Their Little Snowflake Is Turning 1!

I just couldn't wait until I had an actual piece to photograph to blog about this. Mostly what I create are wedding invitations but every now and then I get a repeat customer who needs bridal shower invitations for a friend or family member, holiday cards or birthday invitations.

Julie was a client of mine a few years ago, I designed her wedding programs. I received an email from her a couple months ago regarding first birthday invitations. Her and her husband had a baby boy and he is turning one at the end of December. She wanted a design that was wintery but not holiday-ish so no reds or greens!. I totally understand because my dad's birthday is the day after Christmas! She had the saying "our little snowflake is turning one" and wanted to incorporate the "one" with winter wonderland.

We decided on blues and grays and a snowflake theme. We started off with the traditional snowflake but then she had an idea to do a kind of aretro flake. In the biggest retro flake she wanted to have a picture of her son.

Julie had professional photographs taken by
Amy Tripple of Amy Tripple Photography. www.amytripplephotography.com. Amy's focus in photography are little ones! If you live in the Chicagoland area and are looking for a photographer to take photos of your children I suggest visiting her site and blog!

Julie had a bunch of photos taken and we decided on a picture of her son with a snow cap on, I think it compliments the winter them of the invite.

So after a few rounds of ideas and changes here is what the end result is! There will also be tags made and when those are finished I will post pictures of those too.

Time To Get Back At It!

It feels like it has been forever since I updated this! Actually it has. Summer into Fall has been really busy, not just with invitation designing and client meetings but with family parties and travel. There are a lot of exciting things coming up with birthday invites, holiday cards and yes, more wedding invites so stay tuned!

Below is a story/project from this summer and have not had time to blog about, so here it is. One day this spring I received a phone call in regards to invitations. A few minutes into the phone call I realized this was not my run of the mill information call. The bride introduced herself as Lindsey and she said she had designed her own invitation and she need a way to have it printed. I explained to her that I normally do not do this as I design and print my own invitations but that I would be willing to look into it. Fast forward a couple of weeks and I have a design hand drawn by Lindsey in my inbox. It was beautiful. I spoke with her again and she had told me her color was grey. I told her I would clean and prepare her files for print. She had also told me she would like a textured paper and we decided on a felt finish. I had a lot of fun helping Lindsey with this project and it seems to be a growing trend and have had a few more calls in regards to doing something like this, but I can tell you it is not something I will be doing on a regular basis! So anyways here are the finished pieces take a look.