Vintage Holiday Clip Art with CD $14
Add a festive touch to your holiday projects with vintage holiday clip art, this beautiful collection contains 556 retro designs and includes all images scanned on a cd.
Enjoy a wide assortment of holiday designs filled with charming nostalgic flair. Hundreds of vintage spot illustrations celebrate, Christmas, Halloween, New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Fourth of July and President’s Day. Collected from rare publications of the 1920′s and 1930′s, this incomparable collection of royalty-free decorative cuts will beautifully enhance invitations, cards, favors, gift tags and more. The holiday clip art book with cd is available from Formal-Invitations.com ($14).
Color trends for Spring 2010
New York Fashion Week’s hits also featured classic black in many collections for the upcoming spring season. Designs included bold modern graphics and romantic feminine details.
These gorgeous black and white sash embellishment for wedding invitations, made from 100% post consumer fibers, are perfect for adorning your spring wedding invitations, inspired by this current trend. Wedding invitation with sashes are an affordable way to create invites that only look expensive, for only 90¢ each from Formal-Invitations.com, which includes solid color background card (choose from over 30 colors), white printable overlay, black and white sash plus envelope. The sashes are wrapped around the layered cards creating a luxurious texture. Choose from elegant Shigeri, modern Wave, Dandelion, Kochi or the traditional Damask patterns shown here.
Shigeri, Nami, Damask, Dandelion and Kochi Sashes for Wedding Invitations 40¢
Graphic black and white prints are a hot trend on the runway and these gorgeous new fine paper sashes for wedding invitations were inspired by the modern, bold fashions. These exclusive sashes by Formal-Invitations.com were printed with vintage artwork in rich black on a 100% post-consumer recycled fine paper with a subtle linen finish. Choose from five exquisite designs:
Shigeri (luxurance of foliage): pure elegance
Nami (wave): perfect for a beach wedding
Damask: a classic timeless pattern
Dandelion: inspired by nature
Kochi (east wind): for the modern bride
Sashes are used to embellish wedding invitations by wrapping around the card and overlay, for a dimensional, unique look. The black and white designs pair up beautifully with creamy neutrals, tropical brights or rich traditional colors. Best of all, they provide an luxurious feel at an affordable price of only 40¢ each. The completed invitation with solid background card, overlay, sash and envelope works out to just 86¢ each …a great value for invitations that only look expensive.
Silver, Gold, Kraft and 100% Recycled White Envelope Labels 75¢-$1.50/sheet
Printing your return address on envelopes can be difficult to setup and feed, so we set out to find an easier and more elegant way of adding a return address. Using non-standard sized labels and adding vintage clip art gave us the look we wanted, and it also doubled as an envelope seal. Formal-Invitations.com offers unique 2.5″x1.5″ envelope labels in laser printer compatible silver and gold foil for $1.50 per sheet of 18, inkjet/laser compatible kraft brown ($1.25/18) and 100% recycled white (75¢/18) plus eight clip art books with cds containing hundreds of elegant motifs to add to the envelope label, wedding invitations, favor, programs and throughout your wedding. The images shown in photo were from “1268 Old-Time Cuts and Ornaments” collection ($14 with book and scanned images on cd).
We highly recommend handwriting the addressee on the front of the envelope, instead of business-like (and cheap looking) standard or clear computer labels. Your wedding is a special event and personally taking the time to handwrite the addresses will convey this to your guests. Break up the task over a few days or enlist friends or family with nice handwriting to help out …it will be worth it! Also take a finished invitation sample to the post office to determine the correct postage and choose beautiful stamps.
New fine paper sashes for wedding invitations
These new sash embellishments from Formal-Invitations.com are used to create unique sash wedding invitations by wrapping an exquisite fine paper band around a printed overlay card, layered on top of a heavyweight colored background card. Sashes are pre-cut and include a super adhesive glue dot to fasten for only $12 per pack of 25.
The beautiful Robin’s Egg sash, is hand screen-printed with a new hi-tech process combining pigment colors, metallic inks and foil.
Stunning textured Ginkgo sashes contain silk-screened fans in a frosted pearl-like metallic lavender wave throughout the paper, like windblown ginkgo leaves dangling from a tree. A raised, suede-like flocking outlines each fan in a rich, deep black.
Exotic Zebra sashes are made from a woodgrain pattern that takes on a zebra-like quality when presented in black and white. A subtle veined background of lighter greys add to the dimension of this paper.
Jeweled flower brads for wedding invitations
Instyle magazine featured up-to-the-minute luxury watches with eye-popping gems. We were inspired with the jeweled floral designs and used decorative jewel brads combined with embossed paper flowers as perfect accent for wedding invitations, wedding favors and place cards. The jewel brads, available in twelve colors (Amethyst, Aquamarine, Citrine, Diamond, Emerald, Pearl, Peridot, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire, Tourmaline and Zircon) are an affordable $4 per pack of 25 and the embossed petals are $6 per pack of 25 from Formal-Invitations.com. Brilliant!
Forget icy silver, it’s rich warm gold for the season as Instyle magazine featured. We think gold is the perfect accessory for your wedding and found these gorgeous bags starting at $5 per dozen and round ring boxes as low as 30¢ from JewerlySupply.com that would make elegant favors filled with wrapped gold premium chocolates.
You could also give your announcements the midas touch with our wedding invitations with charms. Our keepsake solid brass charms are made in the US and are easy to attach using our mini brads. We offer many designs to personalize your invitations and even though they look like they cost a fortune they are only $6-7 per pack of 25, plus mini brads (available in gold or white) are an additional $2 per 25.
We added a new red velvet belt for the holidays and solid brass bell charm for the holidays. Create rich, unique holiday cards or wedding invitations that are easy on your budget. The Ivy green background card was wrapped with our new velvet belt and finished with a solid brass buckle for only 99¢ each with envelope. Our sparkling metallic Gold background looks exquisite with the new Bell charm, which is fastened with a brass mini brad. Easy, gorgeous and an affordable 86¢ each, with envelope!
Our mini charms have been very popular item, as they are a great way to personalize your wedding invitations. A white wire was used to attach the charm, then a sheer ribbon bow tie was made to complete the look and hide the wire. These charm and bow invitations were not difficult to assemble, but took some time. We have been working on finding a better way to attach the mini charms for literally years and could not find a good solution. This year we have been working with a manufacturer in the US to make a cost-effective part for us that we could use to hang the charm and attach using a mini brad. After much trial and error, our exclusive “charm hanger” is now available. To keep costs down the hangers are shipped flat and need to be bent (we recommend bending them all at once with pliers). After that, it is simply punching a hole in the invitation, hanging the charm and slipping a mini brad through the charm hanger loop, and fasten…MUCH easier! We also switched to white satin pre-tied bows that we attach with our glue dots for further time savings. The brass mini charms are $6 (silver plated are $7) per pack of 25 and include our charm hangers. Our mini brads, available in white, silver or brass are sold separately for $2 per packs of 25.
