The Hand-Painted Winter Frost invitation is a beautiful choice for your winter wedding! In the Northeast this season we’ve been lucky enough to to have quite a few mini flurry storms. This means that the grass keeps this thin beautiful layer of snow on it, but the roads stay pretty clear because it has snowed … Read More
It is almost Valentine’s Day (yay)! I’m a sucker for Valentine’s Day. I love watching men with bouquets of flowers and women wobbling around the city streets with sexy heels and exposed legs. Yep, sometimes I am that woman as well! Most of all I love the focus on love and relationships whether budding or … Read More
February…the month of love! I’m going to start off the month expressing how much I love photo booths at weddings! My husband and I have been to two weddings with photo booths. One had the traditional booth where you are squeezed in a tight booth (and the photos come out on a strip). The other … Read More
A couple of weeks back at the Lovesick Expo in Philadelphia, I raffled off the Hand-Painted Weddings Cobblestone Thumbprint Guest Print. The woman who won the raffle excited came to meet me in person and was telling me that she and her partner were really into roller derby….and a lightbulb went off. I thought, “That … Read More
Today’s baby gift painting is of an adorable white teddy bear. I bought this bear for my dear friend’s son, Sammy. When I was little, I adored my teddy bear, Bobby. These stuffed animals go everywhere with kids! They are like the kid’s best friend. It seemed fitting to characterize these stuffed animals (or dolls) … Read More
I’m at this place in my life where it seems every woman I know is announcing that she is pregnant. So that means baby showers galore in 2013! In order to add a hand-painted, unique, personal touch to the wave of baby gifts I will be buying this year, I painted two illustrations of popular … Read More
To finish up the week, I’d like to share with you Julia and Dan’s Hand-Painted Thank you cards. Here I brought the deck element from the invitations and added a personal touch by painting an illustration of Julia and Dan playfully lifting up their dress and pants to show off their shoes and socks! The … Read More
Oftentimes I like to start with designing my custom invitation orders first and then working out to the other stationery pieces, such as the Save-the-Dates. That way elements can be pulled from the invitation and all the pieces coordinate. In Julia and Dan’s Save-the-Date, I pulled the mason jar candles element from the invitation to … Read More
I am delighted to present to you Julia and Dan’s Wedding custom invitation package! This project was a lot of fun to work on! Julia and Dan are having a backyard wedding this coming summer. The bride and groom wanted a very laid back feel to their invitation (and their wedding). This invitation features a … Read More
The fantastic design team over at Anthropologie does it again! They are a constant inspiration to me and I just adore what they did with their latest catalog (seen above). One of the reasons I am so drawn to Anthropologie‘s clothes is because of the artistic nature of their patterns, textures, and shapes, so it … Read More
Here’s another personal wedding photo I’d like to share with you. This one is very dear to my heart, especially now that my dear grandfather has passed on. I love this man very much. He was a very light-hearted, smart, tenacious man who I like to think I got a little bit of my entrepreneurial … Read More
I’m feeling a bit uneasy today as my grandfather is being put on hospice care and has only a mere few days left in his life. He will be very missed by family and friends when he takes his last breath in this life. This whole process makes me think about this beautiful photo/illustration/quote that … Read More
The bouquet I put together for the Lovesick Expo on Sunday turned out so pretty! The colors worked beautifully with the Hand-Painted Weddings logo and the textures were stunning. In the studio today I am painting pieces of this lovely bouquet. The flower I am painting in this photo is very unique; it almost looks … Read More
Lovesick Expo Philadelphia was everything I had hoped it would be and more! I loved meeting couples and hearing their feedback about my work and getting excited with them about the possibilities for their wedding day. I loved watching people “sign” the Cobblestone Thumbprint Guest print with their thumbs. I loved being side-by-side with other … Read More
Here is a sneak peak of my table at the Lovesick Expo, which is this Sunday in Philadelphia! The theme of this styled table is romantic with painterly details. The beautiful blue tea cup and saucer were my late grandmother’s. The birch column on the right is a candle holder I just purchased from Terrain. … Read More
Source I spend a lot of time being inspired by other designer’s blogs and on Pinterest, so I thought it would be a great idea to share a few of the businesses I admire on this blog. This is the first post in the new Admirable Businesses features category. I discovered the Holstee Manifesto a … Read More
This past weekend the Hand-Painted Weddings Twitter page got a little makeover. I have been on Twitter for a few months now but only recently have paid some attention to it. I find it to be a great way to network amongst the wedding industry, and get some attention from some businesses that I may … Read More
Painting by Hand-Painted Weddings. This week I’m working hard on preparing for the Lovesick Expo this Sunday!! I can’t wait to meet everyone at the expo. It’s going to be a blast. I’m enlarging this painting I did a couple of months ago as a gift for my cousin and her husband. I purchased the … Read More
The Hand-Painted Lemon Yellow Invitation is inspired by the Buddha’s Hand fruit. It is bright yellow like a lemon, but has geometric shapes that represent the fingers of this unique fruit. This invitation would be great in conjunction with a lemon themed wedding, or any sunny summer wedding. I also love how the watercolor shapes … Read More