PaperGlitz

I am now working with a fantastic new supplier. Paperglitz have some fantastic products! You can check out their website here! http://www.paperglitz.com.au

Currently I am working on a custom order using the Paperglitz products, I am also creating a sample for another client. These are both using the glamour 'add-a-pocket'. If you find anything on this website you are interested in, please contact me, I will be willing to help you. And hopefully I will have some photos up of these shortly.

Once again I have had quite a busy week. Not so much in the creative part, but more answering your enquiries and getting the quanitities together for lots of custom orders! Orders have been placed, the stock is on its way and I'm ready for a busy weekend doing the part I love, the invitations themselves!
I'm really looking forward to these as I will be using some of my usual designs, however with different colourings. I will take photos of each for your information :)

Over the weekend I created a very rush order for a bride-to-be, using the 'Lucy' design. Unfortunately, the prices were higher than usual, as by the time I would have received the stock from my suppliers it would have been too late. It didn't stop me! I spent most of the weekend completing this order and they did come up fantastic! It pays to give yourself plenty of time for your order :)

Speaking of, I'm having quite a few enquiries regarding 2010 weddings. A quick note to let you know that I will be out of action for most of Feb/Mar 2010 for my own wedding and well deserved Honeymoon! I suggest if you are having a wedding around this time (March/April) that we have your orders ready by the end of January. I will be back on deck around the middle of March so any weddings after April will be fine :)



As mentioned before, materials are on their way and here are the orders I will be working on over the weekend and most of next week.

Welwong - Samples
Kitti2828 - Custom Order
lil_chels22 - Custom Order
monamitchell_84 - Custom Order
xxxreneexo - Custom Order
stubbzie32 - Custom Order
kimmaree12302 - Custom Order

As you can see I will be busy! I will work in order of the closest date first. This will be stubbzie32, followed by monamitchell_84, lil_chels22 and so on.

I will keep each of you updated :)

Wow! Busy week

Well it's was a busy week for me last week!

Currently I am a full time worker, I work within the family business. Sometimes I do have it a little easy, such as being able to disappear for a little while to work on some of my own things. Such as these invitations!

I come home usually to my fantastic fiance cooking a lovely meal for us. Usually this is the time I try and answer all the enquiries I had that day, if I didn't get a chance during the day. After dinner it's straight into the orders.

I believe communication is the vital tool in helping brides-to-be organise their wedding invitations. There is so many suppliers out there, not just in stationery, anything to do with a wedding, who take days, sometimes weeks to reply to an enquiry. I should know! I've been through plenty myself!

We contacted a celebrant who took over 2 weeks to reply. In this time we had a meeting with another and booked them. The other celebrant finally replied and got quite aggresive with us saying he had been 'busy', not good for business at all!

Communication is very important to me. I make every effort to reply to emails as soon as I possibly can!

Here are some lovely words I have received from clients.

- Man, you're quick on the replies, I love that!!!

- Awesome, thanks so much for doing this so quickly, I am so impressed!!!

- 'Its been great dealing with such a wonderful person such as yourself! Ebay should be priveledged to have you!'

It's great being able to share the excitement with my clients!

So over the last week, I worked on an order for an engagement party. This client decided to go with 'Nicole' the frangipani invitation. The look amazing! I will be posting photos of these soon.

I also worked on Save the Date and Thank You cards, similar to my 'Lucy' design. However this client decided to go with a black ribbon and 'iceberg' shimmer paper. It was very easy and no increased price for these changes.

This client is amazing! Such a pleasure to work with. Her wedding isn't until March 2011, but we are doing what we can now to save all that stress later.

Remember wedding invitations should be sent out at least 6-8 weeks before your wedding, with your RSVP usually a month before the day. I would recommend if you are having interstate/overseas guests to get them out even earlier. Or you can even send out a Save the Date card, just as the mention client is. This gives your guests plenty of time to arrange travel arangements.

This would mean, if you wish myself to create these invitations for you, we should get started on these at least 4 months before your wedding, if possible even longer than that!

For my ebay clients -

caboolture_bel - Custom order completed, will be sent in Tuesday's post.

addicted*2*lv - Thank you tags completed, will be working on Save the Date cards throughout the week.

scannell1985 - 'Fern' invitation completed, still sourcing other materials.

tank355 - Sample sent in Monday's post.

kimmaree12302 - Once payment received, stock for custom listing will be ordered.

stubbzie32 - Once payment received, stock for invitations will be ordered.

tara87a - Payment received, will work on your custom sample and sent in Tuesday's post.

maxishopper01 - Payment received, will work on custom samples and sent in Tuesday's post.

Sourcing the perfect materials...

Over the weekend I answered numerous enquires from Brides-to-be (B2B) about creating custom wedding invitations to match their requirements.

