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Love Potion Font [Friday Favorites]

While love is in the air, I want to share the cutest little hand drawn serif font family, Love Potion. Three fonts (regular, bold and ornaments) that include extravagant ligatures, swash letters, catchwords, arrows, borders and other little specials. Seriously adorable, right?

Zander and I are going to celebrate Valentine’s Day tonight. With Mardi Gras on Tuesday we just couldn’t handle it yesterday. Did you do anything special yesterday?

Love Potion Font

Love Potion Font Usage

Description and samples from MyFonts.

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Bing It To Life at Alt Summit

When I walked into the Bing It To Life Lounge at Alt Summit the LAST thing I expected to see was my travel map pin board, but there it was, and it was huge! Bing took submissions of writing, creations and ideas to showcase and my DIY creation was chosen to come to life! While my original project was to record travels of my boyfriend and I, it was really special to see bloggers from all over interacting with my idea and pinning their business cards to the map! It was so surreal to see it all over Instagram and it was such a cool way to see where everyone was from. I was surprised to see that I was the only Louisiana blogger there. Louisiana bloggers, where y’at?? 

Alt SLC 2013 - Thursday Morning

CieraHolzenthalMap-Alt-SLC-2013-by-Justin-Hackworth

Alt SLC 2013 - Friday Morning

Alt Summit Business Card Cork Map Design Camp

Alt Summit Business Card Cork Map

Alt SLC 2013 - Friday Morning

Alt-Summit-Business-Card-Map-Instagram-Round-Up

You can check out some of the other awesome projects from Bing It To Life on Bing’s Facebook page and Alt Summit’s Flickr page.

Photos by Brooke Dennis + Justin Hackworth + Ciera Holzenthal. Instagrams from @agoldenafternoon, @passionfruitads, @armelle_blog, @traceytee27, @macyrobison, @brianna_land, @armelle_blog, @littlelessy, @pencilshavings, @promisetangeman, @jelliottblake, @bunnyanddolly, @artifactuprising, @jeannepmeyer, @prettypleaseus, @linneapaulina, @lindseybuck, @cieraholzenthal, @beckykimball, @momathonblog, @littlelessy, @liagriffith, @caytlynchilelli, @ccpaper, @lauratrevey, @teambing, @darlingstudio, @melbuswell, @pencilshavings, @glitterinclexi, @jennysolar, @theresagonzalezsf, @hilarycarpenter, @squirrellyminds, @stylizedex

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The Business Cards of Alt Summit 2013

Hi y’all! I’m back from Alt Summit and trying to get back into the swing of normal life. It was the best, most exhausting four days of my life! While I’m still processing all of the information I took in, I decided to share some of my favorite business cards from the awesome bloggers and brands I met while in Salt Lake City. Since Alt is a conference for creative people, the business card exchange has become a beautiful and fun tradition, now in it’s fourth year. I have linked to all of their blogs so click around if you are looking for some awesome new people to follow, I still have some exploring to do myself!

The Business Cards of Altitude Summit 2013

Black & White: A Pair of Pears / The Hive Studio / Wednesday Custom Design / The Hourglass Files / Pinegate Road / Carrier & Associates / Courtney Callahan Paper

Alt Summit Business Cards 2013 - Black and White

Alt Summit Business Cards 2013 - Black and White Pile

Blue: Confetti Pop / The Land of Nod / Honest / Melissa Esplin / Sharon McMullen / Michelle Edgemont

Alt Summit Business Cards 2013 - Blue

Alt Summit Business Cards 2013 - Blue Pile

Coral & Peach: Bunny & Dolly / Tea Collection / The Curtis Casa / You + Me / The Proper Pinwheel / Ciera Design (me)

Alt Summit Business Cards 2013 - Coral and Peach

Alt Summit Business Cards 2013 - Coral and Peach Pile

Black: Citizens of Humanity / And Then We Saved / Foxtrot Press / Donuts, Dresses and Dirt / Estera Events

Alt Summit Business Cards 2013 - Black

Pink & Red: Whitney English / Get Married / Michael Miller Fabrics / A Style Moment / Amber Housley / Hitch Design Studio

Alt Summit Business Cards 2013 - Red and Pink

Alt Summit Business Cards 2013 - Red and Pink Pile

Alt Summit Business Cards 2013 - Stack

Lexy from The Proper Pinwheel and Melisa from LuLu the Baker really blew me away with the time spent on their cards. I mean, Lexy stitched together glitter garland for everyone!

Alt Summit Business Cards - The Proper Pinwheel and LuLu The Baker

Alt set up these boards in the hallway for everyone to stick their cards too, so fun! I was seriously amazed by all of the creativity!

Alt SLC 2013 - Thursday Afternoon

Do you have a favorite card here? Or were you at Alt and receive a super special one? I’ll be recapping different aspects of Alt Summit next week, so stay tuned! I’ll also be sharing the cards that I brought to hand out!

