Introducing Save the Dates by Believe Notes

I am so excited to announce the first part of my wedding line launch: Save the Dates! These cards are flat printed on thick, luxurious recycled paper and come with a matching patterned backer. They are the perfect way to ask friends and loved ones to hold your wedding date.

Here's a little preview of the 6 designs currently available:

1.2.3.4.5.6.

They each have a matching wedding suite, please email me (believenotes@yahoo.com) if you are interested in purchasing coordinating pieces. 

Custom Recap: Brooklyn Bridge Wedding Invitations

Here's a lovely wedding invitation I created for my friend, who got married on a yacht cruise around Manhattan. She was on a tight budget, and I was really glad to be able to bring her a beautiful design that fit into her price range!

Since the bride did an online RSVP, we were able to save on the budget by keeping the entire "suite" to just one piece. We printed the invitation on a beautiful linen textured paper - and the results were gorgeous! 


It's a reminder to all brides, that if you are flexible and creative, you can achieve your wedding invitation dreams on any budget! 


If you like these, go ahead and check out some other Custom Recaps:


Emily's Wedding Thank You Cards
Feminine Silhouette Note Cards
Charming Moving Announcements
Citron Save the Dates
Country Chic Moving Announcements

Custom Address Stamps by Believe Notes

If you've been following me on twitter you might have already read my tweets about my computer having a "corrupt" operating system - which I am convinced is equivalent of a Mac virus. Either way, it caused mayhem for me, and has kept me away from this blog for what feels like forever. Over the last two months all sorts of internet-related things stopped working, until finally I had no Facebook, no Etsy, no blogger, no email, no google, no paypal, no banking, and so on. I basically had no internet. It's really hard to run a business without any internet access.

Correction - it's really hard to stay sane without internet access. Thank goodness for the iPad, and it's limited, but enough-to-keep-me-sane internet access.

Anyway, my husband fixed my computer, and now I am back in business & back to blogging. Although, it is really overwhelming to come back and blog after such a long time. So much has happened and I want to share it all, but I'm behind over a month, so I need to organize my thoughts and share one thing at a time.

And so here we go!

One thing I am super excited to announce, is that I am now selling custom Return Address Stamps in the Etsy shop.

I am super excited to be selling these - as I've been making them for a while, and I love, love, love them. In fact, last year for Christmas practically everybody in my family got one! I've given them to friends and family as gifts for house warming, engagements, weddings, birthdays and so on. I think they are just perfect - and starting at $25, they are a practical gift too!

So head on over and check out all of the font options to find the stamp that works best for your occasion!

Custom Recap - Charming Moving Announcements

This custom recap isn't particularly old - actually, it's pretty darn new. My cousin Christine just bought her first house with her fiancé, Joe, and asked that I make their moving announcements. These two have become just as much friends to my husband and I as they are family, so it's been really exciting for us to watch them buy their first home and get engaged (YAY!! Another wedding!!).

They closed on their home in early November, but to say the home needed work would be an understatement. It was a total gut job. After nearly 5 months worth of almost totally DIY renovations, Christine and Joe finally got to move into their first home.

Since they did all of their home renovations themselves, with their own two hands, it only seemed appropriate that I hand draw their moving announcements. Christine loves all things purple, so I drew up a super charming rendition of their new home, using her favorite color as my inspiration.

I had these cards flat printed on 100% recycled stock, and they came out beautifully! I think my favorite part is the little heart coming out of the chimney - there's just a ton of love for Christine and Joe and their new home!

Custom Recap - Feminine Silhouette Cards for a Lovely Little One-Year-Old

Up next on my Custom Recap series are these beautiful cards I created for a little girl that was turning one. I was contacted by her interior decorator, who was charged with trying to find the perfect note cards that were super girly and had the perfect amount of bling.

I was provided with the silhouette and created the rest of the card from there. How adorably sweet are these cards?!

Not only were these cards a dream to design, but they also served as a huge learning experience. I had used crystal embellishments plenty of times in the past, but this was the first time I had to ship so many embellished cards cross country. For whatever reason (eventually I figured out it might have been a humidity issue) the crystals on the cards just didn't stay on. I reprinted & re-glued the crystals, and after mailing them cross country (fingers crossed) three different times, my poor customer kept getting cards where the crystals were all over the place. Harumph. Eventually I reprinted all of the cards (for like, the third or fourth time, I think!) and sent them crystal-free so that they could put the crystals on themselves. 

As a designer, it's always heartbreaking when you work so hard on something and it doesn't end up the way you expected, but bless my patient client, she stuck with me and at the end of the day the cards were amazing. 

Oh, and I spent almost a month after these cards working out all of the kinks with crystals on invitations. After quite a few phone calls, and test trials later, I've found a glue that, I kid you not, would be able to hold my big old butt to the ceiling if it had to! Haven't had a problem since :)

Custom Recap - Emily's Wedding Thank You Cards

It may only be the middle of March, but it seems that here in NYC Spring is in the air. Which means, to me at least, that it's time for Spring cleaning. I've been trying to clean up all of the folders on my computer, as well as all my pictures, designs, fonts etc. It's amazing how unruly things can become over time!

One good part of all this cleaning and organizing, is that I'm finding a lot of pictures of projects I did in the past and, for whatever reason, never ended up posting. So, as I clean up, I've decided to start a mini-series on my blog for "Custom Recaps" where I show off the custom projects I've created. I wish I could call the series "Recent Projects" but the truth is, some of these things are several years old now! 

Which brings me to my very first Custom Recap that I want to share. These thank you cards were designed for my husbands cousin, Emily and her husband Sal. You may remember them from the blog post where I shared the creative wedding gift I got them. Their wedding was amazing, and Emily was in my bridal party this past year, so I was honored and flattered when she asked me to create her wedding thank you cards. She asked for something simple, elegant and using hints of deep purple. We ended up with a simple photo card and accenting it with a lovely metallic envelope in a gorgeous eggplant color. 

I can't believe the wedding was nearly a year and a half ago! Time flies, but with Emily's amazing taste and this simple design, these thank you cards will still be amazing for years to come.