Showing posts with label baby shower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby shower. Show all posts

Modern Wilderness Baby Shower: Let's Wrap It Up

Tuesday, 15 August 2017


modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com

Welcome back to our styled baby shower. If you missed the first two posts, you can get all of the details about our sweet table here and party details here. Today we are going to share some inspiration about the baby gifts.

The baby shower was based on the idea that guests would bring gifts to help the Mama-to-be decorate a modern wilderness theme nursery. Many of  the gifts were wrapped up but we also took advantage of using some of the gift items as party decor. A win-win for everyone and a great way to keep the party budget under control. 

The black and white striped tent will make a great play space when baby is older and for the party it was the idea place to tell guests to leave their gifts.

modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com

Find it here: tent, paper lanterns, balloons

Wrapping gifts is a breeze when you add bands of wrapping paper and  beautiful ribbons on gift boxes. The gift boxes can be used after the party to store keepsakes and photos.

Use smaller gift items like silcone teethers and handmade items like this sweet panda bear to your gifts as gift toppers.

modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com


Here's some detailed shots of some of the other sweet items that were used as gifts and party decor ...

modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com

modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com

modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com

modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com



We hope that you have been inspired to host a party and incorporate some of the ideas from our styled shoot. 



Modern Wilderness Baby Shower Collaborative Team:


modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com


Party Inspiration: Modern Wilderness Baby Shower. Let's Party.

Friday, 4 August 2017



modern wilderness baby shower - party details | creativebag.com

Welcome back to our styled baby shower. If you missed the first post, you can get all of the details about our sweet table here. Today we are going to share a few more of the party details.


Make it easy for the Mama-to-be to send out thank you cards by inviting guests to pre-address the envelopes at the party. Turn the activity into a game by asking everyone to fill out cards with predictions about the baby's birth information. Hand lettered messages were added to both a chalkboard and an acrylic card box so guests would know what to do.

modern wilderness baby shower - party details | creativebag.com

modern wilderness baby shower - party details | creativebag.com



A party is not a party without favours. Custom cookies were added to these heart muslin bags and placed on display inside of a long box. As guests pulled out the fabric favour bags a pink ombre detail was revealed. You can find a DIY tutorial for adding food colouring to fabric bags here.

modern wilderness baby shower - party details | creativebag.com

modern wilderness baby shower - party details | creativebag.com


Flowers and succulents were beautifully arranged inside our LOVE ceramic dish set and created a colourful focal point on this table set up. Make your own table runners by trimming the edges of wrapping paper using decorative scissors or paper edge punches.

modern wilderness baby shower - party details | creativebag.com


Our baby love balloons are a sweet party detail if you know what the baby is going to be. The balloons come with either pink or blue confetti and the confetti is revealed when the balloon is popped. Let guests know what is going to happen before the Mama-to-be pops the balloon so they can get their cameras ready! 

modern wilderness baby shower - party details | creativebag.com

Find it here: balloons

Stay tuned for our last post from this styled baby shower shoot.

Modern Wilderness Baby Shower Collaborative Team:



modern wilderness baby shower - party details | creativebag.com


Party Inspiration: Modern Wilderness Baby Shower. Let's Eat.

Thursday, 20 July 2017



modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com

Welcome to our Modern Wilderness Baby Shower. 

We teamed up with an amazing group of local entrepreneurs and makers to create a styled shoot filled with unique details that are sure to inspire. This is the first of three posts and today is all about our sweet table set up because honestly, who doesn't love a sweet table?!

The party colours were primarily black and white. It's a perfect palette for a gender neutral theme and you can add pops of colour with the food and flowers. As you will see, a few pink elements will be revealed during the party.

modern wilderness baby shower - sweet table | creativebag.com

 A modern wilderness themed nursery was the inspiration for the party. A few baby gifts were left unwrapped and incorporated into the party decor. The black and white striped play tent will make a wonderful gift. We placed it beside the sweet table so party gifts could be placed inside. Balloons and paper lanterns  are easy to set up, take up a lot of space and are available in colours to match almost any colour palette. 

modern wilderness baby shower cake | creativebag.com

Our adorable two tier cake was inspired by a handmade fox doll and the hand drawn graphics printed on a onesie. We added a striped paper straw to the acrylic love cake topper to add a pop of colour. 

The toy camera is a reminder to grab a real camera for the cake cutting.

modern wilderness baby shower cake  | creativebag.com

The cake cutting reveals an ombre pink filling - a clue for guests that a little girl was on the way.

