Features: Dynamite Weddings } Tasty Name Tags

Yet another little tid-bit from the Our Wedding Magazine photoshoot! Little name tags pinned tastefully onto a personal fruit cup at each guest's place setting.

View the post here at Dynamite Weddings.

Photo Courtesy of: Memory Journalists via Dynamite Weddings
Floral Design by: Blooms by Martha Andrews

Features: Dynamite Weddings } Kitchy Chair Banners

One of the fab creations from that Our Wedding Magazine photoshoot I have been hinting at featuring - locating photos! Feature forthcoming!! See the chair banner feature at Dynamite Weddings.

Loved the idea of doing individual little banners for each of the chair backs ... hello, bombshell!; hello, hunk!; hello, handsome! and hello, gorgeous!. They came out super cute. The "hello" was flat printed and the bombshell, hunk, handsome and gorgeous were glitta-fied with hand glittering.

Martha did a fab job with the little floral chair swags ... really brought everything together!

Photo Courtesy of: Memory Journalists via Dynamite Weddings

Floral Design by: Blooms by Martha Andrews

Recent Creations } Malibu Inspired Invites

Aimee's Mailbu Beach Club West wedding invites were inspired by the black and white stripped cabana that was crafted for their wedding ceremony. See more pictures from Aimee's wedding here on the Sarah Maren Photography blog.

Pictured above {from top}: 1. Save the Dates {Aimee was a lifeguard for most of her youth and wanted to bring that in somehow, so we created a little life preserver ring for the front and inside there is an illustration of a lifeguard tower}, 2. Invitation Outside with Guest Addressed Digital Calligraphy Outside Envelope, 3. Inside View, 4. Inside view Showing Enclosure Details, 5. Inside View Showing Map Details and 6. Dessert Buffet Lolli-Sticks.

Soooo much fun!! Love the color palette with the bold use of black and white with little pops of turquoise here and there.

Congratulations Aimee & Jarrod!

Pssst! Aimee's invites were featured in the Style Files of the Summer 2010 issue of Real Weddings Magazine.

Etcetera } Soda Pop Labels

A stylish way to keep your event branding going is to custom label your refreshments! These labels were done for a photo shoot I participated in for Our Wedding Magazine {more pics from this shoot to come!} with Blooms by Martha Andrews.

I used brightly colored Jones Soda bottles and coordinated each label color with the color of the soda. Labels suggested to "Enjoy a Fizzy soda pop!" and included a little description of the flavor around the bottle. Topped off with vintage paper straws. Paper straws are available in gray, green, blue, red, fuchsia or orange and white stripes. Aaaa-stinkin' adorable!

Paper straws will soon be available in the SJD Store!

Paper Drinking Straws

$15.00 per 50 pack

Soda Bottle Labels

$1.75 per Label {Straight Cut | Square or Rectangle}

$2.45 per Label {Die Cut | In-stock Shapes}

Bulk Savings Apply*

{just pick-up, adhere & enjoy!}

$55.00 Print Ready Digital File

{includes: Digital File}

*Bulk Savings {50-100=5%, 101-150=10%, 151-200=15%, 200+=20%}

Recent Creations } 50's Inspired Invite | Part 2

And now Part 2 of the 50's Inspired 60th Birthday Bash ...

Party was held at La Provence in Roseville, Ca. I cannot say enough good things about the staff there or their onsite event planner Raquel! Food, beverages, service, atmosphere - perfect.

I wish I could have grabbed a few pics of the food - mini everything! Corn dogs, sliders, fries, onion rings, milkshakes, pot pies all reminiscent of a 50's diner. We had made little tags for all of them similar to the ones pictured above for the candy tags. Delish cupcakes from Cupcake Craving where a hit.

Balloons everywhere with 50's tunes playing in the background. Costumed guests in their best 50's get-ups. From poodle skirts, to greasers ... so much fun! The decor: a fab candy buffet, life-size cut-outs of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, giant strawberry milkshake out of balloons, a balloon canopy and pictures from the first 60 years of the guest of honor papered the room.

Ooooh and there was a photobooth too! Guests took pictures and put them in a guest book with well wishes for the birthday girl. Adorable idea.

