featured on grey likes baby

Check it out!  My son's birthday had a little mention on Grey Likes Baby:

My son's birthday

Thank you ladies!  I'm SO flattered to be a part of such a lovely blog.

pantone spring 2013 color predictions

I'm loving the Monaco Blue, Grayed Jade and Poppy Red.  Tender Shoots, not so much. 

I'm getting SO many ideas!  Love 'em or hate 'em?

(Image found here)

You can view all Pantone's Spring 2013 predictions here.

emma birth announcement

I'm a nut.  I absolutely love the holidays and I start planning early every year for our annual holiday parties and the shopping. Oh, how much I love Christmas shopping!

I'm also working feverishly on some holiday stationery designs for my shop.  More to come on that later....

I'm also happy to show everyone a new birth announcement style that's now available in the shop.  I'm calling it Emma after a very special two-year old that I know.  This design is perfect for new parents that want a touch of calligraphy on their birth announcements.

I enjoyed every second of designing these and I hope you enjoy too!

grey likes weddings collective

I'm so happy to announce that I'm now part of Grey Likes Weddings' preferred vendors list!  It's invite only to be a part of the blog and I was so flattered to be chosen.

If you are not yet familiar with this lovely blog, you should be.  It's beautiful, inspiring and a feast for the eyes, all the time!

Stop by, say hello and leave a review:

Grey Likes Weddings - Calligraphy

friendsgiving free printable

It's rare that I see free printables that I want to share, but this via The Sweetest Occasion is just stunning!  A black and white banner, it could be used for Halloween or just about any other event.

Check it out:

Friendsgiving Printables

a mention at berin made

Erin Hung of BerinMade has a series on her blog called For the Love of Lettering.  You can suggest a phrase or words and she will hand letter it and post to her blog.  I thought it would be fun to submit one of my favorites quotes and Erin picked me!

Erin is a super talented illustrator whose work I admire.  She has a very feminine style to her hand lettering that's just eye candy, all the time.  Check out her site - BerinMade and today's post on my suggestion.  It will look familiar - http://www.berinmade.com/blog/13536114

Thank you, Erin, for choosing my quote and for giving me a mention! 

the elusive paper source pantone + cymk color chart

For designer folk and paper lovers in general, it's super helpful to be familiar with Paper Source's line.  Their paper contains PCW recycled content, the quality is excellent and their colors are so very versatile.  I'm lucky enough to live close to a retail store and it always takes some serious self-control when I shop there.

I've been on a quest for some time, looking for the matching CYMK and/or Pantone color codes for  Paper Source's line.  It turns out that their actual color codes are proprietary and it is very difficult to find a simple guide for color matching.  I've heard that if you contact them by phone, they'll tell you that they can't provide this information.

After some trial and error with color matching, the information literally landed in my inbox.  For your downloading pleasure (and in the hopes that I'm not violating some Terms of Use somewhere), a complete color guide to Paper Source's line, straight from the source itself:

Paper Source Color Chart

Keep in mind that these are not 100% accurate, but it's as close as you can get.

I really hope this helps a DIY'er or fellow stationery designer.  I would love to hear how this may have helped someone!