I also wanted to show my other lovely design for Bella Figura this year – Aquinnah.

This one is a combination of Mitty and capitals.  The feeling is so different from the last with printing in navy and powder blue.  It is perfect for a destination wedding – whether it is a fancy chateau outside of Paris or a simply lovely beach front wedding.  It really is a universal design and has a feeling of being written by hand – like a love letter to your guests.

Did you know each Bella Figura design can be customized?  You can change the fonts to include all mitty or more capitals.  So many options!

photos by Bella Figura

Wedding season is in full swing!  And I have 2 new invitation designs with the lovely & wonderful Bella Figura.

The first is…. awesome.  I used the mitty font in classic black and jazzed it up by placing all the lettering on an angle and adding touches of copper (yes, real copper!) for an accent.  Let me tell you – in person this suite (Gracieux) really shines.

Place your order now.  And for those of you who say – how long does a calligraphy invitation take? My rule of thumb is: allow 3 weeks for designing with Bella Figura, 2 weeks for printing and 2 weeks for calligraphy addressing.    It is better to be early because rush fees can add up!

Photos provided by the wonderful Bella Figura.

Meredith and Julian married at the Greenbrier in West Virginia and it was a beautiful wedding!  You can see photos from the entire weekend on their Style Me Pretty feature. I had the pleasure of working on the rehearsal dinner calligraphy.  We did table numbers, seating cards, food signs and directional signs – all in glittering gold on deep black paper.  Everything turned out beautiful.  All photos are provided by the talented Christian Oth Studio.

I LOVE seeing the bride & groom looking for their seating card at the event!  So wonderful.

Isn’t their wedding portrait gorgeous?

I loved working with a Munich company on this catalogue for spectacles.  Each frame was named and had a different (but cohesive) lettering style.  The cover is just stunning and every bit of the inside is beautiful.  I have several picks for some new glasses now :-)

I am smitten with the new logo for Joyce.  Joyce Kang is a talented photographer based out of Austin, Texas and needed a refreshed look to express her style of photography.  We created a custom logo that I feel truly represents her photography – happy and full of life and movement.  She does such a great job at capturing her subjects personality and I hope I did the same for her.  You can see the new look on her website and with a few lovely stamps to be used in her packaging.  The large one is so large for packages – I LOVE IT!

I love this recent photo – and the watermark :-)

I had the absolute privilege of working with Stefanie of Lavender Joy on a little photo shoot over 6 months ago.  The fruits of her labor were finally shared with the public in the newest issue of Southern Weddings Magazine.  She did such a wonderful job that it was also the cover!  Congratulations to Sefanie, Ryan Ray and Bows and Arrows on putting together a simply sweet southern affair.

You can see more of the feature on the Southern Weddings blog here and in the magazine on newsstands now.

Earlier this year I had the joy of working with a dear friend on the logo for her new styling shop – Event Styling by Shawna Marie.  Shawna has an eye for the pretty previously working with Style Me Pretty.  You have seen her work around the web here, here, and here.  She needed an identity to match the classic versatility of her services and I set to work.  We came up with a partial calligraphy logo that could also work with her interior design background by changing “Event” to “Interior”.  It is clean and simple and does not push the trendy – perfect for a stylist who needs to have a wide range of ideas for creating such unique events.

Big thank you to HelmutWalker Photography for the lovely photos of her pretty letterpress business cards.

If you are looking for hand lettering work on your identity, contact me!

I was looking through my photograph files (and trying to organize) and found this photo of personalized note cards.  I just love the simple lettering, each by hand and original with a color coordinating duplexed paper for the back.  So they were extra heavy and you could feel the texture of the ink of the paper.

A set of these would be such a lovely hostess gift or for a child learning to write (and value) thank you notes.  A set of 25 in a style and color of your choice on white or ivory paper with corresponding envelopes for $100. (email me to order!)

This weekend a pretty neat event is happening at Union Station on Sunday, November 4 from 2-7 pm.  It is called The Art of Bridal Style, put on by November Lily and features beauty treatments, drinks and a fashion show with wedding gown designers Carol Hannah (LOVE!) and Nha Khahn.  You can purchase tickets here.  It’s a fashion focused bridal event with so many cool things like a beauty lounge with services like eyelash extensions, teeth whitening, make-up and hair stations, etc with a fashion show as well… and we can’t forget the Men’s 007 groom’s lounge and the Baubles bar (the accessories lounge).

Of course several of our friends are involved: Southern Fried Paper, Perez Photography, Wolfgang Puck

It was so much fun to work with Kimberly Schlegel Whitman again on this fun 13th Birthday Celebration for a Leap Year Baby.

I provided the place card lettering in my Mitty font and a pretty purple along with a little sheet on leap year facts that was at the entrance and where the guests picked up their fabulous photos with the birthday girl in engraved frames by Jason Wynn.  The pretty cards with the fun leaping frog were created by the oh so talented Bernard Maisner :-)

The florals were provided by Debby with Branching Out (gorgeous!).

all photos by Jason Wynn and see more from this fun party on Kim’s Blog!