are you a show-off bride?

Getting ready for bride season and adding a couple of custom ideas to give those show-off brides some inspiration. Getting married? Call bleu dahlia creative for all of your wedding stationery needs!

get 'em while they're hot... or sweet!

WOW- Time is truly flying and it's almost Valentine's Day- Have you had a chance to view the fabulous Valentine's at our website! Order now and we'll send you a free set of wine tags!
Just mention the word tana-rama in your order notes and we'll pick out the cutest ones we have and send you a set of 5. Our choice of course...
Hope everyone is having a fabulous winter and is looking forward to spring-
We are dilligently working on our new spring stationery collection which promises to to be crisp- bold and preppy!

Another beautiful card. The salon is Evolve. The butterfly was not my first instinct as part of a logo for a salon. It kept flying around in my head until Ihad to try it. The colors are wonderful- the girls at evolve chose the raspberry color. I love it when your clients bring so much to the table. Make the work happen naturally. The signage looks amazing. drive by 1901 Broadwater.

and the invitation wore gray flannel

I had the pleasure of designing for a bride this week. Lovely ideas...what will she choose?
Love the gray flannel feel of this (style on the left) paper combined with canary yellow- seems quite fresh and very smart. Have you looked at bleu dahlia wedding ideas?

I'm beamin' about erickson beaman

Don't you just love being "stopped in your tracks?" I was on my weekly trek through Target- not the evening type, where you have all kinds of leisure time, it was more of a "get the necessities and get out type." Well, Erickson Beaman wanted my full attention- and they got it. WOW! Totally red-carpet worthy, this collection is a stunner. I actually took photos with my phone, I don't usually do that inside a retail store as it is frowned upon- I thought I had learned my lesson while shopping at Galeries Lafayette in Paris, where a concerned Parisian salesclerk chased me out of her department while shaking her finger and bursting with the words "no photo!- no photo!" Enjoy a few highlights here (courtesy of Target's website) and be sure to learn more about the designers here. enjoy!
photos courtesy of target.com

a dose of color is inspiring

My daughter needed fabric for her textiles class project, so we went to Fiberworks- a quilting store here in Billings. On approach the store (and website) appear as boring, traditional and uninspired. Before you tell me "those are fightin' words", let me finish. I was so pleasantly surprised to see what the store was hiding inside. Gorgeous bolts of color and pattern, modern, sophisticated and totally inspired- punctuated by adorable project kits sprinkled throughout the store. It prompted me to do a quilting fabric google search and landed upon this cute blog. I don't have a lot of facts about the author (but this isn't really investigative journalism I'm doing here now is it?) Melissa Averinos does design her own fabric, the photo is of her collection. It truly is a daily dose of color!

color fashion show week: bleu

color fashion show week: orange

textciting at house

my favorite typefaces are built at house industries- it's pure genius,innovation and creativity as you look through their portfolio and website. Always releasing a lifestyle icon with each typeface, the graphic design industry eagerly awaits new releases. Today our lucky day! Take a looky loo...

nice package

One of the reasons I would love to open a retail shop is because I love great packaging (For some reason, my husband doesn't think that's reason enough...). The photo is of my sisters birthday presents- the glitter tag is reincarnated for special birthdays!

Even back in my retail days, I loved folding someone's purchase and wrapping it in tissue first before placing it in a bag. Today when I shop with my daughter at our local mall, I want to just grab her purchase and fold it before it carelessly gets stuffed into a bag. My first experience being wowed by the way my purchase looked was in Paris in 1988. I was seriously in a trance as my purchase was wrapped with care, then placed in a unique bag or box, then tied with real silk ribbon. And it wasn't just at the big name stores- little boutiques excelled in packaging as well- just part of the Parisian retail culture- ohh la la!

There are retailers out there that get it, packaging is reborn at places like the JUICY boutique, where the bag and box just knocks you out. The JUICY box {from my friend David} that was under our Christmas tree had my daughter in a total spaz the entire month of December. She even hung it on her wall like a piece of art, now that's great packaging!
Does great packaging excite you? Do you have a "signature" gift wrap? Let us know!

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