Chalkboard Baby Shower Invitations

I've designed a lot of different projects for Amanda over the years, and was thrilled when she asked me to design her sister's baby shower invitations.  She wanted a chalkboard background with a fun use of typography and also wanted to incorporate different pastel colors to keep it gender neutral.

Here's what we came up with:

We included a small business-card sized insert asking guests to bring a book instead of a card to help build up a library for baby:

For the shower, she had a tree illustration and asked everyone to leave a finger print with a shade of green ink to create a cute family tree for the nursery -- here's the sign I created:

Favors were small jars filled with pastel M&M's. The jars had a chalkboard label on the front, so she attached a stick of chalk plus my favor tags on each:

 Finally, she had cards numbered 1 - 25 and had guests pick a card at random. If the card you chose was "3", then you'd write a note that the baby would open and read on their 3rd birthday. Such a great idea!

favor boxes

New product -- favor boxes! These can be made in any color to correspond with your event. They hold small items, like candies. The available toppers are the flower, daisy, star, graduation cap, butterfly, heart, snowflake, duck, and I've got a die so I can create my own shape as well.

B-A-N-N-E-R-S!

One of the new products I'm offering is customized banners designed to match my birthday and shower invitations. I created one for Dietrich's first birthday using his month-to-month photos and I got great feedback on it from our party guests.

For Jennifer, I created a circular banner that spells out "Jennifer's Shower"  with the elephant from her invitations on each end and between the words.

close up:

cute little elephant!

For Maggie, the banner spells out "Happy birthday Maggie!" with owls in between the words

close-up