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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Monogrammed Phone Cases

Monogrammed phone cases now available from JPress Designs. Make it yours by selecting your pattern, color and monogram style. Cases are made by Case Mate (excellent quality!) and shipped directly from the manufacturer to your door (super convenient!) Available for the iPhone 5, 4/4s, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S3 and Blackberry 10. Click here for more information or to order.

Chev Case

Coterie Case

Funky Stripe Case

Geometrics Case

Key Case

Mad Bloom Case

Rand Bloom Case

Fanta Se Case

Scallop Case

Squared Case

Happy Shopping!

Friday, February 21, 2014

Featured: No More To Go

No More To Go is a weekly meal planning site founded by mother of three Stacey Stabenow. Understanding how chaotic dinner time can be in an already hectic day, she designed No More To Go to keep families out of the fast food lane through a combination of services, including: weekly menus, healthy recipes, integrated grocery shopping lists, cooking tips specialty diets.

Stacy is hosting a giveaway on her blog and I am super excited to be a part of it! Check out the post here and enter to win a set of my Harlequin Kitchen Towels.

Thanks, Stacy! I am thrilled to be a part of your endeavor to encourage people to eat a healthier diet! Good luck!

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Real Weddings: Ricca and Brian

Ah, Key West... What a beautiful and romantic place to get married. Since I launched my Key West wedding invitation design on Etsy I have seen many beautiful and romantic weddings take place there (well, the photos at least), but Ricca and Brian's wedding is one of the more beautiful ones I have had the pleasure of working on.

Ricca had seen my Key West wedding invitation on Etsy and was interested in working with me on a custom design. I love getting involved with my clients and designing something completely unique and special to them, so I immediately jumped on the opportunity.

Ricca and Brian's custom save the date

Ricca's wedding colors were coral and turquoise. She wanted to incorporate a bright, colorful pattern in her design and she wanted to use a pocket folder for the invitation, reply and accommodation cards.

We decided to also use my Key West Map design to highlight the wedding hot spots and we used a die cut on the itinerary card so it would stand out from the rest. Ricca was such a pleasure to work with and I am absolutely in love with the final design! Ricca and I got along so well (she really is the nicest person!) and I really think that is why the invitation turned out so beautifully. I really try to give each of my brides the personal experience they deserve and I feel it really shows in the final design.

The beautiful wedding party outside of The Basilica of Saint Mary in Key West.

Love the coral and turquoise!

Table settings with custom menus.

Love the dramatic evening lighting!

Love the use of the fans for place settings

Seating for the bride and groom - so cute!

The happy couple.

Congratulations Ricca and Brian! Your wedding was beautiful and I wish you all the happiness in the world!

All photos courtesy of Christy Transier at Transier Photography. Please click here to view more!

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Rando thought of the day

I use a lot of exclamation points. I really do. Sometimes I'll be drafting an email and I'll realize that I have used an exclamation point on every sentence. To be fair, there might have been only 3 sentences in the email - but you get the idea. Why do I do this? Is it because I want my reader to know that I am super excited about a project (!) or that I am not being a sarcastic troll (!) or that I am a generally happy, friendly person (!) I have no idea, but I came across this quote the other day and it really hit home for me (I dislike it terribly it when people laugh at their own jokes). Anyway, from now on I am really going to watch my exclamation point usage - we'll see how it goes.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Real Weddings: Lauren + David

Puerto Rico, baby!

Thats's right - Two of my very good friends were married in Puerto Rico over the New Year and we had the extreme pleasure of joining them! But before we get to the trip photos, and wedding deets - let's do the invitations.

Lauren is an interior designer herself, so she knew exactly what she wanted for her invitations: a classy yet artistic invitation with art deco elements. Her colors were coral, emerald and gold. Since she was having somewhat of an untraditional wedding, we decided that the layout should be untraditional as well (tri-fold). I designed the art deco emblem for the front using their initials and carried the background pattern design throughout the design.

Deco Wedding invitation now available on my Etsy Shop. Click here for details.

Now on to the good stuff! Puerto Rico is pretty damn cool. People kept saying I was still in the United States, but I didn't believe them - it was too tropical and warm for all that!

The view from our hotel.

Being the adventurous type that we are, Jonathan and I decided to go on a few mini-adventures once we arrived. We drove to the exact opposite corner of the island (which only took about 2 hours) to Guanica Dry Forest Reserve. Since it was New Year's day, the park was closed, but we hopped the little gate and hiked on up the Fuerte Trail to Fort Caprón. There wasn't any info on the fort once we go there, so I'm not sure of it's history - but it offered some great views of the bay below.

Fort Caprón

panoramic view from the top of the fort

The next morning we went to El Yunque National Forrest, which, in my humble opinion was very underwhelming. It was super crowded (see below photo) and all of the trails were paved... It was the first time I've ever been to a tropical rain forrest, so that was kind of cool... I guess.

ugh... too many people!

That afternoon we went into Old San Juan (which was great). Had I had the day to do over, I would have skipped El Yunque and spent all day in Old San Juan. The architecture was very reminiscent of Spain (brightly colored buildings, cobblestone streets) and being on the tip of San Juan (geographically ), it offered some amazing views.

On to the wedding! The ceremony was (supposed to be) on the beach, but it was threatening rain so they performed the ceremony in an anteroom in the hotel. It was a quick one and I didn't have a chance to snap any photos. After the ceremony, we went up to the rooftop lounge, Mist, where the reception was held. We had pretty much the whole rooftop to ourselves (which was nice). Lauren brought table runners and centerpieces with her (in her corals and emeralds) to match the existing decor.

view from the rooftop

The happy couple! Love her art deco inspired dress - gorgeous!

Congratulations Lauren and David! We had a blast at your wedding and I wish you many happy years to come!

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Holiday Cards

It's that time of year again, folks! New Holiday cards are up and ready to go. So, get that oh-so-perfect picture of the fam and hop on over to my Etsy Shop to select your favorite design for this year's card.