Wishing everyone a happy weekend!

gorgeous letter “S” by gina triplett:

via iPhone

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Very bold and cool wood type print from PHEWords. Love the composition and the usage of the wood type blocks. I also love the energy of the prints!

Singing in the Rain:

You Make Me Feel:

Forever Young! (how fun is the “v” “e” “R”?!):

Friday morning inspiration… Happy Friday, everyone!

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My friend Susan from Brooklyn Nest (great design blog for kids!) gave me these Charley Harper alphabet cards for my birthday – look how cute they are! I love Charley Harper’s work very much and I love letters so this is perfect. These are not just alphabet cards, but also a floor puzzles (2 patterns!) when you flip it on the back so it’s double the fun!

I’ve gathered my alphabet card inspirations before and I can take lots of inspiration from these for sure.

Love the colors and of course his illustrations.

Thank you, Susan!

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For our 2nd (cotton) year anniversary, my mother-in-law sent us the credo pillow! Thank you so much!! and look how it looks in our living room (small) couch with other beautiful pillows that I love.

I love it! Thank you so much, Janis! (she also gave me this necklace on my birthday – I am so happy, it is soooo super cute)

The other pillows are from my lovely ladies’ shop that I have worked with. The turquoise-ish blue color pillows are from booloo boutique (aren’t they beautiful? I love these pillows so much that I designed our living room inspired by the color + splash of red + black and white) and the doily pillows are from LAMA – I was eyeing them for so long and I finally got them, they are much cuter in person than the pictures even though they look already so cute in the pictures.

I am so happy with all my pillows that I had to post about them – do you love your pillows? Don’t they make home more fun and add colors or impact on your home?!

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I got lots of flowers last week for lots of happy occasions and these gerbera flowers, especially, are just so cute, they make me so happy and I just love the different shades of pink on yellow and green – I had to take pictures and take these colors as inspiration for projects in the future.

I use this online tool to generate the colors as a palette from a photo (you can link your flickr account, too, or upload it from your computer or place URLs) and here is the color palette from the photo above:

*The yellow wall doesn’t get translated as bright as I was hoping to be, but I can always tweak them on my own.

Here is another shot.

Sometimes, a photo creates such a beautiful color palette and it can be used for design project and I love that it’s sometimes a little surprising to see these because I would never normally put these colors together, but they work nicely. You don’t have to use them all, you can just pick a few, too.

For Wednesday morning inspiration. Have a great day, everyone!

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It was my birthday yesterday, I had a great day, great night with my friends (THANK YOU for those who came out on Monday night! xo) and also received lots of birthday wishes from everywhere in the world! Thank you so much, my friends, you are my inspiration!

My friend Yuki sent this card from San Francisco and I thought it was great – a plant-able letterpress card from Round Robin Press.

It’s letterpressed on handmade paper with wildflower seeds and you just plant this card, water it regularly and…. the flowers grow! How cute! I don’t want to plant this beautiful letterpress card, and her sweet message inside the card, but I think I’ll try and see.

I did flower seed idea on my save-the-date card for my wedding, but this would be a cute card for a special occasion, too. More cards and information on their website here.

Thank you, Yuki!

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This video is so cool – from Hatch Show Print in Nashville – I have to visit here someday. Very inspirational and I see the Vandercook press I’ve been using!

I know I’ve mentioned this before, but again, this book is highly recommended!

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Came across this ONOFF Lamps – it makes different appearance when switched on/off. How fun and clever is this, it looks great on/off both ways, too!

Cows:

Flower:

Zebra:

Monday morning eye candy. Hope everyone had a nice weekend.

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Continue from yesterday’s invitation design, I wanted to share some of the designs and hand-made things we did for the day of the wedding. I can’t believe we pulled this all together, it really was a lot of work, but it was the most amazing, memorable, loving, fun and beautiful day ever in our lives!

Tossing Cones: I took the same graphic I used on my invitation, the growing plants, and made it grow more so it looks like it’s about to bloom. Printed on 8.5×11 papers and cut them into square, roll them so it holds the rose petals and handed to everyone at the ceremony.

I also designed and made the programs, but nothing was left at the end of the day… I made a few extras, of course, but I don’t have it any more… on my computer, I do, though.

Guest Book: Each guest had their polaroid picture taken, placed on the guest book and they wrote us really nice things – thank you so much!!!

Reception:

For seating, we named our tables with our initials, my side with polka dots, Randy’s side with stripes, all different patterns and color combination. All the guests got this little vellum envelope with their name and the little cut out letter I made to show which table they were seated at.

and the big letters all wrapped around with each pattern were placed on each table. I bought the letters and wrapped around with the patterned paper I designed and printed.

One of our favors – chopsticks; one side in English and one side in Japanese – We folded the chopsticks sleeves for each one to match the table pattern.

Another favor: Jordan Almonds – we custom made this embosser and we made this little note that was attached to each organza packet. Inside, you can read about the tradition of giving away Jordan Almonds.

Another favor: CD – since we both love music (we met through music) and lots of the songs we picked for the wedding was one of our favorite genres, Jazz, and so we compiled our favorite Jazz songs into one CD.

The cover was embossed with the embosser.

Inside: CD entitled “Perennial Sounds” and a booklet “Perennial Sights” – noticed the flower design on the CD? Yes, the flowers bloomed on this day! (from the concept) Jazz was perfect for the title and our concept matches with the name completely. We brainstormed together so much and Randy came up with the name!

For the booklet, we gathered all the pretty pictures we took together from our travels and just put the name of the place, the month and the year. Hoping these things would never change…

and at the end, we gathered all our happy pictures together.

Each table had a black and white disposable camera and I designed this little note with each pattern to match the table.

Wedding Cake: Of course we designed it to match everything! It was the cutest cake ever and I actually entered a drawing and won this cake!!! It can be really expensive, but for us, it was free and still custom designed! Thank you!

I hope you enjoyed it! Happy Friday, everyone!

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I’m happy to annouce that I have new prints in my shop! “Music is My Life.” I’ve been wanting to make this for a while, inspired by this song that I like. I admire people who are passionate about music, who live with music – if you can say that Music is your life, that is so awesome!

It’s only limited to 41 prints and I only printed in black. Available here! It makes a great gift to your music lover boyfriends, girlfriends, family and friends.

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