{M} i n d -Speaks.com . . . an art blog

I’m such a paper freak, and one of my favorite things about my wedding had to have been designing the invitations! You have seen my saved the dates and pictures of my wedding – now check out the break down of the invitations!

Again, our colors were Tiffany Blue and silver with a hint of organic paper bag to tie in the theme! I have been into embossing for awhile now and was able to find the perfect blend of silver embossing powder for the invites. I also had fun coming up with a way to showcase the map, reception card and rsvp card. I also always line my envelopes – nothing brings together a design than a pop of texture or color in the envelope! The gatefolds made it easy to keep my pieces organized and I made bands to keep the fold enclosed!

Recently I moved onto more personal and freelance jobs. I went ahead and tried to make little cute stationary and thank you cards for my sister Kim. She is going to be starting up school again at U of H and I thought this would be a nice gift to have waiting for her return. Although since I am posting the pics on here….I guess it is not a surprise anymore. BUT I needed to post something for August annnnnnnd so there you have it! Everything is made in vector style to match her blog layout I made last year.

Everything is super tiny and runs with green color theme plus die cut edges. I am obsessed with matching things up!

Its been a whole year of Mind-speaks.com and we do have some ideas for the new year. We plan on starting to do some craft festivals and events so if all goes well people might be able to buy prints and knitted items from us.

OK – lets start with the official post. Graduation is around the corner and mom wanted me make Kat’s commencement announcement invites. She ordered and paid for mine/Kim’s when we finished High School and the total cost us a few hundred bucks. Mom asked me to do these on a budget. No problem!!

• I picked out a linen bright white paper (80lb)
• Frosted Vellum Paper
• Bright white A7 Envelopes
• Midnight Blue 80 lb text paper for envelope lining

I took the bright white paper – printed a vector image of Kat’s mascot (pirate) and printed a vivid cover with her name and graduating year (2011). Scored and folded them. Printed the invite info (time, date etc…) inside on vellum (vector type as well). I took my favorite new tool – tape runner (invisible!) and taped the vellum with text on top of the pirate, since the tape is invisible it doesn’t show under the vellum which rocks!!

NEXT – I started to use my handy template for envelope liners – traced A7 liners on the midnight paper. Took my tape runner and taped them inside of my bright white envelopes. Ta-da! I also made her name cards to go with her senior pics I took. All in all – paper costs and supplies were 62 bucks! Whoooosh!