January 29, 2008

Bethany's Baby Shower

Bethany is throwing a baby shower for her sister-in-law, and wanted to use my stationery for favors! The baby is a boy, and the shower colors are brown and blue.

Here are several rounds of proofs I drafted for her (clicking on the images will show greater detail)




January 20, 2008

Alex's Birthday Party

Recently, for my son's 1st birthday party, we had a jungle theme. Although these are not the favors that were handed out, I created some personalized stationery with his name, for thank-you's, to match the theme. The round label was incorporated with all the favors though, by sticking them on each goodie bag.


This is another great idea if you just want to create a consistent graphic theme around a child's party! Although, little party-goer girls, around the tween age, would probably love some stationery with their name on it!



January 17, 2008

Lisa's Baby Shower

Here is a project that I am currently working on. I am doing both the invitations and the stationery favors. My friend Lisa is having twins! They have chosen not to find out the gender of either twin, so I had to come up with a neutral design that appealed to Lisa's classy taste. No ducks or teddies here! Also, the invite had to include a lot of details since this is a virtual shower. The mommy-to-be lives in NY, and cannot travel, and we are all in NC. So we've set up webcams to host a virtual shower with her.

This is the invitation we are almost certainly going with:



And here are some stationery ideas I have designed so far. My favorite is the monogrammed one!






January 16, 2008

Tanya's vintage baby shower

Here are the stationery favors that I did several months ago, which sent me into this "notecard AFFAIR". My poor husband! He just does not understand my newfound love for paper...


I based the entire theme of the shower around the Caden Lane modern vintage blues baby nursery collection.

Guests were thrilled with their stationery, and have asked for more!

January 15, 2008

Marisa's Baby Shower

I recently did this set of baby shower favors for my friend Allison. She was throwing her sister a baby shower, and wanted a unique non-food favor that would be appreciated and used by all.

To start the design process off, she provided me with an image of the shower invitation, designed by tiny prints, which was used to set the theme of the entire shower.After seeing the invitation, I drew up two unique stationery options to match the pink & green polka-dot/flower theme.



While Allison loved option one, her sister stopped by that afternoon, saw and loved the proofs, but ultimately voted for option 2.


In a matter of 48 hours, I printed 19 sets of personalized option 2 stationery, 1 set for each guest attending the shower. I selected pretty pink envelopes to match the design, and also picked up enough vellum sleeves and glossy gift boxes for each set.

After printing and packaging each set, I designed and printed a matching 3 inch round label for each of the stationery favors. If you click on the photo above or below, you can see a close up of the label.

I also put a small non-design label on the back of each box, which said "Created exclusively for _____" where I inserted each person's name. This was to help the hostess when passing out favors. This way, she won't have to open each box to see who it is for.


Allison received my package recently, and was thrilled with the result. Here is what she had to say about them:
"The stationary arrived yesterday! I am just speechless--they are beautiful!! I love the boxes and the label on the front and thanks for thinking of the one on the back --it is all just perfect! I know our guests will love them and I'm sure they will email you for some for their next event."

Thanks again Allison, and enjoy the shower!