My very first Mother’s Day is coming up! Becoming a mother was the best thing that ever happened to me, but it’s hard work! We Mothers deserve a little “TLC” on our special day. I’m all the more excited that my mom will be in town visiting, so I’ll get to spend the day with her.
One of my favorite ways to pamper myself is with a tea party! I am pretty much obsessed with anything and everything tea, and Mother’s Day is the perfect excuse to throw an extraordinary one for me and my Momma!
Here are some fun ideas for throwing a fabulous little Mother’s Day tea party for yourself and a special Mom or two in your life
Ideas for creating a Mother’s Day Tea Party:
First and foremost, send invitations! Use Digital Scrapbooks and More Tea-Party Themed Digital Scrapbooking Kits to mix and match tea-inspired digi-papers and embellishments! Customize your digital scrapbooking page or invitation with party details (date, time, location) to make an adorable, personalized invite. You can print your scrap page (take Digital Scrapbooks and More’s tutorial training on saving and printing digital scrapbooking projects to learn more about doing this – by getting this training: How to Make Invitations, ‘Thank You’ Cards, and Note Cards in Elements), or simply send out an email to your favorite mothers and include your digital scrapbooking page in the body of the email!
Not too long ago, my mom hosted a tea party for some of her friends so that they could come over to her house and meet my little son, and she used the idea of including a tea party invitation in the body of her email. Her invitation turned out fantastic!
She used the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Valentine and Love Tea Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 and Valentine and Love Tea Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 and made a beautiful e-invitation that she emailed to all her friends. She even put a picture of my son on top of a tea cup embellishment (which was included in one of digital scrap kits) and it looked as though my baby was sitting inside a tea cup! It was absolutely precious, a great way to get her friends’ attention, and made a wonderful-looking card… which was FREE because she sent it by email! Her friends could quickly RSVP, and the emailed invitation was still cute and personalized, while getting quick responses! (Ps. we have great scrapbooking page for Scrap Photo Album too!)
Next, plan your menu. I love to make menus that are easy but look elaborate. There are many ways to do this, from choosing simple recipes (that look pretty when completed!), baking/prepping ahead, or taking simple shortcuts. Just remember, tea parties should be as fun and relaxing as possible (even for the host!), so don’t stress yourself out over small stuff. And there’s no reason to be formal and stuffy about your tea parties! Take it easy and create “breakfast tea” with tasty breakfast scones, muffins, cakes, and fresh fruit with complimentary tasting teas, or throw an all-dessert tea party, with all kinds of cakes and sweet goodies! You may even want to put a pretty table cloth over a simple table and make the tea party “buffet style.” 
Let guests pick and choose what they want to eat and what teas their interested in tasting. This will save you time and will let you enjoy the party, instead of running back and forth to the kitchen to serve them the next course. Your friends won’t judge you for not having 6 different food courses, and will probably have so much fun at your relaxed tea party, that it could inspire them to throw one of their own the next time around!
Then make personalized name place cards and food labels. Use Digital Scrapbooks and More’s How to Make Place Cards (and More) using Photoshop Elements Training in order to assign special guests a seat. Add text to the name place card, then include a tea-inspired embellishment from Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Tea Party-inspired Digital Scrapbooking Kits on each side of the guests’ name.
Using a tea cup and tea pot digi-embellishment is an adorable way to add special details to the party and décor, that are fast and super-easy! You’ll also want to use the same training to make food place cards. Label each tea, what flavor it is and whether it has caffeine or not. You may want to provide both a caffeinated and 
decaffeinated tea option for your mother friends.
You should also label the tea-treats (and mention if you made any special varieties with individuals with food allergies, like myself! I eat gluten-free!) as well as any jams, creams, or sauces.
Labeling will not only look cute and organized, it will help your fellow-mothers know what is what!
Next, make your own traditions! One way to make the party a little more interesting, is to ask your guests to bring their own tea cup and saucer. It 
makes great conversation to look at different patterns and china, and can make the décor look more spontaneous and interesting too! Another fun idea? Send your favorite moms home with a tea party favor! Take a pretty, (very) small bag and fill it with a favorite loose-leaf tea. Close the bag with a pretty ribbon and close it with a small and inexpensive tea spoon as you knot the ribbon. It makes for a gorgeous little party favor that your guests will treasure. If you want to treat a special mother to a very special part favor, buy an inexpensive, but pretty, set of tea cups. Send her home with a teacup filled with a favorite tea pouch to let her remember your pampering Mothers Day. She’ll love it!
Then, take pictures of tea time fun! Of all the important things at your tea 
party, don’t forget your camera! Snap some photos of the food, decor, friends and fun!
Make sure you get in a few of the pics too! Get a tripod ( there are plenty of small inexpensive tripods that work easily with digital cameras) and take pictures of everyone.
Make sure you take the Digi Makeover Digi Training to remove any red eye or shadows from your photos.
Also, scrap your Tea Party, make lovely digital scrapbooking pages, and albums to always remember your special Mother’s Day Tea Party!
