Style Me Pretty

Photo by Brown Butter PhotographyI am thrilled to announce that Rocky’s and my October wine harvest wedding is featured on Style Me Pretty today! Check out the article here.

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12,000 Pieces of Paper

The music video below, for Josh Ritter’s Love Is Making Its Way Back Home, was created “with over 12,000 pieces of construction paper, shown as it was shot, with no effects added in post.” Stop motion in general makes my head spin to think about how much effort must have gone into even a 10-second spot, nevermind timing it to music. Stop motion with 12,000 pieces of hand cut paper? Mind=Blown.

Josh Ritter - Love Is Making Its Way Back Home from Josh Ritter on Vimeo.

CD / 10" vinyl - bluecollardistro.com/joshritter/categories.php?cPath=429_1503
iTunes - itunes.apple.com/us/album/bringing-in-the-darlings-ep/id499368720

Color Me Cuteness

I supposed I still have felt on the brain this week because today's color palette is inspired by these adorable felt baby shoes. With so many friends starting to have babies, I certainly have these (as well as many other items in the La La Shoes shop) in mind as future gifts.

Booties by La La Shoes

From Samantha to Silvia

Have you seen our Silvia wedding invitation design? It’s part of our pre-designed Wedding Collection, in which all the suites can be tailored to your event: color palette, wording, materials and technique-wise. I have long been meaning to share the wedding that inspired this design, which took place last September and celebrated the union of Samantha + Ryan.

Samantha contacted us last spring with a request to develop a custom suite for her rustic chic wedding in rural Illinois. The wedding was taking place at a small vineyard (our apparent specialty) in a red barn and the couple were using weathered barn wood as a key feature in their decor. Their color palette was eggplant and green apple.

After some initial design drafts and feedback from Samantha, the final result was what later became our Silvia suite. It was important for the couple to have their three daughters names on the suite, so we included them as small “hearts within the heart” on the invite itself. We also had a die-cut heart shape inviting a select number of recipients to the private ceremony itself, which was held to the invite with twine in keeping with the rustic feel. For an RSVP reply card, we created a postcard on French Paper’s PopTone Green Apple card stock (same as the die-cut heart). Everything was flat printed and mailed in deep eggplant envelopes, on which a distressed rubber stamp reply address was pressed in off-white ink.


These are some photos of the happy family on their wedding day. You can see how their colors and theme tied everything together, down to the sashes on their sweet girls’ dresses.

Thank you so much, Sam – you were a pleasure to work with! Congratulations to your whole fam. And special thanks to Photos by Lydia, who took all the photographs of the wedding shown here.

Dessert Trifecta

In honor of National Peanut Butter Lovers Day, I had to share these insanely delicious pops that I found over on the Food Network. Chocolate, peanut butter and cheesecake, all three major food groups, in one bite! Happy PB-day!