My Save the Dates

I have had so much fun designing the wedding suite for my own wedding. I am probably the hardest client that I will ever work for. I am beyond picky and had to have everything perfect. Afterall, all 100 save the dates I sent out were a reflection of my work.

Ben, my fiancee, and I picked a theme of lovebirds for our wedding. We are hoping to incorporate birdcages, nests, burlap, and even a lovebird cake topper. Designing my own wedding suite inspired me to open a paper goods store. I took the theme of my own wedding and made it the theme of my store. It reminds me of why I wanted to start my own business, and hopefully down the line will keep me energized about creating the same feeling I have for my wedding for other brides.

And a Phi Mu Inspired Notecard

If you like the Suzie Quat invitation set here, but you're not getting married, then you'll love these notecards with the same quatrefoil design. The fonts and colors are customizable. A backing card can be adhered and you can get matching color envelopes.

Phi Mu Inspired Invite

My sorority was obviously a large part of my life during college. And having only graduate less than a year ago, I am still inspired by the the Phi Mu shape, the quatrefoil, and see it everywhere. It is the perfect shape for a wedding invitation. It gives visual interest to the outside of the invitation, and leaves the perfect shape inside for text.

Wedding Invitations: New Line

I am starting a new line of animal wedding invitation suites. This is the first in the new line: owls. I'm thinking there will be whales, turtles, birds and moose.

Any other animals you would like to see on a wedding invitation? Do you think I should add these cute critters to thank you notes or blank cards for stationary?

Cards Listed

Six new Valentine's cards are listed on my Etsy shop. The great thing about them is that none of them are specific to the holiday. You can send them to your partner at any point during the year, such as for an anniversary or just to say I love you.

What type of you card do you send out the most: holiday, thank you, congratulations, ect.?

New Valentine's Card

In trying to come up with Valentine's card ideas, I started thinking about what I would want to say to my fiancee, or what I would want him to say to me. While this led to countless inside jokes between just the two of us, this is one of those messages that I felt would translate to other couples. Find the card soon on my Etsy shop.

Any sayings, pictures or inside jokes you would like to send to your partner?

Open for Business

Lovebird Paper is officially open for business.

The shop was inspired by designing the wedding invitations and save the dates for my own wedding, coming up in June. I took on a couple more design jobs in various mediums. After having a ton of fun working for clients, instead of a publication, I decided that invitations and greeting cards could be a new creative outlet. I tested paper and printing methods with my first Christmas cards, and explored the world of Etsy, and decided that I would open my own paper goods store, selling wedding suites and various greeting cards.

Currently being designed: Valentine's Cards. Leave a comment with a romantic or funny idea for a card.