Jessica Alba Spotted With A Diaper Cake!

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Designing & Creating Your Own Baby Shower Invitations

 A little while ago, we had done a Princess Themed Baby Shower photo shoot. We designed most of the products ourselves including the baby shower invitation cards. They were fun and simple to create, but best of all they were cost effective while being unique.

After deciding the theme for your shower, the date and venue, the next thing on your To-do list would be the invitation. Below are a few options for you to choose from:

Online Invitations: This choice is the fastest, easiest and most environmentally friendly. They are free invitation sites that allow you to design and send out invitations within minutes. One of our favourite is Evite.com. You have plenty of templates to choose from, it`s easy to use and maintains your RSVP. Alternatively, you can design your own invitation. Even Microsoft Word has some adorable invitation templates. You can then email your evites and maintain a spreadsheet for your RSVP guest list.

Professionally Designed Invitations: You can have a graphic artist design printable invitations for you. This doesn`t  have to be over priced. Etsy has some amazing artistic talent. We have worked with a few to design our logo and marketing material. They also do invitations at reasonable costs. Feel free to message us for referrals and contact information on graphic artists that we have worked with on Etsy. Many offer the additional service of printing and delivering your invitations for you . You can also print them yourself or at a local printer`s.

DIY Crafty Invitations: You could go the crafty route of creating unique invitations for your baby shower. Card stock can be purchased at any craft store such as Micheals or DeSerres. Alternatively, if you are on a tighter budget, the corner Dollar store has some pretty card stock as well. Get a few coordinating ribbons and accessories to get to work!

Whichever option you choose, make it a fun project and infuse the theme of the party into your invitation. It`s the first thing the guests would see for your event. Make a great first impression on them!

Safari Themed Baby Shower

Animal Safari is one of the most popular themes for baby showers this year. We designed an adorable diaper cake for a safari themed baby shower last month. It was an absolutely beautiful event and our baby diaper cake fit right in!

Apart from Safari theme there are other animal themes you could choose from such as Noah's Ark, ducky, monkey and farm animals. You could even select your favourite animal and design a theme around it. There is so much you could do around these themes that we can assure your baby shower will be tonnes of fun.

Check out Little Dance Invitations blog post of an amazing Baby Forest Animals Baby Shower that they put together. The colour palette they used is vibrant and the decor is so unique.

Happy inspiration!

5 Baby Gift Ideas Under $50!

Our April 2011 Finest Expressions Newsletter is here and it's full of wonderful tips and ideas! Check it out and let us know if you think. It's also available on our website for download in PDF format.

Spring Baby Gift Collection 2011 - Coming Soon!

New Onesie Cupcakes Added!

We love baby clothing cakery and our baby onesie cupcakes are our newest addition to our online boutique. Adorable baby body suits are wrapped in cup cake designs and are decorated with super cute cupcake embellishments.

Our latest design of cupcakes come in cupcake containers with picks. We have many different themes to choose from, including jungle safari, Princess, Cars and many more!

Priced at $39.00, these creations consist of 4 body suits and are displayed in an adorable window cupcake box. Also included with this gift is a personalized gift card for the recipient.

Visit our online baby boutique at www.finestexpressions.com to view our complete collection of baby gifts.

Finest Expressions - At A Glance

Finest Expressions - Designer Gifts & Gift Baskets is an online boutique for handcrafted treasures. We are committed to offering the finest handcrafted gifts and favours in North America. Our designers work hard to guarantee you the highest quality product and personalised service. We specialize in creating masterpieces from useful and trendy items. We offer gifts for many occasions, including baby showers, wedding and corporate gifts. One of the best part about our unique line of gifts is that they can be customized to suit your style, theme and budget.

Our products include:

Baby Diaper Cakes

Candy & Chocolate Bouquets

Finest Blossoms - Baby Clothing Bouquets

Onesie Cupcakes

Gift Baskets

DIY Party Favour Kits

Favour Cakes

Busta/Money Boxes

Finest Blooms - Baby Sock Bouquets

Visit us at www.finestexpressions.com to view our full selection of products

Baby Shower Planner/Checklist

Planning a party is fun and exciting! You start with a blank canvas and paint it with your own unique colour theme. However, there is so much to keep track off that you could easily get overwhelmed.



