Eight21 Studios

We had the pleasure of designing a suite for a couple who themed their event around Alice in Wonderland. Kayla could recite the story blind folded. It was fun, playful, colorful but most of all THEM. Isn’t there “a little…

The importance of “Day of Stationery”. I tell clients all the time, when you are choosing your wedding invitations…keep in mind you still have all of your “day of stationery” to purchase. We usually figure about 1/3 of the cost…

A ROSE is a rose is a rose review, first you have to understand that a flower like a rose is created by mostly painting the “in betweens” and takes shape with shading. I remember once when I was struggling…

A Teacher’s Fairy Tale part 3. One of the invitation samples was Chapter One to their “love story”. Steph and Eric liked the idea so we enlarged the copy to an 11×17 adding the companion artwork that was matted to…

A Teacher’s Fairy Tale part 2. Keeping with the “Teacher” theme, we designed a thin bookmark that the couple inserted the guest names and table designation. These bookmarks were inserted into a vintage card catalog that Steph’s mom found and…

A Teacher’s Fairy Tale. Stephanie came to me with her mom Tina, her vision was a Teacher’s Fairy Tale. Steph being an English teacher and Eric is a Math teacher she wanted to have the storybook love story. Her quotes…

Here we used just White and Ivory blend for their wedding invitations. We often have brides that do not want to commit to either white or ivory to be the main “neutral”color or some that do not want to introduce…

I often am faced with what to do with the left-overs,…the scraps, the trash, from clients jobs. One woman’s trash is definitely another girl’s treasured art for sure! Trash to treasured art. I have a close industry friend, his girls…

What is behind the flower details you ask ? Galleria Marchetti of course!   Sometimes our inspirations and stationery are not the sample the client chooses, and that’s okay. But we still like to show it off and explain the method…

SUITE Cost: $11.00 each Invitation, Response Card and Monogram Tag. Envelope Liners and Digital Addressing   What is behind the Inspirations and Stationery D+K?     Donna and Kevin came to us from a referral. We LOVE referrals! We met…