Cars + Lightning McQueen Birthday Party

Cars + Lightning Mc Queen Party Details:

This is what Karen said about planning the party- “Little manny turned two a little while ago and there was no doubting the theme… I am sure that we will have to go with the Cars birthday party theme for the next 8 years! Manny LOVED his special day and especially the red car cake topper that his daddy made for him. The gorgeous images were taken by friend and photographer Carike Ridout.
I started off my planning with a Pinterest board. When I discussed my theme with friendy Liezel from Match Set Love she started creating and inspiring me with so many more ideas! We decided to go with the black and white square theme, incorporating it into the cake, the bunting {you can buy it here}, cake toppers and favours. She designed and cut the most awesome vinyl that I literally stuck everywhere and also kindly agreed to share some printables with you lovilees!

The little Popcorn boxes are from Mariaan from M.Studio and will soon be available in her new on-line store.

I created a little photo-booth area with props that I designed myself {available for download below}. It was great fun! We also had a small colouring in area with crayons and stickers and I got some really nice Car tattoos from Pick ‘n Pay.

Click on the links below to download the files:
A3 Piston cup poster
Cupcake toppers and Straw Flags
A4 photobooth ‘Ka-Chow’ speech bubble
Lightning McQueen photobooth eyes

Even though daddy was brave enough to make the cars cake topper, I decided to outsource the cake to Cake Fuss here in Jo’burg. Kaleb’s Nina made him the chocolate cars cookies and his aunt the boudoir biscuit cars and ‘cosy cones’. The sparkler ’2? was also from his aunt which she purchased on their recent visit to New Zealand. I cannot begin to tell how little manny’s face lit up when he saw the cake and even more when he got to play with the car on top”!

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