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Giveaway | Announcing the Feterie-Blend giveaway winners!

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Feterie-Blend Creations necklaces

We received hundreds of entries to our Feterie-Blend Creations giveaway. So many of  you tweeted with us and Feterie or added to our discussions on our’s and Feterie’s Facebook pages!

The winners of the lovely prizes (below) are:

Amy Yee – Grape Just Dots Round Necklace

Kim DeGuzman – Lemon Vendome Round Necklace

Eva Daniell – Grape Just Dots Round Necklace

Jennifer Yeager –  Lemon Vendome Round Necklace

Thank you to everyone who entered our giveaway!  If you didn’t win this one, don’t despair, we’ll be giving away a $100 gift certificate to one lucky newsletter subscriber and we’ll be giving away a Coral Bells foliage necklace to one of our Facebook fans!

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Giveaway | We’ve teamed up with Feterie for a special giveaway!

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Ahh, sweet November is upon us and we’re welcoming it with a special giveaway!

We’ve teamed up with the Cathe Huynh-Sison, the designer/shop owner/paper lover behind Feterie, to create these lovely two-of-a-kind round necklaces that features two of Feterie’s signature patterns from the Eco-Luxe wrap line. The giveaway will run from November 2nd to November 16th, so you’ll have a chance to enter to win 1 of these necklaces. There will be four (4) winners — two (2) winners each for  the Grape Just Dotty Round Necklace and Lemon Vendome Round Necklace.

Feterie-Blend giveaway necklaces

So, how do you play? Click here and find out the rules on how to play! You can also find out more information on our fan page, too! Good luck!

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Portfolio | More custom wedding invitations

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Here’s another set of custom wedding invitations that we did recently for our friends Claudia and Dan. Like Shona & Craig’s invitations, this design was also laser-cut.

Close-up C and D

Claudia and Dan had told us that they really liked our Flowerish: Circle card designs and they wanted something similar to that, but more personalized for their wedding. They chose a ‘bordeaux’-coloured cardstock lined with a cream-coloured cardstock. (Red is a very lucky colour for Asian weddings, and traditionally paired with gold, but us new-fangled Asian kids like to move away from that a bit yet still keep the older generation mostly happy).

custom wedding invitation

Inside, we did a formal yet classic-looking layout with a smaller, less flourishy version of the “C&D” emblem at the top:

custom wedding invitation, inside

The neat thing is, they like the emblem so much that it will be repeated in favours and other elements of their wedding. :)

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Portfolio | Custom wedding invitations

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

We recently designed some custom wedding invitations for our friends Shona and Craig which turned out so nicely that I thought I’d show them off.

Shona and Craig aren’t stuffy-wedding-nazi types and they wanted something on the modern side that didn’t look like it was too sappy. They definitely didn’t want anything that was ‘stock’ looking either, and coming up with a custom invite was one of the most fun design projects we’ve ever had.

When they mentioned that their ceremony would be in an arboretum, I started playing around with a stylized tree. Note the subtle hearts formed with the branches :)

They picked a beautiful pearl-metallic blue card stock of a nice snappy thickness. Into the laser-cutter it went! (We really like playing with our laser and seeing just how fine a resolution we can push it to).

The end result was this:

The invitation text was printed onto matte-white cardstock with the tree motif repeated inside:

Congrats to Shona and Craig! May your wedded life be blissful and full of unicorn-sappiness! ;)

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Inspiration | When pigs fly

Monday, October 8th, 2007

A while back, someone (my better half, maybe?) introduced me to the Flying Pig company, because they obviously knew that I have this fascination for paper engineering in its many forms (elaborate origami, pop-up books, whathaveyou).

I just love the idea that something that comes as a 2-D form can be manipulated into something almost magically 3-D.
The Flying Pig makes these wonderful paper animation kits that are “paper models you make that move.”

And they do have some pretty elaborate and whimsical models. Of them all, my favourites include their namesake ‘Flying Pig‘:

and the ‘T Rex‘:

Make sure to check out their page of free downloadable kits too. They’re FREE! (I downloaded one, but I haven’t had the time yet to actually assemble it).

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