One thing you could scrap is the recipes you used at the Tea Party and then turn it into a digital album and email it to everyone that attended the tea party!
Another thing to do is scrap the photos and turn them into beautiful albums!
You can go to an online printing company and have them printed out! Some place like Snapfish or Shutterfly. Here you can turn your precious digital scrap pages into printed versions that you can even make extra copies to give as Mother’s Day gift!
Also you can have these same pages turned into aprons, calendars, and 
mouse pads and other fantastic gifts!
Next, send thank you cards! Scrap a beautiful thank you card. Use Digital Scrapbooks and Mores training and tea party digi kits and include pictures from the party! It’s a lot of fun to reminisce about a relaxing tea party, 
and your special mom will friends love looking back at photos that remind them of the fabulous day they had on this Mother’s Day!
Happy Scrapping, Happy Mother’s Day, and Happy Tea Time
Jennifer
Get Training to make your Tea Party Extra Personal and Special:
Learn How to Make Invitations and Thank You Cards:
How to Make Invitations, ‘Thank You’ Cards, and Note Cards in Elements training is the best way to learn how to make your own 
personalized cards- for any occasion! Creating customized cards is a great way to make a card with a lot of personality and meaning… not to mention, it can save you a whole lot of money too! Store-bought cards are so expensive! Why not easily make your own and include all the photos, information, and messages that you really want it to have- all at the same time! Bonus: Digital Scrapbooking Supplies, Photoshop Card Templates (can be used in Elements too) are all included in this training too! Learn how to make the smaller invitation/note card size card around (5.5 x 4.25″ folded), which is perfect for using with the A2 invitation envelopes (4 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches). Learn how to make 2 Invitation Size cards per one sheet of US paper, and design the card in the landscape orientation.
Learn how to Make Place Cards, Food Cards, Game Cards, and More!
How to Make Place Cards (and More) using Photoshop Elements is a fabulous way to 
learn how to make your own place cards for dinner parties, gift cards for presents, and so much more! Bonus: Digital Scrapbooking Supplies, Custom Brushes, and Photoshop Place Card Template are all included in this training too!
There are many ways to use the included place card template. You can combine it with digital scrapbooking supplies, photos, brushes and text to make place cards with people’s names on them for a dinner or birthday parties. You can use them as a food information card to tell things about the food and the ingredients. Use the Place Card template to make photo cards, and gift cards for presents, or even use as clue cards for games, and coloring cards using outline brushes. Use your imagination to find other ways to make many other handy items with this template!
How to Make a PDF Scrapbooking Album using Photoshop Elements is a great Intermediate 2-part tutorial set that will teach you all about the basics 
of making a digital scrapbooking album that you can email, print or view on a computer. This lesson will show you how to make just one PDF scrap page, or take multiple digital scrapbooking pages and combine them into album that is in the PDF format using Photoshop Elements 8!
Now that you know how to use Photoshop Elements for digital scrapbooking, wouldn’t it be nice turn some of those digital scrapbooking pages into digital albums? This training shows you how! Once you have a digital album you can email your whole digital scrapbooking album to friends and family!
Learn how to turn just one page or multiple pages in to the PDF format that most everyone can read with Adobe’s FREE Acrobat Reader for PDF formatted documents
Also learn how to make a PDF that can work like a slideshow and show case your digital scrapbooking pages.
Get the Tea Party Scrap Kits:
The Valentine and Love Tea Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 is super fun digital kit filled with intricate lace papers and beautiful Victorian digital embellishments. Best of all it is 11×8.5 paper size which is perfect for home printing projects, calendar pages, recipe books, scrap albums, mouse pads and more! Use the Valentine and Love Tea Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 to preserve special memories of Valentines, or you and your favorite girls enjoying a hot cup of tea and desserts! Heat up the tea pot and start scrapping all your best moments with your with this super fun kit. With this digital scrap kit start scrapping your love, Valentines Day, Engagements, Weddings, Bridal Showers, Mother’s Day, Tea Parties, or Relationship-Themes for digital scrapbooking projects and pages!
The Valentine and Love Tea Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 is a gorgeous 
digi-kit filled with intricate lace papers and beautiful Victorian digi-embellishments. Whether you want to make a special scrap page to remember a deliciously fun tea party with your best girlfriends, or you want to make a one-of-a-kind Valentine for a special someone, this kit is the perfect match! This kit is also great for scrapping Valentines Day, Engagements, Weddings, Bridal Showers, Mother’s Day, Tea Parties, or Relationship-Themes for digital scrapbooking projects and pages! Use the tea pot and tea cups to make a scrap page about a special tea party, or turn the digi-papers into a one-of-kind Valentine with its chocolate box digi-embellishment, and roses. This kit has 12×12″ size paper, which is a great size to make large traditional sized scrapbooking books and other digital scrapbooking projects.
