Liesel from Match Set Love‘s daughter, Lilli turned two recently and was it cool?! Literally, Liesel opted for an Ice Cream Theme. It all started with a picture of a cake she saw on Pinterest. It was a light pink cake with a ‘fallen’ chocolate ice cream on top. Here she is with more on the detail…

The Invite: As an E-vite the invite is square, however if it is printed; it is double sided, front to back and rectangular. {This Party Kit is also now available in my online shop here}

The Savoury Snacks: I tried to make nice and {relatively} healthy savoury snacks to try and balance out all the yummy sweet things {as if such a thing is possible}. There were colourful crudite served in shot glasses nested in a spoonful of caramelised onion dip. Baby Marrow, Pea & Mint Soup Shots, served chilled. We made small portions of nachos {hot and not ;-} in cupcake cups and Veggie and Ham baguettes wrapped in the ‘water bottle labels’ to finish of this section.

The Sweet Stuff: Lilli was so sweet to help me prepare these ‘marshmallow pops’ and the ‘rice crispy treat cones’. It was quite a challenge for her not to eat it all and every now and then a marshmallow went astray.

Off course there had to be ice cream. I bought in the Belgium Chocolate ice cream, then made a dairy free Pina Colada Flavour. A heavenly Vanilla and Coconut and ended with Strawberry Frozen Yogurt that the kids loved! I set the ice creams in little tubs and in shot glasses to make small pops so that you could try more than one…

I baked a marble cake {yes, yes… to continue the colour theme.. hie hie} with a butter cream frosting. I found the recipe in my all time favourite magazine … Donna Hay. To make the ice cream ball for the top of the cake I made a big ball of the ‘rice crispy treat’ and dipped it in chocolate. After the cake was iced, I placed the ‘rice crispy chocolate ball’ on top of the cake, poured some more melted chocolate over to get the ‘melting’ effect and mounted the wafer cone….mmm and it was so delicious!

The Details: I just love paper lanterns. In summer with all our magnificent thunderstorms it is impossible to hang them on our balcony, however, August is perfect. Don’t you just love the pretty paper straws that I found at The Selection?

I read this quote by Voltaire… “Ice cream is exquisite, what a pity it isn’t illegal”. A-ha, new poster for the guest bathroom. Also, I made a special poster for ‘Lilli {age 2} Loves’ with all the things she loves to do now and used it as the centre piece of the savoury buffet. To bring in a bit more girly pink I framed two of the Pink Theme Nursery pack posters available here.

The Craft: I made a template {that you can download for free} of popsicle shapes. Copied it onto coloured card board and glued two-two together with an ice cream stick in between. Then I put together little packets of coloured confetti {yes, yes, I punched away one evening} and stick-on shapes as well as shapes that had to be glued on. Lilli’s principal was so kind to borrow me a table and chairs, so I set up a craft station for the kids on the balcony.

The Thank you Favours: I wanted to do something from the heart and not only sweeties. So there were ‘real hot chocolate’ stars with mini marshmallows. Each girl received an Alice band with a purple felt flower and when I saw the wooden tetrus blocks, I had to get that because Lilli just loves puzzles. To make it a handy toy to go with where ever they do, I made little string-bags. It was packaged in plain white paper bags with personalised matching ‘Flag Tags’.

Thank you so much for sharing Liesel!

To purchase the Party kit visit: www.matchsetlove.co.za, the kit includes:

• a personalised invitation (printable & email version)
• 3 x party flag designs
• 1 x mini flag design
• 1 x party cone design
• Flag Tag Thank You Tags
• Water bottle label / Serviette Ring
• 1 x Ice Cream Craft Template

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I am a creative at heart, who likes being surrounded by pretty things. My new house was the main inspiration for Lovilee, finding time to prettify, paint and ponder about change. Coffee, lavender, numbers, the color purple and my jeans inspire me. I believe that you should do what you love and love what you do! - KaRi