My personal blog, The Cards We Drew, focuses on my adventures in crafting, cooking, and parenthood, as well as dabbling a little bit in other arenas. I have a passion for party planning that was spurred on when my son had his first birthday and I was introduced to DimplePrints, where I now blog about party planning and preparations. I’m a busy mommy blogger, who also gets to work with Jamielyn here at I {Heart} Naptime (yay!) and I truly enjoy all the amazing ladies I keep meeting through blogging!
Today the owners of DimplePrints, Carli and Mike, and I decided we’d team together and give you a HUGE FREE Cookie Exchange party package to plan your Cookie Swap Party this year. Even better? Earlier this week Kyla, from Funky Polkadot Giraffe, gave you instructions on HOW to host a cookie exchange party! So now that you know HOW, we’re giving you the free prints on WHAT to decorate with!! Perfect timing, huh? And we didn’t even plan it that way!
This package is 91 pages of party planning goodness that includes:
- Banners (Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas, Cookie Xchange, and spacers)
- Favor Tags
- Tags for milk
- Food/Cookie Labels and Numbered Labels
- Party Hats
- Favor Box Instructions
- Matching patterned paper
- Pennants
- Welcome signs
- Various Other signs (Milk Bar, Cocoa Bar, Please Take One, Cast Your Votes, Welcome, Cookie Exchange, Cookies with Santa, and more)
- Fill in Matching Invitations
- Santa Letters
- Wish List Letters
- Shopping List Letters
- Cookie Voting Sheets
- Cookie Award Tags
- Matching Recipe Cards
I also thought that in the spirit of a fabulous Cookie Exchange, I’d share with you a quick and easy cookie recipe (in case the thought of baking scares you away from a Cookie Exchange) that I absolutely love and that you’ll likely already have all the items in your pantry already to make (I did at least).
Here’s an easy recipe for an Easy Shortbread Cookie that is sure to delight.
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Beat butter until light and creamy. Add 1/2 cup sugar and beat until fluffy. Sift flour with the salt and baking powder and fold into butter mixture. Put dough on an unbuttered baking sheet and pat into a 1/2 inch thick rectangle. Mark the dough for cutting with the point of a knife. Sprinkle with remaining sugar and bake in center of oven for 15 minutes or until edges are very lightly browned. Cool for 15 minutes and then cut into bars. Note: I added Christmas M&M’s into recipe for some added fun.
And of course, while you’re making these super easy cookies, you need a little helper to assist. :)
Hope you enjoy the party package and recipe! Please be sure to stop by DimplePrints and The Cards We Drew this holiday for more project inspiration. Also, if you like this cookie exchange package, you’ll love the DimplePrints FREE Thanksgiving Party Package!
Many thanks to Jamielyn for having us today and we hope your Cookie Exchanges go fabulously this year! If you use our Cookie Exchange prints and would like featured on our blog, please email me photos of your party at [email protected] We’d LOVE to show off your parties!
Abbey, from The Cards We Drew, is a Media Assistant with I {Heart} Naptime. She lives in the Columbus, Ohio area with her toddler son and handsome hubby and loves creating, blogging, and trying new things. Some of her favorite things to do involve party planning, making wreaths, and getting inspiration from fellow bloggers and readers (like you guys!!).
RubyJeans
Super Cute!!
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Kyla @ Funky PolkaDot Giraffe
They are adorable! Thank you for sharing and for the shout out!
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kara
This is so awesome and super generous! I cant get the link for the downloads to work though :(
Abbey
Hi Kara, if you would like me to email them directly to you shoot me an email: [email protected]. Scribd is quite tempramental and gives me a lot of headaches. You must also have the newest version of Adobe for it to work correctly. Hope that helps and sorry it’s giving you issues :(
CreativeBusyHand
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 7 post on Nov. 17, 2011. Thanks again.
Jessica Busby
Thank you so much for this!! It was great inspiration!!!!
Channa
Bless you! I almost decided to cancel my cookie party this year because I was stressed about decorations and invitations. Thank you for sharing!
nina Weaver
I LOVE this!! However, It will only print the first 37 pages… any ideas on how to print the rest? :(
Lindsay
These printables are amazing! Can’t wait to try your recipe. Thanks so much for sharing :)
I featured your printables on my blog today, feel free to come check it out!
http://artsyfartsymama.blogspot.com/2011/12/pinteresting-features-n-shtuff-13.html
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