Navi & Justin

Justin and Navi were such fun to work with on the printed items for their May wedding. Their wedding was going to be a formal event with lots of purples and black.

Their program was what's called a paddle fan program. Basically two pieces of printed card stock are sandwiched together with a piece of wood sticking out of the bottom. Handy and functional, especially for an outdoor wedding on a hot day!

Table numbers:

A menu was placed at each place setting.

After the wedding, Navi sent me a couple of photos from their wedding to be made into a thank you card.

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Our Holiday Card - 2011

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When my family first moved from southern California to Utah, our son had just turned two and we were excited and a little apprehensive about moving to a place with a real winter... you know, the kind where it snows and the temperature might go below 50°! 

I wanted our holiday card that year to reflect our new home and I thought of the card I sent in 2008. We didn't have an opportunity to take any family photos, so I created a watercolor painting of the three of us and printed them on watercolor paper on my trusty HP printer.

Notice I have no holiday cards for 2009 and 2010. I was a brand new mom on maternity leave in the winter of 2009. It took me almost six months to even main his birth announcements! And 2010? It wasn’t happening.

For the back, I just happened to take a lovely photo of our son admiring an ornament on my grandmother's Christmas tree a few weeks before Christmas. It worked!

I totally scrounged together whatever pieces of scrap card stock I had to print these too. Some had purple card stock, some had navy blue, some had a lighter blue. And I just changed the color of the text on the back to fit with the card stock. I even used leftover envelopes I had from a previous project. 

It was created last minute and in a bit of a rush, but it's still one of my favorite holiday cards that we've mailed.

Staci & Erol

Staci and Erol eloped on a beach in Mexico and were planning a reception with friends and family a month later. In keeping with a Mexican theme, we created some custom papel picado for their invitations. Papel picado is a folk art from Mexico that is made from intricately cut paper.

I love that I was able to create one specific papel picado that listed their names and wedding date. 

Congratulations!

Jackie's Graduation Announcement

My little sister is graduating!! She finished her bachelor's degree and our mom pretty much demanded that I design an announcement for her. 

I had a lot of fun tracking down photos of her younger self. 

I had fun with some wraparound address labels too, the return address is printed on the far end of the label. I used the wheat-colored envelopes from Paper Source.

Congrats Jackie!!!