Pink and Grey Birthday Party

My daughter has a love for rocks. Just about everyday, she comes home with a rock from school, a rock that is smoother and prettier than the one from the day before. She keeps a stash of them in just about every thing she owns. So, when she decided on a rock birthday party, I wasn’t too surprised.

I started the design by creating this simple, chic invite. I used her favorite color pink and coupled it with grey inspired by rocks. I used a paper from A Parisian Anthology Papers by Blackleaf Studios for the border. Since all the invitations were being hand delivered, we incorporated a personalized rock on the outside for the guest.

For the party design, I gathered some unique rocks from my aunt who is a geologist. I used them in combination with the Parisian Chic Papers by Clementine throughout the party.

A sign to welcome the wee ones to the party.

For activities, we started out by decorating paper plates to make maracas (ma-ROCK- car, get it?). The girls decorated them and then we folded them in half and filled them with a handful of pea gravel (note, more rocks!) and stapled them shut. We also made rock necklaces and pet rocks, and I read the story “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble” while sitting in a ROCK-ing chair.

For birthday cake, we had cupcakes topped with chocolate rocks (yes, there really is such a thing!). Strawberry milk in glass milk jugs with stripy straws and my daughter’s favorite snack yogurt covered pretzels rounded out the dessert table.

Someone told the rock birds there was a party, so they dressed up for the event:)

Here is a close up of the chocolate rocks! They look so real, don’t they!

For favors, I made the girls each a tote with their initial on it. These turned out super cute and were so easy to make. I simply made a pattern for each initial by picking a very simple font in Word. I cut each initial out of the fabric using pinking shears and then glued it to the canvas tote using tacky fabric glue. By stuffing them with tissue paper they made a pretty display. I used the polka dot paper from the Parisian Chic Papers for the tag background and tied them with some nice grey ribbon.