Since I married into a Chinese-American family, we celebrate the Lunar New Year with my in-laws every year. Lots of the Chinese traditions revolve around food and what it symbolizes. There are also some superstitions that many who celebrate follow to ensure they will have a healthy and prosperous year.
Laura's Holiday Card - 2019
Laura’s awesome holiday cards are always creative and they never disappoint; and this year was no exception. I also need to give her family credit for being so enthusiastic about these fun holiday cards.
She took photos of everyone in the family separately and I pieced them together in Photoshop. I LOVE how it turned out. The comic book theme with the text totally meshed with the silliness of the photo.
And how about a zoom in on those joyriding kids, freaked out parents, and a terrified pug!
Thanks so much Laura and a very Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Click here to see all of the fun holiday cards I’ve done for Laura and her family.
Jaxon's 6th Birthday
Jaxon had an awesome garbage truck themed party for this 6th birthday. His mommy JoAnna and I worked on some fun printed items for his big day. We started with basic green garbage trucks because they are pretty common, but then Jaxon asked his mom to ask me to change them to red, because that’s what the garbage trucks look like in his neighborhood.
Custom invitation:
After the invitations were printed and sent, Jaxon had another request for the red garbage truck: could I add the grabbing-arm that is on the side of the trucks. So I made it holding the number six for the favor labels, welcome sign, and t-shirt graphic.
I LOVE the mini trash can favors!!
T-shirt graphic:
Happy, happy birthday Jaxon!!
Laura's Holiday Card - 2018
Laura’s family welcomed a new puppy in 2018, so she brainstormed some fun ways to include their new pug in their holiday card. Their holiday cards have always been out-of-the-ordinary and loads of fun, so that somewhat became the theme for the card; introducing Mr. Bean into the family… that way he knows what he’s getting into.
Using Photoshop, I created a bulletin board and added all of the holiday cards the Kaschak family has sent in the last eight years. I’m proud that six of them were from me! If you search through my blog, you can see each of the ones Laura and I worked on together. Then Mr. Bean and the kids were added in front. The kids are holding their favorites from over the years.
The back of the card had a beautiful photo of Laura’s kids and a simple greeting. Such a fun card to work on, thanks Laura!!
Check out all of the fun holiday cards Laura and I have worked on together.
Laura's Holiday Card - 2015
Laura’s holiday cards are so much fun to work on and always so creative. In 2015 she put in most of the work getting her family to pose for such a fun photo in different stages so she could put them together in Photoshop. I helped out a little with cleaning up in a few spots and then I added her photo to a background, added some faux scotch tape and the text.
I really love how it turned out.
I’m sure any parent has felt this way at some point during the winter holiday season, hahah!
Check out all of the fun holiday cards Laura and I have worked on together.
Aubrey's 7th Birthday
When Jamie was planning her daughter’s 7th birthday party, she wanted a Wonder Woman theme, but Jamie wasn’t in love with the designs she was seeing at her local party store. She and I chatted about custom options, but I don’t have a license to use logos and artwork from Wonder Woman, so we created this Wonder Woman-inspired birthday invitation with a comic book vibe and I really love how it turned out!
Happy happy birthday Aubrey!
Emily & Shane
Emily contacted me last summer about creating a wedding invitation for her December wedding. She and Shane are both avid cyclists and they fell in love with the invitations I created for Melissa & Patrick. So I was happy to create something that fit the colors and style for their wedding.
Emily was gracious enough to send me one of their invitations. They went with a gatefolded invitation with just one RSVP card insert.
The sillhouettes of the bicycles and the tandem bicycle are all of Emily and Shane's actual bikes!
They had everything printed on a lovely linen card stock, it really added a classy texture.
Don't stress, I changed their address.
For the wedding itself, we also created some fun signs. These photos were taken by their awesome wedding photographer Ashley Russ. If you click on any of the photos below, you'll head over to her website.
This sign is my favorite: "I've got a fever! And the only prescription is more BIKE bell!" I wonder how many guests got the fun SNL reference. Guests wrote their well wishes onto the wood boards displayed in the background. It will make for some really cool wall art for their home.
Rather than print out a hundred or so programs for guests, they printed one large program that sat in an entryway for guests to know the afternoon's schedule.
They had a local food truck that specializes in fancy grilled cheese providing dinner for the evening. Yum!
It looks like it was a really lovely wedding, congratulations Shane and Emily!!
Our Las Vegas Vow Renewal
My husband and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary last month, and to commemorate, we renewed our vows in front of a couple of friends and family members in Las Vegas.
Back when we were planning our wedding in 2007, and kind of over the craziness, we joked about flying to Las Vegas and eloping. My husband confessed that he'd LOVE to have our ceremony officiated by none other than Elvis Presley. We agreed that day that we'd renew on our 10th anniversary with Elvis. And we did!
Even though we weren't planning anything extravagant, I still wanted to create an invitation for the occasion.
I was going for fun, but not cheesy, and I wanted to slyly put Elvis in there somewhere. The skyline of Las Vegas and a bokeh background worked perfectly to convey the mood I wanted to.
I mailed these to friends and family in metallic red envelopes that I ordered from Cards and Pockets; the Jupiter color. They coordinated beautifully with the invitations. I printed names and addresses on each one with my laser printer.
We renewed our vows at the Graceland Wedding Chapel, Elvis sang a few songs and performed the ceremony. It was cheesy and so much fun!! So many thanks to everyone who has supported us over these last ten years.