Blog — "design a day"

Short and to the point, this card is for new moms (which is seems there are a lot of these days in my age group).

I am still hooked on aqua and will soon need to turn to some design palette inspiration to get some other color schemes in my mind. I'd love to start with some bright summery stationery sets.

What colors do you associate with summer?

P.S. A few of my readers have been asking me about whether or not my designs are for sale. The answer is yes! If you click on the photos each day that I list my new design, it will take you to the listing in my shop.

It is wedding season for sure. I was just discussing this with a friend last night, a friend that is getting married this summer at that. We both seem to have a lot of invites just for this summer and more than any summers as of late. When I asked people what they wanted to see in the shop in terms of cards, the same friend said she'd love to see wedding cards. So today my goal was to create something simple, yet light and summery. I didn't want anything that was too mushy because I'm not a big fan of those types of cards.

I love the pairing of the envelope because it gives a fun, summery pop of color to the final design.

Are you like me this summer with a long list of weddings to attend?

Recently I bought a whole heap of washi tape at Target so that I could use it as a final touch on my packaging for my outgoing orders. I tie up each of my orders with twine and use a button for the knot. Then I slip one of my business cards under the twine. However, I was always worried that the card would get lost in the mailer and that my customers wouldn't get to enjoy the little note I had left for them on the back of the card. So enter washi tape as a cute little way to attach my business card.


I had just finished packaging up an order with washi tape when a thought crossed my mind. Why not make stationery that looks like a little name card has been taped to the flat note? Enter this new set of stationery.


These are probably the most girly flat notes I've designed in my entire life. Easily. And as we all know, I'm not one to be super girly. However, this design just needed to be made. It is one of those designs where a vision of how it was supposed to look flashed through my mind.  And you know what? After the final product was finished, it looked EXACTLY like my quick two second vision. Awesome. It isn't every day that that occurs, but when it does, it is definitely something to be happy about.

Today's design was one that I'd thought about doing for quite some time after I had made these record cards. I finally decided to get my butt in gear and conjured up a birthday card that many of you will probably enjoy (as long as you're old enough). It has to do with cassette tapes. Yup. I was one of those kids that had a blank tape sitting in my tape recorder/radio and would run to press record when one of my favorite songs came on the radio. **True story and side note: Once I listened to said cassette tapes years later and one of them had basically this song, this song, and that song on repeat.** Anyway, it was only natural for me to make this fabulous card.

And for those of you that actually watched the videos and listened to the songs I mentioned in my side note-- I am sorry. That will probably be ten minutes of your life that you'll never get back. And no, I don't know what is going on in the SWV video either. I wish I knew.

I love simple design. While I browsed through my seemingly endless collection of card stock, I stumbled across a retro patterned mustard yellow card stock that instantly jumped out at me. I was immediately inspired to create something simple. I paired the patterned paper with a dark gray {happy birthday} and a sea blue envelope.

I knew that while I only had enough card stock to make four of these cards, that I had to make them anyway. Sometimes a design just needs to be created. And sometimes there is something really awesome about knowing there are only four of these cards out there in this big world.