The Valentine and Love Tea Digital Scrapbooking Kit 3 (with 8.5×11″paper) is a beautiful digi-kit filled with intricate lace papers and
beautiful Victorian digital embellishments. Because of it’s US paper size it is perfect for home printing projects! Create recipe books, photo albums, calendar pages, Valentine’s or Mother’s Day cards, tea party invitations, or just digital scrapbooking page with special photos and a gorgeous digi-kit to match! Use the recipe card embellishment to scrap your favorite recipes! Also, these pages are 8.5×11″ size perfect for turning into a PDF Album and email to family and friends! Also this format works great on a IPad and other eReaders for more digital viewing!
Want Tea Party Scrap Kits for Mother’s Day?
Then take a look at this Scrap Kit – the Tea Party Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1, which is filled with pretty pastel colored papers laced with Victorian-style flowers. This adorable digital scrapbooking kit is a perfect match for spring projects, baby showers, Mother’s Day events, and a great way to scrap an “any-time” tea party celebration!
Use the Tea Party Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 to preserve special memories of you and your favorite girls enjoying a hot glass of tea and desserts! Tea time is a great way for us ladies to talk and bond, and certainly an event that deserves to be digitally scrapped! Use this precious tea party kit to remember all your favorite girly, tea moments!
Get out the tea pot and start the ladies-only celebrations with the ultra-adorable Tea Party Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 (8.5×11″ paper size)! This kit is filled with pretty pastel colored papers laced with Victorian-style flowers. This adorable digital scrapbooking kit is a perfect match for luncheons, Teas, spring projects, baby showers, Mother’s Day events, and a great way to scrap an “any-time” tea party celebration! And because this paper kit is formatted in US paper size (8.5×11″ paper size), it makes it easier to print out on home printers! Use this kit for many digital scrapbooking projects like journal scrap pages, calendars, recipe albums, photo books, and more!
Like to see more Tea Party kits? Then check out the supplies below!
The Tea Party Quick Page Kit 3 (formatted 12×12″ paper size) 3 is a fabulous choice for scrapping tea parties, Mother’s Day lunches, baby showers, bridal showers, or other fun moments and activities quickly! Just insert your best photos of smiling faces, girly moments, brilliant tea and desserts, or special moments at a fun tea party into the pre-designed digital scrapbooking pages, and you’re basically done!The Quick Page paper size is 12×12″ perfect for traditional digital scrapbooking projects and larger scrapbooking pages! This kit comes with 4 bonus WordArt!
The Tea Party Quick Page Kit 1 (formatted 8.5×11″ paper size) is the fast-to-scrap kit filled with tea-inspired Quick Pages! Just insert your best photos of smiling faces, girly moments, brilliant tea and desserts, or special moments at a fun tea party into the pre-designed digital scrapbooking pages, and you’re basically done! This kit comes with 4 bonus WordArt in Tea Party themes! This fantastic Quick Page kit is also a perfect match for spring projects, bridal showers, baby showers, Mother’s Day events, and more!
The Tea Party Quick Page Kit 2 (formatted 12×12″ paper size) is a great kit for creating super-fast digital pages, projects, and
albums! Scrap your special girly moments, Mother’s Day projects, tea-time memories, baby shower parties, etc! Just insert your best photos of smiling faces, girly moments, brilliant tea and desserts, or special moments at a fun tea party into the pre-designed digital scrapbooking pages, and you’re basically done!
The Quick Page paper size is 12×12″ perfect for traditional digital scrapbooking projects and larger scrapbooking pages! This kit comes with 4 bonus WordArt and 2 Bonus Tag Embellishments, all in Tea Party themes!
Have fun using the Tea Party Quick Page Kit 2 to preserve special memories of you and your favorite girls enjoying a hot glass of tea and desserts! Tea time is a great way for us ladies to talk and bond, and certainly an event that deserves to be digitally scrapped! Use this precious tea party kit to remember all your favorite girly, tea moments! Use these Quick Pages to create photo albums, journals, travel albums, recipe books, and more!
The Tea Party Scrapbooking Frame Kit 1 is filled with Victorian-style colored tea cups and tea pots sprinkled with pretty designs… that you can add photos to! Just insert your favorite photos of someone special into the “tea frames” and you have adorable embellishments that can be used on your digital scrapbooking page! This adorable digital frame kit is a perfect match for spring projects, baby showers, Mother’s Day events, show-off grandkids or grandma, and a great way to scrap an “any-time” tea party celebration!
It’s easy to use these tea frames! Just insert your photos, and you’re done!
The Tea Party Scrapbooking Embellishment Kit 1 is filled with Victorian-style colored embellishments sprinkled with pretty designs. This adorable digital embellishment kit is a perfect match for spring projects, baby showers, bridal showers, Mother’s Day events, and a great way to scrap an “any-time” tea party celebration!
Use the Tea Party Embellishment Kit 1 to preserve special memories of you and your favorite girls enjoying a hot glass of tea and desserts! Tea time is a great way for us ladies to talk and bond, and certainly an event that deserves to be digitally scrapped! Use this precious tea party kit to remember all your favorite girly, tea moments!
Have a very Happy Mother’s Day!
