Thanks to our vendors!

Want to win a free custom stamper? Just go to Invitation Consultants Blog and follow the simple and quick directions and you might win one for yourself.

Looking for savings on your holiday invitations? I received this email yesterday from Fine Stationery with LOTS of our cards represented! (Top left corner - "Welcome to Vegas"; Directly under that one - "Holiday Glow"; Bottom right corner - "Holiday Loops"; Directly above that one - "Blue Menorrah")

If you love stationery, look on your favorite sites for email updates. Most sites send out email periodically letting you know what's on sale or what's really hot.

And speaking of really hot - if you are looking for Halloween invitations, look no further than Invitation Box. They have all of the hottest Halloween cards (ours, of course!) with matching stampers and return address labels. And don't forget, the return address labels can be used for treat bags for the kids or for your friends and co-workers.

Thanks to all of our vendors who work so hard at getting our products out there in the world. We really appreciate all your hard work!

And if you have been wondering why I haven't blogged much lateley, it's because I have been working so hard at getting our products out there into the world for the holiday season!

Happy weekend everyone.

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.

A Halloween Party for the Adults

Way back when (for me that was the late 80's), I shared a condo with two other single girls. We wanted to live in Fourth Ward (uptown Charlotte, NC - not downtown!) and when we saw the ad for a condo with views of the park we were sold sight unseen. Upon arriving at the condo, we loved it. It was large and open and great for entertaining (something we did alot of). The "park" however, turned out to be a cemetary with graves dating from the 1770's to the 1850's. When I think of an upscale adult Halloween party, I can envision our condo overlooking the graveyard as the perfect site!

For more information about this invitation or any of our other Halloween cards, click here.


This was our "view of the park." It wasn't a bad view even if it was a cemetary!

Holiday Part 4

So this is where the vintage sign series all started . . . Last year, when I had just begun designing stationery (literally, I was on the job for less than a month), we were about to wrap up the holiday offerings and my art director/boss/owner of the company asked for a couple of invitations that looked like vintage Vegas. We designed the top two and finished out our Holiday Release for 2007. They were digital invitations (which can have white text as well as many different colors of text on the same invitation) and they sold so well that we released a traditionally printed option that we can sell blank to stationery stores so that they can print them on site (the bottom two invites). We have also released an everyday version of each of these as well as other party invitations (see all Vintage Sign Series blog entries). We will be working on more for our January release so if you have an idea of a sign you would like to see, let me know!

Holiday Part 3

Having a holiday party and want a fun invitation that's not fussy at all? We have continued our vintage sign series of invitations to include holiday. From a champagne celebration to a tropical holiday party, the vintage signs are a whimsical way announce a less formal party.

More to come . . .

Classic Design

Last night I was watching The Sound of Music with my daughter and I was struck by how much I still like the design used in this movie. The script font used in the credits looked very much like Ministry Script, that we have just added to our list of available typestyles for customized invitations and the other typefaces looked very much like Trajan and Engravers Gothic, both of which are all time favorite typefaces of mine. Then, when Maria pulled down the draperies and made outfits for all the kids, I was struck anew at how "current" the design of this movie is. Oversized damask has been quite trendy lately and Maria was just a little ahead of her time when she outfitted all the kids in matching lime green and white oversized damask outfits. I think I may have to go work on a Christmas design using this look!

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!

Vintage Sign Series

Another big hit of the January release is the Vintage Sign Series. With a nod to Route 66 and fifties Vegas, Jen and I created a series of eight invitations that are both kitschy and whimsical. The Barbeque one makes me think of the pig from Piggly Wiggly grocery stores. Those of you from the southern eastern seaboard know what it's like to be "big on the pig." Susan, my esteemed boss and fearless art director pushed for all the little details that you might never notice but really bring out the design - the fringe on the Fiesta sign, the bride's bouquet in the Honeymoon Inn sign and the texture on the trunk of the palm tree. Hope you like them! PS - You can click on the image to see it larger.