Red, White & Blue Wedding Invitations 2 comments

Sarah contacted me about designing the invitations for her 1940’s military-themed wedding. She knew she wanted a Red, White + Blue design, something with a suggestion of military, but not over-the-top. I designed up a simple invitation and rsvp card using what I would consider to be 40s-style fonts. Just a hint of military, but not too much.

I decided to go with a heavyweight linen duplex paper from Mohawk - navy blue on one side and white on the reverse. The invitations were screen printed using red and white ink.

A vellum wrap featuring a vintage photo of the U.S.S. Midway from the 1940’s keeps the suite neatly packaged. These were printed using a difficult (at least difficult to me!) technique - printing the photograph on one side, then screen printing a distressed white background on the reverse side.

Modern Country Wedding Invitations 1 comment

Brittany is as casual a bride as they come. She knew she wanted coral and gold, and that was all she knew. The wedding was to be held in a pasture, with guests arriving by horse and carriage. The reception was to be held in an old barn, with wildflowers and tin buckets and anything rustic you could think of. Needless to say it was beautiful, and rustic and just plain fun. Two sets of invitations had to be printed: one invitation had to be for guests of the reception only, and the other, a more formal invitation (this one), was for guests invited to the ceremony.


Everything was screen printed using a glitter gold ink and a custom coral color that Brittany chose. The invitations were then folded and sealed with a custom gold sticker stating “Gettin’ Hitched!”

The gold glitter ink was just phenomenal to work with. Love the crisp, clean edges.

The envelopes had each address screenprinted on individually using white ink and a couple of western fonts. The return address was also screenprinted on the back flap using white ink.

 

  

Navy Blue + Kraft Wedding Invites 0 comments

Thanks again to Ashli and Caden for allowing me the opportunity to create their wedding invitations!
I had so much fun creating this rustic suite that will nicely compliment the theme of their wedding {navy + ivory, burlap, lace and mason jars among other very cool things!}. Ashli and I both liked the look and feel of brown Kraft paper, so I decided to screenprint the suite using navy and ivory inks on kraft paper for the invites, and a navy blue linen for the cover of the booklet.

Talk about labor-intensive, but it was well worth it! In addition to the main 5 x 7 invitation, a little booklet was included that contained all the wedding details, including ceremony and reception information, a simple fold-out map, rsvp and registry information. The booklet was wrapped in a lovely navy paper that I screenprinted with ivory ink, then was tied together with burlap threads. I just heard from the mother of the bride that the invitations have been successfully mailed and are on their way!

 

 

 

 

Surprise Party Hand-drawn Invite 0 comments

Ok, so let’s just forget about the 30 projects in 30 days megaflop.

On to bigger and better things.

Like hand-drawn invitations.

Mummy Invitations 0 comments

Here are some things about me you probably did {and didn’t} know:

I love apples straight from the tree. I won’t eat them any other way.
I love sauerkraut. Did I say love? Oh, yeah. Love.
And of course, we can’t forget sauerkraut’s faithful companion, The Dumpling.
I love Hell on Wheels. It’s my new favorite show. Too bad there are only 10 episodes in a season. And why was it filmed in Canada and not Nebraska? I could’ve just as easily played the fair-haired maiden of the west here, not there.
I love watching winter sports. Especially the Winter Olympics.
And…
I love designing invitations.

Anyone who know me knows that I usually go all out where invitations are concerned. I once stayed up till 3 a.m. putting together T-Rex invitations for Abigail’s birthday party. They were the coolest things ever. I always wonder why I spend so much dang time and money on something when I could just go out and buy $2 invites. 

I suppose it’s just in me. Before I’m thinking of the decorations and food and games and fun, I’m thinking of the invitations. In fact, I’m thinking of invitations right now. I just had this crazy idea for an OREO invitation where the top and bottom pieces actually screw apart to reveal the party invite inside the center. {not an actual OREO you crazies. a paper one.}   

Which brings me to Project #22. THE MUMMY INVITATION.

I had this idea last year for a fictitious party I was throwing. Emma didn’t appreciate being the host of a fake party for fake people who would never come, but she got over it eventually. Although I didn’t have to spend a dime on the party, the invitation was very costly at about $3/piece. Want to know how I did it? Here you go!

Step 1: Print the front and “behind” design.
This is the front:

This is the “behind”:

Step 2: Don’t cut them out just yet. First you need to perforate the 4 “wrap strips” using a sewing machine without thread. Stop about 1" away from the edge. We don’t want our Recipient to think Mummy is a pickle card and tear the strips completely off.

Step 3: Line the front piece over the back piece. Here’s the tricky part {there’s always a tricky part!} Glue the 2 pieces together, and glue it well, but DON’T glue the area where the strips are! Cut out the shape and you’re done!

For Recipient: Carefully pull back the strips to reveal messages.

 

What kid in their right mind wouldn’t come to this party?!?