Happy Wednesday to everyone!
I have a new item to add to my recycled kraft paper line: Vintage inspired table numbers. The numbers are printed on recycled kraft paper and are sold in sets of 12, although they can be customized. This design can be printed larger or smaller, and on white or cream cardstock. Just contact me through my Etsy page for more information: www.sofiainvitations.etsy.com
This Tuesday I am profiling Etsy shops with black flower accessories. Use these items to be inspired for your wedding, night out, or party! Black flowers can make a strong statement, yet remain elegant…..and they go perfectly with a white dress!
Rather than simply using a black and white theme for your wedding, look at black and white folk designs and patterns for inspiration. Your wedding will be unique, memorable, modern, and simply beautiful with this inspiration:
Think about using paper flowers to decorate your wedding. You can purchase paper flowers from a craft store, or you can make your own. Martha Stewart Weddings has some great tutorials. I hope these images inspire you:
To help make your wedding invitations and wedding decor (escort cards, table numbers, programs) unique, use a font that fits the feeling of your wedding. This font is bold, fun, whimsical…. and can even be elegant. By changing the colors of the font and the size, the feeling or mood changes as well. Ask a wedding invitation designer or wedding planner to help you incorporation this font into your wedding. The font is called Fan Script and is designed by Sudtipos Type. Purchase the font at www.veer.com
Inspiration for a wedding theme, wedding invitations, or any stationary product can come from anything. Vintage items of all sorts have great history, but also have beautiful designs. Look at old postage stamps for inspiration….they have so many beautiful colors, compositions, and central imagery! Take a look at these and think about how they could be applied to your wedding invitations or wedding theme. Ask a wedding planner and a wedding invitation designer to help make your inspiration come to life. All postage stamp images are courtesy of deposit photos: www.deposit photos.com
Here is the first of a series I plan to expand on: Accessory designs from Etsy sellers. I think there are many fantastic shops on Etsy where brides can find wonderful things for their weddings (including my shop!)
For this first of this series, I am focusing on accessories with birds.
Happy Monday! I collect butterflies (preserved species) and have always loved their beauty. Here is an invitation I designed for a butterfly themed wedding, and a butterfly inspiration board that I hope gets you inspired for your wedding! The invitation can be found here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/79806979/butterfly-wedding-invitation
1) Butterfly bouquet: Martha Stewart Weddings
2) Butterfly box: Martha Stewart Weddings
3) Ceramic dishes: www.favorsandflowers.com
4) Butterfly mobile: http://www.etsy.com/shop/avisandiris
5) Butterfly veil: http://www.etsy.com/shop/sibodesigns
6) Butterfly necklace: http://www.etsy.com/shop/PixieDust
7) Butterfly wedding cake www.robynlovescake.com
8) Butterfly flower girl dress: www.cutieclothes.com
9) Butterfly ring bearer pillow: http://www.etsy.com/shop/OliveandFern
10) Butterfly tags: http://www.etsy.com/people/ShopOlio
11) Butterfly confetti: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ddeforest
I have been thinking about why I have started this business, what the style of Sofia Invitations and Prints is, and who is my audience. For my own wedding, I wanted my invitations to be unique, reflect the “mood” of our wedding (a tropical and intimate wedding in Costa Rica), and reflect “us” as a couple. Seeing that my husband and I are artists, it was easiest for us to create our own invitations to our liking. I realize that not all couples have the time, energy, and skills to create their own wedding invitations. Therefore, I strive to make a line of invitations (and custom invitations) for all couples that have a personal vision, a unique style, and feel that most of the invitations they have viewed online or in stores are “just not right for us!”
Meg Keen of A Practical Wedding sums this up well by saying:
Today is my mother’s birthday, so I am going to go spend the day with her. As for work this morning, I just posted a pretty new design on Etsy, inspired by the morning glory flower. I used to have these flowers growing wild behind my apartment in Jersey City. See the design here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/79492766/morning-glory-floral-wedding-invitation
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