The Meaning of Love

We are officially in love with our recently released new wedding album. After months of planning, designing, re-designing, naming and collaborating, we were finally ready to release a beautiful and sophisticated new line of Luscious Verde wedding invitations. Keeping true to our style of bold patterns, thick and colorful cardstock, custom die-cuts and unique typesetting, our new catalog reflects who we are as a boutique luxury stationery manufacturer. We hope you love our new line as much as we do!

What's Up, Dog?

One of the coolest things about our company is that we can create pretty much anything you'd like out of paper. My job, as head estimator, is to take various design ideas from our retail stores and see if they can be created in our shop. The hardest part is trying to take an amazing design idea and transfer it into the realm of paper. We've done everything from a swiveling peace-themed holiday card; a glass of whiskey with ice cubes; pretty much every skyline imaginable (other than Topeka); to custom watercolor paintings.

With the release of our 2011 Holiday Update, we've added an awesome section where we will hand-draw your dog! Our artists here will draw your pup, or pretty much anything else you'd like. Awesome, right? I'm honestly in awe of the talent we have here.

-- Megan @ L.V.

Truly Custom Design Challenge!

Are you ready to take your creativity to a new level? How can you distinguish your holiday cards from what is readily available, cheaply, on the Internet?

 

Luscious Verde is here to help. Your Luscious Verde stationery professional can provide you with a unique and truly personalized product. We know that wading through endless options can be confusing and scary. To help you navigate this uncharted territory, we have put together a new design guide to help you work through the wide variety of options available through Luscious Verde. Visit your retailer to view this design guide.

 

Use your design guide in conjunction with our holiday catalogs! For example, did you know that Luscious Verde has over 200 liner patterns? Did you know that we can change the size AND colors of each of these patterns to match your photos or holiday party invitation? Did you know that we can create a custom pattern just for you?!

In honor of our new design guide, we’re issuing a fun challenge for you, available through your local Luscious Verde retailer.

From now until December 24th, 2011, you can enter your Luscious Verde holiday card order into our first ever Truly Custom Design Challenge.

One winner, judged by your pals at Luscious Verde, will be selected to receive their holiday cards half off!

And then your order will be famous! Because we are going to talk about it a lot and feature it on lots of social media.

Winner will be announced the week of January 2, 2012. All entries must be willing to be featured on our blog and Facebook page.

Rules for submission:

• Note on your order form that you would like the order to be entered into our Truly Custom Design Challenge


• Applicable to holiday cards (including New Year’s cards) submitted 10/19/11 through 12/24/11 ONLY


• Card can be a photo or non-photo card or invitation


• Inspiration can be found in an existing LV design, but submission must be original in some meaningful way (changing a typestyle or paper color does not qualify). Qualification is 100 percent at the discretion of Luscious Verde


• If your order meets our qualification standards, you can choose the option to have a free color mock-up


• Cards will be judged based on the following:
  
  
  
  • color combination
  
  
  • typestyle/typesetting
  
  
  • use of imagery
  
  
  • use of pattern
  
  
  • use of any available embellishments
  
  
  • unusual construction
  
  
  • witty expression/wording
  
  
  
  

Please keep in mind, custom design time will be billed at Luscious Verde's published rates.Luscious Verde will do the labor, you provide the creative ideas and inspiration!

Going Mobile

 

This week's Hot Card is a little ray of pink sunshine coming from our friends at R.S.V.P. in Roslyn, New York. The original inspiration comes from our Essentials album and is featured there on an A8-size baby shower card. The concept was then transformed into an adorable soft pink and brown custom baby girl announcement. The die-cut mobile was made a little bit smaller to accommodate the A2-size card (at no additional cost) and the colors were changed for the baby girl (no additional cost as well). The rhinestone is also a nice addition to create another layer of texture and sparkle. The thank-you note and return address labels correspond with the announcement by pulling in the heart from the mobile. Overall, this is one of our favorite birth announcements!

 

-- Megan @ L.V.

Captain Verde

While we're all waiting for Thor to change up the weather around these parts (the film The Avengers is currently filming in and around Cleveland), let's fast-forward a bit to a season known as "Holiday" in the stationery world. Our 2011 Holiday Update is finally out in the big, wide world, and it offers some amazing designs and new stylings. We're also rolling out our brand-new letterpress designs, which add a great depth to our already-custom die-cuts. Let us know what you think!