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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Jasmine e-mailed me yesterday and sent me some gorgeous pictures from her wedding!!!…so I just had to share!!!
The top left corner is an example of what their invitation looked like! Prior to custom designing Jasmine’s wedding invitations she sent me a picture of their wedding monogram. Their monogram had this beautiful floral pattern in the border. So I used that same floral pattern for the top of the tree and the corners of the response card. I just loved how their invitation turned out!
I especially love the cake pictures!!! I cannot get over how cute that cake is!!! I just love the trunk of the tree with their initials carved in it! Also, love the rope with the response cards hanging from it!
I also love the color combination…aqua/turquoise and orange….very unexpected…but just beautiful!
Here is thier wedding monogram…
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
In my last post I featured a custom invitation design that was designed for a couple getting married in Hawaii. The bride sent me pictures of her wedding dress that had these beautiful hand painted flowers on it. She wanted those flowers incorporated on both the destination wedding invitation and the at home reception invitation.
So, since my last post was about the wedding invitation design, I thought it would be best to feature this fabulous reception invitation design!!! The bride told me that this “back home” reception is being held in Boston and will have a “Provencal” theme and decor …and even though she didn’t have a specific color pallet, she loved the mustard yellow color. Immediately I thought of beautiful hand painted Provencal style dishes and patterns. After seeing a few different Provencal patterns and designs I decided to incorporate one of those with the gold hand painted flowers that were featured on the wedding dress to give the invitations cohesiveness but yet each will have their own distinct personality for event.
I just love this set!!!
and the details…..
Tags: accents, acrylic, blue, custom, Floral Invitations, flower, gold, hand, hawaii, invitation, layered, medley, mustard, painted, paintingsbyshanon, pattern, provencal, save the date, shannon, shanon, shimmer, Uncategorized, watercolor, wedding, www.shanonmedley.com, yellow
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
A couple of months ago a bride asked me if I could create custom wedding invitations for her upcoming wedding. She sent me some beautiful pictures of her wedding dress that has these gorgeous hand painted Hawaiian flowers on it…just stunning. She wanted these same flowers to appear on her wedding invitations AND her back home reception invitations. I love challenges and so I was definitely up to the task…..
So for the wedding invitations I concentrated just on the beautiful gold flowers…
I also made a cute little tag for the front of the invitations to give a cute little preview of what is inside….
In my next post I will show you the reception invitations that turned out just AMAZING!!! I just love them!!!
Tags: accent, coral, custom, destination, Floral Invitations, flower, hand, hawaii, hawaiin, invitation, layered, medley, orange, painted, paintingsbyshanon, shannon, shanon, shimmer, tropical, Uncategorized, wedding
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
I have been SUPER busy this summer with wedding invitations! It has been so crazy that I have not had time to post anything here in a couple of months! In the next few weeks I will post pictures of all the new designs and custom invitations that I have been working on! I designed this first invitation set in May for Jasmine and Ian who was having a destination wedding in Maine. I LOVE their color scheme of turquoise and orange! So unique and bold, yet very stylish! She originally gave me a picture of their monogram and I designed their invitation from that….The pattern that is used for the top of the tree and the flowers on the bottom was the design used in the border of their monogram….so beautiful!
Enjoy!
And here is everything packed up and ready to ship……(notice the address printing on the envelopes….it matches the invitations!!!)
Tags: accents, artwork, blue, coral, custom, design, designer, destination, etsy, fall, Floral Invitations, flower, hand, invitation, layered, medley, orange, painted, paintingsbyshanon, shannon, shanon, shimmer, spring, summer, tree, turquoise, Uncategorized, wedding, www.shanonmedley.com
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
I am always finding new inspiration for ideas and wedding invitation designs! Lately it seems as if my mind is constantly thinking about invitations and I am frequently saying to myself “Hey, that would look great on a wedding invitation!” I drive home from work looking closely at trees, flowers, designs, signs, churches, houses, rock fences, fields of wildflowers and tall grass, animals, birds, etc! I have a HUGE list NEVER ENDING of all the different ideas I have and sample invitations that I want to create!!!
Well, last night I was cleaning and I found some old notebooks from high school and college. I quickly flipped through them and found that I LOVED to DOODLE!!! It seemed like every single page was covered in doodles amongst my notes. Most of my doodles consisted of flowers, hearts, swirls, and for some reason I liked to sign my name a lot :) Anyway…I examined my doodles a little more and noticed that I pretty much doodled the same thing over and over again!! I guess since lately my mind is in wedding stationary mode I thought to myself… “I can probably design a beautiful invitation from my doodles!!!” And so my designing began and my cleaning stopped :) I took out a blank sheet of paper and drew all of the different flower doodles that I could find…. I scanned it so you could see 
…..
Then I looked at the ones I drew most often….
So, I decided to use those flowers along with some swirls and leafs to create a beautiful invitation set! I decided to use just an outline of all the flowers since that was what my doodling consisted of….no shading, no color….just simple outlines of flowers.
After the design was completed I formatted the invitation and put in some example wording. Then I printed out a sample invitation on a beautiful shimmer paper and added some matte cardstock layers to it. Next I realized that it needed some shimmer paint…of course! So I choose a very elegant blue color and painted in some of the flower petals. Hmmm….almost finished, but I thought that since I was going for an elegant approach to this invitation, it needed some swarovski crystals…which in my opinion makes EVERYTHING look a little more elegant! I opted for green swarovski crystals and attached them in the middle of the painted flowers….simply stunning!!! ….Just take a look at this elegant doodle inspired design……
The best part about this invitation is that it can be EASILY customized for any color pallet!!! Just tons of color choices…cardstock, shimmer paint, swarovski crystals, font, and even envelopes! Perhaps I could create a sample using a bunch of different colors!!! Perhaps pink and green cardstock layers, purple and yellow shimmer painted flowers, blue swarovski crystals, and green envelopes!!! Again…there goes my mind…constantly thinking of new ideas
Tags: crystals, custom, designer, Floral Invitations, flower, hand painted, invitation, kentucky, ky, rhinestone, shannon, shanon, shimmer accents, swarvoski, Uncategorized
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