Sunday, March 9, 2008

Natalie's Invites!


How beautiful and elegant are Natalie's Invites? Her colors where blush pink and gold which are the "in" colors for the year! I absolutely love the traditional and sophisticated look of these invites, but yet they have a modern organized pocket look that really creates that ultimate elegance! The printed floral design on the pockets also ads that extra design element. The invitations were printed on cream shimmer paper with gold thermography or 'raised ink' printing. The thermography process is when the printed paper is removed from the press with wet ink, a plastic powder is sprayed on the wet ink and then blown off. The plastic powder absorbs the ink color. The paper is then heated until the plastic powder melts leaving a raised ink which you can feel. Thermography can be more expensive then other forms of printing, but the look of the raised ink is so classy! On the outside of the pocket Natalie wanted to do a blind embossed initial seal which is when the paper is pressed up with no ink printed.
Mary Ann & Natalie,
You guys where so great to work with and I love your creative ideas that you contributed to the design process! Thanks again and congratulations!

5 comments:

Melissa Kelsey said...

Love your designs, Megan. Elegant, modern, fresh.

-Melissa

www.melissakelseyphotography

O'BRIEN FAMILY BLOG said...

wow! gorgeous!

Anonymous said...

Hey - Our invitation made the blog! We are still getting comments after the wedding! Check out her wedding photos on Swensen Photography's website- password: natalie. Thanks again for your help getting our ideas on paper. Thanks again, Mary Ann Hatch

Cheerfully Charmed said...

Hey Pink Piggy! Your so talented! Your FOR SURE doing my baby announcements...when the time comes...hopefully not for a few years! Ha! Good luck with everything! Call me soon! Xoxoxo!

ami @ elizabeth anne designs said...

these are gorgeous! thank you so much for linking to us on your blog roll - we will do the same!