Thank You Gift Presentation

I had so much fun putting together this thank you gift for Target in appreciation of our work together on the St. Jude’s ad.  This colorful package contains cookies and text that follow along with the poem and pictures featured in the ad.

I love creating personalized gifts of appreciation that will make the receivers’ day. My goal is to wow them at every step.

wrapped gift

First, I painted and hand lettered words from the poem around this circular container.  I also painted the lid of the box to look like the Target logo. After tying a matching polka dot ribbon around the package I attached a round thank you card with hand lettered spiraling text.

foam snow flakes

Seeing as this box contains delicious (and breakable) cookies, I needed to find a decorative way of protecting the contents.  I used these foam snow flakes and white shredding to cushion the cookies and keep them snug in the box. They also happen to go with the theme.

cookies with lettering

These adorable cookies were baked and decorated by the talented Mary of It’s A Mary Cake.  Mary decorated the little girl cookies to look like the children from the advertisement and made the colorful dinosaur cookies to go along with the poem.

St. Jude's cookie

Mary also duplicated both St. Jude’s and Target’s logo in fondant and then I hand lettered the words.

I’m happy to say, my contacts at Target were delighted to “taste and see” their gift.

I had so much fun creating this one. This idea could be used for so many different occasions.  And who doesn’t love receiving a cookie?

And as always my calligraphy font, Belluccia, one of myfonts Most Popular Fonts for 2011, is available at : myfonts.com and fontbros.com.

Unique Bridal Party Thank You Gifts

Custom cookie with decorated boxes for bridesmaids

I am thrilled to be working with the darling bride, Michal Booth, and her sweet groom, Corey Schultz.  I’ll be creating their save the date’s  and wedding invitations soon.  In the meantime they wanted to thank their bridesmaids and groomsmen in a special way. These thank you cookies did the trick.

The bridesmaids’ cookies are modeled after the gorgeous dresses they will be wearing at the wedding. I found beautiful fabric in just the right colors to match! The hand lettered boxes include an illustrated flower. A small hand lettered thank you note shared the bride’s thoughts.

Custom cookie for bridesmaid with calligraphy address

Since Corey is in the dental field, what could be better than a toothbrush and small molar cookies for his groomsmen! Wind-up chattering teeth added some fun to the theme.

Custom toothbrush cookies for groomsmen

How cute are the toothpaste tube addresses? These were fun to do

Custom toothbrush cookie with illustrated address

I had so much fun creating these adorable thank you’s. I’m excited to start work on the save the date and wedding invitations.  I’ll be sure to post when they are done.

Belluccia Calligraphy Font

And as always my calligraphy font, Belluccia is available at : myfonts.com and fontbros.com.

Custom Calligraphy Stamp Collaboration with Besotted Brand

The Besotted Brand shop has been launched and I am just thrilled to be providing custom calligraphy for her darling stamps!

Custom Calligraphy Stamp by Besotted Brand - lower case

First of all, Miss B went to great lengths to find a stamp maker of the finest quality.   Wood handled stamps come nestled in cotton drawstring bag on wood shred ‘nest’ in natural wood box. These stamps leave a beautiful impression and are made specifically to create your own stationery (sized to fit 4bar-A7 cards). You will never be sorry that you have one of these stamps in your stationery arsenal, it is absolutely beautiful.  They would make a lovely gift for bridesmaids, or the hard to shop for person on your holiday list.  An added bonus, priority shipping and tracking are free!

Custom Calligraphy Stamp by Besotted Brand- Sentence case

There’s more to see so head on over to Besotted Brand and bring your holiday list with you!

Belluccia flourishes

As always my calligraphy font, Belluccia, made with brides and invitation designers in mind, is available at myfonts.com and fontbros.com.  Check it out.  You can create all your printed wedding projects with the look of custom calligraphy at a fraction of the cost!

Fun Favors for “Blowout” Birthday party

In a previous post I shared the invitations for a “blowout” birthday party at drybar in Dallas.  Since I don’t have girls, I never got to pick party favors with a girly theme.  So I had a great time, looking for head bands, clips and sparkly bobby pins to add to these take home gifts!

Favors for Blowout Birthday party

I needed a good size container to hold all the candy and other goodies. These great clear plastic paint cans with silver lids, found at Michael’s, worked perfectly.   The yellow bags were filled with candy including “Ring Pops” and “Candy Necklaces”.  I used to love those when I was a kid:) The personalization on the bags and charcoal shimmer paper tags kept everyone straight.

Peace, Love and Blowouts

The bags were sealed with round white labels from Paper Source and hand lettered then printed with “peace, love and blowouts!” the party mantra.

Hair themed favors

I must admit I had to check with several girl moms to ask if they knew what 10 year old girls like to put in their hair…”anything that sparkles” was the most common answer.

Snack box

To make transporting snacks easy, I found this darling yellow hat box .

Party Snacks

Goldfish, Crunchy Cheetos and yogurt covered raisins were easily made available while the girls  were having their hair done and provided a little salt to balance the sugar from the candy and cupcakes they’d be eating:)

Happy Birthday Tatum!  Thanks for the fun trip to girl land !

