We are in the future!

And the future is all about video conferences!

This past Friday Albertine and I had our first experience of video conferencing (via Skype) for two meetings. I can't tell you how great it was to be able to sit in on meetings again...from Fernie! I felt a little bit like I was a fly on the wall, but at the same time, I was useful fly who could answer questions.

This was my view of our meeting with Lindsay and Harry. What a success!

Offline for a bit, Online again.

If you're trying to look our website right now, you may have noticed it's not working. We're pretty sure our hosting service is on top of it, but for now we have a blog full of our work and information that may be useful.

We'll be up again soon! We're hoping.

Update: We're up again. Hooray!

Now that I'm here, I could share an article I read in The Globe and Mail today. It's about brides cutting costs of their wedding. The most interesting part, for us, is about how stationery is the first thing to go when cutting down. How sad...but I understand.

As Is Stationery is putting makeup on...

We're getting ready for the big Indie I Do show on the 17th at Heritage Hall. I have been mentioning it quite a bit lately because I think the show is going to be really fun and different than your average wedding show. Plus, Blue Skies and Daisies is going to be there. That's a huge plus!

On top of displaying our custom wedding stationery we are also going to provide you with the first big opportunity of purchasing our products "off the shelf." We're trying it out with just a few pieces but if you're interested in getting our work at a very good price, come on by...or just say hello. hello! We'll have table cards, place/escort cards, guestbook/note cards and thank you tags at our booth.

Have a wonderful weekend!
And we'll talk on Monday.

Amy and Brent • Reception Stationery

In October, we couldn't wait to show off Amy and Brent's Halloween wedding invitation. It was just TOO good to just put on the shelf and collect dust. You must be excited to know we have more stationery bits and pieces to show off from their wedding.

On top of ordering their wedding invitations, Amy and Brent's wish list included: menu cards, table cards, place cards and gift tags. Santa came early this year!

Plans are meant to be broken

Yesterday I uploaded PAGE 2 of our custom portfolio. I just didn't think there was enough of our custom work and as time goes by we work on more fun and unique wedding stationery, so there HAS to be room for more. The plan was to just show 20 custom weddings, but plans were meant to be broken. Wait. Is that how it goes? Still. There is a lot more to see. Hooray!

(from top to bottom: Sarah and Stewart's CD labels,
Ren and Big Mike's wedding invitation and Josselyn and Dan's table cards.)

Mandy and Trevor • 4 Questions

Since we're featuring my brother and his wife on our website this month, I thought it would be super sweet of them to answer our 4 Questions for our blog, so you can learn a bit more about who they are and what they thought about their wedding.


1. How prepared were you going into your BSD meeting?

Not prepared at all.
We trusted in BSD to help us figure out a design we would both loved and that would reflect on us as a couple.
Needless to say, we weren't disappointed!
Brina came through with a beautiful design, we couldn't believe how FAST she had created such perfection! We loved it so much we based everything from our guest book to wine labels around it!

2. Three words to describe yourselves as a couple.

Loving, Social, BUSY.

3. What was the most memorable moment of your wedding?

Looking into each others eyes as we said our vows and the true feeling of bliss.

4. Any advice for couples planning their own wedding?

Remember not to get wrapped up in spending too much money on materialistic things.
Weddings are supposed to be about love and commitment, not limos and decorations!

Looking Back

Invitations from the past

I was going through my old photos today and found a few good BSD stationery memories. I also dug up quite a few classic tean and bean shots, but I'll save those for a special rainy day. A VERY special rainy day.

I started taking pictures of our wedding stationery back in 2006 when I bought my first digital camera. I still have it and it's doing pretty good. I wouldn't say there have been no glitches along the way...but my Canon Elph has treated me well.

The next step is possibly a Canon SLR.

Gayle and Jim

This was one of the quickest custom invitation jobs we ever did. It was for a small wedding, but we designed it and sent to the printers a day later.


Shabina and Ronnh

These two lovely buddies got married last year, but we just love what Shabina did with our designs. The invitation, decorated with jewels, came with desserts and a bag of nuts! Best invitations ever!


Alice and Brian

We've posted this invitation before, but not like this! It's just such a fantastic wedding invitation and maybe I'll continue to bring it up every 2 months. You can't stop me. It's an adventure novel/wedding invitation which was borrowed from a library. You can't take a literary theme much further than that.

view pictures of this design

A little blue skies and daisies website feature that we haven't really used to it's full potential is the fantastic "view pictures of this design". Some photos were available, in the Ready2Wear catalogue and the custom portfolio, but we recently updated the catalogue designs with more cool pics from actual weddings or just shots from our studio.

There's a chance you didn't even know this existed, so here's where you find it:The best part about this is you can see how couples have customized our designs to make it their own.

I've compiled a short list of some of the designs that we've updated, so you can see what we're talking about. Over time we will be uploading new pictures, hopefully more from the wedding, but we can't be greedy.

Just Be Vibrant
Splendid Rockies
West Coast Wonder
Meta Boom
Morning In May
City & The Stars
Cherry Blossom

show and tell #5 - Ready2Wear

When we started our wedding design catalogue we knew that no matter what we did, couples will want to customize it for their wedding. That's precisely why we design the way we do, so that you can apply your wedding colours, include your own photo and who knows what else. If you want it, we can quote it.

So here are some examples of how couples have customized their own ready2wear design.

1. Betty's Garden - Vicky and Darren's wedding invitation
Vicky and Darren customized this really popular wedding invitation with their own wedding colours and included email rsvp information on the inside left panel, instead of sending out the rsvp postcard. It was printed on 100% recycled paper, which gave it real organic look.

2. Bunny Love - Julie and Randy's wedding invitation and thank you card
This design allows couples to choose what bunny images (pick from 8 photographs) they want on their wedding stationery. Julie and Randy also decided to customize the font colours, which made their names really pop out. Fantastic!

3. It's Not A Thistle - Ruby and Gus' pre wedding party invitations
Ruby and Gus customized this wedding invitation by turning it into 2 separate pre-wedding party invites. The rsvp was the baptism invite and the 1 fold card invited friends and family to their engagement party. Genius really!!