show and tell #25

Eri and Philip chose custom colours for their Splendid Rockies Ready2Wear wedding invitations and, instead of including a photo, they decided on using the left panel for their Japanese guests. Genius! Eri and Philip chose this particular design because they are hosting their wedding at Glacier National Park in Montana. So lucky! Rod and I drove through Glacier National Park two summers ago and it was beyond beautiful.

The Pantone Colour of 2009 • Mimosa

Pantone has recently, as of December 3rd, released THE COLOUR OF 2009! Yes! This is not a joke. There is a colour picked out to represent the whole 12 months of the following year. It's kind of sweet and bright...optimistic and full of hope. What do you think of it? I myself really like it. It reminds me of reduced prices, which I love.

If you want to read about why they picked this colour, you can do so here. I didn't realize they did this every year, but I'll be sure to keep you posted. So it's the year of Mimosa!! We might as well celebrate with a refreshing cup of orange juice! I know I am.

Ready2Wear Colour Changes

On June 26th, 2008 I did a post about custom Ready2Wear colour changes and this morning I thought back to that great day and decided to expand on this idea. It's a remarkable idea. I know. Every month I'll try and explore various colour schemes on a different design. I'm not sure if anyone noticed but we have a few recurring posts, such as: Music to listen to, BSD Featured wedding, Our stumbled links and Show and Tell. This list will grow as we all grow together. Awe family.

The Application
Today I chose Wind In The Willows' save-the-date postcard. I applied 3 different colour schemes to show you how a design completely changes form. They really do take on a new personality.


In Conclusion
Colours are fun. Play with them.

Ready2Wear colour changes

I'm pretty sure everyone knows that we offer colours changes to all our Ready2Wear wedding stationery. Well if you didn't, now you do. Sometimes it's hard to imagine what a design would look like different colours, or if a particular design would even suite your wedding colours.

I have decided to show you some examples of how we change colours to our stationery.

This E-Save-The-Date example is from one of our latest designs called Re: Kismet. We have applied 3 different colour schemes to it. Easy!!


p.s. another way of seeing a design in other colours is by clicking on the "view images of this design" (if it's available) so you can see what others have done with this design. They are either pictures from a wedding or photos we've taken ourselves. They're helpful either way.

Our Wedding and Fun Stuff Resources

Slowly over January we will be and have been highlighting some of the new stuff at Blue Skies and Daisies. Today I'd like to mention our resources section, completely renovated and expanded to the point of bursting. It's call The Wedding Season. We have always had a small list of recommendations and helpfuls but now it has become it's own entity...but powered by BSD.

There are a few main reasons for it's creation. One of the reason being, we wanted to provide an inspirational tool for our couples who want to discuss their wedding invitation ideas. We hope it will help pick wedding colours, choose your invitation wording, create a vision for your invitations and maybe even plant more ideas for the rest of the wedding planning.

Another reason being, we wanted to find another way to promote the talented people we have met over the past almost 5 years. This includes all sorts of businesses that are wedding and non wedding related. Options are very healthy.

It's clean and fun to read and every month it will be updated with a new featured wedding, recommendations for upcoming events or celebrations in the Vancouver area...or outside the vancouver area. We don't want to limit ourselves!! So check back often as Teenie and I will be adding more and more and more to this wonderful and free wedding resource.

We hope it helps! That's the super main #1 goal.