Find it here: Cake serving sets. Wrapping papers to cover books and to laminate for cake liners.

modern wilderness baby shower - sweet table details | creativebag.com

modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com


modern wilderness baby shower - flower details | creativebag.com

Our beautiful floral arrangements were created using our exclusive gold foil edge gift boxes. They were topped off with "eat cake" acrylic signs and an adorable felted bird. 

Our Mama-to-be above is wearing a teething necklace that is as practical as it is fashionable.

You can find more photos and details about our styled baby shower shoot in the current Mingle Magazine. We're pretty excited that our party is featured on the front cover so we are doing a giveaway on Instagram. The giveaway is going on until July 30, 2017 so hurry over and enter to win!!

modern wilderness baby shower and giveaway | creativebag.com

In our next post, we'll be sharing more details from the baby shower. So stay tuned.

Modern Wilderness Baby Shower Collaborative Team:





modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com

gender neutral {birds and bees} baby shower inspiration

Thursday, 25 February 2016


birds and bees gender neutral baby shower | Creative Bag

If you are in our Toronto store in the next few weeks check out this fun gender neutral baby shower display that I put together with some help from Tanya of Save the Date Events and Doris from Love Lettering.

birds and bees gender neutral baby shower | Creative Bag

I took photos of all of our baby shower party ideas before setting up the display so I could share them with you here on the blog. Our colour palette was pool blue, pea shoot green, white and a touch of yellow. 


birds and bees gender neutral baby shower | Creative Bag

As you can see from the party favours, food and decor elements, our shower theme is "the birds and the bees". 

The sweet bee and blue bird cakepops were made by Save the Date Events. I painted some mason jars in blue and green and used them to display the cakepops. To keep the cakepops in place, I used a wire grid lid and added a cup of sugar to the bottom of the mason jar.

birds and bees gender neutral baby shower | Creative Bag

We recently installed some new equipment in our Toronto office so we can print custom labels. I tested a number of different label shapes with custom designs for the shower favours. We'll be offering custom label services soon, stay tuned for more details.

I created a few different party favours for the store display. A couple of our glass containers were filled with honey and decorated with custom labels, ribbon and wraphia. Our new white bird cages were filled with egg shaped candies and decorated with striped ribbon. Sunflower seeds were added to clear tubes and decorated with custom labels, washi tape and wraphia.

birds and bees gender neutral baby shower | Creative Bag

White set up boxes and boxes wrapped with white tonal striped wrapping paper were decorated with three different colours of wraphia and then used as decorations for the party.

Let guests know where to sit for lunch using our cute little nests with filled with a single hand lettered egg. The eggs for our baby shower display were decorated by the very talented hand lettering artist Doris from Love Lettering. 

birds and bees gender neutral baby shower | Creative Bag
birds and bees gender neutral baby shower | Creative Bag
birds and bees gender neutral baby shower | Creative Bag

I always like to use our white cake stands to display sweet treats. Get creative by preparing custom drinks in our glass bottles and set them up beside a container filled with paper straws in blue and green.

birds and bees gender neutral baby shower | Creative Bag

Paper lanterns and bunting made from tissue paper tassels shout "let's party". It's easy to decorate a large balloon with DIY tissue paper tassels and you can use it as a photo prop during the shower. We are waiting for a couple of lines of large balloons to come into the stores and I'll let you know when they arrive on Instagram.

birds and bees gender neutral baby shower | Creative Bag

I painted one of our white paper lanterns with the same acrylic craft paint that I used to decorate the mason jars. I added a little bit of water to the paint so it would have a "watercolour" effect on the paper lantern.

Here's a cute idea for a baby shower party activity - have every guest paint a onesie. Any acrylic craft paint can be made into a fabric paint by simply adding Martha Stewart's tintable fabric medium. Have guests paint the onesies using our small paper shopping bags to keep the paint from going through the fabric. Then hang the onesies up to dry on baker's twine using the bags as hangers with mini clothespins. 

birds and bees gender neutral baby shower | Creative Bag

Last year I created a download for "baby photo stickers". I reworked the art to co-ordinate with the colours of this gender neutral shower and you can download them here. 

birds and bees gender neutral baby shower | Creative Bag

You will need to use blank stickers to print the monthly photo stickers from my download. I used a 4x4x1 stationery box to package the photo sticker and an 8x8x6 set up box to package some onesies along with the photo stickers. The download contains two different options for the memory box lid - one is as shown with the "welcome baby" message and the other has no words so you can personalize it yourself with the baby's name and birth information. You can find all of my directions for this DIY project in this post. 

birds and bees gender neutral baby shower | Creative Bag

Thanks again to Tanya and Doris for collaborating on this display with me. 

I'm going to end with a picture of this sweet hand lettered baby's sleeping chalkboard sign that Doris sells in her Etsy shop.