wedding thank you cards from MINTED

Um, so Happy NOVEMBER! Not quite sure how that happened but it's here, it's happening. This is a (very) long overdue blog post I've had planned for y'all. Another wedding post because let's be honest, weddings are truly the best am I right?

I was so beyond excited to work with Minted again on some of our wedding stuff! This company is so magical and lovely and every time I work with them I come back happier and more excited than the last time. We knew we were going to do our Thank You cards with Minted, and it took us a long while to decide on the perfect photo and theme for our card!  This was the last step in wedding planning (omg, so sad) and we wanted to be sure that it still stayed within the theme and vibe of our wedding day. I also wanted to make sure these all got out to our friends and family from all over before sharing the design with you all.

In case you don't know who Minted is yet, you should absolutely take a peak on their website because what they create is so so beautiful. (I just caught myself exploring their home section now that we bought a house - ahhhhh!)

A bit more about Minted...

"We believe that great design lives and thrives in the hands of independent artists that people do not have access to through traditional retailers. Minted uses technology to allow consumers to discover great creative talent, making Minted a place where artists can learn, gain exposure, and build their businesses"

"Minted's community of independent artists and designers are located in 48 states and 43 countries. They are illustrators and textile designers, painters and packaging designers, marketers and stay-at-home moms. Some have design degrees, and others are participating in Minted competitions to learn design for the first time. They share a deep love for creative expression, personal development, risk-taking, and most importantly, paying it forward by helping each other."

Once again I am so happy with how these came out. They are on beautiful thick matte paper, and the rose gold letter press is like a dream. You can see the photo above is our Thank You card framed (with a little confetti of course!) Love this idea for a cute keepsake ♥

Now, I must go so I can look at all of the beautiful Christmas card templates and try and decide what Christmas cards we'll order this year! 

Original photo from our amazing photographer Jess!

whish wedding, part ten - a few little details

Happy Sunday! It's been a fun and pretty chill weekend for me. Pete was away for the weekend at a Bachelor party so I've been getting some stuff done around our place and relaxing. I went to see Ghostbusters last night with some friends and it was SO good! I definitely recommend it.

I wanted to share a few of our cute little wedding day details with you guys! I took and styled these photo's myself. The colours & vibe very much reflect our wedding day. We had lots of confetti, colour, cute straws, flowers and cute little details.

The matches you see in the photo were part of our wedding favours (I will share those soon!) and I always knew I wanted matchbooks because that is what my parents did for their wedding in 1976! I still even have some of those matches ♥ The custom stir sticks were one of my favourite little details of the day too! Everyone had them in their drinks and in their pockets which I thought was so cute. We had them made from an Etsy shop called Etchey and they did SUCH an amazing job, we still have lots left so I am excited to use them for drinks when we have guests over!

Next up are these dreamy menu's from Minted ♥ I knew that I wanted to get some custom menu's made for the big day so that they could go with the theme and vibe of our day. I spent forever looking at Minted because there were so many options! We ended up going with this sweet design and they were just perfect! I am always beyond happy with any cards paper goods I order from Minted. They literally have something for everyone and I love being able to support designers while finding the perfect piece.  This design is called Simple Flora and you can customize however you'd like, I couldn't fit everything the way I wanted but the Minted designers fixed them up and made them look lovely. Cannot wait to order our thank you cards from Minted as well - we found the perfect design that is just so Pete & Jules!

Minted Christmas Cards!

it's the most wonderful time of the year!

It's here, it's finally (almost) here. My favourite time of the year, what I wait for alllllll year long - Christmasss! Oh I am so happy. Even though I LOVE Christmas more than anything, I still wait a bit to get my decorations up until it really feels real. For me, the official "kick off to christmas" is The Toronto Santa Claus which is usually mid November. Since the parade just happened this past Sunday I am definitely feeling those special Christmas feels ♥

This is my third year in a row ordering my Christmas cards from Minted and once again, I absolutely LOVE how they turned out and am beyond excited to start writing them out to some of my favourite people! There are so many different templates and styles to choose from but this one really stuck out for me, I absolutely love the font, and knew I wanted to use one of our engagement photo's for the background and am happy with how it turned out.

