Moss Menus!

Kisha asked me to create some moss-backed menus for Christine & Josh's wedding reception. I love a good challenge, and was so pleased with the final product. 

Each menu has a layer of natural dried moss with a double layered metallic menu attached on top. These are about 4" x 6" and fit right on top of the charger plates. 

The moss gives these a nice dimension:

Small double layered place cards were hole punched to be attached to a decorative board with pins.

Congratulations once again to Christine and Josh!

Christine & Josh's Light Green Invitations

I met Christine and Josh a little over a year ago while they were in town working on their wedding plans with Kisha from Pure Ambiance. They were using green as their main wedding color and were incorporating garden elements into the reception.

Here's what we came up with -- light green metallic pocket fold with cream metallic cards, featuring a green design and brown writing.

Melissa & Keith's Beach Wedding

Melissa & Keith got married at the Jersey Shore and wanted to incorporate a starfish motif into their wedding stationery. I designed these beach-themed pocket fold invitations with a sea green and light sand color scheme.

I created the double layer tags they attached to large starfish for their place cards:

I also created the tented table numbers that incorporated the design from their invitations:

The happy couple:

Congratulations again to Melissa & Keith!

Turtle invites

Kelly asked me to create invitations for her daughter's first birthday. She wanted to use a turtle theme and include some photos of the birthday girl. Here's what I came up with:

I also created a matching banner for the mantel:

Close-up of the turtle:

We did a mini banner for the highchair, too:

And oval labels for the candy buffet favor bags!

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!

Fairy Birthday Invitations

Scarlett requested a fairy themed party for her 4th birthday. I created these invitations with a fairy silhouette, and incorporated a magic wand into the design as well. We printed them on metallic card stock, and accented each invitation with a layer of dark pink or purple glitter card stock.

Makes me wish I was a little girl again! :)

Twist Card Save the Dates

Stefanie and Chad are getting married next summer and are using gold, pink, mint, and green for their wedding colors. They loved these fun twist cards, especially since they provide room for hotel info for their out of town guests! We also made mini magnets and attached them to the twist cards for the guests to put on their fridge.

Reporting for Duty

My long-time client, Jen, asked me to create some invitations for a party for her brother. He starts boot camp in January so this is a great way to get all of his family and friends together before the holidays are upon us.

Here's what I came up with for her.

Girly Bowling Invites

Amy found the bowling invitations I created for Tiffany and asked me to recreate them for the joint birthday party of her 2 daughters and 2 nieces. They are using hot pink, lime green, and turquoise accents and I was able to incorporate all into the invitations.

Have a wonderful birthday, girls!

Twyla & Calvin's Wedding Stationery

Twyla and Calvin were just married a few days ago, and I have some sneak peeks of their wedding day stationery.

We used hot colors -- fuchsia, orange, and a touch of lime green, and incorporated a gye nyame (a religious symbol of the Ghanaian people) into the stationery as well.

These boxes held mini cheesecake favors and were wrapped with a satin ribbon and favor tag.

 Round menus were placed in the center of silver chargers:

 Custom photo place card board featured one of their engagement photos and reveals their names once the cards are revealed (you can see it poking through at the bottom):

 Square table numbers featured different words -- Devotion, Love, Adoration, Amazing, and Infatuation were some of the others...

Congratulations Twyla and Calvin -- it was a pleasure working with you and I wish you love and happiness!

Fuchsia & Lime Wedding Stationery

Nicole and Evell had a HOT fuchsia and lime green wedding designed by Kisha from Pure Ambiance. I love using color whenever possible, and this wedding was the perfect palette. Here are some of the stationery pieces created for them. Thanks to Kisha for sending some quick photos!

Here's one of the tables:

 Tented table numbers were named after places that the couple visited together -- each featured a little description towards the bottom, and the back invited guests to get up and visit the other tables to get more info on the bride and groom!

Menus wrapped around the napkins:

Signature drink sign (in a blinged out frame!)

Here's another table number -- Spirit Cruise:

Waterproof water bottle labels feature the couple's monogram:

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:

Laissez les bon temps rouler!

(Or let the good times roll for those of you that haven't been to New Orleans for Mardi Gras!)

I absolutely love Mardi Gras -- I took a road trip to New Orleans with my friend during my senior year of college for it, and went again with my then boyfriend (now husband) the following year. It is SO much fun. So when Dawn contacted me to create Mardi Gras themed Sweet 16 invitations for her daughter, I was thrilled!

We created a gold pocket, wrapped with a printed purple bellyband featuring a fleur de lis and "16" pattern.

Happy Birthday Brittany -- hope your party is awesome!

Michelle & Kevin :: Green & Brown Wedding

Michelle and Kevin used chocolate brown and sage green for their wedding colors. They went with the pocketfold in metallic bronze, and a matte sage as the accent color.

We put the names of the guests on each invitation's seal--a great alternative to inner envelopes.

The back of the RSVP postcard 

Michelle and Kevin chose the accommodations and directions booklet -- we put their names and wedding date on the cover, directions to the church, directions to the reception, and accommodations info all in one spot.