Winter Wonderland

When I meet with the mother of the bride, who is very bravely doing all the organizing of her daughters wedding while she is out of the country, she kept telling me she wanted a "winter wonderland" invitation for the January wedding. I kept adding more and more silver and embossing and finally rhinestones. I love they way they turned out.



I used Stampin' Ups! iridescent ice embossing powder, by itself on the white snowflake and then over silver ink for the others.

This invitation has two coordinating pieces, an RSVP card and then a reception and hotel card. I also used a traditional, double, silver linned envelope to mail them.

Cora's Birthday Invitations

These were so much fun. I copied the color scheme from a friend of mine and just thought it was so playful. I also really like this wide, stripped grosgrain ribbon from Stampin' Up! Our family got crazy with the color scheme too and this is what we all wore to Cora's Birthday Party. Cora, for those of you who don't know is my niece. She was born a premie so we had not even had a baby shower for her yet. Her first birthday was a BIG deal and I made 100 inviations for the party.

This is my favorite piece, I tied the ribbon tight and then used dimensionals to raise the medalion.



The first set of wedding invitations

My girlfriend Kristin asked me to create all of the pieces for her wedding before she even knew I was thinking about starting a custom announcement company. I had been tossing around the idea anyway and of course would do anything to help out such a good friend so I took on the project. I figured that if I got through the job and still thought it was a good idea it would be the perfect job for a mom. Needless to say, I love doing this.


For Kristin and Brian's wedding I started with a Save the Date. Since the wedding was in Las Vegas, they wanted to give plenty of notice to those they wanted traveling with them.

I went with a crisp red rose stamp from Stampin' Up! For the Save that Date I chose to stamp the rose twice, once in the red and then once so that I could emboss the image in a slight sparkle for a highlight.

Both the invitation and Save the Date were done in 6x6. We used a Black pocket fold for the invitation. I love pocket folds. I am one of those very organized people (well I was before i had kids but I am sure it will come back one day) and I love how neat and organized they are, especially if you have a lot of information to get to your guests.

For the enclosure. I stamped the same rose image to make the band and created and monogram with their initials and wedding date.