Surprise, Surprise!

Surprise parties are the best. Especially when you can keep it a secret and see the guest of honor's reaction!
Here I created an invitation suitable for a surprise 60th birthday. I brought a little punch of teal to brighten up the invitation and bring everything together.

Holiday Party Celebration

Every year I host a Tapas Holiday Party for my girlfriends. It's a delight to get out of the house and have a fun evening with your closest friends.
The invitation is regular Business #10 envelope size. I used the metallic paper and mounted them on gold cardstock for the back side.
The invitation also had an insert for additional information.

I love Fall colors

Here is designed an invite using the rich warm colors of Fall. The invite is 6x9 and printed on smooth white cardstock.

Snips 'n Snails and Puppy Dog Tails…

I had so much fun creating these invites for Jen. Jen wanted to incorporate the cute bedding the mom-to-be picked out which consist of puppies. I love how I incorporated the puppy paw prints with the envelope liner....pulling everything together.

My niece turned 16!

Happy Birthday Mariah!
I can't believe my niece is 16 - I remember her being born like is was yesterday.
I had the joy to design and make her party invitations. She decided to have a black and white Sweet 16 party. I designed the invites with elegance, yet fun! I used white metallic paper for the printing and mounted on a black matte cardstock.
Have fun Saturday!!!!! Love you

Jackson Charles

Birth Announcements
My good friend from High School, Mandy, gave birth to a beautiful son on July 8th of this year. I am so proud to be able to design his birth announcements.
She provided the picture (which is so cute) and I pulled some of the color elements from it. The overall look and feel of the announcement is fun and exciting and contrasts well with the picture.
Congrats Mandy and John!!!!




Baptism
Mandy and John will also be celebrating the christening of their son next month. I decided to use the metallic paper to give the invite an overall feeling of fresh, new and innocence. I forgot to take a picture, but the back of the invite is solid blue metallic (like what I did with the fan programs click here).

Baby elephants, Oh my!

My good friend Carin is expecting her first child with her husband Dustin. I was so excited when I found out and one of the first things that went to mind, was creating all her stationery she will need for the baby.
Her friends decided to do an elephant theme for her shower since the baby's room will be done in elephants. I chose warm earth tones since she doesn't know what she is having.
I love the way they turned out and incorporating the envelope liner made the finishing touch!

It's a BAY-BEE shower!

Jennifer from OC's Finest Weddings contacted me to help her come up with a bee shower invitation that would go with her bee theme. She didn't want to go too childish with Winnie the Pooh, but nothing too modern as well. What I designed was perfect! I just love the way they turned out!

Shiek!

Baby Showers Galore!

It seems that I all have been doing is baby shower invitations!
Here are some that I have recently done.

Couple Baby Shower Invite on Metallic Paper





Twin Baby Shower Invite





It's a Boy Baby Shower Invite with Sheer Overlay

Happy 1st Birthday Brayden!

Looking into the Past — Part II

A look at more work I have done in the past...





Julie and Brad's wedding at the Balboa Inn. Julie came to me with the idea of taking her engagement pictures and using them as table numbers. She than incorporated writing in the sand the numbers of the table - such a clever idea! They turned out great!




Classic invite for a night of fun!



I designed this invite for our Open House back in October. Our home town has a festival every year called the Pumplin Festival and we held our open house on that weekend. It was great to tie in the season of the year and the festivities into the invite.
(please feel to click on them for a larger view)

Happy 30th Birthday!

I love taking a turn and designing outside of my comfort zone. Of course, the majority of my clients are female and to be able to design something for a male is great! One of my clients threw her husband a 30th birthday poker party. She had no idea of what she would like to do - so I got to let my imagination run wild and above shows the outcome. I love it!

Looking into the Past — Part I

Here is some of my work I have done in the past year for my clients.


An identity I created for a personal concierge service. My client wanted something fun, spunky, and professional! She just loved with what I created.


My son just loves Jack from Disney's Nightmare Before Christmas. He wanted his 11th birthday party to be just that! For the life of me, I had the hardest time finding all the party supplies (the movie was released in 1993), thank goodness we have ebay! But I didn't care for the invites, so I created mine own. I cannot take credit for the wording, friend of mine wrote that - Thanks MelBel!


Isn't he the cutest! I created my friend's son's first birthday party invites. I just love them!


Leslie is a great person to work with. She has such bright ideas and I am happy to help plan her special day! One of the first pieces I created were her save the dates. I love the elongated card and I used glossy paper for the front and matte for the back.

I <3 Baby Showers!

I recently helped host a baby shower for one of my good friends. Of course I got the responsibility to make the invitations. I had so much fun making these! Adding the 3D embellishments pulled the whole invite together.
The shower was a huge success - a lot fun, girl talk, and great baby gifts. She is due in just 2 weeks - I can't wait to say "hi" to the little guy!

Something frilly...Something sweet...

This was a fun invite to design! Very simple, but screams "FUN"! Gotta love an invite to a lingerie/bachelorette party. Can I come?!

Cooking for a Cause

My friend Allison is a great person. She is so into the well being of our Earth, People and the love of God. She came to me asking to create an invitation to help others in need. She hopes this turns into something bi-annual or annually. Her main audience is women in the twenties and thirties and I felt I needed to make the invite as trendy as the fashion world today! I also incorporated a little bit of retro art noting the fact of women back in the kitchen (of course for a good cause!).