DIY Wedding Invites

For those of you that know me, you know how much I love paper!  Making cards has always been a favorite hobby.  I learned that not only is it a hobby, it's an obsession!  I have a hard time working on anything else once I bring out all my paper and pens and scissors.

I knew I wanted to design our wedding invitations.  I found a lot of different invites on-line, but all were pretty detailed and required expensive software.  I downloaded the free trial of photoshop and spent hours playing with the design.  I learned so much about photoshop that I never knew before!  I also learned that I loved it!  I could have spent six months on the invitations alone.

I used vintage Post Cards as the RSVP and had the stamps made at Zazzle.com to mimic a vintage post card.  I'm really happy with the results!

2011 Holiday Card Design

I had a lot of fun designing our Holiday Cards this year!  We enjoyed an extra long fall here in Portland and I wanted a card that gave a feeling of a little fall, winter and warmth.  Each card is made slightly different of course, but here is an example:

A Card for My Man

Aaron was out of town on a work trip for a few days and I was feeling a little creative.  We have a huge fig tree in our backyard and while we both love figs, there is only so much we can do with a million figs!  We've had fig preserves, Figgy pudding, figs with cheese and several other things.  I mean this tree is huge!  If you walk under the tree, chances are you will be hit in the head with a fig bomb.  Thankfully our Lab loves figs (she loves anything that is edible) and she keeps the ground fig free.

I'm happy with the Fig Card.  If I was a fig....he would be my newton!