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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Brown and Turquoise Band Starfish Wedding

This beautiful and elegant design, called Brown and Turquoise Band Starfish and Sand Dollar Wedding, has a brown background. There is a turquoise blue band on the left with starfish and sand dollars. This would be perfect for your wedding or event!

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Footprints in the Sand Wedding Invitation

This beautiful beach design has a sand background with a dark brown border. In the middle is a white square for your text with a brown ribbon design stretching across it. Centered on the ribbon is a sand dollar. On either side are a line of footprints in the sand.Your names are placed near the ribbon in aqua blue - feel free to change this color to match your theme! This is a great option for your beach theme, destination wedding, or even any time you'd like a more relaxed mood for your event.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Sneak Peak: Discover Your Wedding Style

This week I am working on a "quiz" that will help you narrow down your wedding style and colors according to your personality - it is difficult but so cool!

Once you answer just a few questions, you will get a suggestion to the type of wedding - classic, modern, destination, etc - and some ideas about color palettes, as well as a style board to help inspire you!

Here is a sneak peak at just one of the style boards -

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Valentine's Day is Coming Soon :)

This fun St. Valentine's Day invitation is perfect for anyone you'd like to share your love with. This invitation has an ivory background with a rainbow of hearts in graduating sizes. The hearts are done in honeysuckle pink, orange, teal, and lime green. Edit the text to fit your party!

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Art Deco Tower Ray Wedding Invitations

Art Deco Tower Ray Wedding Custom Announcement
Art Deco Tower Ray Wedding Custom Announcement by NoteableExpressions
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This beautiful and elegant design, called Art Deco Tower Ray Wedding, has a black background. In the center there are rays of sunlight and an art deco tower in a bronze color. Below that on the front is a diamond to frame your initials. Your text goes on the back. This set has invitations, save the date cards, response cards, thank you cards, table number tent cards, envelope seals, wine labels, binders, and return address labels available. Use the envelope seal stickers for any of your DIY gifts - these are available in both large and small sizes!

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Looking Ahead to Spring Weddings

It is just too bloody cold out there - 9am and it is only 1 degree and about -15 with the windchill! Can you say BRRRR?? We haven't had a ton of snow this winter but we have been so cold it is ridiculous! So, I've decided I'm skipping ahead to Spring! Take that Old Man Winter! (so what if it is only in my mind - at least for 10 minutes I will pretend to feel the sun on my face and the warmth on my skin - like a lizard I just want to bask on a rock!)

So what do I think of when it comes to spring? A gentle sun, green grass, baby animals, sweet bird song and flowers! What better inspiration could you have for your own special day? A spring wedding has so many possibilities - an outdoor rustic theme, an English Garden, Love Birds, or even your favorite flower.

Here are a couple of my favorites:

 

 

What are your favorite spring wedding inspirations? Flowers? Birds?
Butterfly in Lilac and Purple Custom Invitations
Butterfly in Lilac and Purple Custom Invitations by NoteableExpressions
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

How to Plan a Beach Wedding Theme: video

How to Plan a Beach Wedding. Beginning with your beach or destination wedding invitations, your theme can help you pull together your whole chic look. Learn more at www.NoteableExpressions.net

 

How to Choose Your Wedding Colors

Your wedding color scheme is one of the first major decisions you need to make for your wedding. Keep in mind that your wedding color scheme is going to show up everywhere throughout your wedding. The flowers, bridesmaid dresses, table linens, decorations, invitations, even the favors will all be influenced by the wedding color scheme you choose. Your wedding color scheme will help establish the mood for your wedding. You can even build a entire wedding theme around the wedding color scheme.

With so much riding on this decision, it is really important to put careful thought into your wedding color scheme very early in the wedding planning process, and select a color scheme for your wedding that really reflects who you are, or what mood you are trying to convey.

This guide will help you find the perfect color scheme for your wedding.

