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