02.03.10
Potato Bags
This week's hot card comes to us from The Write Stuff in Weston, Connecticut. It's a pretty great custom birthday party invitation for a fabulous 50 celebration.
01.27.10
Adzuki
This week's hot card comes to us from Fine Lines of Katonah in (surprise!) Katonah, New York. It's a beautiful custom Bat Mitzvah invitation featuring a gaggle of cute motifs and a great color combination of fuchsia and amethyst metallic.
01.20.10
Indeed
This week's hot card comes to us from No Regrets in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, and is a perfect masculine color scheme for a Bar Mitzvah. A dark gray folder accents and highlights the symmetry of the information cards. Can't wait for the main invitation!
01.13.10
Givin' All My Love to You
This week's hot card comes to us from It's a Gift in Weston, Florida, and it a wonderful understated sewn wedding invitation (with cream thread utilizing a design from our wedding catalog). Yep, it's not even Valentine's Day yet, but all those people who got engaged over the holidays (including our own Liz) are now pouring over their invitation designs and deciding whether or not to invite Weird Uncle Ralph. Good luck!
01.07.10
Happy Hot Card
Hey! We're back. We hope your new year has had a fortuitous start. Getting right into things, this week's hot card features both a hot color scheme and beautiful retro poster typesetting that could be used on pretty much any kind of card you can think of. It's also printed on 100 percent PCW paper, so you're helping the planet while getting awesome Luscious Verde designs. Just do it!
12.23.09
Hot Card of the Year
This year's hot card comes to us from Venture Stationers in New York, New York. This is simply the most fabulous invitation we did all year (not that all the other ones were chopped liver). It was fashioned to resemble an antique book in honor of an antiquarian's birthday celebration. It was an honor every step of the way to design and make this card. Thanks, and we'll see you in 2010!
12.16.09
I'm On A Boat
Take a good, hard look at this beautiful holiday card from Jenny's Paper Ink in Atlanta (AKA HOTLANTA), Georgia. During a season of fantastic holiday cards that we've done, this is one of the most fantastic-ist. It uses both lithography and 2-plied papers to create a luxurious and, yes, luscious greeting. I know, right?
11.25.09
Transform Ya
This week's hot card comes to us from the Paper Boutique in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. We thought that the travel theme would be appropriate for Thanksgiving Eve, traditionally one of the busiest travel days of the year. Have a great one, everyone!
11.18.09
Leggo My Eggo
This week's hot card comes to us from our buddy Lee at A.K.A. Invites in Potomac, Maryland. It's a crazy beautiful custom New Year's Eve invitation with die-cut champagne glasses with cute carbonated die-cut bubbles. It's a classy addition to all of the great custom holiday cards we've seen this year already.
11.11.09
Gorgax the Robot
This week's sweet hot card comes to us from Nest Paper Studio in wonderful Oxford, Mississippi. It's a beautiful custom holiday card with our nifty new stylish photo printing process, sure to delight grandparents who complain that they don't see their grandchildren enough.
11.04.09
Novembeard
This week's hot card comes to us from Kerri at Anne Grace Designs in Dallas, Texas, where it's 75 degrees right now as opposed to Cleveland's balmy 45 degrees. It's a beautiful San Francisco destination wedding invitation with a stunning custom die-cut of the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the many wonders of the world that we've die-cut. (We haven't done Mount Rushmore though. Get working on that, people.)
10.28.09
Extra Spooky
This week's hot card comes to us from our peeps at Paper Capers in Livingston, New Jersey. It's a great design employing custom die-cut champagne glasses, and is perfect for many festive event invitations including those holiday get-togethers (whether you're serving spiked eggnog or not).
10.21.09
A Man, A Plan
This week's hot card comes to us all the way from lovely Manalapan, New Jersey. This design is one of the Luscious Verde classics, dating back to our first Bar/Bat Mitzvah catalog. Sadly, almost all of the original paper colors have been discontinued, but we just looooove the combo this store and customer came up with, using Tropical Green, Stone and Charcoal Basketweave. Great job, guys! Keep 'em comin'!
