This baby show invitation features miniature baby booties – super cute. I found a wonderful artisan on etsy to create the mini sized booties.
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Baby Booties – miniture
Saturday, January 21st, 2012Browning’s Deb Ball
Sunday, January 15th, 2012What a great name Browning. I was lucky enough to work on invitation for Browning’s Deb Ball – Todd Events was the planner for this event hopefully the invitation set the tone for a wonderful evening for Browning and guests. The theme was sophisticated safari – think british safari from the 1800′s. We had a great time creating this, thanks to Todd Events for the opportunity.
Browning Deb Ball
Invitation Browning Deb Ball
cloth bag for invitation
Vintage postage
2012 Letterpress Botanical Calendar
Monday, October 17th, 2011I have just finished my first letterpress calendar. I’m kind of liking it. Hope you do too.Take a look below to peruse each month.
The drawings are from plants in my gardens, things from hikes, or vacations … except the mushrooms, I’ve always loved the texture of shitake mushrooms, so I bought those at Whole Foods to draw. Then we had them for dinner.
Hope you enjoy. If you would like to purchase a calendar visit my Etsy shop at here.
The process: Each drawing was completed in pen and ink, then scanned. I then set up the information for the months, added the scanned drawing, added color and chose an appropriate background for each. I then separated all the colors into so that I could have a piece of film negative created for each color for each month. The plates were then created using photopolymer plate material and my trusty platemaker (it took a complete day just to make the plates). Finally I was able to begin printing, 3,200 cranks later printing one color at a time on my Vandercook 4 the calendar was complete. (you can see a few photos of the process at the end of the entry). And it comes in a cloth bag that I also printed on the Vandercook.
DWedding Spring 2011
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
I’m very excited to have 2 of my invitations featured in DWedding this season. The first shown above was designed for Katie Williams. Katie and her mom were so nice to work with and I think the invitation and other paper goods turned out quite lovely.
Katie loves lace and all things antique, we fashioned the shape and outer edge of the border around the type after a pendant that had been in the family, the lace for the background of the invitation was very close to the lace on Katie’s wedding gown. And to top it off a Victorian-esque monogram.
The second invitation is in the article named, Ivy League Flair for a Classic Affair, the one labeled number 3. This was an invitation I did several years back, it has a nice little preppy feel about it. And love the the items picked for this spread, brings quite a few more ideas to mind for new invitation designs. If you don’t have a copy of DWeddings you can see this article at the on-line version here.
holiday time … already!
Friday, October 1st, 2010
This year has flown by, I can’t believe it’s October already.
It’s time to start thinking about those holiday cards, especially if you want to do something special this year.
Howdy y’all
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
For some reason I’m in a Texas mood lately (possibly because I’m a native Texan and have never lived anywhere else). I did a Texas themed birthday card a while back, then a cactus gift tag. And now I have plans to do a Texas print, hopefully within the next month. And I recently did some notecards for a client with a cactus liner – I might have to do some for myself as well. Oh, and I bought the coolest cowboy boots this past weekend on a quick weekend trip to Austin with my friend Kim from Studio 204, we went to see our friend Tanya and her family and meet the new member of her family, Rae, who was born this past month. I’ll post my boots in a few days.
Birthday card and cactus tag are letterpress. Notecard and envelope are flat printed.
friendly dragon
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
This invitation features the happiest dragon I’ve ever seen. He’s bouncing along without a care in the world.
Letterpress 2 sides with wrap around mailing label.
save the date
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Save the Date, Wedding Save the Date,
Sweet little save the date.
Flat printed.
personalized notecards
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Need an incentive to write those thank you notes you have been putting off. Get yourself some luxurious personalized notecards, 100% cotton paper, monogram, or just your name. You will be surprised at how quick those thank you notes fly out the door.
Letterpress Art Letters
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
These letters frame up really cute. A nice and easy gift for anyone on your list.
Spell out the whole name, initials, what ever fits the space or budget. Or spell an inspirational word. Only your imagination limits you.
Available on my etsy shop. Let me know what letter or letters you are looking for and what color scheme and I can email you what I have to choose from.
