A Fall Party/Thanksgiving

This entry is dedicated to my mom, who does Thanksgiving dinner for 24 at her home every year and she decorates to the nines and she loves every minute of it. Last year, my husband violated all of my mom's decorating rules by choosing a plate from one table and then sitting down at another table (each table is decorated differently and the rule is that you keep your plate at the table it belongs to!) My cousins and I snickered all through the meal, waiting for Mom to notice. However, since my husband is my mom's favorite (read: only) son-in-law and he's the turkey cooker, she let it slide. If it had been me, I'd have been dead meat (Thanksgiving pun intended)! I appreciated his disregard for the rules since he changed seats to sit beside me!



If you are interested in either of these cards or would like to see the other cards we have for the fall season, click here.

I'm Inspired!

So I was thrilled this week when Kati, over at The Finer Things and Rebecca at Tastefully Entertaining used one of my cards to create an inspiration board for a Halloween wedding. (Thanks so much for the mention!)

I was so inspired, I decided to try it myself. I went for a different card than they used just to mix it up a little bit. To see the entire Halloween collection, or to purchase, click here.

What fun it was to look for elegant Halloween wedding ideas. I totally love the dress (Ralph Lauren). It has an Eliza Doolitle feel to it but could totally be used as a wedding dress.

I enjoyed doing the inspiration board so much, I have decided to try it with some of my other invitations.

Hope you like it!

Return Address Labels

Well, lately I've been working on the cutest thing . . . circular return address labels to match the designs that we released back in January. They look so nice on the back of the envelope. Around the office, we are thinking about using the invitations as note cards with just our name as the personalization just so we can use the return address labels. Sorry, these aren't for sale yet. They will probably be released in a month or so. You just get the sneak peek today!

. . . or maybe not . . . . I can't seem to get the images uploaded for some technical reason. I will try to get them uploaded as soon as I can. Gotta go design for now!

More Vintage Sign Series

Here are the final 3 in the Vintage Sign Series. The Welcome to Vegas Sign was the start of it all. We created a holiday version of the Vegas and the Party Hotel ones with red and green coloring for the holidays and they were extremely poplular. We are still selling them in January. You just gotta love the "What Happens Here, Stays Here" line on an invitation.

And don't you just love the typeface on the Wedding Chapel one. It's Font Diner and Font Diner Sparkly. You just know someone who would send out that invite is a fun couple.

These invites have been sent out to the internet vendors and should be available for purchase soon at http://www.invitationbox.com/ and http://www.polkadotdesign.com/. I know that both of these sites are working to upload our stuff quickly. Enjoy!

Typefaces

Looking over the items that I have chosen to include in this blog made me start thinking about font choices that I have made. I go through phases with typefaces with a few all-time favorites. All time faves include Helvetica, Mrs Eaves, Engravers Gothic and Bickham. I also really like Vectora, but it really isn't a "stationery" font. Current faves also include Fling, Bodoni (thanks to my cohort, Jen), Trajan and Ministry Script. I am currently really dying to purchase Feel Script, available at http://www.veer.com/ but I'm essentially too cheap to cough up the $99. If I still love it 6 months from now, I will probably break down and buy it. It has the best ligatures and alternate characters. It's one of the most girly fonts I have ever really liked.

January 08 Release (continued)

Here is another invite for the January release. I think it's perfect for a rehearsal dinner or bridesmaid luncheon.

Preview of January 08 Release

Every January, stationery companies release their new designs for the upcoming season. This is my first experience of creating and designing while concurrently producing all of the custom digital photo card orders for the holiday season. It's been a busy December, but I'm pleased with the new designs for spring. Thes designs are not yet currently for sale but if you see something you like or would be interested in a custom design, email me. Most designs that I show here are available in other colors and could be custom produced in any color you desire.