Custom Wedding Guest Book

Hey! I just wanted to share with you one of the products I offer, custom wedding guest books. This is the one that I did for Kim's wedding and I have done several of these for many brides. You can use photos from your engagement shoot or your dating history. On the other side I design the sign-in pages that match the rest of your wedding collateral. These can have lines, boxes or just be blank for people to write long notes. Contact me if you'd be interested in a custom guest book.

Kensey's Lingerie Shower

My November was full of lingerie! I hosted two lingerie showers in one week and they were both so fun and so different. Deanna, Nikki and I threw a lingerie shower for our friend, Kensey two weeks before she got married. Our theme for this shower was eco-chic with brown, orange and green. Deanna found the perfect green and orange napkins with leaves on them that became the inspiration for the invitations and other decor. We incorporated polka dots and other green items.



Even our food items matched with chocolate and orange cupcakes with toppers, guacamole and bacon croissants, melon, orange and kiwi fruit skewers, parsley and cheddar cheese balls, chex mix with green and orange M&Ms and coordinating candy. It all came together so well!





Kensey, the beautiful bride:





We played several games including the marshmallow stuffing game. Kensey had to guess Bryan's answers to questions and for each one she got wrong, she had to stuff her mouth with a marshmallow.





We put together two clotheslines to hang up and display all her cute items!











The hostesses, Nikki, Deanna and me:



This was such a fun shower and we all really enjoyed putting it all together.

Making Kim's Wedding Invitations

One of the biggest projects of Kim's wedding was designing and assembling her 320 wedding invitations. We went more unique and designed a long booklet style invitation. I was very different and super unique. We had the pieces printed and in October we had an invitation assembling night. It took a lot of scoring, folding, punching, ribbon tying and stuffing, but we got it done! And they looked awesome! Here are some photos of Kim and her family and friends assembling.









Here are some photos of the final product! Didn't they turn out neat!?!

SALE in my Etsy Shop!

I have a bunch of cards and a couple card sets that are on sale in my Etsy shop! I'm cleaning it out and will hopefully be releasing a bunch of new items next month. To make room, I have put a bunch of the cards on sale! Go check it out! They will only be available until Tuesday! If you live in town and don't want to pay shipping, just leave a comment and I will get your card to you.

CLICK HERE to visit Spink Studio's Etsy Shop

Headed to Youth Camp

I am headed out this morning to youth camp for the week! I am excited to spend some time ministering to the girls and enjoying some great worship and speakers! I am leaving Clint and Josh at home by themselves, so I know they will be having some very loud music practices while I am gone. I am also excited because we are surprising all the students with their very first youth group t-shirt! God gave me this concept when our youth pastor, Jermaine was explaining the meaning of eminent, our new youth group name. I know the students are going to be so excited! Here is a mock-up of what it looks like. I am sure you'll be seeing it in lots of the pictures! I'll be posting those when I return! Have a great week!

Ask Kayla Q&A Round 1

Here are the questions to the questions that you awesome blog readers left me. Let me know if you have any additional questions!

April Oaks said...Hey Kayla! What is your favorite art piece you've created?

Oh my gosh! That is a hard question! I create so many different pieces of art from photography to graphic design to painting to cardmaking to scrapbooking and just about anything else you can think of! I practically have a new favorite piece of art every week!

I'd have to say that the art piece that I am most proud of would be my college portfolio from design school. I spent two very long and hard years at school every day working hard to create the pieces that are in my design portfolio. I love graphic design so much. It's a talent that God has given to me and I love to use it for His glory every day. I am so thankful that I was able to go to school and learn how to be a graphic designer. And I am still learning new things every day! I spent two years creating these various design pieces and I spent several weeks putting my portfolio together for graduation. God really blessed me in school. Several of my pieces received awards at the Annual Portfolio and Art Show, I was the only one in my class to graduate with highest honors (4.0 GPA) from my school, I was given the 2007 Portfolio of the Year award out of all the students at my school and I was awarded Meritorious Recognition for Student of the Year in Art & Design out of all the private colleges in Colorado! I am so blessed to have this talent and I love what I do!

These are several pictures of my college portfolio that I had set out at my graduation party just over a year ago. Almost all of these pieces can be viewed on my website as well as all of my new designs: Spink Studio




April F said...Hey Kayla!! I am thinking about getting a new printer, I love to scrapbook, make cards, and invitations and stuff, but I am still using an HP all in one printer from high school, like 7 years ago (wow I am getting old). And with your line of work you must use a great printer...so what is your suggestion??!!

Hey, April! I bought a Epson Stylus Photo 1400 a year ago and I LOVE it! I use it almost everyday. It has six ink cartridges, so you only need to replace the ones that are needed and it uses Claria Hi-Definition ink which prints beautifully. The ink cartridges are a little pricey (about $20 each) but they seem to last for a long time and I don't feel like I am replacing them very often. I print all of my scrapbook pages, Etsy stationary, client proofs and photographs on this printer. It is wonderful. I also recommend the Epson Premium Photo Paper in 13x19. That is what I use to print my scrapbook pages and they come out beautiful!




lisa frith said...what is your inspiration to create? is it a color, a shape, a mood? just curious ... your talents span a range of things, so i'm just curious!

Hi, Lisa! I hope you're enjoying some good sweet tea down south! We miss you here!

I had to think about this one. Really, the biggest influence on me is definitely other artists and designers! I LOVE Google Reader and I subscribe to over 150 blogs of other artists, photographers, designers and friends! I am so inspired by other artists and they give me the courage to try new things! I am always getting new ideas and inspiration. Here are a couple of my favorite websites and blogs that inspire me:

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megs said...when are you going to buy couch number three and come see me? :) love you babe, oh and i'm about to watch calamity jane

My friend, Meghan! I wish I was coming to Dallas this weekend with Clint. But I can't! I must stay here and work to save for the couch. Once we get it, you must come visit and see!



megs said...one more thing... how did you get the name spink studio?

I get asked this question a lot! Spink Studio is a totally original name. When I first came up with my company name, it was Scallop Pink, Ink. My business cards and logo had a very cute scallop edge and were all very pink as you can see in the logo. I also used ink instead of inc as a play on Incorporated. For short, the initials were, SPInk. I went a whole year with it being Scallop Pink, Ink all while having the world's most confusing URL (www.scalloppinkink.com). In June of 2007, I officially switched the name to Spink Studio and rebranded my company with the more sophisticated Spink Studio logo. I launched my website, www.spinkstudio.com last August and have had great success!



Thanks for all the questions! We'll have to do this again soon!