Pictured from top: 1. James and I share a moment, 2. The candy buffet with selections like Mike & Ikes, Pixie Stix, Bit O' Honey, Candy Cigarettes, Lemonheads, Abba Zabba and more, 3. Take home paper bags for treats, 4. Sample Candy Buffet Tags, 5. Pixie Sticks, 6. Balloon Decor, 7. The Uber-Surprised Guest of Honor, and 8. Favor CD's with hit tunes of the 50's.

A great time was had by all!

Recent Creations } 50's Inspired Invite | Part 1

I have been waiting to share this invite forever!! Since it was a surprise party and all ... I had to wait until after the party to share it's fabulousness. I had the pleasure of being a guest at the party, soooo in Part 2 of this post I'll share some pics from the event. :)

This 50's inspired invite, with an actual vinyl 45 included, has to be one of my all time favorite invitations to date. Inspired by the 50's themed event put on to celebrate a 60th birthday party by two of my long time friends & loyal clients.

The 45's can actually be ordered silent with no music or with music on them!! How sweet is that?? Like, any music!!!

In keeping with the theme and era, our color palette was red, pink, turquoise ... with touches of black and white.

We created a custom addressing band for the outside of the envelope. The addressing band wrapped around to the back where the return address was located. Sometimes addressing on dark color envelopes is tricky and a band like this is a fun alternative. I use addressing bands like this a lot on mailer box invitations, too!

One of my fav parts of this invite has to be the little peep-hole center where you can see through to the little label on the 45 - love how it worked as part of the whole design and apart. Divine!

Now that things are slowing down just a little here at SJD, we're getting back to sharing the amazing projects that have been keeping us up burning the midnight oil.

SJD Messages > Schedule

As you can see from the lack of blog posts that it has been wedding, baby and party mayhem here at SJD. We promise to get back to blogging upon our return from an end of summer break.

Yep, that's right! We are taking a much needed end of summer break. Our studio will be closed from 8/9 to 8/15 - we'll be back to work bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on 8/16. We will be checking messages once per day and returning non-urgent messages upon our return.

New! } Ultimate DIY Invitation Survival Kit

Oh, yeah ... Oh, yeah! It is here ... the Ultimate DIY Invitation Survival Kit!!!! Really excited to be launching this professional DIY Survival Kit. It contains all my top of the line {absolute fav!} products for invitation and papery assembly. These are the very same tools I use in the studio to assemble my papery creations!

I soooo often hear of DIY invitation & papery projects going haywire and brides/party planners/crafty chicks extraordinaire ending up with a complete mess of a papery project. While you are likely trying to save a few bucks by putting your event papery together yourself, my guess is you are still looking for papery that is memorable for all the right reasons. I'm finding, more often than not, that it's due to the substandard products being used during assembly ... and combining that with no instruction from your stationery designer/supplier on how exactly it all fits together = a papertastrophe.

So whether you are ordering your DIY papery from us here at SJD -or- {big sigh} elsewhere, you can find pure self-assembly happiness in our new ToolKit - it's soooo designed to take the edge off your DIY papery project!

What's in the Ultimate DIY Survival Kit?

Tools include: {1} professional adhesive dispenser, {6} rolls of mounting adhesive, {1} tube of crystal glue, {2} crystal glue applicators, {2} ceramic glue & crystal cups and {1} pair of professional ribbon & fabric scissors. Instructions include: {1} ToolBox contents, descriptions & usage, {1} how to professionally mount paper layers, {1} how to professionally mount Swarovski flatback crystals and {1} ribbon style guide.

Use the Ultimate DIY Survival Kit to professionally assemble your save the dates, invitations, announcements, greetings, menus, programs, place cards, escort cards, favor tags and every little papery need for your special event.

Ultimate DIY Invitation Survival Kit

$275.00 plus shipping and 8.25% sales tax for CA residents

Kits ship within 72 hours, delivered in 2-7 business days

Rush processing is available

BUY THE TOOLBOX HERE

Refill Adhesive

$7.70 per roll, plus shipping and 8.25% sales tax for CA residents

One roll equals 36 feet of adhesive, allow roughly 1 roll per mounted layer of 100

Adhesive ships within 72 hours, delivered in 2-7 business days

Rush processing is available

BUY ADHESIVE HERE

Oh, happy day ... let's get assembling!