Minted is a design marketplace of independent artists from around the world! I love the concept so much and it's something I am always really excited to support. I love that it's a place where artists can learn, gain exposure and build their businesses. Especially since I am someone with a similar dream.

All holiday cards are available with matching envelope designs and recipient addressing! (free for a limited time) and on top of that, there are tons of other adorable things to add in too! I got some custom gift tags that I will share with you soon, and adorable stickers too!

For more inspiration on all the beautiful prints, cards, photos, stickers etc - get connected with Minted:

Instagram // Twitter // Website

* this is a sponsored post. please know that jules only chooses to work with brands that she loves, believes in and best reflect her personal brand & blog *

Whish Wedding, Part Six, All the (save the date) details!

Hello Beautiful & H A P P Y   S A T U R D A Y!

What a beautiful sunny Saturday! I am excited to share a little wedding love with you guys today! Now that Summer is over, Pete and I are finally getting back in to the swing of things and spending some time on wedding planning (so excited!)

A few weeks ago I shared our beautiful save the dates from Minted that we were beyond happy with! & today I wanted to share the other little surprises that went with every save the date that we mailed. First, confetti (DUH!) I spent hours filling these little bags with a variety of confetti, and then finishing it off with a little washi tape, and a label that says "Whish Wedding" (FYI  Pete's last name is Whish! So that's my future last name) and our hashtag for the day is #WhishWedding

Next is a save the date balloon we got made for our guests! I didn't want to use a balloon only, because I liked the idea of everyone having something to hang up in their home or save if they wanted to. When looking at getting the balloons we talked about different fonts and what would be best, and then I realized I could just write it myself ♥ so with the help of my dear friend Amy, I was able to scan my font in to a graphic and have it printed on balloons!

The balloons turned out awesome and everyone really loved them! I really needed some extra cuteness to go with the cards, as I am a strong advocate of the DO MORE phrase. Super happy with how all these cuties turned out, and I guess it's almost time to start thinking about our invitations!

My "save the dates" from Minted!

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Happy Friday & long weekend, beautiful! This has been a long week, and I've been awfully tired so it's been going by really slow. I could not be more excited for this weekend in the city! I've got lots of fun on the go this weekend, but more so lots of work to do! Time to seriously crush it (some exciting stuff to share with you very soon! It has to do with my cute by jules brand & ETSY!)

Today I am BEYOND excited to finally share with you all, our wedding SAVE THE DATES! As soon as we got talking about what we'd do for our save the dates, I knew I would be ordering them from Minted, because they make the most beautiful things and of course, these had to be perfect! I've had the pleasure of working with Minted before and I'm so excited to share these with you guys!

There are so many adorable templates, and I took some serious time looking through all of them to find the one that I felt was really "Pete & Jules" - the one we chose was actually a template for a Engagement Party, and with everything on Minted you can customize the text for your prints. This one is just too cute! I LOVE the Oh Happy Day message at the top (and people have mentioned that it looks like my writing!) the colours are sweet, and the pearly paper is devine! And of course, we went with the gold glitter envelopes because DUH!

We've finally got (almost) every save the date in the mail and this is a big "to do" to cross off of our list. A bunch of different little things went in to completing these save the dates, and I will do another post with the other goodies soon! Here are some photo's! Thanks for Minted for these and for fuelling my love of things beautiful and cute. If you don't know Minted yet, check them out below!:

// Minted Website!

// Minted on Instagram!

// Minted on Twitter!

// Minted on Pinterest!

// this is a sponsored post, please know that i only work with companies that i love and feel truly fit my brand. this blog gives me the opportunity to grow, be creative and stay inspired, thank you for reading and following along with me!

Whish Wedding - Part Three, Sneak Peak!

