DK Designs in the Press

It's always so nice when other industry colleagues blog about your work. It means they see the work and dedication that goes into creating a piece of art. I got 2 delightful emails today from my friend at Smitten Invitations, Melissa Bumstead and someone I don't even know but who admires my work, UpstateFancy!

I love Melissa's citrus peach inspiration board. It definitely makes you ready for spring to make it's debut. Definitely check out her blog Melissa's Smitten.

At any rate, I'm so grateful for the continued blog posts about my clay flowers. It's always exciting to see them in inspiration boards (I never thought my stuff would be in one. :))

Thank you Melissa and UpstateFancy for including me in your blogs today!

Baby Shower Invitations and A Little Gift

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. I've been busy working on orders and doing a lot of paperwork. I did want to share a couple of new things I've been working on. One of my clients, Lorela (who I termed my "everything bride" contacted me a couple months ago and asked me to start work on her elaborate personalized thank you cards, welcome baby shower invitations and some other items for the baby shower and mementos we never got around to after her wedding. She's almost coming up on a year anniversary.

Anyway, she's throwing a welcome baby shower for her nephew who is due to come into this world any day now. She wanted a shell theme so these are how her invitations turned out.

As many of you know, I'm doing a giveaway on Melissa Smitten's website. So I decided as a "thank you" gift to her, I would create a design using the colors she liked most and send it to her. I liked it so much I had to take a picture and send it to her. She's so excited to get one of my designs and see my work firsthand! Who knows, I might just have to recreate this to sell on my Etsy site when I have more free time!

My posts will be a little light this week. An industry event tomorrow night, taxes to work on and of course Halloween and my niece's birthday party. So I'll have new pictures of Aidan with all his Halloween gear on.

Don't forget only a little more than week to register your chance to win one of my designs! Click on the picture below to enter Melissa's blog site to enter.

DK Designs Interview on Melissa's Smitten Blog!

A couple weeks ago, I read an article on Melissa Smitten's Blog about how to save money on buying inexpensive decorations for your cakes instead of going with expensive sugar flowers. I had made a comment to Melissa about whether or not she had heard of clay flowers as an alternative and she was intrigued. She was so intrigued that she asked me if I would be willing to do a vendor interview and I of course naturally agreed.

Melissa's company makes wonderful wedding and event invitations and stationery and I love her work. She did an amazing job on putting together all the photos I sent to her. Check out her wedding invitations if you're looking for some wonderful letterpress invites! She does fabulous work. One day that's my dream, to figure out how I can do letterpress. Like I have time... :) Thanks Melissa for the opportunity to share my love of clay flowers with your readers!