Custom Save the Dates, Unique Wedding Invitations & Personalized Stationery

At My Personal Artist we LOVE creating customized letterpress designs. I hand-drew the nautical flags below for our clients. James, my husband, prints all of our letterpress invitations on our very own Heidelberg press. I NEVER get tired of seeing our clients unique letterpress invites roll off the press. Truly one-of-a-kind works of art!

Nautical Letterpress Invitations for Nicole and Michael. Nautical flags represent their monogram! Navy ink on ivory cardstock.

Kourtney and Westley’s starfish beach letterpress wedding invitations. Whimsical and fun! Navy ink with coral border. Notice the food choice motifs! Adorable.

Elegant black and white letterpress invitations for Michael and Shawn. LOVELY!

Love their RSVP card. So very elegant!

Another elegant black and white letterpress invitation for Florence and Brian.

I am working on a BRAND NEW line of letterpress designs for you to choose from! Stay tuned! AND HAPPY FRIDAY TO YOU.

Happy Sweet Sixteen to our client Allie! I just finished up the final stationery pieces for Allie’s sweet sixteen party. Each card hand-painted with green Hawaiian orchids for her opulent birthday affair in Hawaii!

Each place card was layered with green metallic cardstock. Hand-painted limo, gift, and confetti motifs were created just for her cards with great Aloha! A major rush job, complete!

As Sylvia Weinstock once said to me, “On to the next gig!”

One of my favorite holidays is Independence Day! Food, fun, cheer, and last but certainly NOT least family and friends. My favorite July 4th party food is, you guessed it! CAKE, cupcakes, white chocolate covered strawberries, cake pops, and more!

Last year at our annual July 4th party, I made these. White chocolate covered strawberries. Many smiles and they didn’t last long! Yummm. PLUS strawberries are GOOD for you, right?

{ Yummy Sources: White Chocolate Covered Strawberries / July 4th Cake Pops / Red, White, and Blue Layered Cake }

I have many MORE July 4th party ideas pinned on Pinterest! Check it out!

I love this holiday so much, I’ve created FREE printable banner downloads for you!!! Just download, print, and cut out. Then glue or tape where ever you see fit. Then CELEBRATE!

Enjoy friends! And have a safe and fabulous July 4th holiday!!

{Free printable July 4th banners are for your personal use only. Not to be sold. If you would love to share this download, you may post about it, then link to the blog post here, not to the download. Thank you love.}

Yellow and Gray beach wedding colors? Yes!

James and I have been working with Megan on her Seaside Elegance beach wedding invitations. I have combined the colors with the natural colors of the seaside setting here. So you can visually SEA the gorgeous color combo.

When Megan told me her colors were yellow and gray, I was VERY interested in seeing her wedding inspiration photos. She had them handy and sent over right away. {I do not have the reference of the sources for the photos, other than, from the bride-to-be.}

Don’t you just LOVE this color combo? Unexpected and fun. The pop of light yellow is truly lovely!

Did you have a beach wedding and used yellow as one of your colors? What colors did you combine with it? I would LOVE to hear from YOU. And I am sure our readers would also. Leave a comment now love!

Hot off the press! Plum purple and chocolate letterpress wedding stationery for Katy. Gorgeous color combo.

Purples are so HOT in the studio this weekend. Topping all hues of purple is PLUM! RICH and gorgeous. This plum color is purpular popular with our beach wedding couples.

Letterpress wedding invitations and stationery is affordable at Mospens Studio! We are constantly creating custom invitation designs with several different themes and motifs. Choose your favorite fonts, ink color, and email your wording. We LOVE to create custom designs upon request. Letterpress printing is gorgeous impressed printing into 100% cotton cardstock. Oh-so-LOVELY! Your guests will be oh-so-imPRESSED! Email [email protected] for your quote today.

Eight days before the wedding, the mother-of-the-bride asked me to help her create place cards, table cards, and menus that were beach chic and unique. {{{My favorite theme of course!}}} I needed to match the color scheme of their beach wedding invitations. She knew she wanted the Florida Keys watercolor illustrations on the cards. Each wedding reception table was named after one of the Florida Keys. I came up with the idea of placing a red sea star next to the island the guest would be seated at. With the wording “Your destination is…” on each place card tag, the guests were guided in a very organized manner to their seats. The fun part, (the mother-of-the-bride’s idea) as the guests arrived they were greeted with a very small bottle of tequila adorned with a personalized place card tag! As they made their way to their “destination” each guest could easily find the table card boasting the island name and island illustrations. I thought, what if they put the bottle in their purse, drank it and threw it away? So I came up with the idea of personalizing each menu also.

When having a beach wedding reception, remember the WINDS. You want to anchor any cards you have on the tables.

Organizing your guests as they arrive is truly important. Give it much thought. You want your guests to be directed and have a great idea WHERE they are going, where they are seated. Put yourself in their shoes.

Enjoy!

P.S. ~ Please plan ahead with your reception stationery. Allow at least 10 business days for process time then shipping. xo

My client Amy just wrote to me via email, “tell me the proper etiquette on these… the invite goes in the lined envelope…and which was should it be in the big envelope… and the response card… does it go in its envelope or just under the flap… and does it go in back or front of the invitation…”

NO WORRIES! It’s easy peasy AND a GREAT question! So I quickly sketched up some illustrations and details to help!

You have your invitation and reply card, now what? If you have a wedding invitation and reply card (no bows, no pocketfolders) you can place your reply card inside the reply card envelope with the flap up. I like this method so your cute motif shows. If your motif is at the bottom of your reply card you can flip the envelope around so the point is on top pointing down. If you have a lovely hand-tied bow you can slide the reply card and information cards if you have them behind the ribbon. When your guests pull out the invite they will feel the other cards behind the invite.

