For the people who love paper products in your life (ah-hem, me included), I found this adorable holiday goodie bag from minimalist stationery designer, Blue Pool Road in Los Angeles. It comes with a mini calendar, a folded card, a post card, a thank you card (useful to thank your gift giver) and other funky items that I’ve posted below. I love this idea.
My new favourite stationery design company is Blue Pool Road in Los Angeles. Peggy Wong, owner has a CV of experience to kill in art direction and she has a great eye for design which shows so well in her stationery.
I love her love notes. I have never sent a love note before on such beautiful stationary but Peggy has motivated me to start.
Her website does more justice to her products than the pictures I have- I can only provide a sneak peak!
So it’s not the most environmentally conscious blog title I could have come up with but I will do my part and plant some trees come spring and justify my title in the post.
I am a self professed paper junkie. There. I said it. Be it invitations, personalized stationary, thank you cards, save the date cards, basically anything that involves graphic design (outsourced), thick cardstock and colour and I am a happy camper.
But back to the serious stuff. Invitations for an event-
I understand that parties can be expensive to host and that evites are a tempting alternative. You can customize your evites, you can manage your guest lists and send out reminders. But if I can make a plea- forget the evites. Don’t skimp on the inviations, just budget for them!
My pro invitation argument: Invitaitons are memorable, personal, can set the mood/tone of what is to come and most importantly, people like receiving mail that is not a bill. I don’t know about you but I smile every time I get a big envelope in my mailbox addressed in caligraphy. I get excited to open it up and see what is inside. How could you deny your friends and family that same pleasure!!
Contrarywise, when I see an evite in my inbox, maybe I glance at it maybe I wait for a few days (weeks) until I know I must send a response. In otherwords, I treat my evites like any other email waiting for my attention. Evites do not illicit the same sense of excitement or urgency-to-open. People typically open their mail- especially if it is pretty mail. On the other hand, if you are a heavy Internet user and receive loads of email a day, receiving an evite has a lower priority on the email-to-open list. Just basic email hierarchy.
Here are a few solid invitation designs that I found online. I hope they both excite and inspire.
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