All images by Ciera Holzenthal except the last one is by Justin Hackworth from Alt Summit’s Flickr stream.

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Maybe This Inspired That // In Bloom by Hollie Fernando

Maybe This Inspired That // In Bloom by Hollie Fernando

The Art // I find a lot of inspiration in photography. This In Bloom series by Hollie Fernando highlights the natural beauty of the model and the flowers. I especially love this double exposure photo—it’s as if she’s looking through a floral curtain. Magical.

The Inspired // Fig. 01, Fig. 02, Fig. 03

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Maybe This Inspired That // Minerals by Emma Dajska

The Art // Sometimes the best things are the simplest. Emma Dajska’s graphic illustration of jewels is bold and elegant with her use of solid black lines. Wouldn’t this be fabulous fabric?

The Inspired // Fig. 01, Fig. 02, Fig. 03

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Maybe This Inspired That // Take Care of Your Friends by Francisca Pageo

 

The Art // I love the collage work by Spanish artist Francisca Pageo. She often uses animals and women’s faces along with blocks of texture and color to create organic compositions that evoke a mysterious, peek-a-boo-like story.

The Inspired // Fig. 01, Fig. 02, Fig. 03

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Merry & Bright – Desktop Wallpaper Freebie

Here today to get your computer into the holiday spirit with December’s free download! I hope you enjoy this one! I have also listed it in my Society6 shop, loving this design for holiday greeting cards! And now through December 9th, I’m offering free shipping* to my readers, just follow the links in this post!

Merry & Bright Desktop // Merry & Bright iPhone

 

 Downloads are for personal use only. *Promotion expires December 9, 2012 at Midnight Pacific Time. Offer excludes Framed Art Prints, Stretched Canvases and Throw Pillows with insert.

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Maybe This Inspired That // Lost by Holly Sharpe

The Art // Holly Sharpe’s mix of ink and paint create beautifully haunting illustrations. Her perfectly imperfect use of black line contrasts with the fluid, watery colors she delicately paints on top.

The Inspired // Fig. 01, Fig. 02, Fig. 03

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Dom Loves Mary Font [Friday Favorites]

Happy Friday! I am SO excited about today’s favorite font! Last week I received this amazing box in the mail presenting a new font from Debi Sementelli and Brian J. Bonislawsky of Correspondence Ink. The font, Dom Loves Mary, was inspired by and created in memory of Debi’s in-laws, Dominic and Mary Sementelli. The package was such a creative way to present the story behind the font and also included some amazing letter pressed note cards from Aerialist Press!

Dom Loves Mary Script Letterpressed Cards Aerialist Press

Dom Loves Mary Script Font Promo Box

 

WHAT’S UNIQUE ABOUT THE DOM LOVES MARY FONT FAMILY:

The script and text fonts are lettering styles that were made to compliment each other. The script, with a vintage, classic feel, will add elegance to your design, while the text serves to offer support with easy to read simplicity.

In addition to the standard character set, each of the uniquely styled script fonts includes a collection of flourished ornaments. Use them to create corners, headers or other embellishments to complete the look. And if you really want to fancy things up, they offer two sets of 72 additional flourishes that were specifically made to add to upper and lower case letters for easy customization. Dress them up with one, two or more. It’s like choosing simple pearls or piling on the glitz!

Dom Loves Mary also has a set of the most frequently used add-on words. This set of 66 includes envelope friendly titles including Mr., Mrs. and Miss, as well as words to fill out your invitation suite including RSVP, Respond, Save the Date, Accommodations, Directions and more! Add-on words also include angled words like and, at, to, on, for, from and of to add a special touch to your large groups of copy.

 

Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy by Ciera Design

I had some time to test out the font and I just love all of the variations and flourishes it offers! For the design above I used a combination of the three Dom Loves Mary script fonts for the wording (you get all three in the Pro package). The capital N is from the Stylistic version, while most of the lower case letters are from the Contextual version. To encapsulate the saying, I chose two simple flourishes. The top one comes from Flourishes One set, while the bottom is from the Flourishes Two set. To read more about the inspiration behind the Dom Loves Mary font (it is truly a great story) and the diverse packages available for purchase head over to Correspondence Ink on MyFonts!

A VERY SPECIAL DEAL FOR CIERA DESIGN READERS!

Debi is offering 40% off her new font with discount code “bloglove” when you purchase at MyFonts, this is an amazing deal!

I received a copy of Dom Loves Mary c/o Correspondence Ink. All opinions are my own.

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Maybe This Inspired That // Thankful Forest Card by Rifle Paper Co.

The Art // Rifle Paper Co. always comes out with the most charming greeting cards for every season. Hand illustrated by founder Anna Bond, these paper goods offer a personal and whimsical touch to inspire your holiday.

The Inspired // Fig. 01, Fig. 02, Fig. 03

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