Wedding In Southern Massachusetts

I almost wish I could share the eMail strings between me and Karyn; she is one of the brightest, most beautiful, and happiest people I have had the pleasure to meet! When she and I decided to meet and discuss the prospect of letter pressing her wedding invitations- she came with her entourage of her fiance, Craig, Mother, and Father. They were all so kind, polite, and the type of people you could just wrap up in your coat and take home with you. All so perfect! And... might I add, the nicest folks in the world to drive all the way from Southern Massachusetts to meet me in my neck of the woods- Framingham. We met at a Barnes and Noble, perched in the magazine department with my computer, external hard drive, paper samples, and a TON of ideas.

I have to admit here...Craig is the mastermind behind the perfect flourish, all I did was help recreate it (lucky for me, I noticed it's a series of fonts!). It's beautiful-- and one of my favorite things to print with Gable; there is something about those crisp little lines hitting the paper that's not even funny.

We decided to print these on Pearl White 110lb Crane Lettra paper, and mounted the invitation on Night 5x7 cards from the Paper-Source, and response envelopes to match. Those were printed in silver ink. I LOVE navy and silver. It's quite possibly my new favorite combination of colors to print with. See the response card? Yeah, it's awesome. It's actually that perfect flourish design sort of on steroids- and I can't get enough of it! The pearl outer envelopes were printed in the same dark navy ink (perfectly mixed to match the Night cards we were using). We even printed 2x2 favor tags!! Oh-- those are my second favorite piece of this suite, mostly because all of their guests get to take home a little bit more of the letterpress-goodness!

Congratulations Karyn and Craig!! I wish you both all the best-- thank you!!

Bridal Shower Florals

Wowza. Has it been busy, or WHAT? 2010 has been the official launch of Blush Design Studio, and I've never been so hard at work! And you all want to know something: I wouldn't change a thing!!

I must admit, I have been holding back posting some of the orders due to 'shoddy camera' syndrome whereby my little point and shoot camera has taken a backseat to my endeavours and refused to come out during pit stops. It's not fair. I'm eyeing a new digital slr, however, so I suspect the photos will become THAT much more incredible very very soon! Because really, everything looks better with an slr. Everything.

Today, I HAVE to show you the most beautiful bridal shower invitations I have ever seen. I know- I'm biased- but I also happen to be a firm lover of florals, and these are held in my highest regard these days. One of my best friends came to me and asked me to create 'something' for her roommates' upcoming bridal shower. Now, something takes on several meanings, and I think I went through a few iterations in my head before deciding that florals may be the way to go, and it certainly was no easy task. We talked about damasks, digital print, I may have even mentioned stripes-- in the end, florals and letterpress won.

I designed this invitation based on an invitation suite I whipped for my good friend, Liz and her summer garden-party-tent-wedding (more to come!). These took on a slightly 'lighter' feel in their chartreuse green-- and who doesn't love that little bee hanging out to the left. We'll call him Jasper. Jasper was about to be erased from the final print, but in the end, his adorable little self won out, and was included in the design. I couldn't help it.

The bride? Adorable herself. Mckenzie is one of those spirits of this world that I am pleased to say I've met and thoroughly enjoyed. She will keep you laughing until you need to walk away to ease your muscles and comes up with the most ridiculous- yet intuitive- scenarios in conversation. She will be married to her love of her life sometime this summer, and I'm so excited to be apart of her wedding memories. Thank you girls, and Congrats, MCK!

Modern-Vintage Coral

It was almost a gift of fate when Alexa reached out to me to help design and print her wedding invitations- we had actually exchanged design elements for our weddings a few months previous, so I was already a big fan of Miss Alexa. She was looking for something "kind of beachy but not really a beach theme" and provided a few online card stock samples of what she was thinking, but with the colors: navy, silver, chartreuse, and fuchsia in mind.

How BEAUTIFUL is that? Just the sound of those colors together makes me want to swoon!

Together we developed an idea of a vintage coral invitation- something with texture and simplicity, but not to whimsical or stuffy. Modern-Vintage Coral. I was instantly in love.

Alexa's brilliant eye for design found a perfect coral image that complemented the design scheme like none other, and was a dream to print. The texture of it's jagged edges came ALIVE when it was pressed into the paper.

The 5x7 invitations are printed on a pearl while 100% cotton paper in a light silver treatment and navy text. While the silver produces more of a grey tone once printed via letterpress, it instantly warms and modernizes this vintage coral design while also tying into the response cards in a matching navy. The matching navy envelopes, perhaps one of my favorite elements of the invitation suite, is also one of the most important; they were printed in a bright silver ink and provides the recipients of these beauties the first glimpse of Alexa's vision.

Thank you, Alexa, for allowing me to be apart of this with you!

I now happily (and very excitedly) introduce to you all: Modern-Vintage Coral*!

*Names and personal information have been removed for the privacy of Miss Alexa.