Feedback, please!
May 16, 2008 by silverkeys
Hi, happy readers. I’m asking for your help.
I’m designing the invitation for a mini bridal shower that I’m helping to plan for one of my close school friends, and I’d like some feedback on the mockup I’ve made:
What do you think? Should I get rid of the words on top? Should I choose a less-busy pattern for the teacup? Is the flower distracting? I’d love your feedback. Please tell me how to proceed.
I’ll be going to hunt for cornflower blue paper and doo-dads tomorrow (her wedding color is cornflower blue). You wouldn’t believe it, but I spent my afternoon scouring three different stores for cornflower blue paper, and came up utterly empty! You’d think it’d be part of the normal range of colors for scrapbookers, but apparently it’s not - they had aqua, yes; and teal, yes; and purple, yes - but nothing close to cornflower…no wedgewood/periwinkle/indigo…not even slate! Hopefully I will have better luck at Village Stationers’ and University Arts tomorrow.
I was, however, able to pick up some lovely chocolate brown cards and envelopes and pretty shell grey ribbon at JoAnn Fabrics today. At a good price, too! The cards were $3.99 for a box of 10 (not the best price in the world, but cheaper than buying a box of invitations), and I got two 9-ft. spools of ribbon at $0.10 each (The labels said $0.50 in the clearance basket, but it rung up at the register as $0.10, so I guess the higher price must have been an earlier markdown…) For those of you who are texturally-oriented, like me, feast your eyes (courtesy of my new lens, which finally arrived about 2.5 weeks ago):
And while I’m at it, I think I’ll show you the mother’s day cards I made for my mom and my maternal grandmother (she and my grandpa live with my parents at home; my paternal grandparents are deceased).
These actually aren’t the final versions. I added a few solid metallic hearts to balance out the composition after I took these photos. (By the way, for those of you who follow my very intermittent posts, do you recognize the washi paper?)
A crane for my grandmother:
Bunny rabbits for my mom (both she and my grandma were born in the year of the rabbit - in different decades, of course - but my grandmother is afraid of rabbits because their pointy noses remind her of rats, so I gave the bunny card to my mom instead):
Thanks!
- s.
while i think the teacup is beautiful on the card, and the colors work and everything, it seems like an invitation to high tea rather than to a bridal shower, which throws me, as a reader, off a bit.
all three components (words, pattern, and flower) work for me. i’m not too picky
your crane and bunny are spectacular cutouts. how’d you do it ?
=) hey.. love reading your blog and looking at all the craft you make!
nice invite! but i think its got too much stuff in it.. as in.. everything stands out.. (the teacup, the teabag and the flower).. prephaps toning the tea cup down?
haha.. $0.10 what a bargain! =P
@ simplyxme:
[sorry for the late reply] good point about the deceptiveness of the invitation - however, it’s really only a mini-shower (not a full blown one, just for our group of friends to celebrate the bride before we all graduate), and my friends all knew about it ahead of time…so hopefully it won’t confuse people too much! ^_^
the cutouts are easy. i just freehanded the design i wanted on the back of a piece of paper (in mirror image, of course) and used a pair of safety scissors to cut it out.
@ sch1z0phrenic:
[sorry also for the late reply] thanks for the suggestion. someone else on a craft community i belong to also suggested playing around with the colors to help the teabag and flower pop more, and i did indeed end up toning down the teacup (and darkening the color of the flower/teabag) in the end.
i’ll be taking pictures of the finished invites tomorrow morning, when the light is better, and will post them here at some point (man, i’m really really really behind…sigh).
I liked your invites and reading from the comments, I see you already sent them out? I probably would have changed the font of the text or removed it. Other than that, it’s a stunning invite and I especially love that chocolate color you chose!!
oh, and on a side note, your header is awesome! I love it!