Gender Reveal Party - Team Pink/Team Blue

**Update: I have had a lot of emails & requests for the fruit pizza recipes. I have created a printable recipe card with the cookie & frosting recipe. To see it, click here. Thanks!**

This weekend we had our Gender Reveal Party! It was SO much fun! I went with a "Team Pink/Team Blue" theme, which was so much fun to decorate. I'm proud to say that since this is a totally unnecessary party, it was done without spending a whole lot of money! 

Here is the sweets table. 

I got an unfinished 11x18" frame from the $1 tree to make the chalkboard. I just spray painted the frame, painted the glass with chalkboard paint & used my silhouette to cut out "BOY" & "GIRL". You can't see it in the picture, but the little sign at the top says "Cast Your Vote". 

To help with the guessing, I wrote out a bunch of old wives tales about predicting baby's gender. I put the boy answer in blue & the girl answer in pink and then circled the one that was true for me. Clearly these are not accurate. :)

I made the cupcakes myself, which was a lot less work than I thought it would be. Although I was VERY thankful for my kitchen aid mixer! It was a chocolate cupcake with buttercream frosting. The middle is just whipped frosting with blue food coloring. 

 

I made the cupcake toppers using a scalloped punch and taping the paper to candy sticks. The question marks are vinyl that I cut out using my silhouette. It is SO much easier to cut out vinyl than to cut out paper & glue it on. 

Here is a picture of the whole table. Like how my darling husband moved my car to the back to have more parking out front?... not the best background for pictures. The things that guys don't think of :)

There were mostly sweets on this table. I also had a buffet with the savory stuff. The party was at 2:00 so I didn't have a full lunch, but I think there was plenty to eat!

I cut out these cute little popcorn boxes out of cardstock using my silhouette. The question marks are also vinyl {like the cupcake toppers}. I had all of the pink paper left over from my wedding so all I had to buy was the blue paper. The popcorn box was $1 from the silhouette store and we glued them together, but next time I think I'd use glue on the outer edges and tape on the bottom. The glue dried wavy and made the boxes not stand up totally straight. 

 I got these cute pink m&m's around valentines day & in the blue containers I bought a pack of mint york m&ms. It was way cheaper than buying  the specialty colors of m&m's, which are 6.99 per color for a little bag! To make the boxes stand up straight, I put about 10 m&m's in the bottom of each bucket to weigh them down and it worked perfectly! 

My favorite part of the whole party {ok, besides my baby boy!} was the mini fruit pizza bar!! Fruit pizza is my FAVORITE dessert and these were perfect. I think I ate 5. I will post the recipe soon for the delicious {non-rollout} sugar cookies that my mom made! 

YUM! Couldn't get any better! 

I love the idea of making water bottle labels, but it seems like a TON of work for something people are just going to throw away. So I just took the labels off tied them with a ribbon. Cute & only took 5 minutes! 

 Here are all of the yummy cupcakes! I was planning on buying them, but then my cheap-ness kicked in and I'm so glad I made them myself. It was really not as hard as I thought it'd be to fill them. 

 Trav & I both sported pink & blue... which I do realize does not match at all!! But it's all in the spirit of the party :) 

 I don't think this is the final tally, but there were a couple more girl votes than boys the entire time. 

 Here is team pink waiting to eat their cupcakes! 

 And here's team blue... the winning team :)

 Proud grandma... even though she's sporting pink for baby girl! I think she'll still like baby boy just as much :)

I know this is photo overload, but you just can't get enough baby!! Now this mama is exhausted & I'm ready for a night of couch & netflix. 

Linking here this week: 

Sundae Scoop @ I heart Naptime, Weekend Bloggy Reading @ Serenity Now, Show & Tell Saturdays @ Be Different, Act Normal, Show & Tell at Blue Cricket Design,  Weekend Wrapup Party @ TT&J, Weekend Link Party @ Lolly Jane, Tip Me Tuesday @ Tip Junky, Tutorial Tuesday @ Hope Studios, Take A Look Tuesday @ Sugarbee Crafts