Summer - from the paperwhites collection
One of my favorites of the new line - would look amazing in any color. Shown here in geisha red with rain envelopes - Enjoy!
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Introducing..."Summer"
One of my favorites of the new line - would look amazing in any color. Shown here in geisha red with rain envelopes - Enjoy!
To launch our new line...a new post every day until the New Year!
To launch our new line of invitation designs...I will be posting a new post everyday until January 1st along with a photograph of some of our new invitations! Would love to hear feedback from anyone about the new designs and I may throw a few classics in there too...but lots of eye candy coming! Stay tuned.
What color was your prom dress?
So, it is funny as I start to finalize new designs for our new line of invitations launching New Years Day...it got me to thinking about color and how certain colors seem to repeat themselves for us girls. I may have to restrain myself when it comes to pink!
My prom dress was an icey pink color, jessica mclintock - I LOVE IT!
I worked very hard at my teenage fast food job (Chez' Hardays - aka Hardees) to afford to buy it back then! My mom brought it with her a few years ago on a visit. Maybe I should do a "trash the prom dress" photo! If I recall I couldn't quite get it zipped up, but who knows...the funny thing is I am still drawn to pink. Pink Pink Pink!
Blast from the past...with some cropping to protect the innocent...
Andrea on the other hand, is majorly into black and white and red. She was telling me the other week that HER prom dress was of course, black and white - no surprise! Of course, her wedding day also was full of black and white with a hint of red...
Maybe I will share with you my prom photos, maybe with some help from photoshop! Or I can throw my dress out and photograph it for you...stay tuned. :-)
But in the meantime, what color was YOUR prom dress and are you still "into" that color??
It would make my day to hear all about other prom dress colors and experiences!
My prom dress was an icey pink color, jessica mclintock - I LOVE IT!
I worked very hard at my teenage fast food job (Chez' Hardays - aka Hardees) to afford to buy it back then! My mom brought it with her a few years ago on a visit. Maybe I should do a "trash the prom dress" photo! If I recall I couldn't quite get it zipped up, but who knows...the funny thing is I am still drawn to pink. Pink Pink Pink!
Blast from the past...with some cropping to protect the innocent...
Andrea on the other hand, is majorly into black and white and red. She was telling me the other week that HER prom dress was of course, black and white - no surprise! Of course, her wedding day also was full of black and white with a hint of red...
Maybe I will share with you my prom photos, maybe with some help from photoshop! Or I can throw my dress out and photograph it for you...stay tuned. :-)
But in the meantime, what color was YOUR prom dress and are you still "into" that color??
It would make my day to hear all about other prom dress colors and experiences!
Christmas Card 2008
Alas, my Christmas card is ready for mailing and I just had to share it! This year I had the amazingly talented silhouette artist, Karl Johnson (cutarts.com), cut the kids' silhouettes at the NC State Fair. I was able to scan and digitally trace the actual silhouettes so now they can be scaled with ease. I put them on our Christmas Card this year. It is printed on Stardream Crystal card stock in black ink - paired with a red envelope. I just LOVE LOVE LOVE silhouettes. I hope to do more with them in 2009. :-)
Color Trends for 2009
I started thinking about what will next year's "it" colors be. It seemed like this year it was hot pink, gold, eggplant purple, iris blue, kelly green and celedon. So that got me thinking about colors in general and how I feel about them.
Just the other day I told Andrea that the color of the "peach" and "apricot" crayons from Crayola should be outlawed as wedding colors. We all have enough trauma trying to color our family as a kid with those awful crayon colors. It just never did look right. So, my friends...crayola peach and apricot are so OUT this year for weddings!
JustSay NO to 
*as an aside, crayola now makes a set of multicultural crayons to color all the people of the world properly, thank you very much!
Let's talk about what's "IN" - what those new "IT" colors are...
The earth tones are here - mauves (think 80s), grays, greens - but not apple green, more the tone of our paperwhites "cryophase" color and olive greens. Bye bye to chocolate brown and hello "earthy" browns. These browns have more depth and feel very organic.
We will see more "dusty" tones to our lavendars, taupes, peaches and blues, greens, tans, grays and pinks. Just make it dusty and you'll be in style.
And of course, some of the brights still rule, like kumquat oranges, lemon yellow and fushia pinks.
What looks to be "out" (purely Sarah's opinions)???
Tiffany Blue, Chocolate Brown, Lime Green, Teals, Mustard Yellow, Bubblegum Pink (and I LOVE bubblegum pink - but its not dusty)...
Here are a few "hot" color combo picks for 2009 (purely Sarah's opinions)...
Plum and Copper
Plum and Pale Gray
Mauve and Taupe
Fushia and Taupe
Palace Blue and Citron
Kelly Green and Aqua
Kelly Green and Navy Blue
Lavendar (Wisteria) and Gray
Lucite Green and Gray
Earthy Brown and Olive or Celedon
What are your ideas, my humble readers (all two or three of you...)??
Just the other day I told Andrea that the color of the "peach" and "apricot" crayons from Crayola should be outlawed as wedding colors. We all have enough trauma trying to color our family as a kid with those awful crayon colors. It just never did look right. So, my friends...crayola peach and apricot are so OUT this year for weddings!
*as an aside, crayola now makes a set of multicultural crayons to color all the people of the world properly, thank you very much!
Let's talk about what's "IN" - what those new "IT" colors are...
The earth tones are here - mauves (think 80s), grays, greens - but not apple green, more the tone of our paperwhites "cryophase" color and olive greens. Bye bye to chocolate brown and hello "earthy" browns. These browns have more depth and feel very organic.
We will see more "dusty" tones to our lavendars, taupes, peaches and blues, greens, tans, grays and pinks. Just make it dusty and you'll be in style.
And of course, some of the brights still rule, like kumquat oranges, lemon yellow and fushia pinks.
What looks to be "out" (purely Sarah's opinions)???
Tiffany Blue, Chocolate Brown, Lime Green, Teals, Mustard Yellow, Bubblegum Pink (and I LOVE bubblegum pink - but its not dusty)...
Here are a few "hot" color combo picks for 2009 (purely Sarah's opinions)...
Plum and Copper
Plum and Pale Gray
Mauve and Taupe
Fushia and Taupe
Palace Blue and Citron
Kelly Green and Aqua
Kelly Green and Navy Blue
Lavendar (Wisteria) and Gray
Lucite Green and Gray
Earthy Brown and Olive or Celedon
What are your ideas, my humble readers (all two or three of you...)??