Featured | ruffled blog
rustic | spanish | lace | velvet | fall | wine | calligraphy | elegant | formal
photographer: Chris Wojdak Photography
designer: Franchine Ribeau Events
calligraphy & invitations: Moira Design Studio
florals: Il Profumo Dei Fiori
Featured | style me pretty!
seaside | calligraphy | watercolor | sea breeze | antique stamps | silver flatware | rope | quote | white | pale blue | gauzy | airy | light
photography: Krista A Jones
design: Alex Meyer
stationary & calligraphy: Moira Design Studio
flowers: The Floral Studio
"...In you I wrap a thousand onward years."
Featured | Flutter Magazine
A few weeks back I had the pleasure of hosting Kim from Flutter Magazine in my Philadelphia studio. She had asked me to create menus for a dinner party using watercolor that could easily be reproduced for her readers. For all the step-by-step instructions, visit her Hearts A Flutter blog.
Logo Design | Branding Suite
ocean | thin | dainty | monogram | blues | cool | feminine | arrow
Logo Design | Annie Parish Photography
calligraphy | hand written | simple | elegant | extended | hunter | monogram
Collection | Ainsley Suite
feminine | delicate | artwork | watercolor | floral | blush | green | garden | summer
Logo Design | Jessica Morrisy Photography
playful | floral | calligraphy | lettering | feminine | watercolor | sketch
Collection | Kingsly Suite
I have always adored this suite - this particular shade of blue is one of my favorites! All of the designs in the Design Studio collection begin with a design board. From there, a bride is able to select the elements she likes and arrange them in any fashion she chooses! I love the hand drawn anchor on this one, and the subtle texture on the watercolor stripes is just lovely!
nautical | yacht | classic | preppy | summer | ocean | cool | comfortable
Bespoke | design boards
Both with full invitation suites and branding suites, I like to do a board like this...they're a wonderful visual tool for brides as well as business owner to see all of their design elements and color palette in one place. Plus I think they look so pretty!
Logo Design | Simone Lennon Events
calligraphy | branding | elegant | traditional | clean | simple | fair
New Logo Suite
I am super excited to show off all my new logos! I have always wanted to use a font with a bit more personality and movement rather than the formal and flourished, so here they are!! In care you arent familiar with my family of companies, heres the run down:
Moira Design Studio | invitation design, artwork, and stationery
Design House of Moira | main company hosting a mixture of all my work
Moira Events | event design and details
Moira Ink | calligraphy & lettering
Moira Evocate | my newest company! the website isn't even live yet, but will be soon. branding and logo design
Bespoke | classic calligraphy suite
calligraphy | save the date | wax seal | tassel | elegant | antique lace | deckled edge | classic | traditional
workshop | west elm summer series
i am so thrilled to partner with west elm this summer for a series of workshops! for my first workshop, i did a quick fire calligraphy class. the workshops are designed to build on one another, so i'll actually be doing another calligraphy workshop in a few weeks so students can take one or both.
students were greeted with some tasty treats and guava jasmine tea prior to the class. for this particular style of workshop, i taught two specific fonts styles and a set of specific words that are applicable to the overall workshop series.
Instagram Weekly
This week on Instagram...this is such a gorgeous suite that I have the pleasure of creating. It included a watercolor pattern of gorgeous blown open roses and buds and it was mixed with a pale watercolor stripe. The suite itself was all hand lettered on deckled edge paper, tied up with thread and assembled with a wax monogram seal. More to come!
Featured...Style Me Pretty Living!
I've begun offering some sort of little holiday goodie in the form of a free downloadable and printable pieces, and our Mother's Day printables are featured on Style Me Pretty Living today! You can check out the entire post here.
The collection of designs feature calligraphy and hand lettering, as well as springy yellow floral pieces. You can download the designs through the Studio Shoppe here! I did feature one design that was lettering only as well, in case anyone wants to keep it simple. For the Style Me Pretty feature, the designs were paired with envelopes from Paper Source in their colors Curry, Leaf and Chartreuse. I also paired the pieces with some vintage stamps from my own collection for a little added detail (little known fact, did you know that I have an extensive stamp collection?). Enjoy!
Instagram weekly
This week on instagram Im playing around a bit with a new font style that I've been working on and developing over the past few months...it still is nameless, but Im really liking it. It is long and sloopy with extending tails on either end. I'll be doing some workups on the most recently added calligraphy fonts for my sample packs and will post some more pictures of this style in action soon.
workshops | summer series with West Elm
I am thrilled and excited to announce my partnership with West Elm!! I have created a summer workshop series to be hosted by West Elm Philadelphia. Starting mid May and continuing every other week through August, we will be focusing on creating a memorable and personalized dinner party. We kept the cost down so everyone can come and enjoy the fun! You can register for the workshops through the Studio Shoppe here, as well as check out the details of each workshop. The evenings will include quickfire calligraphy and lettering classes, summer cocktail recipes, monogramming your table linens, personalizing glassware, and much more!
...in process - behind the scenes
There are always lots of projects going on around the studios. At the moment, the Philadelphia studio is working with Bespoke Letterpress in Australia on some envelopes in white ink on navy, and we're just starting a project with white ink on aubergine. I know I'm not alone in finding calligraphy beautiful, but sometimes I just love observing the simple beauty of works in progress...
April collaboration with the curious calligrapher
we love the curious calligrapher - the forum that margaret corely and fozzy castro-dayrit created to bring both aspiring and beginning calligraphers together. i love the camaraderie and support that exists here and i wold definitely recommend checking it out - so many resources, not to mention so much prettiness!
they have been offering a free downloadable desktop background each month and i was honored to have the opportunity to create the background for the month of april. i wanted to create something light and delicate including uplifting words about spring as well as some pretty blossoms. having recently relocated to portland, oregon after living in the deserts of arizona for five years, i have been so blessed by the beauty of the blossoming spring trees here in the pacific northwest!
i hope that you enjoy the background! you may download it here. what is your favorite thing about springtime?
Bespoke...Santorini Destination Wedding Invitations
When approached to create a suite for a destination wedding in Santorini, I jumped at the opportunity!
This suite differs from our typical work a tad...when building the ideas and design elements that this suite would be created around, I toyed with the idea of creating an illustration that embodied the classic Santorini buildings. We also wanted to incorporate the distinctive blues of both the classic Santorini rooftops as well as the surrounding piercing blue ocean. In the end, we nixed the building idea and decided to keep it a bit more simple and focus on the blues and the movement of the ocean.
I used a watercolor wash as a base in a vibrant cerulean blue, letting the wash be uneven in saturation. I then illustrated a map of the island itself and used that as an overlay for both the backers as well as envelope liner. I used a fairly flourished calligraphy style to balance out the simplicity of the suite.
