Destination Bridal Bouquets

How great are these??

I know a lot of brides struggle with the cost of wedding flowers since the flowers die after one day. What if you could find a bouquet that you could enjoy for years to come?

Check out these amazing shell bouquets from Kimberly Aurora of Romantic Flowers on Etsy. How great would these be for a destination wedding or a beach wedding?  So different! So fun!

She also wrote  a book & blog called Bouquet Chic where you can check out other fab bouquet designs.

Baby Girl 1st Birthday Party Invitation

My little girl turned the big 1 last month! For someone who designs stationery, personal projects are always great excuses to go all out! And by "all out" I mean SUPER complicated :)

Two techniques I'd been wanting to play with were fabric envelopes and sewn paper.  Add those together and and you have a labor intensive nightmare.  But, through all my whining, the result was rediculously fun and I'd do it over in a second!

{fabric}

 

{Make the Cut software}

{Cricut}

{completed envelope}

{add a wrap around mailing label, printed on fabric}

{sew remaining monkey fabric strips on invites}

And finally, after only 6 yards of fabric, several rolls of fusible webbing, 17 lattes and a multitude of hours I'll never be able to get back, POOF handmade fabric envelopes with sew paper and fabric wrap around labels just like that!

What over the top crafts have you done for your family and friends?

National Stationery Show Recap 5: Business Card Roundup Part 3

I could easily write 14 more posts about business cards, but I gotsta to stop somewhere.

 Here are just a few more that I had to highlight.


Hazel & Violet Ink: 1 color 2 side letterpress

{front}

{back}

Delphine Press: 1 color 1 side letterpress

{front}

Bella Muse:
2 color 2 side digital print
CBI card included just to show you the scale.

{front}

 {back}

 Petits Mots: 1 color 1 side digital print

{front}

 

And last but not least, my own:

CryBaby Ink

2 color duplex letterpress, 

{front}

 

Now here's the tricky part, I knew I wanted duplexed back, but I couldn't figure out which paper to duplex with. There was blue velvet, gray velvet, blue rice paper, white rice paper, and some super fun ephemera wrapping paper from Cavallini.  So, instead of doing what most people do and edit, I chose all of them :)

{backs}

{velvets}

{rice paper}

{Cavallini Paper}

{And a paper sandwich}

probably my fav of the bunch

 

Thanks for playing along, I hope you've had fun...

National Stationery Show Recap 4: Business Card Roundup Part 2

More business card fabu-locity.

Laser Cutting Shapes:
 ~2 color digital print w/ black laser cut overlay

{front}

Bobbin Design:
digital print 1 color 2 side w/ stitching:

{front}

 

{back}

Looks like I may need another lesson in aperture settings ;)

Tiselle:
~2 color, 2 side letterpress:

{front}

{back}

Czar Press:
~ 2 Color, 2 side letterpress:

{front}

{back}

...still more to come...