Studio Works

Hello, here's what's brewing today at Passion Paper!

Kimberli's grapeleaf invitations. She decided on the sisel ribbon. It really gives it that natural look!

Stephanie's sketch of her and Donald:

Finishing up Amanda's Ocean Union II invitations. Also on the works Hue's palm tree small bottle invites and Nicole's large beach initials bottle invites. 

Enjoy!

Retro...vintage...modern...

Hello! I just wanted to share a board with you of something Rose and I are creating. I keep thinking it's a concoction of retro/vintage/modern feel to this board. I created this 3-d red poppy/flower (any color may be substituted) and used metallic papers and textured papers to give it that simple yet modern look with a touch of shabby whimsiness...is that even a word? For the inside, stay tuned. I'm thinking more simple, but still stylized.

enjoy!
~r.

Monday...Monday!

Happy Monday! I recently received two fabulous reviews from our clients this weekend, one from Sabrina who bought a custom Ocean Union Petal Pochette invitation and one from the bride's mother, Ileana, a custom white calla lilies and tulip beach inspired invitations. I enjoyed both of them very much. Here are the reviews:
From Sabrina:

"Thanks, Raquel!

They arrived on Friday, and my parents say that they look beautiful! What a special way to announce our wedding! I can't wait to see them myself!!

best wishes,

Sabrina"

And her invitation:

And from Ileana:

"We opened the box with the invitations yesterday. They are beautiful! You did excellent work and we are very happy.

Thank you!

Ileana"

And their invitation here:

 

For Ileana's invitation, they wanted something beach inspired with calla lilies, sand dollars, mums and tulips. All flowers will be in her bouquet. I made this mixture of flowers with sand dollar tucked inside. Coral was also a big color for them and after seeing some invitations in our projects and gallery pages, they found Lydia's invite with coral stripe band. We ended up using that and matched with light blue ribbon and gold palm wax seal. I used a light blue metallic crinkle paper for the hand lined envelope and to match their ribbon. I think this custom invitation came out so beautiful with all the textures and soft beach colors! 

What are we working on this week? We're working on Abbe's watercolor, Kim's grapeleaf invitations, Amanda's Ocean Union II Box invitations, Lynn's Nautical Sand Dollar box invitations... and others... Have a great rest of the week. I will try to blog as much as I can each day so you'll be updated on what we're up to.

~r.

June Studio

Hello there again! Just wanted to post some images of what we finished in June. These are only our custom invitations, not showing other invitations from our portfolio section. There's Hannah's Abalone Seashell, Cristina's beach inspired calla lilies, Alexandra's Sea Island, Alexandra's Hawaii map and turtle save the date and Tara's Ivory Camellias. We've enjoyed all of these invitations! I love all the blues and greens that came out this June. We're beginning to start off on our autumn colors this month and we're so very excited. Any questions, please let me know. Enjoy! ~r.

Eco-friendly, Eco-chic Favors

It's been awhile since I last blogged. The studio has been very busy with so many custom invitations and so many new and unique artwork to be done! We're working on  sand initials invite for Nicole, a jewish shawl for Amanda and Abbe, and a custom couple artwork for Stephanie.

Besides Passion Paper, as a family, we've finally finished our daughter's 4th birthday eco-friendly flowers and bug theme party! It was a success! Now, we're off to a baptism for our newest member of the family.

I've been thinking about different themes for his baptism. First it was "The Little Prince" with light blue, silver and cream colors...lanterns hanging from our trees, simply elegant and petit! But after much thought, I wanted to go for a more down to earth, natural theme for him. It seems fitting for our little guy. Since the venue will be on our own background and in October, I thought more of just a simply natural nature theme for him. Our backyard consists of two huge redwood trees and surrounded with jasmine vines! With all that said, I've been doing research on decorations and favors. I love, love eco friendly favors, favors that can either be planted or reused. We used this idea for our wedding back in 2003 (when eco-friendly wasn't much of a hype yet). Ours is the bamboo favor. Can you believe that after 6 years (coming onto 7 years in October 11) we still have our bamboo plant.?! I had added the A loves R stamp on the pot and in the final version, we also had a custom tag that I designed.

As for Asher's baptism favors (that's our little guy's name), I love the idea of the cactus or the redwood tree, but not sure if the redwood tree would be cute for a little guy! Have fun and enjoy. If you have any ideas on eco-friendly favors, send them my way and I'll post them here. I would love to see what you come up with too!

Enjoy, -r.

credits:

1) Bamboo favor: our own personal favor

2) Birdseed favors by Dream Green Weddings

3) Redwood Tree Favors by edmontonweddingplanner.amodernproposal.com/

4) Pots of Herbs: by Heather and Jason, Manitou Springs, CO

5) Handmade soaps from 100 Layer Cake

6) Cupcake favors by Blissful Brownies