Custom Handmade Invitations with Olive Branch Art

Luxurious layers of buttercream cotton cardstocks make up this 3 layer rustic elegance olive branch wedding invitations design. Printed in painterly detail, our custom handmade olive branch invitations welcome the rustic theme with elegant style!

Designed for our NYC client, the original olive branch watercolor artwork is re-created with fabulous color on this wedding invitation.

Optional harmonious green and off-white twine wraps up this design in a hand-crafted bundle wedding guests are sure to LOVE.

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Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions today.

Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Wedding Invitations

Pinch me! Working with watercolor crab and adirondack chair art always makes feel like I’m sitting by the sea!!

Introducing … The CHESAPEAKE BAY Design!

This Chesapeake Bay wedding invitation is an original hand-crafted custom design featuring my original hand-painted artworks. Beautiful shades of blue, navy, white, and pearl hues lends the look of a coastal collage. The soft pearl color background card layer resembles seashells found on the seashore.

Personalized nautical flags replicate the couples first initials on the reply card. Fonts, ink colors, and more can be customized just for you.

The tri-fold pocketfolder keeps your wedding details perfectly organized for your guests. On the right side the reply card and envelope as well as the accommodations card is tucked into the pocket neatly. On the front, a personalized card with a border of pearlized sparkle cardstock.

Bridal shower invitations, rehearsal dinner invites, save the dates, menus, wedding programs, table cards, name seating cards, thank you cards, and more are available to match your sea-worthy stationery theme.

The navy sparkly folder resembles the sea basking in the sunlight. If you REALLY love sparkle, we can hand-paint the blue crab with a bit of fine sparkle to add a handmade touch!

This design is customizable to match your color scheme. Create a new nautical look with an anchor motif, compass, sailboat, oars, and more. Remember, I am an artist and LOVE to help you express your unique personal style! Most times I already have the artwork you are looking for.

If you have any questions at all, please contact me directly! michelle@mospensstudio.com

Happy Learn About Butterflies Day

Today is Learn About Butterflies Day!

A decade ago, I had the GREAT pleasure of buying two monarch chrysalises at our local YANKEE PEDDLER festival. Our son was only 3 going on 4 then! Oh what a fun activity to share with a child. Watching the chrysalis change and morph into a beautiful butterfly is an amazing way to share nature with your little.

The birth of a monarch butterfly. (I wrote this in 2003)

“Inside an emerald green color chrysalis awaits a monarch butterfly to be “born.”  They appear as if each is hand painted emerald jewelry graced with metallic gold and black accents. TRULY GORGEOUS! The monarch is snug and making a true metamorphous inside. Watching the two chrysalis emerge into two beautiful butterflies has inspired me to finally create the watercolor butterfly design I have been longing to paint.

The transparent chrysalis, is a sure sign the monarch is ready to emerge! As the monarch butterfly emerges … she stretches out her moist wings to gently dry them. After drying out their wings they began to drink the nectar from the black eyed susan and butterfly bush flowers I had ready for them. Spritzing their new environment with water for them to drink … I knew in 2 days it was time to let them go. Both butterflies were released and they are on their way to Mexico! To learn more about the migration of these truly amazing creatures.”

After letting the butterflies go, I hand-painted this butterfly artwork and designed butterfly wedding invitations.

{ Butterfly Wedding Invitations }

American Indian Legend

According to an American Indian Legend – If anyone desires a wish to come true they must first capture a butterfly and whisper that wish to it. Since a butterfly can make no sound, the butterfly can not reveal the wish to anyone but the Great Spirit who hears and sees all. In gratitude for giving the beautiful butterfly its freedom, the Great Spirit always grants the wish. So, according to legend, by making a wish and giving the butterfly its freedom, the wish will be taken to the heavens and be granted. We have gathered to grant this couple all our best wishes and are about to set these butterflies free in trust that all these wishes will be granted.

The butterfly is one of the most amazing creatures in the natural world.

I will close with my favorite quote EVERRR. …

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“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it turned into a butterfly.” This quote helped me through a very difficult time in my life. I hope it will uplift and inspire you.