pin boards they have set up in their profile. It's very addictive eye-candy fun, and if you haven't signed up yet, today is the day you should do that!

Here's how to enter the drawing....

1. FOLLOW us on pinterest.com/whirligigs/
(we'll follow you back so we can see your pins in step 2)

2. "PIN" a picture from this blog OR our Etsy store
Each “pin” you make will enter your name in the drawing. Pin as much as you like, but we will enter your name for only the first 10 pins. (if you followed us we will follow you back and be able to see the pins you make)

3. SHARE our facebook post about the giveaway on facebook. (then leave us a comment on facebook so we know you shared it)

That's it! We will announce the winner on July 1st here and on our facebook page.

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