Duetica Design Team

I mentioned a while ago that I was working with a new company called Duetica. Well, today is the first posting of the Duetica Design Team! I am so excited to see what everyone has come up with and hope you can check out all of the fun projects. Here are links to the other team members:

Becky Conley
Candice Windham
Christy Monge
Eileen Hull
Kathy Peterson
Kristie Taylor
Niki Meiners
Rebecca Lynn
Suzanne Sergi
Veronica Goff

Duetica, a cool new on-line lettering art studio, gives you lots of options for customizing your text. Using the lettering system, you are able to view a bunch of different options for each letter and select the exact version you want so that your finished piece looks hand written. I used one of my favorite fonts for the wedding invitations and stationery pieces- the graceful Mandolyn. I printed the bride and groom’s names larger and in a different color so they really stand out and then used an everyday font for the rest of the information. I don’t like to mix more than two or three fonts on one page as I feel it can be distracting. Thank you cards, favors and the program were also created using this combination of fonts and colors to keep the suite consistent.

Is anyone else around here a font geek? It’s sometimes hard to find an alphabet where you like every letter or symbol. With Duetica’s many font options, I was able to select my favorite ampersand! I enlarged it and reduced the opacity. It serves as a cool background and also draws attention to the two names and ties them together. There are so many subtle ways that fonts add impact to our artwork.

Here is a small favor tin using two capital Mandolyn “J”s- (one is reversed and together the J’s form the base of the cakestand). It’s so much fun to see what kinds of word art you can make using fonts!

The CD favor that everyone got was composed of songs that were played for the first dance at the weddings of their parents and grandparents, friends that have gotten married and songs that were special to them. We cut the envelopes from 8 ½ x 11 cardstock, scored them to size, embossed the envelope flap, slipped the CD in and added a label with song list.

Jess and I both saw these hearts in a Martha Stewart Wedding magazine and commented on how cute they were. She decided she wanted to use them as her seating cards. Here’s how to make them: (thanks Martha!)

You will need:

Cardstock- we used 5 shades of blue
Silver and black fine tip markers
Die cut or heart shape punch (I used my Sizzix eclips machine)
Glue pen or thin double sided tape
Scissors

Instructions:

1. Cut as many hearts as you need and some extra to allow for mistakes. The size we went with was about 2 ¾” across.
2. Cut a slit from the bottom point up toward the middle of the heart
3. Cross one piece of the split heart over to the other side. Adhere in place. Trim unwanted sides off so heart shape is clean. Remember to make it large enough to accommodate your guests’ names in a readable size. The surface of the heart is tricky to write on as it is 3D but just keep it flat as you write.

A vintage window with decoupaged book pages served as a seating chart display. We ran 3 lines of double stick tape with my handy dandy 3M ATG gun down each pane, then stuck the hearts on in alphabetical order, so it would be easy for the guests to find their names. Many thanks to my niece Katrina, who made this look so pretty. The flowers were made from my new Sizzix Fresh Vintage dies using crepe paper, tissue paper and some foil.

A birdcage that I had found years ago in a thrift store was called into service to house the cards given to the newlyweds. Originally a natural wood, it was spray painted white and topped with a blue and white bow. I cut some of the bamboo spokes off the top of it to allow a slot for the cards to be dropped in.

I have been collecting silver plate for quite a while and had a good number of silver bowls on hand. We decided to fill these with hydrangeas and other spring flowers for the centerpieces.

Here’s me with my son Chris right before we walked up the aisle 🙂