Christmas cards!

I know it's a little late for posting Christmas things... but better late than never. Right? Hopefully...
I got to do a Christmas card/baby announcement for Nicki, a 3rd grade teacher at my school. I also designed my dad's Christmas card, that featured photos by none other than Lisa. 

What a cutie!

And my dad's card...

i do invitations tags

Now that I'm working on 12+ weddings for this year, I decided I'd do a little "branding." I made some tags that I can attach to the stacks of invitations and enclosures before I ship or deliver them. I love how the beautiful stacks of paper look when they're all cut and ready to go!

Brittany & BT: save-the-dates

My wonderful friend Megan referred one of her wonderful friends, Brittany, to me for wedding stationery design. Brittany has been so much fun to work with. Take a look at her FANTASTIC save-the-date postcards! Aren't these two adorable?

We're working on their invitations now... they're going to be beautiful!

Ellen & Jay: invitations & programs

I've mentioned Ellen and Jay several times now; they are so wonderful! I loved designing for their wedding. And congratulations to them - they are expecting a baby! I've posted their save-the-dates, bridal shower, bachelorette party, and wedding video - and finally (!) here are her invitations. Photos by - my favorite - Lisa Hessel.

The "love bird" theme was so cute!

The programs were made like matchbooks, and they had an engagement photo that Lisa took printed on vellum as the cover. The fall colors are so pretty. 

Joanna & Adam

One of my favorite friends, Joanna, married one of my favorite people, Adam, this past summer. Lucky me got to do the invitations, programs, favors, thank-yous - and be a bridesmaid. Being in KC with Jo before the wedding was one of my favorite times of the summer. These two are absolutely adorable and a perfect couple. 
Jo was my first client to do #10 sized invitations, and they turned out beautifully! We mounted them on purple Stardream (metallic) paper. 

We printed the response postcard, reception info, and directions to the church all on the same card. Then we perforated it so guests sent back the reply card and kept the directions and reception info. It's similar to what we did with Anna & Micah's, except the layout is different. They also had guests write in song requests on the reply card, which they then downloaded and put on an ipod that their "DJ" used. I love that idea! 

I had snow days yesterday AND today, so I'm getting caught up on designing and blogging!

Anna & Micah

Back in the day, Anna and I had a freshman chemistry class together. We were in the same homework group, and we spent quite a lot of time together. She was also in nursing classes with most of my roommates throughout college, and she and Micah went to CCF with me. I was super excited when they asked me to do their invitations, as I was just starting to design. They chose a simple green design with a Z-folded invitation. The last section was perforated (and mine is detached in the picture), for guests to keep the reception information on the top and return the reply card on the bottom. It was a neat setup!

Megan & Lee

A couple of my good college friends Megan and Lee were in town this weekend - and I got to see them! It reminded me of the good times we had my sophomore year when Lee lived across the hall and the two of them started dating. Both of them are very special to me. I was honored when Megan asked me to design their wedding invitations and programs for their wedding last summer.

Lee read Megan this verse when he proposed to her. Cute.

Love you guys.

Heather & Andrew

The past few months have been very exciting. I've begun my teaching career and I've started to get really busy with wedding invitation design - two things I love! Because of referrals from some wonderful people, like Ellen, I've begun to work with brides-to-be that I didn't know before! Because of Ellen, I've gotten to work with Heather and her fiance, Andrew. Their wedding at the Butterfly House will surely be beautiful! Here are some photos of their invitation suite. 

I love Tiffany blue.

On the back, we did a printed band that holds the RSVP postcard in place. It's a pretty way of making sure the enclosures don't slide around inside the envelope. 

Heather is in Nebraska right now... she hasn't even seen the final product in person yet. I'm excited for her to see them!

Save-the-dates!

Save-the-dates are some of my favorite things to design for engaged couples! They are a great way to help guests plan for your wedding on their calendars, tell them your wedding website address, and show them how adorable and in love you are! Here are a couple I've done. These are both magnets, but I do postcards too. This reminds me that I need to post photos of Ali's invitations... hopefully I'll get those up soon! With school starting again tomorrow... who knows?!

Of course I love Ellen and Jay and those photos by Lisa :)

And there's my college roomie Ali and her wonderful husband Josh! She had a wonderful photographer in KC. 

Friend Cousins

I have six wonderful cousins who live in Ohio and it's always amazing when I get to see them! This year I've been spoiled by seeing them twice - at David's wedding, AND at Thanksgiving. David is my age and he married a fantastic girl, Megan. I was honored to help them out with their first Christmas card that chronicled their outrageous Christmas Tree adventure. Here's the card...

 And check out Megan's blog for the details of the tree adventure. I love you guys!

Christmas fun!

Two more days of school before Christmas break and I'm going a little crazy... but I think I'll make it! Today I spent the day making Oreo balls for some of my colleagues at school. I brought Oreo balls to the staff holiday luncheon and everyone loved them so much I thought I'd make them some more. 
I took some extra time to make them as cute as I could with some gift tags, chinese takeout boxes, and paper bags. Take a look!

I found these cute downloadable gift tags at PaperCrave.

A close-up of the goodies inside the boxes!

Mmmmm! Merry Christmas!

Ellen & Jay video

As I've already mentioned, I got to help Ellen out with all kinds of things... save-the-dates, invitations, AMAZING programs, and place cards. When she sent me the link to this teaser that her videographer did, I was so excited to see my work in it several times! The video is great... check it out.

Enjoy!

Lisa's got part 1 of Ellen's photos up on her blog... with a nice little link to me :) How could you not love her?