I must say, sourcing materials is one of my favourite things to do! I spent a while over the weekend, helping a B2B find the perfect patterned paper to match her theme. We came up with the top 2 designs, and I will soon be working on these samples. I can't wait!

So please, if you can't find exactly what you are looking for on my Ebay items, please contact me. I'll be happy to source the perfect materials for you! I created a 'microsoft paint' version of how the invitation will look to give these B2B a visual idea, this is extremely helpful as sometimes dealing over emails can be hard to really get the idea on what you are after.

I also spent time with another B2B helping her create her dream Black and White wedding stationery. We've found a beautiful black lace to use in place of a patterned paper and will look stunning! Even more exciting that the lace is very cost friendly.

Once these samples are completed I will show you how this was achieved...stay tuned!

Here is an update for my Ebay clients.

hopgroove2004 - 3 samples, will be completed and sent off in Tuesday's post.
xxxreneexo - Sample will be sent in Tuesday's post.
caboolture_bel - Materials have arrived for your custom order, will commence when approved.
ekateb2 - Once payment has cleared, your sample will be sent.

Completed!

Yesterday I completed my first custom order. I must say I'm extremely happy with what I produced, and I hope my client feels the same way.

As promised, I will be sharing a lot of photos!!!

Of course, for privacy purposes, the details have been 'erased'. I am now working on the finer details ready for my next 2 custom orders.

I must say, I have been extremely proud of the amount of enquiries I have been receiving. It was actually my wonderful fiance who suggested I share my invitations with others. It has proved so far to be worth the effort I have put into my designs.

I have now added a new design to my range, after a few enquiries about butterflies, let me introduce you to 'Nicky'

I actually use this beautiful Cristina Re paper for my future sister in law's wedding. It's absolutely gorgeous! You just can't appreciate without actually looking yourself. I just wish it came in different colours!!

It would look amazing with a pearl shimmer paper and I think even a nice purple shimmer. However I just had to use the pink!!

Let me know what you think?

My very own dream wedding...

While helping other brides with their invitations, I'm currently in the middle of organising my own!

My fiance and I are having our dream winery wedding to be held in February (Only 7 months to go!!!)

We've done most of the planning together. Well, you could say, I do the research and then we sit down and we decide together on the options I have put together. (If you want your man to be more involved, try this tactic ladies!! It works wonders!!!) However when it came to the invitations, I demanded to have all the input ;)

Our theme is what I would call Modern Rustic. However, this is pumped with beautiful lace, pearl and feather details. We decided on our colours, chocolate brown, deep red and ivory. This proved difficult in my countless google searches for some ideas and tips on our theme. So it was time to create my own.

Firstly I loved the idea of having a boxed invitation, with wonderful vine and a flower to complete the look.

Yes they were beautiful, but extremely expensive!! Even just to post the boxes would have gone close my stationery budget. It was time to re-think...

How could I still incorporate the lace and feather, but using a trusty 55c stamp? It's when I came up with this...

And yes! I stayed under budget! Even with the wedding still 7 months away and all details not finalised, I have all ready assembled the invitations, just without the wording yet.

I can't wait to get started on the details for them!!

About me

Who doesn't love receiving an invitation? Whether it's to a small gathering, to a wonderful wedding! I know I do!

I think my creative side came out when trying to organise the perfect invitation for my 18th birthday party. I was sick of seeing those 'photo' invitations, having a photo as a baby and then a recent photo. I wanted to be different!

For some reason I wanted to host a 60/70's dress up party! I played around with a few ideas and decided that I wanted my invitations on vinyl, however that proved to be too expensive, so CDs it was.

My father also has a creative side working in design and signwriting and had the perfect tools to help me create my perfect invitation, in their very own clear covered CD case!

It's still talked about today....7 years later.

For my 21st birthday, it was the same thing! Those damn photo invitations again!!! This time I wanted magnetic invitations! With the help of my father again, we created a full magnetic square invitation. It had a gold martini glass with the information over the top. Can you believe, people still have these on the fridges, years later!!

Through the next couple of years, I help create invitations for a lot of family and friends. From birthdays, engagement, weddings and baby showers. Each one always completely different, using lovely papers and embellishments.

Then it came time to organised my own engagement party. I searched high and low for the perfect papers, and then for the cheapest price! I created 100 engagement invitations and thank you cards for less than $150.

Please excuse the bad quality of the photos...

My dream now is to help others create their perfect invitaitons at a cheaper price! I now work with wholesalers, which gives me even more savings to pass on!

Welcome

Welcome to my blog.

This is to give you a better insight to what I have to offer you and for you to get to know the person behind the name...

I will be placing photos so you can see what I'm working on. I will also provide information on my upcoming orders and samples I have created that may be a little different to what I currently have up on Ebay.

I hope you enjoy!