Your wedding color scheme should be in keeping with your overall personal style. If you're like most people, though, trying to define your personal style may not be straight forward. Unless you work in fashion or design, chances are that when you shop for clothes or decorate your home you simply buy what appeals to you, without giving much thought to the overall aesthetic that guides your choices. Subconsciously, however, most of us do have fairly consistent style, and once you learn what that is, picking the perfect wedding color scheme for your wedding will be much easier.

Take a look at these four types of style, and see which one sounds the most like you:

Classic: Women with classic style tend to like things which are timeless, as opposed to trendy or very vintage. You would define your style as classic if you tend to gravitate towards clothing with clean lines - the types of pieces which are available year after year. So if your closet is filled with polo shirts, twin sets, and A-line skirts, you can safely call yourself a classic bride. You are the bride for whom pearl bridal jewelry sets were created. The best wedding color scheme for you will be the most traditional - pale, subdued or muted colors like white, pale pink and ivory, or pale blue and white. Preppy girls would also fall into this category, and their perfect wedding color scheme would be pink or mint green (with plenty of patterns like stripes, polka dots, or plaids) or blue, white, and yellow (with a nautical flair).

Dramatic: You carry only one shade of lipstick in your purse: pure red. You like strong perfumes with warm and spicy notes. You own at least one article of clothing with an animal print (and possibly a whole zoo!). If this sounds like you, consider your wedding style to be dramatic. Rich dark colors like eggplant and blood red are ideal for a dramatic bride. Your wedding color scheme needs to make a splash and have a high "wow" factor. The high contrast pairing of deep red and pure white (think red roses and a white bridal gown) will be right up your alley. Another excellent wedding color scheme for a dramatically inclined bride is deep purple combined with regal gold.

Eclectic: This can cover a range of styles. There are brides who love all things vintage, those with earthy or natural tendencies, and women who appreciate a good dash of whimsy. If you find yourself spending more time in vintage shops than the mall, you will like dusty color palettes like cameo and ivory or mauve and dove gray. If you are planning an eco-wedding or consider yourself most at home in the great outdoors, opt for a wedding color scheme inspired by nature. Moss-green and mushroom-brown, slate blue with taupe, or sage green and ivory will all appeal to your inner naturalist. The whimsical bride is one who gravitates towards things like letterpress invitations with a retro bird motif or shops like Anthropologie. If chunky hand-knits are more your style than buttoned-up pearl bridal jewelry sets, then you will like wedding color palettes such as red and pink, apricot and robin's egg blue, or mustard and aqua.

Festive: How do you know if your wedding style is festive? You probably find yourself saying, "I just want everyone to have a great time" when anyone asks you what type of wedding you want. The chances are that you like relaxing with friends or going out to clubs more than almost anything. The best wedding color scheme for a festive wedding is one which is bright and cheerful, never stuffy or pretentious. Color scheme like fuchsia and orange, hot pink and chartreuse, or sunshine yellow with orange will create the upbeat party atmosphere that you want for your wedding. Eat, drink, and be merry!

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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Wedding Trends: Emerald Green

The 2013 Pantone Color of the Year is a color of elegance and beauty that enhances our sense of well-being, balance and harmony. It is PANTONE 17-5641 Emerald, a lively radiant and lush green. One of my favorite wedding themes is the peacock - timely and trendy at the same time since birds are so popular Here is a little round-up of a few of my favorite emerald green picks that could easily be incorporated into your wedding.

Peacock Feather Glamor Postage
Peacock Feather Glamor Postage by NoteableExpressions
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Emerald Green Styleboard
Emerald Green Shoes: Photo by Kate Headley
Calla Lily & Peacock Feather Bouquet by Urban Earth Studios. Photography by Louise Conove
Bridesmaid Dress: Alfred Angelo dress style # 7073
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Jewelry: http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product_view/yjdesign/4698286/emerald_green_b...

Monday, January 7, 2013

Art Deco Arches in Orange and Teal Wedding

One of the top wedding trends for 2013 is an Art Deco theme. Art deco represents elegance, glamor, functionality and modernity. Geometric curves and motifs are key details in an art deco themed wedding. Capturing all that was great about the roaring twenties, an art deco theme compliments the current Great Gatsby and vintage wedding trends.