O  h     H  a  p  p  y     D  a  y!   ♥

Happy Monday Gorgeous! Hope you had a lovely weekend and made some sweet memories. Pete & I had another great weekend, but I am seriously happy to be sitting here snuggled up with a glass of wine while watching The Batchelorette.

Does anyone else feel like this Summer is flying by way too fast? I cannot believe that it's already mid July! I am excited for lots of fun things we've got planned for the rest of the Summer!

Speaking of plans, my next few weeks are going to be spent doing some serious wedding planning! Oh, it still excites me to say that! :) --  we've made some real progress in the last two months, but we have some things to do in the next couple weeks, and that includes sending our wedding guests some special mail, our save the dates! I will be crafting a few things to go along with these absolutely gorgeous save the dates we got from Minted - I always LOVE working with Minted, and what they create is truly beautiful ♥

Here's a little sneak peak of the save the dates we got from Minted! // Pete and I chose them together and we really thought these ones were totally us! This writing looks very similar to my own. I don't want to do my full post until our friends and family get them in the mail, so more coming soon! Promise.

Minted Review : The Prettiest Christmas Cards!

Oh hey guys! I'm sorry for my lack of posts, I've been busy being little miss christmas, and then getting a horrible cold after doing four christmas parties in a row. But after a day and a half of rest, I am on my way to feeling human again. Need to get to 100% again by this weekend so I can start all over again! 

I am beyond excited to be working with Minted again this Christmas! They truly make the most beautiful products that are perfect and pretty as can be. For the second year in a row I ordered our Christmas cards from Minted and beyond happy with how they turned out. The paper used for the cards is thick and smooth, and the colour is bright and wonderful. They have so many amazing templates that it was really hard to choose just one! 

This year I went with the "Tis the season to be jolly" template, with a photo of Pete and I at my pal Jenna's wedding last New Years Eve! So far everyone who has seen them or received one has been over the moon excited with it! :) 

I also ordered a few custom notebooks as Christmas Gifts, so I will post about them after Christmas so I don't spoil it in case the people I got them for are reading!

If you haven't had the pleasure of getting something from Minted yet, you should definitely check them out! Anything from Invitations, Save the dates, Thank you cards, Christmas cards, notebooks, planners etc! I could not be happier with how my goodies turned out and I'm looking forward to my next order.

minted review post - the cutest of cute.

Ever since I heard of minted I have spent so much time drooling over everything they have to offer! 

Pete and I had our Christmas cards made from minted and everyone was raving about how perfect they were. When I was given the chance to order some of their Valentine's day goodies, I had such a hard time choosing because I wanted it all! After some serious thought, I chose some really sweet items.

♥ custom made valentines! - they say [ "you're the best" love, jules ] and they were cute as can be. I loved having a blank back on the card to write a personal message and they even came with a perfect tiny little envelope. People just loved them & I have some saved for some special people.

Here they are below ;

♥ Baby Avery memories journal! - My BFF's babygirl Aves turned one last weekend (I can't believe it!) and I wanted to give Carly something special for the big day. I figured an absolutely precious journal custom with a photo of Aves and a message would be perfect. Would you look at that! The cutest ever, she LOVED it. I will definitely do something similar as a gift again soon.

Ok but isn't she the cutest babe in the world? ;

♥ Blog idea notebook! Going with the theme of love, I figured why not create a custom notebook to store all of my blog goals and dreams in? Seems fitting! These two colours together are heaven, and I customized the font at the bottom to my blog name the life of a cupcake - I plan on putting it to use this weekend.

Hearts & Notebooks & All the cuteness ;

♥ Place cards, those little cards you see in the photo's are also just adorable. Can't wait to use them for an upcoming party I plan! 

How perfect is that arrow though? '

I'm so impressed with minted once again! Just the whole experience is lovely and so easy. They have the most adorable templates and gift ideas. The packaging is as cute as everything inside too (which is always such a pleasant surprise) Their stuff is great quality and for someone who loves to spoil people and give them little things to say how much I love them, well minted is a dream come true.

Check them out if you haven't already
Minted website
Minted blog
Minted on twitter
Minted on instagram @minted

XO.