Ashley & Tom's coral, sage, and yellow flower pocketfold wedding invitations

Ashley and Tom are using a wonderful color palette for their wedding -- Coral, Soft Yellow, and Sage Green. I incorporated all of these colors into their 7x7 metallic pocketfolds. These feature a custom design of a coral and yellow columbine -- the state flower of Colorado, where they'll be getting married.

The metallic light green pocketfolds feature a double ribbon wrap of coral and soft yellow, with a double layered invitation of coral and metallic ivory cardstocks.

Soft yellow envelopes were used for the RSVPs:

A folded booklet included the itinerary, accommodations, and 

general travel information for all of the guests traveling from out of state:

Airplane 2nd Birthday -- Details!

I posted yesterday about my son's Airplane Themed 2nd Birthday. Here are some of the details from the party:

Arrivals sign with some balloons -- I love the blue ones with the clouds I found online!

Welcome sign attached to our backyard gate:

"Happy 2nd Birthday Dietrich" Banner hanging from the fence above the food table:

Custom water bottle labels:

Red & White Paper straws with disks:

Decorate your foam glider craft:

The cake -- airplane shaped chocolate cake with buttercream frosting. I ran out of time (lost my motivation) by this point, so we just kept it white:

Make a wish!

Not-so-great pic of me and the birthday boy (note our pilot's wings!):

 Baggage Claim Area: Black "luggage" favor tags for the kids and the suitcase filled with favors for the adults:

Inside the bags were a pair of sunglasses, temporary tattoos, a punching bag balloon, and a lollipop:

Custom-made favor pouches held 1 oz. bags of Planters Peanuts for the adults -- it's just not an airplane party without peanuts! 

The Departures sign had everyone leave through the backyard gate instead of going through the house:

This child did not stop playing until we brought him up to bed...

Airplane themed 2nd Birthday Invitation

My sweet boy started to obsess about airplanes a few months ago, right around 

when I started planning his second birthday. Here are the invitations 

that I came up with for him.... 

I was torn between doing a traditional flat 5x7 invitation, a boarding pass, 

and a passport. I decided to just go for it with an airplane ticket folder

 and a boarding pass-style invitation. 

The folder:

Close-up of the pocket of the folder -- 

the Dietrich Airways logo was carried through on all of the stationery:

I love the "2" that the plane makes in the background -- if you look closely, 

you'll see it in the middle of the invitation, too:

One of the many details -- pilot wings for all of the kids, plus ones for hubby and I!

I purchased foam gliders online as a craft for the kids -- everyone had an opportunity to use markers, stickers, or paint (for the older kids) to customize their own glider. Here's the one I made -- after they decorated their glider, they got the pair of wings made with their initial.

Close-up of the wings: 

Wish cards and sign

Jenny of Jenny Orsini Events asked me to put together some square wish cards for one of her couples. Half of the cards have the NYC skyline and the other half have the London skyline. Each card has a dark blue satin ribbon to hang from a branch on the table and coordinates with the easelbacked sign.

Joey's Rock 'n Roll 50th Birthday

Joey's wife, Jamie, asked me to design an invitation for her husband's surprise 50th birthday party. Joey is a guitar player and she wanted to create a concert ticket as the invitation. I thought it would be cool to have the ticket be part of a mini concert poster -- here's what I came up with!

5x7 invitation on metallic cardstock with a smooth ticket attached to the bottom with removable glue dots:

The ticket was designed in shades of purple:

Ticket can be removed and the party info is hidden on the card underneath it:

lanyard-style backstage passes:

We had 6 different designs incorporating some of his various guitar-playing photos. The bottom left one is one of my favorites, especially for family and friends that have known him for the last 30 years.

Happy Birthday Joey!

Wendy & Jason's Metallic Pocketfolds

Wendy contacted me to design her invitations and she wanted to the incorporate black, white, and hot pink colors for her wedding. Here's what I came up with.

Black metallic pocketfold with an upright pocket, hot pink satin ribbon with a tied bow closure, and a double-layered invitation of hot pink and white metallic cardstocks.

close-up of the invitation -- this was a mix of flat pink ink for the design and raised black printing (thermography) for the wording:

The open pocketfold with the enclosure cards -- RSVP card with response envelope and a directions card since the ceremony, reception, and hotel were all at the same place.

Close-up of the Swarovski Crystal details - 2 were added to each invitation:

RSVP card -- Wendy wanted to incorporate nuptial script on this card:

All ready to be mailed out to their guests!

sneak peak...

Here's a sneak peek of an upcoming post....... Wendy's invitations with swarovski crystal accents! Here's a quick pic of the invitation layers spread out for the crystals to dry......