{Winner} Martha Stewart's Cupcakes!

I excited to announce that the winner of Martha Stewart's Cupcake book is....

Number 9, Aimee Porter!! Aimee commented, "I would love to work my way through this cookbook with my daughters." Now you'll have that opportunity, Aimee. I hope all your new cupcake creations are beautiful and, of course, super yummy!!

Please email me at GwynnWassonDesigns {at} gmail {dot} com to claim your prize.

{Press} GWD on Hostess With The Mostess!!

I can't believe it!! It's like a little girl's (or, I guess, let's be honest... a big girl's) DREAM COME TRUE!! Our Race Car Party is featured on HWTM today!! I am completely beside myself and doin' the happy dance!! Yipppeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

{Press} GWD on Celebrations.com!!

I was thrilled to be contacted recently by Coryanne Etienne of Housewife Bliss to help out with the printables for her Pool Party segment on Celebrations.com!!

Coryanne asked me to adapt our Lil' Squirt Collection to reflect for the pool party theme and then she styled a beautiful poolside spread that turned out oh so cute!!

If you are looking for a few tips and hints for your upcoming poolside soiree, definitely pop over to Celebrations.com and check out Coryanne's article!!

{Give Away} Martha Stewart's Cupcakes!

This morning I woke up and thought, "It's just been too long since we've done a give away!"

Ok, I'm joking. It's only been six days. But six loooong days without the twinkle of something shiny and new on the horizon to spark your creativity, right?!

Recently I discovered Martha Stewart's brillant cupcake book and tried a few of the recipes and decorating tips out and I have to say they were just TOO CUTE, CLEVER and YUMMY to keep to myself!

So if you think you might be just a liiiiiittle bit interested in giving few of these beautiful cupcakes a whirl (in your mixer of course!), here's the scoop...

Just leave a comment on this post by the end of the day Tuesday and I will choose the winner on Wednesday morning via random.org!!

Good luck everyone!!

p.s. The winner must contact me within 24 hours of the announcement or forfeit their prize.

THIS GIVE AWAY HAS ENDED

{Client Parties} Sophia's Vintage Carousel Party!!

What little girl wouldn't LOVE a carousel party?! Sophia's mother rented the most beautiful vintage carousel for her daughter's first birthday party.

 

 

Just gorgeous!!

And of course the pictures are just perfect because Sophia's mother is a photographer! You can check out her site here.

For the party she had us adjust our Carnival/Circus collection to match her stunning Aqua and Purple color palette.

Absolutely beautiful job Gina!!

Our entire Carnival/Circus collection, both in Aqua and Red and in Pink and Yellow, is available in the shop. (And please feel free to convo us if you have a special color combination request.)

{New In The Shop} Casino Party Invitation

For a special request, I just finished this last week...

My word! How much fun would it have been to have a casino party on a yacht to ring in your 18th birthday??!

Well, if you're the gamblin' type and lookin' to host a good time, you're in luck! I just added these to the shop.

{Tips & Hints} Pinwheel Tutorial and Free Template

For all of you who have been emailing me asking how to make the pinwheels in our Easter shoot, here's how you do it!!

For this you will need the following:

- Pinwheel Template
- Xacto knife or scissors
- Cookie Stick or Drilled Dowel
- Wooden Beads
- Button
- Wire
- Small hole punch
- Ribbon
- Hot Glue

1. Either paint your dowel and drill a small hole through it or (for all of you who would prefer not to pull out the heavy machinery for a holiday craft) take an Xacto knife make a hole in a cookie stick. Place the hole about 1 1/2" from the top of the dowel or cookie stick.

If you are using a cookie stick you can spruce it up a bit by gluing a bit of ribbon to it. (Add a dab of glue on one end and stick down the end of the ribbon. Twist the ribbon down the stick, cut and add another dab of glue to adhere it to the stick.)

2. Print out our pinwheel template and then turn it around and print one of the coordinating decorative paper designs from our Free Hippity Hop Easter Collection on the backside.

3. Cut out the template and punch holes where indicated.

4. Lay the two pieces of the pinwheel template together on a flat surface. Turn the top piece so that it's points are offset in relation to the bottom piece. Overlap the points so that the two pieces are locked together.

5. Glue the centers of the two pieces of the pinwheel template together.

6. Put a dab of hot glue on either side of one of the holes in the points of your pinwheel. Line the hole in the point up with the hole in the center of the pinwheel and adhere the two pieces together. Continue until all eight points on both pieces of the template are fixed to center of the pinwheel.

7. Thread your wire through the hole in your stick, through one of your wooden beads and then through the hole in your pinwheel. Now thread the wire through your other wooden bead and through the first hole in your button. As you loop the wire back through the second hole in your button continue to thread it back along it's original path until it comes out the hole in your stick.

8. Trim your wire, leaving enough to wrap around your stick a few times.

And there you have it... Easter Pinwheels!

Here's the template. Click on it and download it to your desktop.

This template will be available for download until April 24th.