Kiddos } Rainbow & Cupcakes Pennant

Just in time to brighten up this rainy Northern California weather! Last week, had the pleasure of creating a name pennant for Mila's First Birthday.

The pennant was going to be used at Mila's party and then again in a photoshoot with Jacqueline Photography. Can't wait to share pics from Jackie! I'm sure the shoot with Mila & her doting parents will be super-cute.

The pennant was inspired by Mila's birthday outfit ... an adorable tutu with rainbow & cupcake accessories by Hannah's Tutu's on Etsy.

Thanks bunches Kaci for allowing me to be part of Mila's special day!!

Decor } Tissue Pom Poms in the Stephanie J Designs Etsy Shop!

If you liked the Tissue Pom Poms in the post below ... well the wait is over! Poms are now available in the SJD Etsy Shop! Currently, I have one item for 7 poms available in the shop ... but you can convo us via Etsy or email us directly for custom orders any time.

We'll be loading full-color pics of each solid matte color all fluffed out and looking fab over the next several days. We have bunches of orders already for client baby showers, first birthdays, etc. ... and can't wait to share what we've been working on! Some really fun & creative takes on the tissue pom.

Making all these sample Poms to photograph for the shop sure is gunna take a while!!! You can't even imagine how much room all this tissue takes up either. When the order of came in yesterday it was a tad overwhelming to say the least. We're talking approximately 6000 sheets of premium tissue!

And ... coming in next weeks order ... patterns!!! Aaaaaa, I can't wait! :)

Kiddos } Roller Skate Birthday Sweets & Papery

Here's another fun kids birthday party I worked on a few weeks ago! This bright and girly roller skate themed party was for Hailee's 10th birthday. Hailee is the niece of my bud Rebecca at Sweet Cakes by Rebecca. {Catching a common thread in my posts? Rebecca and I really dig working on parties together!!}

Rebecca {of course} did all the desserts, including ... roller skate cake, a personal mini cupcake-cake tower especially for Hailee, mini cupcakes in two flavors, green apple marshmallows, roller skate sugar cookies, lemon bars, chocolate cake pops and mini panna cotta. She also added fun touches like green & orange gum balls, popcorn and {Hailee's favorite} Cheetos Spiral Puffs!

I handled the paper finery ... found a cool pattern paper to play off of {Rebecca took elements of the paper pattern and incorporated it into the cakes design} and we took off from there! Papery included ... tissue pom poms, name pennant, dessert tags, confetti and tagged snack/goodie bags.

As always ... complete party packages {including desserts by Sweet Cakes by Rebecca} are available. Give us a ring!

Kiddos } Green Army Man Birthday Sweets & Papery

It's all snails and puppy dog tails around here most of the time since I have a son. For my little guy's 6th birthday bash it was all about the green. Green Army Men that is!!

With, of course, my buds at Sweet Cakes by Rebecca we created a table that was the envy of every boy at Golfland Sunsplash in Roseville two weekends ago. Lasertag and all ... the boys had an absolute blast!

The cake! Can I just begin with the cake? Is that cake not amazing??? Our birthday inspiration began with the little green Lego army men from Toy Story 3 and their jeep. And in true Sweet Cakes fashion they took it to a whole new level. Jeep Cake, Chocolate Cake Pops, Medallion Sugar Cookies, Gummy Army Guys ... ummmm, awesome!!

And it wouldn't be a SJD party without papery & all the little details! I accessorized the sweets with star medallion tags, green army men, table decor, balloons, dog tags at each place setting, cracker jack bags, favor bags, paratroopers, camouflage details ... and more! Came up with theme inspired names for the sweets ... like Cracker Bullets for the Cracker Jacks, Chocolate Cake Grenades for the cake pops, Atomic Sugar Cookies for the cookies ... those were fun to think up!

The invite was really fun ... we actually hand delivered them to all the guests! I stuffed little camo canteens with draft notices that gave all the party particulars. Finished off the canteens with a little dog tag ... complete with each guest's name.

Complete theme party packages are available!!! Give us a ring!

Inspired } Valentine's Day Papery - Custom Accordion Hearts, Pennant, Soda Labels, Dessert Flags

What a fun inspired Valentine's Day shoot I worked on with 2 Chic Events & Design, Jacqueline Photography and Sweet Cakes by Rebecca last week! Check out Jacqueline's Blog for all the photo fabulousness.

Yours truly created the soda labels/tags, paper accordion hearts {these were sooooo cute! - will post more pics of what I did with them after the shoot}, "Be Mine" pennant/banner, paper heart medallions on the pinwheels, paper pom poms and dessert flags & confetti.

I was inspired by little Emily's argyle tights! Wanted to coordinate with those but not in a matchy-matchy way by brining in argyle again. Soooo, I went for a black and white damask pattern accented by bright red and a harlequin dark red on red pattern.

Besides loving those accordion hearts ... the tags for the soda bottles were my next fav! Thought it was just the icing on the cake pop! :) {Side note on the cake pops ... heaven on a stick!}

All the papery items shown are customizable and available to order for your event! Email us at stephanie@stephaniejdesigns.com for pricing and details.

Tonight } The Citizen Hotel Bridal Open House & Looking Glass Table Cards

Project 1 of a million to finish today was a set of table cards {that I'm calling Looking Glass Table cards} for my office mate & good friend Martha with Blooms by Martha Andrews. Martha will be at The Citizen Hotel Bridal Open House tonight, along with other great wedding pros. See other fab vendor & SJD faves like ... Kate Miller Events, Flourish, True Love Photo and more!

The Citizen Hotel

926 J Street

Sacramento, California

January 28th from

5:30 to 7:30pm

If I wasn't smack dab in the middle of a loong day of designing & creating papery fabulousness ... I'd soooo pop-in to say HI!

Press } We're on Style Me Pretty's LIttle Black Book Blog

OMG. OMG. OMG. Yep! We're on the Style Me Pretty Little Black Book Blog. Yippeeee! Check out all the deliciousness here!

Press } Sacramento Magazine's Our Wedding Feature

Ummmm, yea. The latest issue of Sacramento Magazine's Our Wedding hit stands about a month ago, but in the hustle and bustle of our recent move I just haven't had a chance to post a pic from the mag. Finally, a little moment and voila! here it is.

The two invites featured by Stephanie J Designs are top left {black and fuchsia} and bottom right {champagne and fuchsia}. Absolutely adored both invites and the inspirations behind them. The Barn Chic Papery {bottom right} has been featured on the blog previously. And I have yet to do a little post on the black and fuchsia one ... still thinking of what to name it!! Lol!

Side note: papery is not easy to shoot and Gabriel Teague {the Our Wedding photographer responsible for the layout & photo} did a fantastic job of capturing the details!!

Lots o' love to Sacramento Magazine's Our Wedding for thinking we're fab!!