Wow, this holiday week completely got away from me! I posted the inspiration photos for this suite on Monday and somehow never got back to post the suite it inspired.  I can only say that for much of the past five days I was in a major food coma courtesy of mashed potatoes, pumpkin cheesecake [...]

We have been working with a lot of color over here lately so I thought I might do an inspired suite that had some softer, more muted tones this week.  This latest inspiration makes me think of vanilla lattes, bleached birch trunks and drift wood on the beach. And how great are those shooting star [...]

Angela and Michael were some of our favorite clients of ALL time! Angela was so much fun and so easy to work with, it was a total dream for us. She also knew exactly what she wanted, had a mock-up invitation and really all we did was draw it out in Illustrator exactly [...]

This week’s inspiration really did its job.  I felt so energized while working on this one and the direction I wanted to go became clear to me really early.  This suite isn’t an exact translation of every element in the Dufy painting- not even close.  Instead I decided to do a translation of one very [...]

French artist Raoul Dufy’s paintings are some of my all-time favorites.  I love the way he uses color and the easy, joyous quality all of his work seems to have.  Dufy painted a lot of horse/race track scenes and “Paddock at Chantilly” is one of the best.  I love the boldness of the building and [...]

This suite is the type of design that letterpress was meant for.  The thin, clean lines, well-spaced text and pretty fonts are what print best on any letterpress machine and really do make the whole process so much more fun.  It is always a breath of fresh air when that rare job comes along that [...]

One of the big stumbling blocks we came across when looking for a letterpress suite was figuring out what wording to use on the main invitation.  Our hosting wording got a bit sticky, my parents are divorced and only my father has remarried and all three parents were hosting/contributing to our wedding.  I also felt [...]

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This suite is so cheery and full of joy that it makes me forget that we are heading into winter!  The Snippet and Ink inspiration board really made us brave color-wise and we couldn’t stop thinking about how we wanted to just lay in the grass, call out cloud shapes and sip on some iced [...]

When I saw this inspiration board posted on Snippet and Ink over the summer I almost regretted my whole wedding palette and wished I could have another wedding, just to incorporate these fantastic colors and the fun and carefree look that this board encapsulates.  It inspires an invitation that is a lot more whimsical than [...]

This morning I woke up to one of the best surprises…an e-mail form our photographers letting us know our wedding photos are ready!  I almost died with excitement and C and I spent a good hour laying in bed, going through all of them and just reliving the most wonderful day of our lives.  It [...]