10.14.09
Spooky
This week's hot card comes to us from the crew at Petite Paperie in Mill Valley, California, and the wine grape themed wedding save-the-date is so nice it makes us want to pop open a bottle of bubbly. Featuring a custom die-cut, it's a perfect way to let your guests know that this vineyard wedding will be elegant, wonderful, and definitely not dry.
10.07.09
One of Those Days
This week's hot card comes to us from the always-fabulous No Regrets in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. It's a wonderful die-cut custom pattern that stunned everyone here when we were making it with its awesomeness. To boot, it features a great custom liner.
09.30.09
There's a She-Wolf in My Closet
OK, when we say "Hot Card of the Week," we're not messing around. This card is H-O-T-T. An invitation for a benefit party at an art museum that is simply stunning, it's a perfect example of the type of invitation that Luscious Verde can custom design for your big non-profit fundraising gala or charity event.
09.23.09
Party In the U.S.A.
This week's hot card comes to us from the always-lovely Venture Stationers in New York, New York. It's one of the cutest custom moving announcements we've seen, incorporating a great design and a custom die-cut of the St. Louis Gateway Arch. Kudos go to Clayton and the gang for this great card.
09.16.09
Set It And...Forget It!
This week's hot card is a truly stunning custom rock-n-roll Bar Mitzvah invitation from our peeps at Paper Capers in Livingston, New Jersey. The customer supplied the Copper Metallic paper, and we loved it so much we've decided to add it, along with copper ink, to our already-awesome selection of paper and ink colors. Look for it as a future Luscious Verde offering.
09.09.09
9.9.9
This week's hot card comes to us from Write Occasions in Denver, Colorado, and is perfect for anyone who loves Dylan's Candy Bar in New York City. This candy-themed Bat Mitzvah invitation features a gorgeous custom die-cut of a lollipop, and is complemented with a sweet, sweet card and liner pattern straight out of our Bar/Bat catalog. Sure, it'll drive your dentist nuts, but we love it.
09.02.09
But That's Not All!
This week's hot card isn't really a card, it's a picture of our new awesome return-address labels that we're offering in our latest holiday update, sent out to our retailers two weeks ago. Aaaaand, for those holiday customer early birds, we are offering them FREE with any order of 100 (or more) holiday cards. Go to town! (All orders MUST BE APPROVED BY SEPTEMBER 30TH. No exceptions, even if your dog ate your order form.)
08.26.09
Pirate's Booty
This week's hot card comes to us from Write On Larchmont in (did you guess) Larchmont, New York. This card's design, incorporating polka dots, is originally from our latest wedding catalog, but was wonderfully turned into a Bat Mitzvah design. We simply love it when people take our designs and make them into something new. Great job!
08.19.09
The Good, The Bad, and The Verde
This week's hot card comes to us from Pretty In Paper in Boca Raton, Florida. This lucky buckaroo got both a custom die-cut sheriff's star and cowboy boot for his handmade birthday party invitation. Combine those with the perfect paper colors, and you have the perfect invite. Giddy up.
08.12.09
Fantastic Voyage
This week's hot card comes to us from Dina at Notables in New York, New York. When we first heard the idea of this custom correspondence, we immediately fell in love with it. And when we saw the finished product, we fell in love with it just a little more. Great job, Dina!
08.05.09
Weezy
This week's hot card comes to us from our friend Marni at Scribbles Too in Short Hills, New Jersey. This hot pink, orange and white bat mitzvah invitation set uses a tone-on-tone damask pattern on the back layer, and then creatively incorporates a reverse of the pattern into the rest of the cards. Simple, elegant, and gorgeous!
07.29.09
Can You Feel The Love Tonight?
This week's Hot Card comes to us from Paper Capers in Livingston, New Jersey. Don't feel right wearing your heart on your sleeve? Then put it on your beautiful custom Bat Mitzvah invitation! These custom die-cut hearts can also be used on any type of invitation you'd like (like Valentine's Day cards!), or if you're in the band Heart.
