2 beach weddings : one surrounded by palms, one surrounded by pines, both on October 18th, 2008.

Here are two invites that I just finally got around to photographing to put on my website.
One is the invite for the wedding I just featured Courtney & Erin. The other is for a super great couple, Kari & Rick that went off to Mexico to marry! Both beachy but with a different feel and theme. All are a blend of letterpress and ink jet, I love doing mixed media pieces it really enhances the design.
I can't wait to see the pictures from Kari and Ricks wedding. I also photographed their ceremony program that I made as a fan, Thanks to help of Susanne of Cards de Luxe In which I designed and printed them and she supplied me with the shape templet, die cut and assembled them. There is no way I could have done this with out her help! Thanks Susanne. Make sure to check out her beautiful portfolio!
I am also posting a few pics of the arrangement I made to feature the invite of Courtney & Erin. I really love making arrangements, it is a hobby I would like to pursue one day.
Cheers!

Wax is great for programs & favors too!

Here is a fun way to use a wax seal. Although I have not had a moment to photograph the invite for this wedding here are the programs and welcome basket favor for the wedding. I will be attending it this weekend and my husband and I will be photographing it as well. FYI the bride and groom have the same name as me and my husband "Courtney and Erin"
The favor is a letterpress art piece that goes with the invite suite. We used burgundy wax through out the suite but I chose to use a white wax on the artwork to make it stand out and give it a modern flair. The wedding is in Cambria california a sweet little beach town with the name "Where the pines meet the seas" The invite also included pine cones and shells with a vintage and organic feel she didn't want any starfish and sand dollars!! I don't blame her.
The program is a mix of letterpress and ink jet.
Enjoy!
When I get back from the wedding I will post some more pics.

Tribal elegance!

I just finished this invite for a really sweet couple in Michigan. The colors she chose are awesome. REd, soft carmel brown, & aqua. It is for a october wedding in Costa Rica. Very similar to my own invites, I have to just love it!! I guess my swirls are very popular. It makes it fun when I get to put my own doodle for many years into a wedding invite!
Enjoy. These are letterpresses with a tear off rsvp card underneath. the wax seal is a mendi flower. It is tied with twine and embroidery string.

I just mailed it off today. Hope she likes them! Nervous.... (biting nails....)

Finished Projects

I have with in the last 5 months finished work for 12 brides:
10- wedding invitation suites
1-corporate event invite
3- save the dates
5- ceremony programs
5- escort cards
3- table numbers
I have answered well over 1000 emails with questions, advise, dilemmas, anxiety, excitement, frustration, and glee!

By the first week of August I have to finish
3 invitation suites
3 sets of programs
2 sets of escort cards
1 table chart
1 design for a cd jacket, for the favors
3 sets of table numbers.

It gets a bit crazy around here! A lot of late nights.

Here are 3 invitation suites that I have finished recently. The others I still have to take photos of!! Lots to do for my business.....
ARGGG!

The first is for Lori & Clelio married May 31st. I got nothing but fantastic praise from her and her guests. This suite had matching escort cards. The calligraphy was done by Jill Velez
This suite is 2 pieces with the invite on top and the reply underneath is a tear off postcard. All is a 2 color letterpress, the envelope is a 100% recycle kraft paper with a hand made lokta nepalese hand made paper of soft white vines on a blush color.
The bride's dress had a vine embroidery so it fit perfectly.








The next one is for Antonietta & Daniel They will be married on July 19th in Italy. I did the Save the date, the Invitation, escort cards, the covers for the programs, welcome notes, stickers for the favors, wishes cards to be used as a guest book.
These are pics of the invite and one of the save the date. The invite was boxed in a kraft cigar box filled with dried jasmine, the actual invitation was wrapped in a shimmer gold bronze paper handmade in India. The invitation is a 3 color letterpress the reply card is 2 color along with the reply envelope.
I had a custom wax seal of their initials made that was used on the outside of the envelope for the save the date and used on the little tag inside. The tag was tea dyed.
I made custom labels that were used to hold the box shut for shipping.
Basically this whole suite from save the date to invite is a postal workers nightmare!! But Every guests dream!






The final pictures I have are of Abby & Adam's invitation. Married on June 28th at Firestone Vineyards.
Abby is an illustrator so I encourage her to illustrate the actual invitation. I gave them a direction of style, and she sent me a little package of the most beautiful illustrations of vineyards. Some were full watercolor others just a one color ink. I took the illustrations, scanned them, and design it all around that. This is a mixed media piece of ink-jet and letterpress. It is all printed on Hand tea Dyed paper. In order to stay in their budget I offered to show her how I tea dye the paper so she could take it home and do it herself and bring it back to me to print everything.
Once I finished the letterpress Abby took it home and hand pained with an acrylic glaze the grapes and leaves on the invite.
this gave the invite many textures.
These pictures do not show the painting she did afterward but she did give me some to keep. She also had a custom wax seal made of their initials A&A. The invite's inner envelope was sealed with it along with the ceremony programs.
These pictures do not show the matching envelopes with letterpressed vines on the front..