Happy Holidays & Save the Date (again)

It is that time of the year.  Save the Date Originals is busy producing many a magnet that will be sent out with holiday cards.  Below is a photographed example of once customer's requested change to the 3.5x4 inch magnet design "MR37" that easily turned it into both a holiday greeting and a Save the Date.

For the Bibliophiles

While updating the photograph for "STDC14", a save the date card that is meant to look somewhat like a book cover, a new invitation design idea came to mind.

First check out STDC14, where one is asked to "Book the Date" rather than "Save the Date".

If Save the Date Originals has a save the date for those writers, literary lovers, editors, and book lovers, then surely STDO should have a wedding invitation for them as well.

Introducing a 4.5x6.25 inch folded card design.  The front is somewhat like a book cover, while the main invitation wording and information is printed on both panels of the inside, complete with page numbers.  You can't see it in the photo, but there is even a cute little book graphic with two hearts on the back of the invitation card.

Lastly, one must not forget the response card.  For this design, it seemed fitting to make a design that mimics one of those Library cards that keeps a list of the book's borrowers.

This invitation design isn't yet posted in the main website's invitation section, but will make it there soon.

November Favorite

The project I am featuring this month is a 4x8 inch magnetic invitation.  Photographic save the date magnets are a common order, but actual invitation orders that are both photographic and magnetic are not common.  This design includes two photographs of the couple along with cherry blossom and bamboo graphics.

Just about any invitation card design from the website can be converted into a magnetic design instead, and of course, custom designs are available.

4x8 inches is also another magnet size that isn't actually priced out on the website;  Projects that require custom/random magnet sizes are becoming more common.  One of the advantages of Save the Date Originals is exactly the fact that custom sizes are available.  Any rectangular size up to 8x10 inches would be available.

Envelopes

My caption for this photo is:

"In a land of USPS, in a sea of boring white envelopes, there was a sparkle of metallic gold."

USPS stands for the US Postal Service, of course.

You have to admit that it is more interesting to receive a color envelope in the mail.  Consider some options for your upcoming 2012 holiday mailings... there are a lot of possible colors and even textures.  

You can actually order just envelopes here with Save the Date Originals, and even blank cards and card stock.  STDO doesn't keep a large inventory- this option is for customers who want to order something beyond the options available at a local craft store.  As with all other orders, there would be a few emails to sort out options and details before an order page was set up.

Customers local to Milwaukee, WI can pick up their orders instead of having them shipped.

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.