Nursery Inspiration & New Mom Advice

Create the purrrfect safari themed nursery for your litle lion or lioness!

A new mommy of a little, precious baby girl wanted to welcome her into the world by sending out birth announcements during the Thanksgiving season. We collaborated on this design coupled with a pretty baby pink envelope. The color scheme included a nice light gold accent to give it a little bit of a fall feeling to it. I really wanted to give it a soft, fun vibe. I decided to pull an element from one of my other designs (Bubbly Invitations) to give it that airy flare. It was a nice subtle add to an otherwise simple design.

Tired of serving the same cupcakes, cookies, and pinwheels for your baby showers? Try throwing a fiesta themed baby shower and serve tacos instead! This "Let's Taco 'Bout a Baby" shower is such a festive and fun way to throw a party. Besides, who doesn't love tacos?!  

When I got the prompt for this gender reveal party, I couldn’t wait! We went with a camping theme to incorporate s’mores as the focal point for the gathering. Tossing in the age-old nursery rhyme, “Twinkle, twinkle little star how we wonder what you are” just fit perfectly for this social event! To integrate the invitation theme for the party, we also designed some water bottle labels. The hosts creatively colored the letters on Hershey's Milk Chocolate bars to amp up the excitement for the big unveiling as people assembled their own s'mores. They revealed the gender by setting up paint filled balloons on a canvas. The expecting parents threw darts at the canvas while they were...

A refined batch of glimmery gold and mint wedding invitations was in the stars for this couple! The overwhelmed bride came to me and said, "Do what you think looks best." So we just sat together chatting about her plans for the big day as I started designing. The eager bride and groom's vision for a nice spring wedding started to became a reality as I sat with her and designed while she was describing all of her plans. She wanted something simple and sophisticated... nothing too over the top, but elegant at the same time. Luckily I'm also a close friend of the bride and groom and was able to also sneak in and take a few photos of their big day. Although, some of these photos are taken by the talented photographer.  This beautiful venue is located in Magnolia, TX, a town on the outskirts of Houston. It was nicely tucked away from the hustle and bustle of big city life. This was probably the most fun I've had at a wedding! I even convinced my husband to dance which has never happened. So hats off to you, bud!

This design I did ended up slightly 'Pulitzer-esque.' A similar pink watercolor rose wedding invitation design was brought to me to 'sort of' mimic. Below you can see a few inspiration photos to pull the look together. For those of you who might not know, Lilly Pulitzer is most popular for her line of brightly colored *typically watercolor inspired* 'resort-ware' clothing. Her story is quite interesting. In short, she eloped in 1950. Her and her husband settled in Palm Beach, Florida. They owned an orange grove so she started a juice stand, but her clothes would always get stained. She decided to make herself some brightly patterned dresses to mask the stains. Her clients fell in love with her dresses and soon she was selling more clothes than juice and her fashion business blossomed quickly! Her clothing was seen being worn by Jaqueline Kennedy in Life magazine and many other elite family members in the 1960s-1980s!          Sources: Style Me Pretty, Tumblr, 100 Layer Cake, Hey Wedding Lady   I can relate to this sort of 'unplanned' idea to starting a business. When I was planning my wedding, I was a DIY bride. Between supporting myself through college with a slew of jobs that could equate to almost a full-time job and planning a wedding my last year in college, I was DIY-ing my wedding together. It was ironically my escape from my hectic schedule. I got a thrill when I slowly saw everything fit together like an art puzzle. So I was quite surprised and deflated in June when I finished school and got married in the same month. Everything ended so suddenly; I didn't know what to do with my life! Soon a few of my friends also got married, and I began getting calls about planning weddings! How much did it cost? How did I pull everything together? How did I organize? How did I know when to do what? Where did I get my invitations? ...When they learned that I did almost everything on my own, they asked if they could get my help! I was newly married and unemployed...not to mention baying back my college loans were just around the corner. Invitations seemed to be the lowest financial investment for me. I began designing their invitations with the knowledge I learned in my Graphic Design class in college. After designing a few friends' invites...it didn't take long before I was doing it for local people and soon Etsy shoppers. I didn't seek out this opportunity in paper goods. It sort of just fell in my lap, and I honestly wouldn't trade my venture for anything else to date!

Who wouldn't want to snuggle next to a cuddly little woodland animals? A client of mine brought me an adorable inspiration for a woodland themed baby shower. I just couldn't resist getting started right away! Our Woodland Baby Shower Inspiration: Image Source:  Beau Coup We knew these cute little creatures would have to debut in the invitation somehow. So we got our handy pen and pad and started drawing! We loved the idea of the little creatures gathering together for a party in the forest. I think it was depicted quite splendidly. We hope that little Elijah gets to grow up in as friendly and loved environment as we'd like to imagine this little family of furry critters do together in harmony. Source:  Sweetly Chic Events

Should transformers get car insurance or life insurance? ...ok ok I know... bad joke. But, at least this four year old won't have to worry about either one of those things for quite some time. This adorable little tyke knows how to keep his parents on their toes. When his mom asked what type of party he wanted, he eagerly stated he wanted a surprise party for his fourth birthday. So they 'surprised' him with a transformers birthday party at one of the many locations for Wonderwild, an indoor playground that can be rented out for parties such as theirs. I just had to jump on this opportunity to design his very own Optimus Prime themed invitation complete with the details about his 'surprise' party. Happy 4th Birthday, Beau! Hope it was all the surprising goodness & fun you expected. :)  

I must admit something to you guys. I'm a bit old school. My favorite movie of all time is Wizard of Oz. There is something about that movie that is absolutely mesmerizing to me. Every time I watch it, I always find some new detail that I had never noticed before. I suppose that's the same for every movie, but this one always takes my breath away. I love the plot (even though it doesn't follow the books to a T. This typically drives me in sane, but I somehow am able to overlook it for this one.), and all of its many underlying themes. So, when my friend came to me and asked me to do her housewarming party invitations in the Wizard of Oz theme I was (1) a little jealous that she bought a house before I did and (2) could not be more excited about this project! She shared some nice and creative photos from her party which I have posted here to help inspire you to throw such a housewarming! I love how creative her food titles were. If you notice many of her labels have some really fun names to them! [widgetic-mosaic-gallery id=5ae4d0f1ecb2a1e56f8b4568 autoscale=on width=560 height=355 resize=fill-width]