Changes are coming....

I'm in the process of preparing for two back-to-back craft shows at which I'll be selling my candles. Doing all this prep work has made me realize a few things. So, let me tease by saying that major changes are coming to Defining Moments.

No hints. But here's a sneak peek of the new logo! You saw it here first....

Save the Date for Denise and Justin

Below I posted a design I was working on for an old friend's Save the Date. It's finally finished! I sent it off to the printer today. This is the final version, complete with a photo of the actual couple (how adorable are they?). Now if I could only find someone willing to do their invitations in thermography...

Bridal Shower

I don't just do weddings...I also do all the parties that come before and after!

Fun with Illustrator

In the process of deciding which designs I want to upload to my business site, I started to play around with ways to make them look like more than just flat drawings on a computer screen. Since I don't have physical samples to take photos of, my digital images have to look great. Here are two samples I did this morning.

Do they look professional? Does the fact that it's not a photograph of ink and paper detract from the design itself?

Tropical Leaves Invitation Suite

Yet another potential design for my Etsy shop...this invitation suite is designed with colorful tropical leaves. Perfect for a destination wedding, or a regular tropical-themed wedding closer to home. I can see this one turning out really gorgeous if printed on a pearl-colored shimmer cardstock, with matching envelopes. What do you think?

Save the Date

About a month ago, a girl I've known since I was 16 and worked at Pathmark e-mailed me through my business website. We'd lost touch over the last few years - I quit that job nearly 10 years ago - but she'd run into my best friend, who also worked at Pathmark with us, and told her she was getting married. My friend let her know that I'm now an invitation designer and told her to look me up. Well, she did, and I've spent the last 2 weeks working on a save-the-date design for her.

Her main colors are black and silver, but her flowers are bright - orange, purple and green. We wanted to incorporate that into the design. She also liked the idea of a photo card. This is not a frou-frou girl we're talking about; simple is best, but I also wanted it to be interesting. So here's my favorite of the designs I came up with. I hope she'll feel the same way!

(Note: the picture on the design is not one of Denise and Justin. Her mother will be doing a mini photo shoot this week for them. This was just a cute photo I found to fill in the spot until then.)

New geometric design

For the last few days I've been working on designs to offer on Etsy. Most of it has been garbage. This one, however, might just end up going on there. Shown in chartreuse (but also designed using hot pink, pale lemon yellow, cerulean and a pretty orchid color), this one's simplistic and modern. I just did an invitation and a matching response card. Thinking about offering other accompanying inserts and enclosures as well.

The invitation is A7 (5 1/8 x 7) and the response card is the standard size (4 7/8 x 3 1/2).

An envelope lined in the chartreuse color probably isn't a bad idea...