We´re almost in February and I know it wouldn´t be appropriate to post any kind of “Happy New Year” – messages anymore. Instead, I wanted to send You – my Clients, Social Media Followers, Company Partners and Everyone who took part in Willow visuals´s journey – a big THANK YOU for 2018! It must sound like a broken record, but I am so glad to see that my work resonates with You! Thank you for coming along with me! Now that I´ve had a little bit of time to reflect on the past 12 months, I thought I´d sit down and write about it. In 2018 I designed lots of lovely stationery… Keep Reading
Freebie: Christmas gift tag printable
Christmas is less then a week away and the festive mood is starting to really set in. I enjoy all the buzz with the city lights and pretty decorations in the shop windows, but one my favourite parts of the preparation is the time when I can sit down with a cup of hot glög, put on Christmas songs and start wrapping the gifts. It might sound crazy, but to me it is a way to relax and I love adding a little extra touch to the bundles to make them more personal. So, this year I made some watercolour elements with brush calligraphy texts and I used them for… Keep Reading
Delivery day
Handing over the final prints of invitation suites to my clients feels a little bit like giving gifts during Christmas time. I like preparing the package nicely, pack the cards in little piles, wrap them in tissue papers. Why not simply putting everything in a cardboard box? Because of “that moment”. I know that for many couples, receiving their wedding invitations is a special, “things are getting real” -kind of a moment. Cards are ready to be sent, envelopes are ready to be addressed, names are written next to each other telling that the couple is getting married. Unwrapping is part of the experience and I think it´s more fun and… Keep Reading
Invitation design inspiration
“Organic “- inspiration (Pictures: Alexandra Grecco Bridal, Style Me Pretty, Pinterest, Oncewed, Pinterest, Style Me Pretty, Stephanie Fishwick) Finding inspiration is maybe the most challenging part of designing your invites. Wedding blogs, magazines and Pinterest are for sure very helpful. On the other hand, the more you check, the more you like and the more you like, the harder the choice is. 😉 So, as my second post in the “wedding papers”-topic, I collected some tips for you about inspiration, ideas and themes. Hopefully they help you kick-off the project. The theme of the wedding Probably you are in the easiest position if you already have a wedding theme in mind…. Keep Reading
Where to start with your invitations?
(Pictures: Just My Type ) Let´s start from the beginning: Congratulations! 🙂 You are preparing for one of the most profound and beautiful experiences of your lives surrounded by your beloved ones. You have the date, booked the dream-venue and probably you have started the search for The Gown. So it is very soon time to think about the invitations. But actually, where to start? What are the elements of the stationery suite? Honestly I would say that there are no exact rules or right answers to this question. Every wedding is different, so every suite will be different. However, it usually includes a primary invitation asking your guests to… Keep Reading
All about wedding paper
For the last months I´ve been a little bit quiet on the blogging side. It is partially because of a busy working schedule (for which I am very thankful) and partially because I was in the middle of organising our own wedding. There are quite a lot of things that I learnt during that process and maybe some points are interesting for other brides as well, so I´m going to write a separate post about that experience. Anyway, my plan for now is to start a stationery-related topic, where I write about wedding paper. All about printing, embellishments, etiquette, texts, elements etc. There are a lot of aspects to it and going… Keep Reading
What it takes…
In the last weeks I have been asked about logos, calligraphy and even tattoo-projects, but most of the time the questions were about wedding invitations. I am always so thrilled to receive messages, because it´s nice to see that there is interest towards handmade stationery and calligraphy. 1.”Do you write and paint every invitation one by one?” 2.”Are all the elements handmade?” 3.”Do you use calligraphy fonts or pre-made, downloaded watercolour elements in your designs?” The very short answer to the questions: 1. mostly no 2. definitely yes 3. definitely no. However, I think there are some useful aspects to know about handmade designs, so I decided to dedicate a post… Keep Reading
Colors of 2016: rose quartz and serenity blue
Probably it´s no news anymore that Pantone picked rose quartz and serenity blue as colors of 2016. However the year has just started, so why not still talk about it? I´m personally glad to see that this year´s winner hues are softer and the tones are pastel. 🙂 As I am a big fan of “color blending”, I think it´s a very nice touch of the Color Institute to choose two complementary hues that can be washed together in countless ways. NBCNewYork.com Picking the color of the year is an interesting topic for lots of designers and wedding professionals, so I have been very curious to see how they envision… Keep Reading
ABC-book illustration
When I was 6-years old, my parents bought me an ABC-book to prep me for school. I remember I got really excited, because I thought it was some magic that brought illustrations and letters together. Of course at the beginning I couldn´t figure out for the life of me why I had to read aloud “B” as “bee” instead of “baɪ”, when the illustration next to the letter was a bicycle. 🙂 Anyway, as I got older, I noticed that children in my family were just as curious about matching letters with illustrations as I used to be. So when my niece was at the age to start school, I thought I… Keep Reading
Logo prettiness
I really love this new trend of simple yet pretty logos. They are light, fresh and it´s just good to look at them. 😉 When I see a good, catchy logo on a business card, on a website or as a watermark on a photo, I straight away check the company´s site, Instagram, etc. So, let´s just say, the whole idea of this little piece of graphic totally works on me! The fact that the company took the effort to create something nice to represent their work gives me a good impression of the business. Of course everyone has his/her own style and taste. I guess the most important is to… Keep Reading