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Esty Shops: Black Flower Accessories

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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!

black flowers
Black Flower Etsy Accessories by Sofia Invitations and Prints
  1. Black flower hair piece:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/Element4you
  2. Black flower leather necklace:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/MissFluff
  3. Zipper napkin ring:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/CreatedbyLee
  4. Silk black flower clutch:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/bellejoujou
  5. Black flower bridal dress sash:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/floraljewellery
  6. Paper bouquet:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/PoshStudios
  7. Black Flower headpiece:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/gildedshadows
  8. Black flower shoe accessory:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/sofisticata
  9. Black flower earings:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/mlejewelry
Esty Shops: Black Flower Accessories

Wedding Invitation Font: Fan Script

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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

Fan Script Font
Wedding Font: fan script
Wedding Invitation Font: Fan Script

Butterfly Inspiration

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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

butterfly invitation
designed for butterfly lovers
butterflies
butterfly inspiration board by Sofia Sayer

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

Butterfly Inspiration

My mission

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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:

  • Weddings can be laid back, and fun. No really.
  • Your wedding should be about celebration and joy, not about a bunch of made up “shoulds.

    Sofia and Bill Sayer dancing
My mission

Morning Glory invitation

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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

floral wedding invitation
Morning Glory wedding invitations by Sofia Invitations and Prints
Morning Glory invitation

Saving Trees and Energy with Invitation Designs

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I use Neenah paper for my invitation designs.   Neenah has a neat calculator that shows your environmental savings for the amount of paper you use.  For approximately 250 invitations, I save:

40 LBS of wood, which is equivalent to < 1 trees that supply enough oxygen for < 1 people annually.
59 Gallons of water, which is enough water to for 3 eight minute showers .
40,547 BTUs of energy, which is enough energy to power the average household for < 1 days.
4 LBS of solid waste, which would fill < 1 garbage cans.
12 LBS of emissions, which is the amount of carbon consumed by < 1 tree seedlings grown for 10 years .

Awesome!

http://www.neenahpaper.com/

Wedding Invitation
Tree and Bird Wedding Invitation designed by Sofia Invitations and Prints
Saving Trees and Energy with Invitation Designs

Gingham Inspiration

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This Monday I want to share with you a fun theme you may be inspired by for your wedding:  Gingham!

Here is a Gingham invitation designed by me, and a Gingham inspiration board.  Go to my Etsy shop here to see the invitation in detail:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/79371104/gingham-with-bow-wedding-invitation-and

Gingham Invitation
Gingham with Bow invitation for a country, shabby chic, or outdoor wedding
gingham
gingham inspiration board by Sofia Sayer

1.  cookie mix mason jars:  DIY idea, www.thecleverbride.net

2. monogrammed melamine plates, $22 each for 10″; laplates.com.

3.  gingham dress:  Isaac Mizrahi’s for Liz Claiborne. $189; 800-555-9838 for stores

4.  chinese takeout containers:  $14 for six; plumparty.com

5.  gingham men’s shirt:  Chelsea and Forest’s wedding:  photo credit: Jill Thomas. Jillthomasphotography.com

6.  gingham wrapped bouquet:  Event Design/Styling: bash, please http://www.bashplease.com

7.  Missy and Mike’s wedding décor:  photo credit:  Laura Moss. http://www.lauramoss.com

8. gingham cake by Whipped Bakeshop: http://www.whippedbakeshop.com/

9.  yellow fabric (made into tablecloth), $2.89 per yard; fabricdirect.com.

Gingham Inspiration

Theater themed wedding, Fort Collins Colorado

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I designed the stationary wedding decor for my good friend Kate O’Donnell Diaz, who is also a wonderful wedding planner for Green Apple Weddings http://www.greenappleweddings.com/.  Kate and Brian met in the theater in Manhattan, and wanted to incorporate this theme into their wedding.  I was so happy to work with a couple that was so open to creativity!  They knew their theme, and they knew their color choices (red, orange, bright pink) and were a pleasure to work with.  You can see what I designed for them in the photography blog of Jennifer Schumacher:  http://www.jenniferschumacherphotography.com/blog/2011/07/colorado-theater-wedding-in-fort-collins/

Here is a snapshot of the escort cards I designed for Kate and Brian.  Go to Jennifer’s blog to see more!

Creative Escort Cards, by Sofia Invitations and Prints
Creative Escort Cards by Sofia Invitations and Prints
Theater themed wedding, Fort Collins Colorado

Sunflower Invitation: new sample

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Here is a first look at my new Sunflower Invitation design.  I will be posting this on Etsy soon.

sunflower, bright and sunny invitation design

Sunflower Invitation: new sample

New Printer, New Invitation Samples

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I am excited I have found a new printer to work with in Spartanburg, SC!  They are called Action Printing Inc.  http://www.actionprintinginc.net

I will be picking up some new invitation samples from them tomorrow and will show more images then!

In the meantime, here is an invitation I designed for Kate O’Donnell Diaz.  She and her husband, Brian, are theater lovers and wanted a theater themed invitation.  They also wanted it to look like a ticket and have the RSVP card attached.  Guests can tear off the RSVP card and save the invitation.  Everyone was very happy with the results!  Kate is a wedding planner and owner of Green Apple Weddings and Events:  http://www.greenappleweddings.com/

Kate O'Donnell Diaz wedding invitation

New Printer, New Invitation Samples