Dress-up Tea Party Birthday

A super cute invitation for a tea party or dress-up party for your little lady. The invitation is completely customizable with various color schemes and patterns. Email me if you would like a quote for your party.

Please notice a new product that I just started carrying: wrap around address labels!! Add a message as well as an address to the outside of your envelopes. There are 10 labels per sheet and no additional design fee. I can design these for any of my invitations or thank you cards. They work especially well with dark colored envelopes or on smaller sized envelopes when envelope printing is not advised. Pricing depends on quantity needed. Email me for a quote.

On a personal note: When I was a little girl, I had a birthday party just like this one. I clearly recall dressing up in my mom's fancy clothes, complete with a giant hairpiece from the 70s. My mom made a fabulous cake with little favors baked right into the middle. I had "tea", peanut butter and honey sandwiches (no crust, cut into triangles), and cake with my best friends...also dressed to the nines in their mom's clothes.

It was a fabulous party and I believe there are some great mid-1980s photos as a great memento. I'll have to see if my mom can dig a couple out and I'll add them to this post!

CARS Birthday Invitation Suite

Apparently, if you do a Google search for "Cars Birthday Invitations" and look in the images, you can see a picture of the invitations I designed for Connor's 2nd birthday and a link right to this blog! (At least that is how I found it when I did a Google search.) This really excites me!

I learned this because I've had 3 separate requests for Cars invitations customized for their sons in the last 3 weeks. These wonderful new clients don't know me at all (or anyone else that knows me...to my knowledge). Two are actually international!

I've broaden my product line for this set. If you are interested in these cards for the birthday party you are hosting, please send me an email including the products you are interested in and the quantity needed. And if you can dream up something else you would like that I might be able to make, let me know...I'll see what I can do!

Please keep in mind that the invitation also comes in a double sided version with a character coloring sheet on the back. Regardless of size it is 12¢ more per invitation for the coloring sheet. Click here to view.

There are 16 cars in a full set. (Lightning McQueen, Chick Hicks, Doc Hudson, Fillmore, Flo, Guido, the "King", Lizzie, Luigi, Mack, Mater, Ramone, Red, Sally, Sarge, & Sheriff) You are welcome to request which cars are used on your invitations. There is not an additional fee for using one or all.

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Since Cars 2 has now been released, I am now offering a design that is more reflective of the theme of the 2nd movie. Click here to view. When ordering, please specify if you prefer the Cars 1 or Cars 2 design! Thanks!

Spiderman Birthday Invitation

It was great fun designing a customized Spiderman birthday invitation for Grant's big #4! This is available as a single-sided invitation or the double-side option (shown above) with a coloring sheet on the back (similar to the Cars birthday invitations). These can even be customized with the recipient's name the coloring sheet to make them even further personalized and special.

The coordinating thank you cards are approximately 4.25 x 5.5 fold over cards and come with white, red or black envelopes.

I have other Spiderman designs also available if you are interested in a similar product for your child.

Beachy Floral — Save the Date

I am very excited about this entire wedding suite. The save the dates are just a preview to a coordinating invitation for a fun, destination, beach wedding!

These save-the-dates are 5 x 7 postcards printed on a 15 pt. cover stock, coated on one side for added durability in the mail and I will be printing addresses on the cards after I get them back from the printer. (I am very excited about this as I just tested it out yesterday!)

I particularly like the fact that they wrote the date of their wedding in the sand and I am able to use it as a subtle texture on the back side of the card!

It has been a joy to work with this bride and her mom and I can't wait to see how everything turns out!!

Winter Holiday Card

I was recently asked to design a "politically correct" holiday card for our dear friend, and financial advisor. Since he'll be sending these out to all of his clients, he wanted to keep it professional. He wanted a modern look, with black and white as the primary colors. I sent him several design options in a variety of sizes.

He opted for the 4 x 9 horizontal card with rounded corners and coordinating, red envelopes. White would have matched fine, but we didn't want this holiday card to be confused with other business-sized mail.

