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After almost a year “maternity leave” and break from designing, I’m slowly getting back on my designing feet. Today, I’m so happy to announce that we have a brand new baby shower invitation line ready for purchase at Love Ardently’s Etsy shop! These are print-yourself customized designs, but we are pleased to also offer digital printing service as well. Most of our invitation designs are illustrated, bright, modern and whimsical. Hope you enjoy!

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I’ve been a long time fan of Minted and I have finally taken the plunge to submit a design for their Holiday Party invitation challenge. This is the only one I’ve done so far. I have a couple other ideas but SO LITTLE time to execute it. The first reason being my 10 months old baby boy who is going through a separation anxiety phase *gasp* and keeping my hands full all day. Another reason is that I’ve been working on a set of new designs for our baby shower & announcement collection! So excited for that and I can’t wait to give you some sneak peeks!

Meanwhile… below is my design for Minted’s Holiday Party Invitation challenge. Voting period hasn’t started yet, but I’d like to covet your vote when it starts next week! :)

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Interesting puzzle concept by Upon a Fold, one of my most favorite paper goods shop and blog. You can assemble the kit into a strand of 6 pyramids, which then can be folded to form letters of the alphabet. I love how abstract the forms that the letter makes and how colorful they are!

It’s the first of February, already! Valentine’s day is near and pink (and red) seems to be quite the appropriate color of the month everywhere. Luci Everett‘s french-folded book with the theme of party completely wins my heart today and get me in the pink mood. It’s very well crafted with simple but very intriguing concept. Her typography and illustrations are equally adorable, too. This is such a lovely piece to look at that brightens today’s dreary winter weather!

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I came across Scoutbooks the other day and thought it was so neat. They sell pocket notebooks with a lot of cool designs and patterns on the cover, but if that’s not enough, you can MAKE your own CUSTOM notebook! How neat is that.

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…has the most adorable new goodies in their shop. I just love their super adorable shop and blog. Their product selection is everything I want in a store! I’m so in love with their new ferris wheel pop-up card kit.

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I was wowed by these invitations from the first sight. It’s an invitation to an annual event for interior designers and architects by The Design Institute of Australia, designed by Büro North. Because this year is Top 6×6 with six designers presenting six projects, the designers decided to emphasized on the concept of “six” and created six layered image different in color and composition, each laser-cut to create depth. The designers hand-assembled and laset-cut these by themselves. Amazing, yes?

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A new-found favorite stationary store from Norway! Darling Clementine‘s illustration style is truly darling indeed. I want everything on their Etsy store!

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My oh my. How can I not love this? It’s burger zines. The genius designer behind it is Stephanie Anderson. One bacon and egg burger for me, please.

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This is the kind of Save The Date design that makes you just absolutely want to save the date. Simple and creative. A result of brilliant idea that was excellently designed and very well executed. Definitely one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. The revealed production cost was not ridiculously expensive either. Designed by L’Office Optimiste, via FPO.

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