{FREEBIE} Halloween Cake Toppers

Here in Australia we don't celebrate Halloween like the do in the United States. However, I've been noticing it has been gaining popularity and last year I took my kids trick-or-treating for the first time. They loved it!

This year, we have been lucky enough to be invited to a pumpkin carving party. It was really fun to carve out the pumpkins. I was quite surprised to find that the insides were mostly seeds and there isn't much flesh, so you can't eat it. Here is my spooky castle.

And here are the pumpkins all together.

The pumpkins weren't edible, but there were lots of very creative things we could feast on, like these scary eyeballs made of lychee and blueberries.

I brought cupcakes with halloween toppers that I created. These are really easy to put together; you just print it, cut out the circles, then tape it to some toothpicks. My daughter really enjoyed putting them together.

Your own free Halloween Cupcake Toppers

Here is the link to the free halloween cupcake toppers. These are free for personal use only. Please link to this page and not directly to the PDF to share with others. Thanks.

Enjoy and happy halloween!

Click on the green link in the paragraph above to get your halloween template

Dinosaur Party!

My little boy loves dinosaurs, so we threw him a dinosaur birthday party! It's the first time I've thrown a themed party and I was pretty pleased with how it went. Here's how the food looked:

I made little name dots for all the cups so everyone would be able to keep track of which one was theirs. Normally I just have a sharpie on hand to write the names on.

I also created little tags for the food for a bit of fun! The dinosaur lollies went very quickly; it's just as well that I bought three bags of them.

For games the kids made dinosaurs out of paper plates and we had pass-the-box (our cheats version of pass-the-parcel where each kid can get a toy out of the box).

And then of course, when everyone left they got a lolly bag!

 RAWR! Has anyone else thrown a dinosaur party before? What did you do?

Blue DOg Creations is under new management

{MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT}
The time has come for Beckie and myself to move on from Blue Dog, due to family and work commitments we have both realised that we can no longer run Blue Dog Creations with out compromising on something else - and family must come first. 

After 4 years i have so many loyal customers, and i thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart for your support.

I also thank Beckie for being able to help me when demand has been high! i couldn't of made it this far without your help!

Carey has been helping me out over the past few months and has really enjoyed designing for customers. She has been able to step up and manage BDC for a couple of months while i took a break to work out what i wanted to do - thank you so much Carey for being there for Beckie and I.

Carey has now decided to take over Blue Dog for me to keep the name going, and keep my loyal customers happy with gorgeous designs.

Carey can be contacted through FB or her new email is bluedogcreations@outlook.com

GOOD BYE EVERYONE

Closed For Christmas

Thank you to all our customers for their support this year! 

We have a lot of very loyal customers now, and i enjoy seeing the photos of all the kids each year when i do the invites. We now have kids that will be turning 5 next year that i remember doing the baby announcements for!

August 2014 sees Blue Dog turn 5! i cant believe how quickly time has gone. 

I will be returning to work Full Time In the new Year. Fortunately we have Beckie and Carey also on board to help with orders so we can all share the workload and get the invitations out to our customers as quickly as possible.

Wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas and New Year! Have fun with your precious families and enjoy each others company before 2014 kicks in and the daily grind begins again! Im sure 2014 will go even quicker than the last

Now taking Christmas Card Orders

That time of the year is upon us again, and this time its taken me by surprise. Building a new home and busy with family and work life means i haven't had the time i normally would to sit down and design some fresh new cards for 2013. But they are coming!!!! 

Our full range from previous years is sitll available to order, and were taking orders now. If you would like a personalised Christmas Card they are only $10 each. You receive the high res JPG file that you can take and get printed as a standard 6x4inch photo.

If you have any questions, please never hesitate to contact us bluedog.creatoins@gmail.com

Im still here! Business is booming! Plenty of customers keeping me busy designing

Its been a while since i have posted. So this is more of a "yes im still here, and yes im taking orders post" Business is as busy as ever. The wonderful "word of mouth" marketing technique has worked wonders, we are approaching our 4th Birthday! and plenty of repeat customers always coming back for invitations. Its fantastic i get to see the kids from babies ona birth announcement and now im designing their 4th Bday invitations. Where does the time go!

Most jobs are taking between 5-7 days at the moment. Usulaly quicker, it depends on what orders i have at the time i receive your enquiry. Im also working part time, and my 2 kids are keeping me extrememly busy too so i can't be on the computer as much as i would like to be.

I try to answer all emails within 24 hours, so if you dont here back from me perhaps re-send in case i didn't receive it.

And lastly,
i use Facebook (www.facebook.com/bluedog.creations) to keep my galleries updated more than my blog as its just easier and faster. So please make sure you like the FB page so you can see all the latest designs