Category Archives: Do-it-yourself Invitations
Top Trends – Chalkboard Invitation

Here’s another trend we’re seeing a lot of this year… The Chalkboard!   Whether it’s for menus, place cards, or right there on your invitations, if you’re doing a rustic look, the Chalkboard is HOT. Here’s a close-up of the main invitation, printed on Classic White Cardstock, which was mounted on matte Mint cardstock backing layer. […]

Invitation Design That Sets the Mood for YOUR Wedding

Your invitation is one of the first things your guests will see to introduce them to your wedding. Invitations not only convey the time, date, and place, but also give guests some clues about the theme, formality, and mood of the event. In this article, we will explore how different fonts and layouts totally change […]

Top Trends – Favorite FREE Wedding Fonts

As promised, here’s our next installment on the Fonts series.  These are a few of our favorite Fancy fonts that you can download as a trial for free… And who doesn’t love FREE!  As a disclaimer, some of the free trial fonts may lacks some punctuation (see our tip at the end of this article). […]

Top Trends – Featuring our Favorite Flourished Wedding Fonts

Your invitation sets the mood for your entire celebration, so whether it’s for a wedding, birthday, Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah, anniversary or birth, the look of your invitation says as almost as much about the event as your wording does. Calligraphy-style fonts with lots of swirls and flourishes are very popular this year, and […]

2013 Top Trend – Invitations That Tell A Story

This week’s top trend is one of our favorites – telling the story of the couple and how they got together!     The story-telling invitation, designed by the bride, takes guests through their first meeting in high school through their on-again/off-again long distance courtship, and ultimately invites guests to the wedding. The design utilizes […]

And the color of the year for 2013 is… GREEN!

Green! As part of our “Top Trends” series, another one of the biggest trends this year is incorporating green. This spring, Pantone.com (the premier color authority for the design & fashion industry), announced the color of the year – Emerald Green.  Anticipating this trend, Envelopments released SIX new green colors of matte cardstock this year: […]

Top Trends of 2013

Can you believe it’s almost April? Spring is upon us, and before it gets much further, we want to share some of the top trends in wedding invitations for 2013 with you. In no particular order, we’ll start off with an invitation that not only features some fantastic detail, but also features our own TAYVA! […]

Choose Your Colors – Spring 2013

Top colors as identified by Pantone.com for 2013 For all you brides getting ready for a spring or summer wedding this year, we’ll take some tips from top designers and celebrate color!  We’ll have more features on the top trends of 2013 in the next few weeks, so be sure to join us on FACEBOOK […]

Valentine Freebies

Being in the wedding business, Valentine’s Day is one of our favorite holidays! But, we have kids, so this post has a few ideas for kid valentines, as well as a fun diy chocolate box that you can use as a teacher gift, party favor, or wedding thank you. First, the chocolate!

{Designer Tools} Templates

We are excited to bring some new design tools to our website – FREE Downloadable templates. We have been working hard to put these new templates together and hope you find them helpful. We have templates for the casual user to print at home (MS Word) and for the professional designer for commercial printing (Adobe Illustrator).

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