Last year lasercut greeting cards I collaborated on with the magnificent Sarah of Candyspotting went to the National Stationery Show in NYC (you could find them in the Crow & Canary booth, they represent Candyspotting LLC). They sold well and can now be found in various paper shops across the US.

Sarah invited me back this year to try my hand at more, now for occasions like Mother's Day. Here's a sneak peak of one of the cards that will debut on May 19-22 at the National Stationery Show in NYC!

Here's some news that have been making the rounds in wedding & style blogs all month - which with some strange stroke of luck I've managed to miss all this time - the Martha Stewart Real Weddings has a special spring issue out!

Hurray! The brainchild of Kirsten of Invitation Crush fame, the Wedding Invitation Ideas lookbook, has launched!

Wedding Invitation Ideas is a digital book showcasing invitations in every theme and printing technique from designers and vendors around the world. News of this lookbook was what pushed me to finally make my wedding collection instead of continuing to plan it. I spent 3 weeks making 10 designs, of which I selected 7 to be released. And I'm glad I did! The lookbook is packed full of amazing and creative invitation ideas. There are over 250 invitations from more than 85 designers in this publication, all of them with contact links and thoughtfully categorized for easy finding. The invitations are divided into 14 categories, ranging from clean and modern to seasonal designs, with special categories such as globally and era inspired invitations, and of course my category - Unique Concept. My Wings papercut invitation from my Woodland Papercuts wedding collection is featured inside on page 63!



Wings papercut invitation / save the date card | available at Woodland Papercuts}

My Deer Beloved stationery set is featured on Wedding Type, the first in the Featured Invitation series!

My Woodland Papercuts wedding stationery collection was featured on Oh So Beautiful Paper yesterday!


I was also invited into the Wedding Invite Love directory! where you can search for your dream wedding stationery from a selection of luxury designer by location and budget. My profile page is here.

Links:
Feature on Oh So Beautiful paper
Woodland Papercuts shop
My profile page on Wedding Invite Love 

This is the 7th and last design currently in my Woodland Papercuts Wedding Collection.

You know that imagery of birds taking flight as a symbol of love? What always attracted me the most about those visuals were the birds' wings. There's something incredibly fascinating to me about the layers of feathers, the intricate shapes and patterns of each that make up the delicate and incredibly decorative shape of the wing.

That was the concept behind the Wings invitation and reply card. I wanted to make a dynamic composition and visual study of wings. I especially love the reply card, how the bird bursts out of the square. Of all the collection, Wings is definitely the least "quiet" and "serene".

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Like the other sets, Wings can matched with one of my papercut ketubot, for example Birds 

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The Dandelion invitations and reply card were conceived after seeing this photo to the left on the Seesaw blog. It reminded me that as a kid I lived near a field of dandelions and that each season I and my sister went out to blow kisses at the dandelion flowers and watch the seeds spread in the wind. We used to call them "grandpa flowers". There's a folktale about that, I just don't remember what it is. But I still find them incredibly romantic flowers, in that sweet nostalgic way of childhood memories.

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In today's article I'm gonna feature 2 couture invitation designs: The Fern & Bamboo. I made these two designs to match the papercut ketubot by the same name. I like matching stationery and so I wanted couples who purchased the ketubot to also have the option to further brand their wedding using the same theme.

The Bamboo was actually the first invitation I worked on. I already had the ketubah design as reference and I wanted to check how it would translate into the much smaller size of an invitation. Being the first one this was also the design I tested on several stocks of paper to see which one would fit best for the job. I originally wanted the invitation to not have a frame (like the reply card), but it proved too delicate. I tried aligning the text box to the sides, to the top or bottom, but in the end opted for the center alignment. There's more 'breathing room' this way and has the added value of keeping the design fresh from one application to the next.

The Fern reminds me of a spiral staircase. Beautiful and never-ending. It's a very lush plant and I collected a lot of close-up photos of ferns while researching its shape. What I like about it is that the closer you look at a fern the more details you see. You think it's made of one row of leaves, but then you see the leaves are made of even smaller leaves, and on those leaves there are even smaller baby leaves, and so on and so on... Kind of fascinating, where does it end?


I think that fern and bamboo plants have an almost architectural aesthetic. They really are beautiful and minimalist plants. In my head, they're the more modern of the designs in the collection, both as invitaton suites and as ketubot: