Seasonal Palette

Our studio is filled with autumn colors and silvery winter palettes! I love fall and winter! Although in California, the season doesn't get chilly until end of October or beginning of November. Right now, we're still in our Indian Summer. Last week, the temperature was about 90-100 degrees, while this week it's about 70-80. We're beginning to do more and more spring palette's such as blue's and turquoises, pinks and greens...but right now, our palettes are browns and beiges and white and silvers. You can see from our collection here: Leah's husband's 60th Birthday Roast, Megan's Old Mission in Idaho (I must say, I think is handsomely pretty, is that a phrase?), and Charlene's New Year's fuchsia stargazer lily.


We'll soon be working on lots and lots of Starfish designs - our most popular right now is Maritime Starfish, Starfish Voyage and Water Sailing! I will be adding some photos of those soon...

Please also view our new Specials for October. If you read the Special's page, one of the condition is to have your invites shipped before Dec. 15 or after Feb. 20th. Why so? Well, we'll be going on maternity leave around January. Our baby boy will be coming around then! As much as I'd love to work, I don't think I'll be much help when the baby arrives. I hope everyone understands. I will be posting a notice sometime in November, but just a heads up if you're reading this.

Happy October!

Love,
Raquel

Wax seals Everywhere!

Hi! We're finally done with the website. Phew! We have a great specials happening this month until...? That's still to be determined. Check out the specials page for more information!

Here are some images of what we've worked on for the past couple of days.

Enjoy!

New Designed Website!

I'm thrilled and exhausted to have finished our new website design. Doing it on my own is fairly a tiring task. I'm mostly a designer and not a programmer. The hardest part of all was the navigation and the logo design. I wanted to keep the red color for our banner because it represents "passion" for me and it's also one of my favorite colors and... to maintain most of what we had but just updating it and making it more intuitive for users. I know there's still more work to do, so in the next couple of weeks, you'll probably see more changes. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as we do for now!

Besides our website design, I'm also finishing up Erica's Modern Vineyard Boxed Invitations. I'm having so much fun putting them together. Also working on some Beach Lounges for Michelle and Lindsey. Our whole studio is smokey from doing all these wax seals!

Here are some images of Erica's Vineyard Designs. We took the designs from Melissa K (see her designs below) and incorporated graphic grapeleaves and grapes to give it that vineyard look. She also wanted something dimensional. After much brainstorm, we suggested used corks...used corks to give it more personality because each one will be unique on its own. (do you see some of them have actual wine stains?) I think this design will soon be part of our collection area. Another client wants to use this design for the holidays. I can't wait to get started on those!






The next couple of days, I'll be working on Coral Reef, Palm Fronds, Starfish Voyage Bottles, Tere's Old Hollywood Invites, just to name a few. You can see Tere's Invitations in our Projects section.

That's it for now. Til next time, -r.

Fall colors and what's happening in the studio

It's been a great week so far, busy and productive. I went to our printer's yesterday to get Erica's Vineyard cards printed. Andres will be picking them up today. After much trouble with the film, we finally got it printed beautifully. I'm extremely happy with the results! I can't wait to show you the final product!

Some things in our studio. Although I love vibrant colors, my favorite season is the fall. Andrés and I got married in October because we love all the fall colors and the weather! It's amazing that I don't have many fall pieces in our website. But I think, eventually, I'll get there. Many more people are asking about fall color combinations, so if you don't see anything that's in your color scheme, let me know! I'm happy that we do have some fall colored invites... Raline's Regal that we just finished, Megan's Cataldo Mission in North Idaho invitations (we're currently working on. you can see her process in our Projects page), and finally wrapping up Michelle's golden yellow beach lounge, and working on Cheri's custom invitations. I've attached some images here.

Megan's Golden Yellow Beach Lounge


Some other things are Cheri's Starfish Boxed Invitations. These are so popular lately that I will probably be adding them to the portfolio section. I love every color combination that people are using. Here are some images:




Besides studio work and trying to start and finish some more custom invitation inquiries, I'm also working on revamping/redesigning our passionpaper website. I did start off as a web designer and studied interactive design at school. I think the hardest job of being a designer is creating a website for yourself. That's why I still do not have an individual web presence. I did, but it's really old, like 2005. Passion Paper keeps me so busy (and having a 3 year old and pregnant) that I don't have the time to redesign anything, just update. But after much thought, it's time for a much needed redesign, especially the navigation. I'm working long hours trying to figure out the best possible solution on how people will navigate around the site, so hopefully, a new look will show sometime next week.

Anyways, I'll blog again later this week and keep you up to date on what's happening here at our studio... happy wednesday!!

New Projects in our Studio

Here are a couple of projects we've been working on in our studio. Lots of hand pressed wax seals and pops of color!

Mackenzie's Bougainvilla Flowers. Mackenzie wanted simple yet elegant invitations, but also wanted texture and pops of fuchsia and green colors.





1 of 3 Beach Lounges we're working on this week. Michelle's Golden Yellow Beach Lounge.





We've also finished Raline's Regal Invitations. She's getting married at the Crystal Plaza, stunning and elegant!


- Image by Crystal Plaza





Soon to view, Erica's Modern Vineyard Invitations and Tere's Hollywood Glamour Invitations.

Have a great weekend,
Raquel

Some New Projects in the Studio

Hope all had a great Happy Fourth of July! Here are some things we've finished in the studio.

Enchanted Evening Invitations:

Melissa wanted soft and elegant invitation with a hint of enchantment and whimsy. We came up with this abstract tree like graphic with splashes of gold tint and chocolate brown ink. Topped it off with their "K" gold monogram, soft ivory petals and gold petal pochette. Below are also some table cards, their programs and menu cards. Also great for holiday invites!

Kirsten's Orange Romantic Orchids. Beautiful, I think!

Carinne's tropical and bright Ocean Union Box Invitations with seaglass, seashells and natural starfish.

Beth's custom artwork with palm tree and sunset scene.

That's all folks. We have some more in the works in the studio. Check out our projects page and gallery pages for more images. We're always here to create new and unique invitations for you! We're about to reach our 5 year anniversary date this coming week! We're so excited! Stay tuned for more upcoming savings on your future events! Thanks again and talk to you soon! 

Projects in the Studio

Hi! It's been a busy busy week! Here are some images of projects that just shipped out. We're in the process of producing Cristina's Fuchsia Soft Orchids, Shama's Birds of Paradise, Shaheena's St. Lucia's, Rosa's Passionate Hibiscus and Marissa's custom Coconut Breeze... and there are more in the studio...phew!

Jennifer's Oahu Save the Dates:

Amanda's Custom Sand Dollar Guestbook. You can also find her invitations in our custom invitations section (for viewing):


Latasha's Botanical Love ~ Yellow Hibiscus with left and right hand torn edgings. You can see the details on the 2nd picture.




Karina's Lovely and Vibrant Orange Calla Lily Invitations ~
Here's what Karina just said "Raquel OMG! I received the invitations and all i can say is you are amazing! They are so beautiful, i can't thank you enough for all the hard work you did, i am so happy!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
TTYS, Karina"





Enjoy!
Have a good weekend!
Raquel

Pink and Green Orchids

This week has been very busy. We've created and shipped Save the Dates, Karina's Orange Calla Lilies, Olesya's Romantico with Peony artwork and more samples. We're currently working on Stacy's Kiwi Orchids, Latasha's yellow hibiscus, Shama's Birds of Paradise, Rosa's Passionate Hibiscus and Jeanna's Pink Beach Lounge. We've also had a serge of pink and green color motifs in the last couple of weeks. You can see them here for Jeanna's Pink Beach Lounge and Cristina's Pink and Kiwi Soft Orchids.





We also received a new order from Kathryn on her 2010 kiwi and pink orchid theme. We're very excited about this theme because she wants something fresh, funky, and a little bit Irish! While doing research, I am also jotting down ideas on new invitations. I will keep you posted on what I find!
Have a great weekend. Til then,
Raquel

Exciting News

I haven't written for so long. How time flies. With Passion Paper and a 2 year old with ballet and preschool, things get so hectic! But I do love staying with her. She's my biggest fan and we watercolor/paint together as much as possible.

Yesterday, we received an email from Jady images about Bridget's Bottle Invitations. They said her invitations are the coolest thing, and her wedding will be featured on their blog soon. We're very excited to hear about it. I had so much fun working on Bridget's Starfish Voyage Bottle invitations. The turquoise ribbon gave her invitation so much personaliity.

Check it out at: http://www.jadyimages.com/blog

We've been very busy these last couple of months and have received some very nice comments from clients we've worked with. It makes me so happy that we have taken part on such a special and memorable day. I will be updating our home page soon on some new comments.

Some new and exciting things that are happening, our location and modern invitations are becoming more and more popular. We've created a Dominican Republic map for Jennifer.



Soon we'll be creating a St. Lucia map for Shaheena. She is patiently waiting for her artwork to be done!

Our Romantico invitations are gaining popularity too. I'm doing some sketches for some new invitation ideas. Call or email me regarding custom designs for your event. I love creating new artwork and thinking of new color and texture combinations for potential and new clients!! The easiest way is to email or fill out our custom invitation form, or if you're up to calling us, let us know ~ 650.868.0756. We are based in California, Pacific time.

Custom Invitation Form

Some things to think about, color scheme, location, decorations, budget, flowers, anything that helps us visualize your event personality. You can also email us images of your flowers, decoration ideas, etc.

til next time!
-r.

Wet Paint!

I just recently finished Jessica's Pirate and Mermaid themed artwork. I had so much fun creating this artwork. She wanted purple and green tail with peacock inspiration. Stay tuned on our invitation ideas coming in the next couple of days!