GLITTER!

Glitter cardstock is all the rage right now!

We incorporated it into Tracy & John's wedding stationery -- they had a classic but elegant wedding of white and silver with lots of bling.

Here's a closeup of the silver glitter card stock:

Tented placecards with a simple motif and a swarovski crystal accent:

Double layered menus -- swarovski crystals are used to seperate each course:

Triple layered Specialty Drink signs -- these have an easel backing and incorporate Swarovski Crystals:

 Table Numbers -- triple layered easelbacked signs incorporate 3 crystals each:

Congratulations Tracy & John!

Cooking themedBridal Shower signs and favors

I designed some signs to match the apron diecut invitations for Kelley's Bridal Shower. The food was set up buffet-style, so an apron held a card printed with each dish's food and was displayed in front.

The caterer had a cooking demonstration for making French Crepes, so a large 8x10 easelbacked had the ingredients needed and the simple directions.

Small tented signs went on the trays with the passed hors d'ouevres:

The favors were wrapped up in hot pink tissue paper and had these favor tags designed to match the rest of the stationery:

And they were unwrapped to show the custom screen printed aprons! The fronts incorporated the cooking utensils that were used on the recipe cards included with the invitations.

Apron shaped Bridal Shower Invitations

Kerry contacted me to design invitations for her daughter's bridal shower. Her daughter loves to cook, so a cooking themed shower was the perfect fit! I came up with these fun apron diecut invitations, and we included a recipe card in each for the guests to fill out and bring with them to the shower.

Construction Party details

Yesterday I shared the invitations I made for my son's Construction themed birthday party. Here are some of the details we had.

Sawhorse set up at the end of the driveway with balloons (including a dump truck mylar balloon from dollar tree!). A sign read "Builder's Entrance" and the sawhorse was flanked by traffic cones. A sign that said "Dietrich's Construction Site" hung near the mailbox:

A "Hard Hat Area" sign was taped to the gate door, and 2 saw horses were set up and held construction hates, each with a personalized sticker. The stickers had a "3" ghosted in the background with "DGRR 3 Builders Construction Crew" running around the edges:

I made a banner that hung from the fence and read "Dietrich is 3!". A "Dig In!" sign was taped to the fence above the food table, and some small wooden toolboxes I built from Home Depot kits held napkins and silverware:

Playtime! We had the regular sandbox (which we labeled an "Excavation Site" and hid bags with candy and easter eggs filled with coins for the kids to dig up), the truck sandbox, and a wrecking ball game using the cardboard brick blocks and a ball:

The cake was a chocolate layer cake and I decorated it with a dump truck toy filled with chocolate cake balls which ran down the side of the cake. We also had chocolate and funfetti cupcakes with homemade chocolate tool disk toppers:

The favors were sand buckets filled with Construction Dough (cans of play doh with custom labels), construction tools (some playdoh tools in a cellophane bag), bubbles, construction truck stickers, and builder's chalk. Each was wrapped up with some yellow cellophane and had a tag with each child's name on it. A large round sticker said "Thanks for Digging with me!"  For the adults, I made dump truck lollipops and small chocolate dump truck candies. They were individually packaged in cellophane bags and then went into the yellow chevron bags with a small tag stapled on. All of the pieces used orange & white baker's twine as an accent.

Construction Trucks Birthday Invitation

My son is OBSESSED with trucks. When he told me he wanted a "dump truck birthday," I couldn't say no. The invitations are flat 5" x 7" cards printed with a variety of trucks. I love the crane lifting the "3" onto the dump truck bed. These can be customized with your child's birthday number as well as their favorite color (Dietrich's happens to be orange).

Pale Pink & Silver Wedding Stationery

I worked with Danielle & Hector on their wedding invitations, and to finish up their stationery suite I created matching ceremony programs, seating cards, menus, and table numbers.

Mini booklet style programs -- perfect to fit in a jacket pocket or a clutch purse:

Double layered menus of white and silver metallic card stocks feature a pink swarovski crystal accent:

Tented seating cards incorporate a pink swarovski crystal accent:

Tented table marker for the sweetheart table:

Tented table numbers feature a metallic silver base, pale pink ribbon, and pink swarovski crystals:

Congratulations Danielle & Hector!

Marketing materials for Jersey Flipbooks

Josh from Jersey Flipbooks (and NJ Photobooths) asked me to design some marketing material for him -- he wanted to do a square card that could hold a sample flip book and contain all of the basics one might want to know. I created a simple logo that we tied in with the cards, and found these great square boxes that the samples were mailed out in. We used charcoal gray and bright yellow as the color scheme.

Here's what I came up with:

All boxed up and ready to go!