Holiday Cards & Invitations

Bloom is now accepting holiday card & invitation orders, as well as other projects. The holiday season will be quickly approaching now that school is back in session around the country. This summer flew by, and though it seems crazy to already be thinking about the holiday season, it will be here before we know it. Get your order in today and lets start designing your perfect holiday card!

A Bloom Favorite: Inspiration

Every wedding seems to have its one element of inspiration, wether its a feel, an object, a color, or maybe all of those things. Ive noticed lately when scanning the blogs, wedding websites and message boards that brides are finding that one element of inspiration and building absolutely amazing weddings. I know when I work with brides on their design concepts I love to find out what those inspirations are, and its so fun to help a bride build her vision.

This wedding was built around lemons and the color yellow. Stunning! Absolutely stunning. I may be biased because of my own love of yellow, but I think this couple incorporated the lemon flawlessly. (All image rights attributed to ivy-weddings.com, and taken from StyleMePretty.com) You can find this complete story here.





















This wedding was created with a book theme. Love the card catalog for the escort cards.(All image rights attributed to MAP Events, and taken from StyleMePretty.com) you can see the whole write up here.

Children's Book Sneak Peek.

I am really excited to show this tiny little preview of a project Ive been busily working on the past few months. I've been working with a couple of local Austin area authors to illustrate this fantastic christmas story. We hope to have it available for purchase this holiday season. For now, this is all I can share with you. More to come...


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Sage Green and Black Wedding Concept

Many of my customers are interested in my hand sewn wedding booklets. This is a concept that was put together for a sage green and black wedding. Each booklet contains all the pieces that are normally separate cards in a traditional wedding invitation: An Invitation, a Directional, an Informational (Details) and an RSVP card. The RSVP in this invitation was a tear off postcard in the back of the booklet. Each invitation would be sent in a white number 10 envelope.

Bloom Favorite- DIY Weddings and Style Me Pretty

I know I have mentioned before how much I love the Style Me Pretty blog. I have been reading this blog since after my own wedding way back when, ok so it will only be 4 years in August, but feels like a long long time ago. The blog is great and Im completely addicted! So props to them, and to this post that I was reading today. This wedding has so many personal touches I just had to bring light to them. Ping Pong...AWESOME! Chalkboard signs, even better! And custom portraits! I LOVE IT! Style Me Pretty is a great resource for anyone planning their wedding. You can create style guides, and check out dress designers. The inspiration abounds! I may be gushing, but honestly I check this blog almost every day, and if you're planning a wedding, you should too.

Purple and Green Bachelorette Party

Purple satin ribbon is the perfect addition to this elegant but girly bachelorette party invitation. Printed on white premium matte paper and sent with A7 solar white envelopes, this invitation was a small run project of 15. The design uses several font types together that work to highlight locations and times for the three day affair. I think they turned out nicely, comments are welcome.

Again information is blurred at the clients request.

Safari Baby Shower

This invitation was a request by a client for a baby shower invite that wasnt too masculine but with a green and brown safari theme. I really had fun creating the baby safari animals. I based them off of the owl that I had created previously for a baby announcement. I think these turned out great! Printed on Premium Matte 5"x7" and A7 solar white envelopes.



Info blurred out at clients request.

Now Available on Etsy!

This month's new card design is now available on etsy in a package of 5. "Just a note to say hello."
These cards are customized and personalized with your text and your color choices. These are flat stock cards with an envelope in the A7 size (5x7). Order yours now. They are great to have around to send for any occasion.

Bloom Favorite- Bridal Shower Ideas!

There are so many creative ideas out there now for bridal showers! Afternoon Tea, Something Blue, color themes, honeymoon showers. Think of all the great print pieces that could be added to any shower to jazz it up and pull the theme together. Place cards, gift tags, favor tags, menus, invitations, food cards, the list goes on and on! I get excited everytime I see such beautiful images of these creative showers and the thoughts flood as to how print could be incorporated in to the party atmosphere. Can you see it? Share your ideas for Bridal Showers, or even cool things you've seen done before!

Images from miscellaneous posts on StyleMePretty.com

Owl Baby Announcements

A client asked for baby announcements with a retro feel owl, using brown and green. I created the vector owl and kept the design simple. They were printed on epson white matte and we used white envelopes. I think they turned out pretty cute. Feedback welcome!





















































I printed another sample using fictitious names to protect the client privacy but so the details can be seen in the images.