Rylan turns 3!

I've really enjoyed doing photo invitations lately, especially when it's for someone I know! I've "known" Rylan since he was born! His Mommy and I belong to an online mommy's forum and actually met while planning our weddings! Sweet little baby Rylan has turned into handsome little boy Rylan and needed a very special invitation to his 3rd Birthday Party! The theme was heavy construction equipment and the photo his Mommy sent with the hard hat on was just PERFECT! It's always fun to dress up your child and really set the tone of the invitation with props!

This invitation was designed and sent to the client to print on their own. This is an option I offer and find it works well when people want to print themselves or have tight time constraints.

Favor and Gift Bag Tags

Tamara is a wonderful bride who I met through a very dear friend. She recently got engaged and is heading of to Costa Rica of all places to get married!!! Boy, do I wish I could sneak along in her luggage!

I had the privelidge of creating her wedding shower invitations and was so happy to be working with her.

She approached me to make some favor tags and some gift bag tags for her wedding. Here colors are various shades of blue and she liked the idea of something simple and tropical. Here's what I came up with!

Here is the favor tag. This is a double sided tag and will have a hole punched in the corner.



This is the tag for her Welcome Bag for the guests:


Congratulations Tamara!!! Make sure to send photos when you get back and drink something cool and slushy for me!

Revised Surprise Birthday Invitation

Well, we decided to have the surprise party take on a Tropical feel, so I redesigned my Mother's birthday party invitations! These invitations feature a tropical motif with lifelike flowers and a vellum overlay with the party information. They will be printed on matte cardstock.

Lohn-Caragine Wedding

I met this wonderful bride, Dana, online on a wedding forum. Through emails and various phone conversations, we planned an overall scheme for her wedding stationery. She wanted elegant, tailored and glitzy with a theme of "An Enchanted Evening" for her wedding.

I started by designing her Save the Date. It was a 5" x 7" booklet bound with a black eyelet. The front featured the words Tying the Knot with a black grosgrain ribbon. The pages inside the booklet contained information about the wedding weekend.



I was then contacted by the Bride's mother to design her bridal shower invitations! Taking inspiration from her Save the Dates, I created a black outter jacket that was tied with gold ribbon. Inside contained a childhood photo of the Bride and the shower information.



I went in a different direction for her wedding invitations. I started with a shimery pearl white PocketFold pared with a tone-on-tone white and antique gold flowered backing. A satin ribbon and personalized label topped off the outside of the invitation. A reception card, direction card and RSVP rounded out the ensemble.







*all photos by Marie Labbancz of www.artoflove.com

Bridal Shower Invitation

I was contacted by a dear friend of mine to design a bridal shower invitation for a good friend of hers. She wanted something elegant and handmade. We used some left-over paper from her wedding as a sentimental touch. The black damask pattern was printed on white pearl metallic cardstock and aqua Swarovski crystals were hand glued to the printed invitations.

Surprise Birthday Party

This is a surprise birthday invitation for my own Mother! SSShhhhhtttt.... don't tell her! I found a photo of her as a child, edited it and added a beautiful paper background and fun wording. I hope she'll be surprised! This will be printed on heavy glossy card stock.

First Birthday Party Invitation

This is a fun invitation for a First Birthday Party! Photos for each month of the 1st year are bordered along the outside of the card. This creates a great keepsake for the recipient! It was printed on heavy glossy card stock.