Holiday Gift Bazaar

Hello everyone! I wanted to let you all know about a really cool holiday gift bazaar that Rosebud Design Studio is taking part in this November 17th in Santa Monica. It's called "Crazy Cool Super Ridiculous" and it is featuring a handful of talented local vendors like Melissa Moss, Luxe Link, and yours truly. Come out and get started on your holiday shopping - check out the website for more information.

Designing Letters Calligraphy

Today I'm featuring DeAnn Singh of Designing Letters. She's an amazingly talented calligrapher. The above photos are of some pieces she created for National Treasure 2 - Book of Secrets. DeAnn also does calligraphy for weddings, and gives lessons. You can view her website and contact info here.

Rosebud's New Etsy Store

Hello, everyone! I'm very excited to announce the launch of the Rosebud Design Studio Etsy store. You can check it out by clicking here. The store will offer a hand-picked selection from the Rosebud product catalog, based on the season, the weather, my mood for the week, etc. Mostly, it will be based on the season. I hope you'll visit the store and do some holiday shopping!

Paris

I know it's been a while since my last post, but I've had a good excuse: I've been in Paris for a short vacation and to see the Paris gift show: Maison et Objet. It was a fantastic trip. Click here to see some photos from the whirlwind tour.

I'm going to try and post my favorites from the Maison et Object....just as soon as I can locate my paperwork on that...

Also, as an item of interest, here is a link to the awesome bicycles that we used to get around while in Paris.

Store of the week: Paper Doll

The featured store of the week is Paper Doll, located in Chicago, IL. They girls at Paper Doll have been buying from Rosebud Design Studio consistently since I started. Although I have never been to their store (and never even been to Chicago), if you are in the area, you should check it out. They stock tons of great lines, fun gift items, and have a cute little store mascot, Maude, the pug. Thanks for being great customers!

Bliss Print from Yellena

I just recently received the above print that I ordered from Yellena's etsy shop. I really love her drawings. The colors are bright and fun, and the artwork is almost like advanced doodling (I mean that as a good thing).

I'm starting to collect affordable art pieces. So far, I have a gooco print from Sugarloop, a silkscreened poster from L2, some letterpressed pieces from Manifesto, an art print from Old School Stationers, and some other random stuff of my own creation.

Product of the Week: Snowflake Cards

These cards are one of my favorites. They are foil stamped in pearl foil onto super thick white paper stock.

For the design, I played around with flourishes to create original snowflake designs. I like cutting up decorative fonts and arranging them symmetrically to create more complicated flourishes, and ultimately patterns. I know, pretty dorky. I could spend hours doing this.

Below are some of the snowflakes I created before making my final choice.

Rosebud on Delightful Blogs

I've added Rosebud Design Studio's blog to the Delightful Blog listing. This website is a fun little database of blogs in areas such as fashion, design, food, shopping and travel. It's got a clean and cute layout (love the birdie) so that everything is easy to find. You can check out Rosebud's listing here.

Doggie in the Window

Happy August!

Featured Store: Sugar Paper

I would like to start regularly highlighting stores that are carrying Rosebud Design Studio products. For my first feature, I would like to highlight one of the first stores that took me on - Sugar Paper.

Sugar paper has two locations: Century City, CA and Brentwood, CA. Both shops are adorable, modern, and have a great selection of paper goods and stationery gift items. The Century City location is next door to Clementine Cafe which is a great place to stop for lunch, while the Brentwood store is located in the Brentwood Country Mart which has tons of shops, plus the fabulous City Bakery.

So stop by and ask for some Rosebud product (hehe)!

Sugar Paper also has a web shop in case you aren't in the Los Angeles area.

New Invitations!

Ok, so here are the long promised Versailles inspired wedding invitations. They are printed with four colors and stamped in gold foil. The envelopes are lined with three different marble papers: hot pink, light pink and a deep green/blue with gold flecks.

It's been a while....

Sorry I've been out of touch! Things have been so busy at Rosebud that I haven't had a second for blogging. And now, I'm on the East Coast for a little family vacation. I'll be back on Wednesday with some more fun posts, including the product of the week, featured shop, and some gorgeous new wedding invitations that are all tricked out Marie Antoinette style.

In the meantime, Congrats to Sarah for winning the Lost contest. She guessed correctly the characters from left to right (Danielle, Mikhail, The Black Smoke Monster, and Naomi). I hope you like your Rosebud prize, Sarah, and thanks for playing!

Thanks, Country Living!

Country Living is Featuring Rosebud Design Studio on their home page. Click here to check it out. Thank you!!

Product of the Week - Pirate Cards

This week's Rosebud Design Studio featured products are the Pirate Cards. I really like historical maps (I had been calling them "vintage" maps, but the nice librarian at the UCLA maps library informed me that they are "historical"). I started researching these maps for an invitation I designed for a destination wedding in Hawaii. There are lots of great sites on the web where you can get inspiration (check out my previous post on the topic for some more info).

Also, I really like pirates. And pirate-speak. Did you know that there is a National Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19th)? I had a lot of fun writing the copy for these cards, researching all the pirate-y words I wanted to use and putting them together....

These particular cards are printed on recycled paper (we are making an earth-friendly effort here at Rosebud HQ), and are for sending birthday greetings, congratulations, and thank yous.