"Luxe" Invitation & matching "favors"!

I am just beginning to offer a "Luxe" line of professionally lab-printed Invitations and Announcements. Here is one of my first shower invitations.

Announcing Hayley!

Mother's Day Giveaway!

In honor of Mother's Day, I will be giving away {winner's choice} of a set of 24 personalized recipe cards or a set of 24 personalized note cards, with envelopes! Simply comment here with what you'd prefer & I'll select one winner in one week!

For a look at all of the recipe cards, see here.



For personalized note cards, you can check out most of my designs on my web site, and throughout this blog!

Coming Soon: Lullaboards!!!

Thanks to Deborah Justine Photography, I am able to give you a beautiful snapshot of what is coming down my pipeline in the next few weeks. Announcing Lullaboards, a unique & socially responsible way to report baby's day! Simply write, read, wipe & repeat. No paper to throw away at the end of the day! How great is that?

Perfect for nannies & caregivers, there is no better way to get a complete run-down on what your child ate, when he slept, when he pee'd and poo'd & what he did all day long!

For new mommies out there, this is SO much easier than trying to remember all those little details your pediatrician wants to hear at those first few appointments. How many wet diapers? How long did she nurse & on what side? How are her sleeping habits? This way, you can just toss the Lullaboard into your diaper bag, and SHOW your pediatrician just how organized of a new mommy you are {even if you're really a walking zombie, she won't notice}!


While not quite available for purchase yet, I promise you, they are just a week or two away! Please check out our welcome site, and sign up so you get the news when we're officially open for business!

www.lullaboards.com

Alex's Penguin Party !

Though I was too lazy to create invites for Alex's 2nd birthday, aka Penguin Party, this year, I did whip up some cute little goodie bag labels, cupcakes & thank you notes!

Live Photo's from the Elmo Party

Thanks to Stephanie, mom and party planner extrodinaire (Couture Parties), for sending in these awesome pictures from little Ella's Elmo party! Don't the note cards look fabulous as goodies for the kids? I hope the mom's were impressed!

Recipe Cards Now Available!

Be sure to check out the amazing new site, Goods for Goodness Sake! They have an amazing assortment of goodies, and proceeds from ALL purchases go towards charity! GFGS is also the ONLY place where you can purchase these awesome new monogrammed recipe cards that I am doing!

Announcing Matthew!

Announcing Charlie!

Spring 2009 Children's Parties

Wizard of Oz!
{Sticker labels for the goodie bags}

{thank you notes}
Little Ladybug!

{sticker labels for the goodie bags}

{thank you notes for the little lady}
Barnyard Fun!

{simple fill-in thank you's!}Party in the Park!
Elmo Party Thank-You's and Party Favors!

{favors for the big kids who no longer dig elmo}

{special request from the birthday girl: elmo in a pink/orange tutu thank you notes}

Children's Gift Tags

I was so excited to venture into children's gift tags recently! These little dinosaur tags for my girlfriend's little boy turned out so cute! Now that I have done them, I am hoping to do more! I can convert any of my designs to these smaller name tags: 4.25 x 2.75" are the dimensions. Hole punch through the top left corner, and voila, you can tie it onto any gift bag!

New for the holidays!

Keeping it fresh

Here's a couple of fun new monogram designs that I've done over the past few weeks -

Holiday Shopping Open House

With the holidays sneaking right up on us, I thought it would be fun to throw together a little shindig at my own house, for everyone's holiday shopping needs! Why not avoid the mall madness at all costs? So, with the help of a couple of my girlfriends, plans for the 1st annual Holiday Shopping Open House, are in full swing!

I'll be dividing up my house, and designating different vendors to different rooms. So far, we'll be featuring Paperluxe Studio (of course!), Tastefully Simple and Buti-Bag & Co.. We hope to add a couple more vendors, including a jewelry designer & another childrens' company MH Designs, from Georgia.

We'll have drinks and hor d'ourves on hand & lots of door prizes!

If you are in Charlotte & want to stop by, drop me an email & I will send you the Evite!

.... 'tis the season to shop, shop, shop!

Oh my cake!

So while twittering last night, I came across http://twitter.com/pinkcakebox - naturally, after becoming her follower, I had to check our her web site. For those of you that don't know me, I am a sucker for high class, fancy cake! I am always blown away by how detail-oriented and perfect some highly skilled cake designers can be, the sheer magnitude of creativity that goes into designing a cake & isn't it funny; the better it looks, generally the better it tastes?

So anyway, Pink Cake Box is topping my charts right now! So envious right now of those of you that live in NJ!

My sister in law is currently looking for inspiration for her son's 1st birthday. She's been tossing around the idea of a mini carnival & then I saw this:



Doesn't this cake just scream carnival party-inspiration to you? It does for me.

Princess Party?



Ok, and now for the big stuff. Look at these wedding cakes!

Envelopes

So excited! I came home from work today to two large boxes of envelopes! Who would've thought someone could get so excited over envelopes? Well, I just have to rave on how gorgeous the colors are, compared to the vendor I was using prior to these! The colors are so much more sophisticated, and don't scream neon like so many of my old ones do. YAY for new envelopes! I will post some pictures soon. Promise.

Completely Custom!

Last night, I proved to myself that I really can take a piece of art & be inspired to recreate it in the form of stationery! I've done this several times in the past, but I am just loving this latest little creation. Here's a client that is planning a baby shower, and wanted to use the nursery bedding for the theme of the shower.