To help you plan your next amazing baby shower, we have designed a detailed baby shower checklist. It's also available on our Finest Expressions - Fan Page for your convenience.



Good luck planning and don't forget to check our adorable baby diaper cakes & gifts to add that special touch to your baby shower!

Next week we will post our top 5 baby shower planning websites. Stay tuned!

New Look To Our Facebook Fan Page

We just updated our Finest Expressions Fan Page to have a new Welcome Page and Profile Picture! We worked with Esty graphic artist, The Girl That Makes Banners to design the page. She was a delight to work with and guided us every step of the way.

Check it out and let us know how it looks!

New Diaper Cakes & Onesie Cupcakes Coming Soon!

Looking forward to the new year!

The new year means new beginnings. A chance to dream big and have exciting aspirations. We write down are goals, resolutions and plans for the new year. It's a fresh start as we gather what we have learned in the past year and work on making an even better new year. We are doing the same here at Finest Expressions. I can't tell you how excited we are for 2011 and our big plans for this year! We are already designing our new line of diaper cakes, baby onesie cup cakes and more!

Looking back at 2010 we realized our most memorable moments have been getting positive feedback from our customers and blog readers. All the appreciative emails, phonecalls, blog comments, Facebook Likes and Tweets we received gave us such joy! Since we established our business in 2007, we have worked hard on getting to know our customers and listening to what they have to say about us. Your feedback is invaluable to us. Whether it is feedback about how we can improve our products or a new product you want us to carry in our online store, we would love to hear from you.

Here are some ways you can stay in touch with us:



Email



Twitter



Facebook Fanpage



Please Stay In Touch!

Happy Holidays!

After a very busy holiday shopping season, we will be taking a much needed vacation! We will be closed from December 26th, 2010 to January 3rd, 2011. Our online store is open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, so you will be able to place orders. However, any orders placed during this time will be processed after January 3rd, 2011. Unfortunately, we will not be able to send confirmations or provide customer service support until we re-open.

We hope to come back refreshed to take on the exciting projects for the new year! We apologize for any inconvenience.

Wishing you a very happy holiday season!

Today's Parent Giveaway- Things Mom Love

Finest Expressions is doing a giveaway with Today's Parent this week! Share your baby shower gift ideas for a chance to receive a Jungle Lion - Baby Diaper Cake! This premium diaper cake includes:

45 Pampers Diapers - Size 1
2 Receiving Blankets
1 Pair Socks
1 Plush Toy
2 Washcloths

Visit Today's Parent - Things Mom Love blog to enter. Good Luck!

Introducing Finest Expressions' New Logo & New Blog!

We have a brand new logo and blog! We wanted a logo that would represent our wide selection of baby, wedding, corporate and party products. We love the way it turned out! Stay tuned for the new website 'look'.

Happy Thanksgiving!

In celebration of the Canadian Thanksgiving, we will be closed this weekend and will re-open on Tuesday, October 12.

From all of us here at Finest Expressions, we wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Custom Baby Shower Diaper Cake and Baby Blossom

We recently designed this amazing combo of Baby Shower Diaper Cake and Baby Blossom - Clothing bouquets. The theme we had to work with was mint green and chocolate brown. The Baby Diaper Cake was used as a centre Piece for the Mom-to-be's table while the Baby Blossom - Baby Clothing Bouquets served as centre pieces for the other guest tables.

The Baby Diaper Cake had 80-85 Pampers Diaper (Size 1), 3 receiving blankets, 4 wash cloth, 1 pair socks, ribbons and flowers.


Each Baby Blossom - Baby Clothing Bouquet included 2 pair socks, 4 wash cloths, 1 body suit, 1 undershirt, flowers, ribbons and pail bucket.


Custom Baby shower packages could include baby diaper cake, centre pieces and baby shower favours. The centre pieces could be baby clothing bouquets or candy bouquets. This custom design was such fun to work on and it looked gorgeous with its trendy colour theme!