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Life:Styled Group, Boutique Travel Concierge get’s a New Brand Identity and Website

November 16, 2014

We couldn’t be happier with the new branding for Life:Styled Group, a boutique travel concierge service based in LA. A nautical color combination of navy and sand combined with a streamlined geometric feel lets the featured photos take center stage in this custom web design. Life:Styled Group’s new business cards and custom stationery suite are decked out in navy stripes and gold details, making a bold professional statement on any correspondence. With these nautical touches, Life:Styled’s website makes any potential client swoon with wanderlust for an exotic adventure, all details professionally handled!

Dessert Bar – My Wedding

June 15, 2010

Okay time for a long awaited Invitations to Dessert post. I know we said it would be a monthly feature, but as you know I got married Memorial Day weekend and that set me back a little on time. But not to worry, Jen from Homemade by Holman and I will be making this a monthly post eventually, just bear with us. So I’m really excited about this post because it actually features one of the many personal touches from my personal wedding and because a few months back I actually posted a little teaser as to what my dessert bar would look like (when I designed all of the tags) so I wanted to show you the final product, how it went together with the rest of the wedding and fill you in on some of the recipes. So here we go…

(picture on right by Jimmages Photography) I decided to do a cookbook featuring classic family dessert recipes in conjunction with my dessert bar as my wedding favor to all of my guests. I also got small white boxes from Uline, added a some cute polka dot tissue paper and tied a coordinating ribbon around each and every one. I also put a “thank you” tag on each one that tied in to the tags that I used on my invitation suite. The paper products really tied the look of the whole wedding together! The cookbook was a 3×4 twelve page booklet that I designed and titled Love is Sweet. Inside the front cover, I wrote a thank you to the guests and prompted guests to fill up their box at the dessert bar. The empty boxes were placed at each place setting.

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(picture by Amy Barry Photography) The dessert bar featured Tommy and I’s favorite family recipes from our moms, grandmas and aunts. I designed coordinating labels to go along with clever titles for each dessert. Using several different cookie jars and platters added a nice aesthetic interest to the dessert bar and the cute signs tied everything together. The cookie jars were from Target, and the Anchor 3-tier cupcake stand, and silver chargers were odds and ends that we had and that I painted silver to coordinate.

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The dessert bar included:

Mother of the Groom’s Famous Banana Bread
Mother of the Bride’s Sweet Snickerdoodles
Grammie’s Rich 7-layer Bars
Grandma Mo’s Salty Ranch Pretzels
Grandma Kress’s Decadent German Chocolate Cupcake Bites
Mother of the Groom’s Chunky Chocolate Pecan Cookies
Grandma Tootie’s Awesome Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Aunt Sue’s Crunchy Peanut Bars

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(pictures by Amy Barry Photography) While not all of these wonderful people are still here today, we all still remember the recipes. These were desserts that showed up at major family events or were always there when we showed up at grandma’s house. My sister (Jen with Homemade by Holman) and mom made several of the recipes including the Snickerdoodles, the oatmeal raisin cookies and the German Chocolate Cupcake Bites.

(picture on right by Jimmages Photography) Jen posted all of these recipes before but wanted to tell you about the slight changes that were made to the German Chocolate Cupcake Bites to fit the dessert bar specifically. The same recipe was used but when she made the frosting, she left out the chopped pecans. Instead she frosted the cupcakes and then used pecan halves to top each one. This made for a much more polished look for the cupcakes, really making the presentation much better since the custard frosting can’t be piped like a traditional buttercream. She also baked the cupcakes in plain white liners and then dropped them into decorative blue gingham liners to match the wedding colors, so the chocolate cake wouldn’t show through too much and you wouldn’t notice the pattern.

I heart blueberries and lilacs

May 14, 2010

Happy Friday! Happy Inspiration board day. Today’s inspiration board makes me happy. I love the navy and lilac combination paired with the rustic vintage lanterns and the chocolate plaid suit.

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Photo by Amy Barry Photography The simple beautiful white cake, by Sugar Bee sweets, with tons of tiny little white flower details match the soft white hydrangeas and delicate detail of the invitation.

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The Invitation has a romantic navy pattern and a rustic burlap belly button and thin navy blue ribbon tied around it all. All perfect for a special day to remember.

tease

February 23, 2010

I couldn’t resist showing you a little teaser design for my wedding. I’ve had all of the ideas of what I wanted everything to look like tucked away in my brain forever but just hadn’t had a chance to put them on paper until now. This is just a single element of the paper products that I am making for the big event. When it’s all said and done I will have created, table numbers, photobooth cards, photobooth sign, programs, invitations of course, cookbooks, favor tags, escort cards, out of town bag tags, dessert bar tags (in this post), save the dates, rehearsal dinner invites, bridal shower invitations and couples shower invitations… shheesh I should probably get to work! Hopefully no one that is coming to my wedding will see these…otherwise I will have obviously blown the surprise, but like I said I couldn’t resist. And I love them, so I hope you do too!!!

Navy family recipe dessert bar.

Just so you understand what these all are, at my wedding we are having a family recipe dessert bar. This means that instead of traditional favors each person who attends the wedding will receive a little decorated white box and a little mini cookbook that has all of our favorite family dessert recipes in it. And they will get the opportunity to fill up their little take home box full of samples from the dessert bar, which are all samples from the cookbooks. The 3 tags that are laying on the floor in the pictures will actually be on little stands for the desserts that are going on trays rather than in the jars, I just don’t have the trays yet. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

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