First Communion Save the Dates

My favorite project for this month is fairly simple and not at all Halloween related.  It is a 2.5x4 inch save the date magnet design for a first communion.  It is based on a pre-existing 2x3.5 inch save the date magnet design, but is larger to include more information, and also so that the magnets can be easily mailed out alone without a card.  The original design had a lighted outline of a cross over a blue sky, but this customer had the idea to go with a pink background for her daughter's save the date.

The result looks good and will probably be posted on the website at some point as an official design.

Movie Ticket Wedding Invitation

Back in 2010, Angela wrote a blog post about a movie ticket themed wedding invitation design.  It was done with a red background and looked fun.  The post was mainly to show off the way an invitation design could look (and be ordered) in different versions with alternate languages.

This invitation design is one of the ideas that hadn't made it onto the actual website yet, but had people contacting Save the Date Originals now and then.

Finally, a version of the invitation design has made it onto the website.  This version is printed on white card stock, with full color printing of a yellow background with red and black text.  The fun addition is the metallic red sleeve.

Check it out:

The response card is a simple but carries the idea with it's title "Admission Ticket".

While this version uses white card stock and a red sleeve, Save the Date Originals is a custom invitation place, so if a couple wants to change things up a bit, they can.

This invitation design is often of interest to people who were eyeing up this movie ticket save the date card that was created the year before the invitation. This save the date card is made out of actual yellow card stock- that isn't a printed background.  It is fairly small at about 4x2.5 inches, and is sometimes ordered as a fridge magnet of that size instead.

Side note- here is a link to the 2010 post/version of the wedding invitation:
http://savethedateoriginals.blogspot.com/2010/07/movie-ticket-themed-wedding-invitations.html

Just in time- September's favorite project

Just before the end of the month, behold September's pick for the favorite project.

This time, it's a thank you card.  This is a folding card of about 6x4 inches.  The design includes three photographs of the couple and a few flowery flourishes.

What makes this card really cool is that it's made out of a shiny metallic card stock.  Have you seen cards with a pearly shine?  That is what the metallic card stock does.  It's not often that people choose metallic card stock over regular matte white card stock, but when they do, it always looks cool.

This couple previously went with an awesome set of pocketfold invitations, also made with pearlescent metallic card stock, printed with orange and pink colors.  Excellent stationery from start to finish for this event.

July's Favorite Project = New Offbeat Invitation

This newest invitation design to be added into the offbeat wedding category is a design that was inspired by a bride asking for something that fit in with keywords like "vintage", "tattoo", and "rock star".  For me, one of the first things that came to mind for "rock star" was a guitar.

The photographed invitation is a simple 5x7 inch card with a 5x3.5 inch response card.

The original project that inspired this was in bold pink, and, part of a black pocketfold:

That couple actually went with bright pink envelopes as well, which will really make things pop.

A design like this could work for any sort of "concert" themed wedding, and perhaps for those couple's who are in a band or otherwise involved in the music industry.

These fun invitations are surely a good follow up to a ticket-style save the date card or magnet, for which (hint) there are plenty of designs posted on the Save the Date Originals website.

What next for the offbeat section?  Feel free to make suggestions.

New Save the Dates

With some customers arriving at the STDO website in search of wedding invitations, having decided not to go with save the dates, there are new design ideas being added to the invitation section of the website that would also translate into good save the date designs too, if the designer gets around to updating her save the date design section.

A good example is this new save the date magnet design with a swirly heart graphic:

This graphic was created for an invitation design that hasn't even been posted to the website yet!

Also check out this autumn themed save the date:

And this bride and groom silhouette save the date:

And lastly, this Rock'N'Roll save the date design with two guitars:

There are surely more designs to follow!

Lady Bug Calendar

The large 8x10 inch calendar fridge magnets can be made for business or fun.  Check out this calendar magnet made for someone who loves ladybugs:

It is simple, without a list of important dates or extra wording, which leaves some potential space for extra hand written notations.

This particular calendar starts in July 2012 and ends in June 2013.  These calendar magnets can start wherever specified;  No need to wait until the year's end to buy a calendar magnet.

http://www.savethedateoriginals.com/8x10_Calendar_Magnet_Info.php

In June: A pink butterfly

June's favorite project of the month is a pocketfold invitation.  This spring season is chalk full of pocketfold invitations.  They are a good option for people who want something more than a standard flat card set, and, you can personalize these pocketfold sets in a lot of ways.

This customer ordered save the dates with pink butterflies, in keeping with her wedding theme.  For her invitations, something pink and with butterflies was in order.  We ended up with a landscape 7x5 inch pocketfold with a side pocket.  The pocketfold itself is a shimmery pink, and the 3 inserts are designed to stack up nicely.

What I liked most about this invitation set was that it gave me another opportunity to draw a graphic from scratch, first with a pencil and then with my handy digital sketchpad.