the early bride special is back!

kiss + tell cards' biggest sale of the year is back!  This year, I'm offering 15% off all invitation orders, up from the usual 10%.  This sale applies to all invitation orders placed by the end of February for weddings taking place in May 2011 or later.  If you're on top of your planning, this is a great way to save some cash on your wedding invitations!  Orders don't need to be completed and shipped by the end of February, just a deposit is required.  Visit the shop to see all my current invitation designs, and check the blog for new products in the coming weeks.  This sale also applies to custom orders, so don't hesitate to contact me with your ideas and to get a price quote.

new stamps!

I recently got busy and added 7 new stamp designs to the shop, and listed all of my stamps as self-inking as well as wood handled.  Pretty exciting!  I love the self-inking stamps, it's super easy to get a great, clean impression.  Check out all the new designs here:
kiss + tell rubber stamps

catching up

Yikes, I've become that girl who never updates her blog!  If anyone is still checking in, thanks to you, and my sincere apologies for the lack of updates.  Summer has been busy with work and fun, and here's a bit of what I've been up to...

It was a good summer!

end of hibernation

Spring seems to have arrived in Southeastern Wisconsin.  The mountains of snow have melted, I have pretty purple crocuses cheering up the backyard, and a pair of morning doves are furiously building a nest in my gutter.  And with spring comes weddings! 

It has been a busy few weeks at kiss + tell (please excuse the long blog absence!), lots of orders have been shipping out, and a few new designs have made their way into the shop.  I recently made an exciting Etsy purchase:

Japanese masking tape!  This stuff is so fun, who knew tape could be so pretty?!  Mine came from prettytape and is being used to package up rubber stamp orders.  If you buy one of my custom rubber stamps, it will arrive prettily packaged in a kraft box with tape and a sticker. 

More news to follow soon, but here are some of the exciting non-work things that have been happening:
- garden planning
- CSA signup
- repurposing of/decorating with Goodwill treasures

Happy Monday!

found on the interwebs

It's always exciting to find a random blog feature you weren't aware of.  I stumbled upon this through google analytics this morning.  Thanks Glamour Weddings!

Show above are two new items in the shop, the overlapping circle invite and overlapping circles button magnet save the date.  I love a nice, simple pattern, don't you?

sale!

I'm very pleased to announce kiss + tell's annual "early bride special!"  This is a great sale for the organized bride who has all her locations and times worked out and can order invitations a little bit early.  The sale applies to all invitation orders placed for summer weddings (May 1st or later) and includes both flat printing and letterpress (for reals).  Contact me with any questions about the sale, or to get started on your invitation order!

recent views in the studio

I really love perfectly cut piles of paper.  I like to fan them out, admire them, and stack them back up so I can fan them out again.  I like to flip through them quickly while I count the cards.  I do this so quickly, in fact, that my husband often doesn't believe I was actually counting.  I'm usually so eager to get orders out the door and into the client's hand that I don't take time to photograph them, but here are a couple of orders that recently went out.  The holiday cards were a largish corporate order that I worked on in December, and the honeycomb invitations just left for Australia today.