We are printing his signature on the front of the card, and his return address will be printed on the back flap of the envelope, so hopefully this will save him lots of time when it is time to mail them out!

If you are also looking for a more traditional, non-photographic holiday card, I would me more than happy to meet your design needs as well.

Dan Vis Builders, LLC

Dan is our neighbor, friend, and one of the amazing builders on our street. He asked me to design a logo for his company, and I was happy to help.

Here is the selection I provided as options. Do you have a favorite?
I am working on the business card design and when it is approved, I will add it here as well.

"SHEPHERD" — Sepia & Patterns Birth & Thank You Card

"SHEPHERD"

So, are these not two of the cutest little boys you have ever seen?! Perhaps I am a bit biased, but I'm allowed because I am their aunt! The newest addition to our family, Shepherd Christian Trotter, arrived 4 weeks early on August 28th. It is my privilege to design announcement/thank you cards in his honor.

Super Sweet 1st Birthday

Alli Claire is turning 1! Her mom had the super clever idea of printing a full picture on the backside of a 5 x 7 invitation. This way friends and family have a framable picture of the birthday girl!

Most of the designs I supplied Kelly with were loosely based on an adorable dress she is ordering for the birthday girl. I thought carrying over the cupcake and some of the patterns would tie the two together nicely.

Check back for coordinating thank you cards with a picture of Alli from her party!

Traktr Chrome tshirts

On my personal, family blog, I have a link to this design blog and it says "Nealon Design...everything but book covers". I think this stretches pretty significantly: trucker tshirts!

My neighbor is the head of marketing and I was happy to help out, even if it required me to expand my thinking for product and target market. :)

"We've Moved"

My husband was active duty in the Air Force for 6 years. During this time, we met many absolutely fantastic people, specifically, the McDaniels .The guys met while stationed together in Georgia, then we all moved to Maryland at the same time. We didn't time it so well for our European excursions. We were in Germany for only one year and as we were moving back to the states, the McDaniels were just beginning their German adventure. Three years later they are once again stateside.

I was thrilled to create a very custom change of address card for these dear friends.

Connor's Cars Birthday!

I can't believe my little guy is turning 2 on Sunday! For a while, we were watching the Disney/Pixar movie, Cars once per day. It is a good thing it is such a cute movie with great music! Connor has also really loved playing with some of the diecast cars characters from the movie, so it was fitting for him to have a "Cars" themed birthday.

Luckily for me, Cars 2 is coming out June 24, 2011 and the logo for the movie has already been released. This worked out perfectly because I was able to alter the logo from "Cars" to "Connor's" using a similar typeface and it coordinates with his 2nd birthday! After several designs using multiple characters, it looked too cluttered. So, I opted to one basic design with 16 different cars. So, each invitation is unique!

I also found some cool, free, high resolution Cars coloring images on the internet. I used them on the back of each card to create a little coloring sheet for the kids.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with how they came out. Of course the best part is the Connor wants to play with all the invitations. :) I'm pretty sure he approves of the design.

If you would like personalized invitations for your child's birthday, please email me. See the full Cars Birthday Invitation suite here.

Baseball Birthday #1...or any age...

This is a retro post from my son's first birthday in August of 2009. My husband loves baseball and I was happy to jump on board a baseball themed party. I am well aware that the first birthday is as much of a celebration for the parents as it is for the child...if not more so. We invited the whole neighborhood and all of my family came in from out of town for the festivities. So, I had to go all out...5.14.11 Updated to show options and feature a 2-year old party invitation as well. All of the content can be changed to meet your needs. The size of this invitation is now 3.5 x 8, fitting into an #9 envelope. I would also love to do a retro-antique-y version of this invitation, so if someone gives me an excuse, their design fee will be waived.In line with the baseball theme, I thought it would be cute to design tickets to the party. We've been to many MLB games, so I had many old tickets to use as inspiration. I created a collage of 4 pictures through his first year of life and formatted the rest specific to his special day. The faux barcode has his birth date and time. The party details are repeated in the tear off section with special instructions with the r.s.v.p.

