DIY Glam Graduation Party

My baby girl graduated from High School people!!

I don't know where the time went, but it's so exciting watching them grow and become young adults.

To celebrate this big occasion, I threw her the party she requested. A little bit of sparkle, Tiffany blue and glam.

The entire thing was done with a mixture of love and lots of DIY.

Here's the results!!

The center cupcake stand was made from one of my dinner plates hot glued to a bowl turned upside down. The smaller stands are decorative wooden circles from Michael's glued to several different kinds of candle holders and then painted white. 

Cupcake wrappers and flags were cut out of glittery scrapbook paper. The flags were hot glued to lollipop sticks.

I purchased $2 frames from Michael's and printed out my daughter's Senior pictures on my home printer. I scattered these around the room allowing guests to see additional photos from her shoot.

Glitter letters were made by painting Mod Podge on paper mache numbers, dumping glitter all over them, then when that dried, coating them with clear sealant spray to limit the "glitter infestation" that would inevitably happen without it.

I had 4 of her Senior Photos printed out and hung across the mantle with polka dot garland for fun. We ran a slide show throughout the party of pics from her entire life. It was a HUGE hit!!

These are the pics that I hung from the mantle. Sophie B Photography did an amazing job on all her photos! I especially loved these pics that show the progression of her blowing glitter out of her hands. We had so much fun that day!!

Oh, and I almost forgot the little front door decoration. It was simple, quick and fun.

The empty wall behind my couch got a paint job in white, (yeah!!) and dressed up with a beautiful senior photo and lettering.

The letters were all cut out of gold poster board found at Hobby Lobby. I cut them all using my Silhouette, and was even able to use my 12"x24" Silhouette mat to cut the M and G. They are tacked to the wall with removable poster board sticky.

I had tassel garland hanging throughout. It was DIY'd from tissue paper and hung on twine.

My favorite decoration though was by far the giant balloons!! They were utterly amazing to look at, and added such a fun addition to the decor. 

I decided the amount of money it would've taken me to fill all of them with helium was way more than my budget allowed. So you guessed it, I DIY'd a way to make them stay up without it. I'll be sharing how I did it very soon on a post at Tiny Prints Blog. Stay tuned for that, and I'll make sure to let you all know when it's live. {it's live, see the full DIY HERE} 

Well I think that about covers it. I hope you enjoyed checking out my girl's party even half as much as I did creating it for her!! 

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