Belluccia calligraphy font

As always, my calligraphy font, Belluccia is available for purchase on myfonts.com and fontbros.com.  Check out the cool free fonts!

Beautiful Letterpress Invites and Thank you Notes

Don’t you just love getting a cool package in the mail?  I do too!  So I was thrilled to open the box from The Aerialist Press when it arrived.   I was not disappointed with the content.  Check out the pics!

Box from The Aerialist Press

First of all, I’m all about a lovely presentation box.

Beautiful letterpress options from The Aerialist Press

Not only did this treasure box hold 3 fabulously designed letterpress invitations utilizing my Belluccia font (available at myfonts.com) , but also included some beautiful  “Thank You” cards.  Lovely!

"Quil" Invitation Suite using Belluccia font

This is the “Quill” design that I featured on my blog previously.  Nice to hold it and see and feel the quality of the letterpress printing and paper. This is one of their “House designs”.

Save the Date with reply Postcard using my Belluccia font

How cool is this Save the Date  with matching Reply postcard from the “Charleston Invitation Suite” ?  Another House Design that looks like custom!

Beautiful Vintage feel Invite with response card using Belluccia font

Here’s a custom invite with a vintage feel beautifully designed with an unusual graphic in an elegant warm grey. Again, Belluccia was used for the script font.

Letter pressed Thank you notes featuring Belluccia font in assorted colors

Don’t you just love the delicious colors of these Thank you cards with matching envelopes!!!  Yummy.

Thank you Alexandra and Craig for making my Belluccia font come to life so creatively in these gorgeous designs.  More designs using Belluccia on both Wedding and Baby Announcements are on their site.  Check them out!  The Aerialist Press.

Bridal Shower favors

Lettering Art Studio has been “cooking” up some personalized bridal shower favors.

Hand lettering on wine glass favors

These glasses are literally baked to adhere the paint more permanently.  The rhinestone adds a nice touch of sparkle!  These will be filled with candy, wrapped in cello and tied with a bow!  Simple and Sweet!

Hand lettering on bridal shower favors

46 glasses ready to go

Fun Girls’ Weekend Invitation

Love, Love, Love being a part of the planning for a girl’s weekend!  We need our girlfriends!  I am about to go on one myself:)  Can’t wait!

In the meantime, I had the pleasure of creating some “girls weekend invitations” for the fabulous photographer Angie Weedon of  Angela Weedon Photography.  She decided on margarita shaped decorated cookies with the girls names and basic weekend info hand lettered on the cookie.  They are made by the always fabulous baking duo of Carolyn Arnold and Mary Holman.  I added the hand lettering in food coloring, and the candy lime slice and ribbons.  Then they were put into the boxes that are decorated with fabric and coordinating crinkle paper to add color and cushioning.

Personalized margarita cookie invitationThe lime shaped candy added a special added touch.

Angie provided the fabric, which came from Moona Fabrics . ( Lots of cool vintage patterns.) The information card was printed utilizing her colors of turquoise, orange, lime green and white.  A final margarita seal on the outside of the box adds to the suspense of what’s inside.

Information card for girls weekend

I was so excited to use my new calligraphy font on the card !  I am working hard to get it done.  But I want to take the time to include all kinds of cool stylistic alternatives so the release date will likely be mid May.  But it is fun to have the basic version on my computer and to actually use it for some projects.

Back to the invitations…they went in the mail Saturday so hopefully the guests will start receiving them sometime next week.

Hand lettered addresses on boxed invitation

I can’t wait to hear their reaction.

It is truly the coolest thing for me to participate in some small way to celebrate the gathering of girlfriends!

I love my local girls too! Wish we could get together more often.

Do you have a group of gals you get together with on a regular basis?

Do you have long time friends, like me, who live in different states, but you all make the time every year or so to take a trip together?   I’d love to hear about your group of gals.  Do you have a name?  Our is “Club Girls”.

Oh and don’t tell Angie, but I made an invite for her too.  I thought it would be fun for her to experience what her guests will feel when they open their mailbox to find this delicious treat!

Amazing cookies for an amazing event !

Carolyn Arnold, of Amazing Cakes & Cookies, and I were thrilled to create these “Fruit of the Vine” cookie boxes for an amazing KMI event.  “Kids Matter International” is a wonderful organization helping kids “around the world and around the block”.

Their annual gala was held this past Friday night at the Hilton Southlake.

Becky Cole, the Event Chair came to us wanting some special Thank You gifts for her very generous sponsors.  Carolyn and her team created these beautiful wine bottle cookies with a ” Thank You” label.  The other cookie was shaped like  a cluster of grapes.  Two  grape shaped cookie balls completed the set.  I created the decorated boxes and did the hand lettering. A great team effort that provided a very deserving treat.

What could be sweeter than beautiful and delicious cookies!

Thanks to Becky and Marti for allowing us to be a small part of this wonderful evening.

Check out the pics!

Thank you cookie box contents

Thank you cookie box for sponsors

Personalized grape cluster cookies

Kids Matter International Poster

Beautiful "Fruit of the Vine" centerpiece