Embossed Floral Invitations
This beautiful invitation has its main wording printed on a thick piece of white linen cardstock, which is then wrapped with a lighter weight linen paper. The paper was printed a beautiful mushroom / latte colour, and then sent to the embosser, who stamped a floral design all over (utilising an embossing plate from a previous job). The embossed cover was wrapped to the side, and a bridal white satin bow was tied off centre.
I love this invitation - its so simple, but I think the embossing really stops it from looking too plain. A larger picture of this can be seen on our facebook page.
Mon, 19 Mar 12
Classic Navy - Pressed Invitations
Angela and Anthony's invitations were pressed with pigment navy foil on thick cotton cardstock, which achieves a letterpress look at a lower than letterpress cost. A vintage emblem was created for the couple, which featured their initials and wedding date, and this was also printed on response, gift registry and accommodation details cards. The envelopes were lined with navy striped linen paper.
I haven't received many requests for navy invitations in the past couple of years, however as usual - when it rains it pours - I have had so many navy invitations lately its amazing!
Navy and white or navy and cream, and there's nothing like a navy suit!
I'm now working on the other stationery for this wedding - Congratulations to Angela and Anthony - I hope you have a beautiful day!
Mon, 19 Mar 12
Free Save the Date Cards - terms and Conditions
Offer Details:
1. Book $700 worth of wedding stationery by 30th April 2012 (confirmed by payment of a 50% deposit, based on approximate numbers).
2. Quantity given for free is equal to the number of invitations ordered.
3. Not available in conjunction with any other offer or discount.
4. Not transferable. Booking deposit must be received 30th April 2012.
5. Standard designs only - custom artwork fees may apply if not.
6. Completion time will vary - please get in early to avoid disappointment.
Mon, 5 Dec 11
Christmas Blitz Weekend!
Thu, 20 Oct 11
Drivin' in my car!
Candice and Anthony are getting married next month, so now that all of their guests have their invitations I thought I'd share it with you:
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A classic black and white theme, with a little touch of silver added into the license plate and banner detail. The foil printer pressed very hard on the black in order to get some depth and achieve a somewhat letterpressed effect.
The 'clients heads' were manipulated so that Candice's veil and hair were similar to what they'll be on the big day. This was a square pocket style invitation. The inside wording and cards were digitally printed rather than foiled, so that guest's names could be printed (not achievable when foil printing). Hope you like!
Thu, 28 Jul 11
A sophisticated, modern 50th birthday invitation
Mohsan and his wife Kerrie are those kind of people that you look at and think 'you can't be that old - you're far too funky and stylish' ;) Clean lines, minimalist style, classic looks, all come to mind when I think of these two.
With that in mind, we had to create something really special, but minimal for Mo's 50th birthday celebrations, which is to be held at Era Bistro (modern, simple - voted one of Brisbane's top ten restaurants by Gourmet Traveller Magazine).
Black and white. Single card. Minimal, to the point information. The result:
Firstly, just in case you don't know - when it comes to digital printing, its just not possible to print white ink. We could have started with white cardstock and put a black background down (keeping the fonts unprinted and therefore the cardstock colour), but for this invitation set I really wanted the dramatic metallic charcoal stock to feature.
How did we do it?
We created a geometric pattern used in the background, which was stamped into charcoal metallic cardstock with shiny black foil. The wording was then stamped with white foil over the top.
The envelopes were created from the same charcoal cardstock (in a thinner weight). The branding of this event continued on the back flaps of the envelopes, which were foil stamped in black and white. As actual envelopes can't be put through a printing (foil) press, we had to start with flat sheets, ensure the foiling was positioned VERY accurately, and send the stamped items to our envelope supplier in order to be diecut into the correct shape, and then folded and glued into an envelope. The finished product was then sent back to me, so that I could addd address labels to the fronts.
They've received overwhelming feedback from their guests for these invitations - nerve wracking as they were (the parcel which contained the finished envelopes actually went missing in transit for a day or two) I would do them again and again - I'm so completely happy with the result.
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I want to get such card for our wedding anniversary. I want to know the price for it.
Posted by Melbourne Electrician on Sun Oct 16 2011 - 12:00am
Love the print job!
Posted by Louis Blythe on Thu Dec 1 2011 - 12:00am
Hello! I want to get such card for my birthday ceremony. So I want to know price of it.
Posted by Home insurance naples fl on Sat Dec 24 2011 - 12:00am
Perfect! That`s what I was looking for. Can you tell me the price... Thanks!
Posted by Eugen on Thu Jan 19 2012 - 12:00am
Thu, 28 Jul 11
Silver, candy stripes and a layered flower feature!
We recently created this invitation for Steph and Mark (Manoli).
How did we do it?
We created the artwork first, and the candy stripes were printed onto cardstock. We then had a foil plate created for the baroque pattern, which appears on the front of the invitation and inside on the pocket.