The nursery theme is "Miss Ladybug's Garden" by babygap, and here is what it looks like:



And here is the invitation design that I came up with!

Pretty good, huh?

If you are looking for that perfectly customized invitation to match the theme of your upcoming event, shoot me an email! This is the sort of work that I love to do!

See Paperluxe Studio in person!

Interested in having a close-up look before you buy?

Are you in the Charlotte area?

I will be showcasing and taking {hopefully lots of} orders on October 11th at the CMG Consignment Sale at St Gabriel's church in Charlotte. I hope some of you locals are able to swing by & say hello!

And for good measure, here's some recent work:

Vacation - orders...

A quick note to say that I will be taking a much needed vacation, starting tomorrow! Orders placed between now & August 18th will be filled the week of August 18th. Thanks so much for your patience!!

My first marketing event!

I am so excited to be participating in my first marketing event this month. Though I won't be able to physically be there, my work will be, and that is enough to be excited about!

Paperluxe Studio will participate in the 2nd Annual Open House Soiree, hosted by Lemiga Event Management. It will be Sunday, August 24, 2008, 4:00pm-6:00pm at The Solarium in Decatur. This special event will consist of appetizers, live entertainment, fabulous giveaways, and some of Atlanta's most talented wedding and event vendors.

If you are in the Atlanta area, check it out! Registration is now open at http://lemiga.eventbrite.com/ - space is limited and you must be registered in order to win the giveaways - so be sure to register today!

I just put together my favors, $50 gift certificate & table sign, and just received my brand spanking new business cards. I am packaging it all up & sending it off to Michelle, at Lemiga, this week. I hope it turns out to be a success!

New designs are here!

Finally, it takes a day of being "sick in bed" to get around to this... But I just posted a boat-load of new designs to my online portfolio! Several that you will find: a firetruck theme party, a tropical garden party, Sundaes on a Sunday baby shower, my fun new poppies & birdie stationery, along with some classic monogram looks, to name just a few!

Check them out here!

branding...

I spent the better half of today working on my product branding... Yes, I took both kids with me and spent over an hour in Michaels! They were real troopers though, to say the least. All Alex wanted to play with was the lovely bottle of Scotch 3M Quick Dry Adhesive... Yikes!

Anyway, I have worked on various different product packaging options, and I would love to hear your feedback. Here are two. A third option would be to nix the clear box, and use a kraft or solid colored box instead, and affix the little scalloped label to the lower right corner of the box {no paper band around the box}.

My objective is to incorporate my logo as well as my web site in the design. I was just so sick of sending out plain clear boxes to everyone - time to spruce up my image!






What do you think?

Hannah Jane Photography : in Charlotte!

Last week my family and I had our first ever {as a family of 4} family portraits taken. What a great time we had, and the resulting pictures are just beautiful.

A great big thank you to Hannah for such beautiful work!







If you are in the Charlotte area, and are looking for a photographer to capture your family's nature, non-posed beauty, then Hannah is the one for you!

Here are the details taken from Hannah's mamasource ad:

hannah jane photography
1 reviewOwner: Hannah N
Phone: (678) 640-9367
Charlotte, NC 28203

Category: Photography & Portraits

I am a local photographer looking to build my clientele in the area,
especially since I am pregnant now (with my first!) and would like
photography to replace my full time job as a nanny :)
I LOVE kids and I love to take natural outdoor photographs that capture the
beauty, innocence, and personalities of the precious little one(s) in your
life! I also will do portraits of the entire family, as well as maternity
portraits.

Pick the location of your choice, no limit to the number of people in your
family and no time limit.
I will give you a high resolution disc with all of the edited pictures for
you to keep and print as you wish.
All of this for only $100! (for a limited time)

Please contact me at 678-640-9367, or hannah@hannahjanephotography.com

My website is still under construction, but you can view some of my work at:

www.flickr.com/hannahjane and www.myspace.com/hannahjanephotography

for the high school grad!

You want her to write don't you? A fabulously chic & simple going away gift for the new grad's that are headed off to college in the fall; personalized stationery!

the thumbprint vignette's

A new little design that's been in the works; the thumbprint vignette! These make for adorable new baby & new couple correspondence cards. I've also tried them as an announcement, and have to say I wasn't thrilled with the results.

bye bye calling cards...

Sad to say, I have done away with calling cards, for now. After several months of research, continuously long wait & consequently lead times, a "missing" order & other disgruntles, I decided it was best for me to just maintain focus on my core offering; stationery!

To those of you still waiting for your calling cards orders, they are on their way!

Hope you can all understand.... Time is limited these days, and it's best that I stick with my best!

family stationery

I am so excited to share my newest creation: family stationery! Although I only have three designs currently listed, I will be adding more soon. I am also open to doing custom family work, to add to my portfolio! So send me your ideas and inspiration & I'll try to whip something up for you. As long as your ideas are not too detailed, I will gladly waive the custom design fee for the month of July!

Cheers!

New camera & MUCH better photo's coming soon, I promise!

Close-ups of my work

Here is a fun little party theme I put together for 2 year old Maisie! Maisie's mom said that she enjoyed happy faces & girly things. So I thought the combo of happy flower faces would be the perfect way to reflect her little personality!