First let me say that I am not a party planner, nor do I want to be. I usually stop at invitations and paper/crafty stuff. But I thought I'd share a few of my other crazy ideas....that were likely way over the top...

I wanted the name of each child that would be attending because as their party favor, each child got their own pennant! It took me a while, but I cut every stinkin' one of those letters out of felt. :) I think the kids (ages 1-9) really liked the favor and it made a great decoration for our mantle.I dreamed up the idea for the cake several months before the party. Seriously...I dreamed it. I wanted to make a whole stadium. The field was made out of 2 giant cookie cakes put together. The bleacher seats in outfield, complete with "fans" were made using small cupcakes. I even had a crazy idea that they needed to be multi-cultural, so we used a variety of cake mixes: chocolate, yellow, white, & spice. My fabulous sister-in-law piped "hair" onto the fans in different styles using chocolate icing or yellow icing tinted yellow with food coloring. The same "fans" held signs with letters spelling out "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" and Connor was written in the outfield. The grass was made using two different shades of green sprinkles over white icing. Connor's smash cake held the #1 candle and was in the middle of the outfield bleachers. Normal size cupcakes decorated like baseballs lined the rest of the field. I know...a little over the top. Thank goodness my family was in town and willing to help because my sister-in-law and I were in a car accident several hours before the party! Thankfully no one was seriously injured, but it certainly added additional drama to the day!

Prior to the actual day of the party, I made baseball cake balls, stuck them on lollipop sticks and put them in a baseball Easter basket with a big styrofoam ball to hold them up...complete with green "grass". These were relatively easy to make and went over big as a sweet little appetizer before we cut the cake. Leave a comment if you want me to post directions. Don't look too closely...they are NOT perfect at all, but you get the point and not bad for my first try. :)

And the last homemade element of the party was the onesie I hand painted for Connor. This is what he changed into after he got a little messy from his little smash cake. Of course he is pictured riding one of his brand new birthday gifts!

Connor won't remember the party or any of the extra touches I did to make his day super special. However, I have fabulous memories of planning and executing and I love looking back at the pictures. They are a wonderful reminder of what a wonderful time we had, with lots of little baseball details....all with my special little slugger in mind. We are so blessed.

PALMS BIKINI-LINE Beach Bachelorette

--2016--
I just updated this listing and have added it to my NealonDesign Etsy store! The design is now available in a fancy "curvy" shape with your choice of 3 standard color schemes (I am also open to color requests).
Please click HERE for a direct link to this listing to place your order! Thank you for your interest!

--2010--
I had so much fun working on this little project. My sister-in-law is hosting and wanted to tastefully combine both lingerie and the beach into the invitation. She came up with the idea of the clothesline of lingerie between palm trees and I just ran with it.

These invitations are 3.35 x 7.35, "monarch" & double-sided. Printed on 100 lb white paper, trimmed with rounded corners (not shown above) and come with white envelopes.

I hope the girls in attendance like their invitations. They are sure to have a fabulous time!

Toy Story Birthday Invitation

Being little can be so fun! Ava is having a Toy Story themed birthday party and her mom sought me out after having a hard time finding cute, personalized invitations for the event. I had a blast researching and coming up with a handful of fun layouts for her to choose from. Janine couldn't decide, so she let Ava choose, and this was the favorite. I think she made a good choice. :)

RECIPE Shower Invitation

My fabulous sister-in-law brought me this business for her best friend's recipe shower. Let me just say that these turned out super cute! Those that know me are well aware that the smallest things can make me so happy. In this case, it is my trusty paper cutter with a perforation attachment that allowed me to create a very functional, and quite adorable (if I may say so myself) tear-off recipe card! Each guest will provide the bride-to-be with a new recipe and coordinating gift (pans, spoons, etc.).

The invitations are 5 x 7, and the recipe card is a double sided 3 x 5 card. I printed these on the heaviest stock my printer can handle: 130 lb cover stock, so each card is almost twice as thick as a normal index card. This will help preserve the recipes and great memories from her shower for years to come!