The printed cardstock was sent to our foil printer, and he stamped each one with silver foil.
A die forme was created for the flower shapes (5 different sized flowers in total, each with a hole in the middle) and we then printed cardstock in solid and patterned peach colours before giving it over to be diecut.
The flowers and silver foiled covers were then given back to us, and we then got going on the inside printing and assembly. The assembly for these invitations broke all records at Urban Weddings - each invitation assembly took around 7 minutes from start to finish - mostly due to the tedious task of threading the 'moonlight blue' ribbon through each flower and ensuring the petals were spread out and placed correctly.
Suffice to say I love this invitation, however everytime I look at it I'm very relieved that they're finished!
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Thank you so much for your hard work Peta! We absolutely love them & are so grateful for ur patience making each and every one so perfect! (and sorry we broke your record, but we think it was worth it!! :)
Posted by Steph on Mon Aug 1 2011 - 12:00am
Very nice card. I think it is best for Birthday programme.
Posted by Electricians on Wed Nov 2 2011 - 12:00am
Tue, 26 Jul 11
Can you tell its peak wedding season?
Just a quick note to say we've made it over the hump of peak wedding time and I'll be back with a HEAP of pics of things we've been doing recently. Please check back soon!
Fri, 13 May 11
A Passport Invitation
We're commonly asked if we can create an invitation to look like a passport. The answer of course is yes.
Here's one we created for a wedding some time ago - the emblem became an element that ran through other items, however its the 'stiched' diamond pattern subtly in the background and the rounded corners (we love rounded corners) that I think really sends the passport message home with this invitation.
It was printed on thick textured cardstock, much like a real passport too.
Of course, if you were thinking of something a little different to this, for instance, with travel visa stamps included, we can create that too!
Have a great weekend! xx Peta
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Posted by Wedding DJ in NJ on Sat Apr 21 2012 - 12:00am
Wed, 4 May 11
A wall of ideas!
I've been buying wedding magazines from all over the place for years, so rather than keep all of the things I've seen in my head or in a folder I've decided to plant them on my wall. I'm not surprised that so many visitors to our studio pull out their mobiles to snap shots of the many ideas - and we'll just keep adding to it now each time we see something we like.
These are a couple of my favourites:
The first was a woodland wedding, and they hung vintage backdrops between trees so that their guests could stand in front of different colours for their photos. Imagine the photo album from this wedding - it would be so much fun to look through!
The second is a candy bar - there's heaps of examples of these but I love the cake in this one and the finish of the yellow and white striped awning - so cute!
Both of these were taken from Martha Stewart: Weddings (back in 2004 or 2005...) She's so stylish that they're still gorgeous even after all these years!
Wed, 4 May 11
Where has the year gone??
A belated Happy Easter to you all, and I'm sorry for not blogging! We are in crazy season at the moment but we're almost through to the other side (until June...).
I thought I'd share one of my recent favourites with you, which I've also put on the bespoke page of our website:
We created an A5 flat card invitation with a matching large info card. Both cards were held together with a printed belly band featuring the bride and groom's name and date. The information card was perforated, so that the guests could tear off the acceptance portion and return it. Further photos on the website show the reverse side of this with the return address included. The save the date was sent first, and came with a magnet on the back. I love this set - navy and red are so appealing to me - navy has become really very popular in the last few months - we're doing much more navy than ever before.
Back to work for me! I'll have something else tomorrow!
xx Peta
Tue, 29 Mar 11
Chocolate Kisses
Every Tuesday night we have our friend Ross over for dinner. Ross is a Chocolatier (no ulterior motive there at all). If we're lucky, he brings us 'seconds' chocolates, which taste just as good as the real thing, but may have not quite filled the mould properly or been scratched... Tonight he brought us strawberry ganache filled chocolate kisses.
The only bad part about eating these is the Evil Cross Trainer I have to visit in the morning. Last week it was the 'ends' of rocky road slabs - the ends - where all the coconutty chocolate pools. Yum. Anyway, it never occured to me that you all might like to know a good chocolate supplier for your weddings (I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes), so here it is... I highly recommend eating Poppys Chocolates.
Today I received an email from a lovely Bride who wants to incorporate buttons into her invitations. She spoke about playing with her Grandma's collection of buttons when she was little - reading this email was like a trip down memory lane. I remember the 'back room' at my Grandma's house - full of things - suitcases of matchbox cars, bingo supplies, board games jammed on top of each other until they hit the ceiling.. and old coffee bottles filled with buttons (do you remember the old pablo coffee jars with the orange lids? or tang?).
So now my mind is ticking over thinking about what vintage look we could come up with either incorporating actual buttons, or graphic buttons (and maybe a graphic stitched thread?)... Hmmm... stay tuned, I'll upload a few ideas over coming days.
Now back to the chocolates... x Peta
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