Next, you will slide the wedding invitation and other small cards into your inner envelope, if you bought them. Remember, you do not HAVE to buy inner envelopes they are for decorative purposes, traditional, or to indicate to the guest EXACTLY who is invited. Do not SEAL these envelopes. That means do not add moisture to the flap to seal them shut. They traditionally do not seal shut.

Now you are almost done! Just slide your inner envelope into your outer envelope. THEN seal your outer envelope. You will then want to repeat this method for each invitee!

Be sure to take ONE envelope to your local post master. They will weigh and measure your invite set and give you the current postage rates. Also, be sure to tell them WHERE you will mail them. Once the postage is applied, I recommend you ask your local postmaster to hand-cancel each invite for you. This will keep your invite from getting roughed up. And looking oh-so-pretty when your guests receive them!

If you have ANY questions, please always feel free to ask me!

We wish you a fabulous holiday weekend!!! We will be enjoying our family and friends this LONG holiday weekend.

Let us remember the soldiers who dedicated their lives for our freedom in the USA.

My Personal Artist is closed on Monday. See you on Tuesday!!!

Enjoy.

The perfect wedding aisle for a beach wedding of course is a beach boardwalk. Brandon and Peggy wanted me to design a watercolor + letterpress wedding invitation for their beach wedding at the Ritz-Carlton. Luxe beach theme? Absolutely. The letterpress reminds me of ‘writing in the sand.’ I just adore how Peggy wanted a ‘hand-written letter style’ invite. Truly unique and yet chic.

The color combo is fresh, soft, beachy hues you can easily incorporate into your beach theme wedding or party.

Enjoy!

Chic beach wedding invitations? Absolutely! Handmade for a fabulous NYC costume designer . Gifted in an invitation box this 3-D nautical letterpress invitation SHORE is perfect for inviting guests to your seaside beach wedding. Very similar to our TREND-SETTING Seaside Stars Invitation The Claudine Design but now boasting letterpress and soft sparkling card color hues. Colorful shimmering cardstock, layered with 100% cotton invitation card wrapped with a double satin ribbon hand-tied into a bow, adorned with a white starfish. Elegant, creative, and fun. When you don’t want your guests to sport khaki shorts, a hula shirt, or a polka-dot bikini to your beach wedding nuptials, opt for this chic beach wedding invitation design!

UPDATE: My Personal Artist is now Mospens Studio!

I am BEYOND THRILLED!!!!!!!!

Because of YOUR votes we *My Personal Artist Handmade & Custom Invitations* won THE BEST INVITATIONS on the Akron / Canton Ohio Fox 8 Hot List!!

James and I feel so blessed to work with you all.

We THANK YOU from the bottom of our creative hearts! <3

In my line of work, I am extremely blessed to work with hundreds of TRULY amazing mothers! I wish you all a very happy and most delightful Mother’s Day today!

I created artwork you can share with every mother you want to wish a Happy Mother’s Day to. Go to Facebook, find the gerber daisy message, and click share either on your wall or with your mom or friend directly. xo https://www.facebook.com/MyPersonalArtist

{my mother in the studio making hand-made pom poms for the decor}

Happy Mother’s Day to my mother Pam! She has ALWAYS been there for me. She is super witty, fun, creative, beautiful, unselfish, kind, and a great joy in my life. xoxo

Have a lovely day. ENJOY!

Hand-painted anemone wedding invitations custom designed for Candace and Kent. Once Upon A Time blue from Alfred Angelo paired with yellow watercolor. Simple elegance. Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, Less is More.

This proof preview for Candace is to show how each flower may be hand-painted. The printing will be letterpress and I can not wait to update this post when the invite is printed to show you!

Just darling!

UPDATE! — The actual hand-painted letterpress invitation cards!

The blue letterpress was matched to Alfred Angelo’s “Once Upon A Time” blue. Hand-painted watercolor in hues of yellow.

I hand-painted each flower (100s of them!)  one at a time with watercolor paint.

Truly unique!

Recipe cards are always a creative way to get the bride-to-be ready to fill her dinner menus with great food!

I originally hand-painted the recipe card artwork for a very loyal client of mine. xo She was so sweet to make recipe binder books filled with recipe cards for her family and friends. Now THAT is a great cook and what a thoughtful gift!!

I just hopped off the phone with a lovely mother-of-the-bride and she is in charge the bridal shower invitations. She requested recipe cards as inserts. What an adorable idea! Each guest will bring their favorite recipe to start the bride (or groom!) off on the right step in the kitchen. Love this.

The 4″h x 6″w double sided recipe cards are $12.00 per 12. Personalized on the front. Complimentary lines can be added. Four sets of  3 designs as shown. Contact me today to order yours!

We thought the wedding timeline trend was such a great idea, we designed it 12 years ago.

This is the ORIGINAL wedding timeline I personally custom designed and created in the year 2000 for my clients Monica and Heath’s save the date. I’ve been seeing timelines popping up and really do get a chuckle. And recently when a client showed me one another person created, I just had to share this milestone with you. Yes it’s true! I was the first to design the timeline with fun hand-painted watercolor artwork. When my new client Erica requested I design one for her it brought back GREAT memories. So I dug out my good old iMac G3 and found the file! Can you believe it? I thought you all would enjoy seeing my original timeline. So here we are 12 years later designing another wedding timeline. So much fun! The NEW timeline …

I love my job and I am so grateful to work with such creative and amazing clients! YOU GUYS RAWK! Truly. I thank you for choosing My Personal Artist where we create ORIGINAL one-of-a-kind wedding stationery cards.