Showing posts with label Cape Cod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cape Cod. Show all posts

Monday, January 31, 2011

DIY Postcard Save the Dates

This is what we came up with for our Save the Dates. The end result is a combination of the designs in the previous post. We used the postcard as our layout and the Rifle art as the inspiration for our pencil illustration. We plan on using the grocery paper envelopes in our actual invitations, but in the Save the Dates we did incorporate the earthy tone as the background color for our postcards. We really liked the idea of personalizing them, so we plopped ourselves onto the dock on the pond at my family's Cape Cod house. We stretched the truth a little by showing us gazing across the pond toward the inn where we will be getting married, but it's just the next town over from the house so I think it still works!

Front (left), back pre-mail (top), back post-mail (bottom)

I drew a few different pictures before we decided on a design. Josh took bits and pieces from a couple, worked some Photoshop magic and turned them into one unified image. We used a vintage template for the back of the card. Below are some reject illustrations from our Save the Date brainstorming session:










Monday, January 4, 2010

Harwich House



For New Years I spent the long weekend at my parents' house on Cape Cod. It is one of my favorite places on Earth. The house sits on one of the hundreds of charming little ponds found in the middle of the "arm." Everything in the house is second hand. All items were either bargained for at a flea market, purchased at an estate sale, or found at the dump and painted. Everything is painted white. There is no plastic anything. You'd think Cape Cod isn't an ideal winter vacation spot, but the house is just as wonderful in the winter as it is in the summer. These are a few of my favorite little spots around the house.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Dog on Chair

Design to Inspire recently created a "pets on furniture" post. Coincidentally, this past Labor Day weekend I took a "dog on chair" picture (with my crappy old camera phone) while pet-sitting at my parents' house on Cape Cod. Go to Design to Inspire for more adorable pets on furniture.