Noah's Save the Date

Noah's mom wanted a special car-themed Save the Date for his Bar Mitzvah, as his family is spread out across the country. I was so excited to design this special piece in honor of his big occasion!

200th post and a Chapel Hill tribute

Although I currently work at Duke University, I have many dear friends (and a fiance!) who attended or work at that other school down Tobacco Road, aka University of North Carolina. I truly have a great affinity for UNC and Chapel Hill, and after my friend announced that she successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in Sociology, I created some personalized notecards for her using the ever-popular Carolina argyle. In that vein, I recently added a Carolina argyle Save the Date/Graduation announcement to my Zazzle shop for all to use! Click on the image below to reach the fully customizable announcement. (Note that the image below is a sample; fonts shown may not be available on Zazzle.)

Smitty and Lizzy's Save the Dates

After spotting my Pennsylvania destination wedding Save the Dates on Zazzle, Jason contacted me to see if I could do something similar for his Michigan wedding. I was excited for the challenge and could not be more pleased with the results! Soon to be posted on Zazzle and Etsy for personalization.

Choose Your Own Color New Orleans Invitation

I have had so many positive responses to the original New Orleans Save the Date since I debuted it the day after the Saints won the Super Bowl in February. In honor of a fantastic 2010, I decided to create the "Choose Your Own Color" New Orleans Invitation. Now you can personally design your own color scheme by selecting the hues of the frame, text, and reverse side. You can even change the fonts to whatever you'd like!

The sample shows a text frame color of #CC66CC with the bride and groom's names in #990099. Match the invitation to your own wedding scheme! Not only that, because the text is fully editable, you can make it anything you choose: birth announcement, rehearsal dinner information, bridal shower invitation... the list is endless. Enjoy!

Another Minted submission

Since my New Orleans Save the Date is my most popular on Zazzle, I figured I could slightly revise it for the destination wedding challenge. Below is my entry entitled "Pattern Party."

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Vote for me!

This is my first entry in a while into the Minted Designer Challenge. Although I'm not getting married in a winery, I was totally excited when I came up with the idea of two bottles saying "I do!" Please vote for me in the challenge by clicking on the link below; sign-up only takes a few seconds!

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Leigh Ellen and Cranston's Save the Date

Leigh Ellen contacted me through Etsy requesting a Save the Date based on an image she had found online. With some tweaking of the color and fonts to match her personality and style, we came up with this lovely 5x7 card:


I am so excited about how it came out that I'll be adding it to both my Zazzle and Etsy shops later in the week!

Zazzle Artist Award

I was overcome with excitement when I read the following email from my friends at Zazzle:



It will be featured here for a few more days, so please go and visit the New Orleans Save the Date, my best-selling design of all time.

Classy/retro save the date

I have been working on this S/D for what seems like a super-long time, but I couldn't be more happy with the results! Inspired by the 60s without being too kitschy, it's got plenty of space for personalization. I especially love the colors and mix of geometric lines with the curvy frame. It's available online at Zazzle.

Jennifer & Dustin's Save the Dates

Jennifer spotted the original New Orleans Save the Dates on Zazzle and wanted to have it in her own wedding colors. I think it looks awesome on the felt paper, and there's plenty of space to include wedding details. It's now available on Zazzle as well.

Save the Date is Zazzle's Today's Best!

Not 24 hours after designing the New Orleans-inspired Save the Date, I was awarded Zazzle's Today's Best Award for February 9, 2010!

(There it is on the right!)

(Check it out in the lower left!)

To see the award in all its glory, click here. Thanks so much to Zazzle user artistjillian for letting me know about it!

New Orleans Saints-inspired S/D

After the New Orleans Saints' triumphant win last night at the Super Bowl, I decided to create something inspired by the Big Easy, yet elegant enough for any occasion, even if you're not a football fan. This design is fully customizable and available on Custom Printables' Zazzle site.

Monogram and S/D for Cicely

Cicely is my kind of bride - a real planner! She and her wedding coordinator contacted me for an entire suite of designs that we'll be making over the next year as Cicely plans her wedding in September, 2010.

In a few weeks, Cicely will be throwing an engagement party featuring these Save the Dates and monograms, which will be printed on Avery labels and stuck back-to-back over toothpicks for cupcake toppers! (What a great idea!) Cicely came prepared with a full suite of inspiration boards featuring her colors, navy and hot pink, and her design themes, chandeliers and damask. The S/Ds will be uploaded to VistaPrint for postcards.



Thank you so much for your business, Cicely! Have a great time at the party.