Summer projects so far!

I started this blog only to forget about it! But life has been pretty upbeat this summer. Lots of wonderful things to share.

Here are some table numbers I made for the wedding of a Harvard alumni. She asked me to recreate a font someone else had used to create her invitation. I also addressed her invitations, and calligraphed escort cards and menus for the day of the wedding (Congrats hun!). I thought the font was fun and super easy to copy --a great project to work on.
 

Aren't her vintage stamps gorgeous? They really add to the style of the invitation.

I also did the calligraphy for one of my best friend's wedding in Dallas, TX. His family is from Guatemala, so there were a lot of Central and South American addresses. Pretty awesome. Maybe I'll get pictures from the wedding to show you guys. They are a very hip, modern couple, and decided they would have a bright red and orange wedding. Unusual, fun, and somehow incredibly elegant. Totally fell in love with it.

 

I have been working on some wedding maps as well, and I was especially excited about the maps I watercolored and lettered for the Kansas City Bride Magazine. Here are a couple pics I took... they're not so great, so I hope to be blogging about this with pics of the magazine spread soon!! They really are beautiful. I tried to keep them simple, but elegant, so that I could focus on the calligraphy of the maps.

Trying to conquer watercolors! I thought this flower motif turned out quite pretty. I decided it'd go on the lower corner of the map. It adds a lot of color and flair to the otherwise understated elegance of the map.