Henderson Rubin Creative Design Studio: January 2012

Happy New Year! Sorry for the silence but I am back and off to a fresh start. So, let’s begin with a GIVEAWAY! It’s my Celebrate Love party printable package! There is so much to celebrate for me in the first few months of the year. For starters my birthday, Valentine’s Day, my husband’s birthday and our anniversary. Therefore, it’s only fitting that I designed my new printable party package around celebrating, more specific celebrating love. Valentine’s Day is a day to celebrate love and those we love so why not have a party in honor of our loves in our lives! Here is how I celebrate Valentine’s Day.

Let’s Celebrate Love Valentine’s party...

It all starts with an invitation to set the mood of your party. I wanted my design to have a traditional, modern and whimsical theme.

Hearts symbolize love and are traditionally used to depict Valentine’s Day. When I was designing the invitation I wanted to marry, if you will, the traditional and modern together with a whimsical twist. Once the invitation was set I moved on to the other elements of the party decor keeping it consistent throughout the design. I chose a traditional typeface to express the words of LOVE yet played on a modern feel with the striped heart design. I added a little playfulness by choosing a handwritten font for the Happy Valentine’s Day wording in the design.

The fun thing about having a party at home is that you can dress it up anyway you like. I added some unexpected elements like the napkins with a pop of purple to add interest. And, I added some pink glitter to the edges of the table cards to jazz them up a bit.

So the icing on the cupcake, so to speak, has to be the toppers. They are fun, playful and sweet to look at until you take a bite out of the delicious home baked strawberry cupcakes.

Yummy!