Whether you are looking for the elegance of black and white or the whimsy of lighter colors - you can find a wedding stationery theme that's perfect for you!

Here is one of my more popular designs:Art Deco Arches in Orange and Teal Save the Date Custom Invitations

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

How to Throw an Anti-Valentine's Day Party

Not every Valentine's Day party has to be sweet. Whether you have a broken heart or are just celebrating being single. Why not have an Anti-Valentine party?

 

Anti Valentine Bouquet

As these parties are becoming more and more popular, there are some fun decorations and ideas out there!

Start with some fun invitations -

 

Throw in some fun anti-Valentine games:
Make it black
The best color for an Anti-Valentine's Day get together is black. Make black broken hearts with black poster board or construction paper and hang them from the ceiling and on the wall. Then place lone black candles throughout your home.

Although the tone should remain upbeat, don't hesitate to modify some Valentine's decorations to serve your party's theme with some dark, albeit whimsical, humor. Aside from the obvious ripped-heart image, a decapitated cutout of cupid, for example, may be the perfect theme to use as your party's motif. If you have the resources at your disposal, you may also combine Valentine's and Halloween decorations together. Illustrate your home with random scenes of bats attacking cupid, vampires biting hearts, or even Frankenstein's Monster and his bride attempting some sad attempt at swapping Valentine's gifts. If you're willing to make an even more demonstrative I-refuse-to-take-this-so-called-holiday-seriously statement, leave two jack-o-lanterns on your front porch, pseudo-facing each other, grinning maniacally, with heart shapes cut out for eyes. Bottom line: Put a tongue-in-cheek spin on the clichéd Valentine's images.

Lay down the rules

An Anti-Valentine's Day party isn't the place to cry with all your single girlfriends about why you don't have a man in your life. It's a time to celebrate being single with both your guy and gal pals. So lay down some ground rules -- no talking about your ex or being in love, no wearing red or pink and no consuming chocolate, champagne or roses.

 Feast with (sensible) abandon

An Anti-Valentine's Day party wouldn't be complete without a buffet of comfort food. Serve a variety of "bad for you" foods like cookies, ice cream and cupcakes, and "bad for a date" foods like garlic bread or onion dip. Don't let this anti-love occasion be the ruin of your waistline, however; enjoy your eats in moderation.

Anti-Valentine's Day Party Recipes
Garlic Knots

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients:
1 (11-ounce) package refrigerated breadstick dough
1 tablespoon butter, melted
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 tablespoon rosemary

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

2. Shape dough into 12 knots and place them on a baking sheet. Brush butter on the dough and sprinkle with garlic powder and rosemary.

3. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until golden.

 Onion Rings

Makes 4 to 6 servings

Ingredients:
1 quart oil, for frying
1-1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup milk
1 large onion, cut into 1/4 inch slices
3/4 cup bread crumbs

Directions:
1. Heat oil in a deep skillet to 365 degrees F.

2. In a shallow dish, combine flour with baking powder and salt. In a second shallow dish, whisk egg with milk. Place breadcrumbs in a third shallow dish.

3. Dip onions in flour mixture then in milk mixture then in breadcrumbs.

4. Place onion rings in hot oil and fry until golden, about 3 to 4 minutes per side. Remove and let drain well. Serve with Blue Cheese and Garlic Dip (recipe above), ketchup or another condiment of your choice.

Do you have any other ideas that would be great for an anti-Valentine's day party?

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

2013: Happy New Year and Western Weddings

I would like to wish all of my wonderful friends and fans a Happy New Year! Thank you for making 2012 my best year ever!

And on that note, I've spent the last few days updating my Country/Western/Rustic wedding invitations and there are some real beauties! If you or someone you know is getting married this spring please take a look :)

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One of my most popular designs is this one,Rustic Barn Wood Graffiti Heart Window Invitation

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