07.22.09
I'm Hungry
This week's hot card comes to us from our friends at It's a Gift in Weston, Florida. Whether you see it as a fishing-themed, ocean-themed or beach-themed Bar Mitzvah invitation, it's certainly one of the more unique custom Bar Mitzvah invitations we've done. As you know, that's what we're all about, and there's nothing fishy about that!
07.15.09
Cheers
Today's hot card comes to us from Write Occasions in Denver, Colorado. It's a pretty awesome 25th wedding anniversary invitation with a champagne theme (maybe we should have thrown in some caviar). Featuring crystals and a die-cut glass, this is the perfect way to celebrate that once-in-a-lifetime silver anniversary.
07.08.09
Theme From "Star Wars"
This week's fruitful hot card comes to us from the Dotted I, with locations in Concord and Needham, Massachusetts. It's a modified and updated version of a baby girl announcement from one of our older catalogs. That said, there's nothing old about adorable pink, yellow and blue baby clothes hanging from a clothesline on this creative orange birth announcement.
07.01.09
Croque Monsieur
This week's hot card comes to us from Paper Works and More, an intrepid retailer in Englewood, NJ. For their custom Bat Mitzvah invitation, this customer chose a hot new color combination of fuchsia pink and baby blue. It also shows off the bat mitzvah girl's name in our fancy-pantsy color-tone process. Come on, what could be more custom than your kid's name in 50 different fonts?
06.24.09
Rawr!
This week's card is from Eileen at Spoiled Rotten in Woodbury, New York, who is the self-proclaimed president of the Luscious Verde Fan Club. It's a beautiful custom black-and-white stripe wedding invitation that looks like nothing in our catalogs -- and we love that. It just goes to show that with a creative enough retailer (and stationery company, ahem), simply anything is possible. That is, style is what you make it.
06.17.09
Biz Markie
This week's custom hot card is a Luscious Verde original. Wedding shower invitations tend to be on the ho-hum side -- not from us, dadgummit. This custom bridal shower invite showcases a few L.V. touchstones: excellent design, typesetting, and a liner that screams, "I'm totally awesome. Look at me." As long as you're getting married, you might as well get cool stuff. Am I right?
06.10.09
Fruit Floes
This week's hot card comes to us from You Name It in Bellevue, Washington. And, as a cute Bar Mitzvah invitation that has a sleep-away camp theme, it came right in time for the end of the school year, the time of the year that the munchkins are let loose for another fun-filled three months. Wake us up in September!
06.03.09
Pigeon Be Gone!
Today's hot card is from a newer retailer of ours, Nota Bene in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We'll overlook the fact that their Steelers routinely make mincemeat out of our beloved Browns if they keep ordering beautiful vintage inspired wedding invitations like this. The wonderful assortment of chartreuse green, orange and white papers are topped off by a motif from their mintage lovebirds liner pattern.
05.27.09
Rock and Roll Train
Today's hot card comes to us from, well, us. We've done a fair amount of celebrity stationery, and this beautiful piece adapted from our Bar/Bat Mitzvah Catalog is one of them. Sarah Jessica Parker is simply a fashion icon, and we couldn't have been happier to do her personal stationery.
05.20.09
Keyboard Cat
This week's Hot Card comes to us from Jenny's Paper Ink in Atlanta, Georgia (a.k.a. Hotlanta). It's a custom bat mitzvah save-the-date card. If you thought one-layer cards weren't chic, than you certainly haven't seen this card. Featuring impeccable typesetting and a whimsical fuchsia pink, white and green flower pattern from our baby catalog, this card will be sure to let your guests know to expect a great time!
05.14.09
Whoops
Today's hot card comes to us from our friends at Scribe Paper and Gift in Marblehead, Massachusetts. It's a beautiful custom fiftieth (50th) wedding anniversary party invitation utilizing a design from our wedding catalog. It just goes to show that with a little tweak here and there, any of our designs can be used exactly how you see fit. Now that's TRULY custom stationery.
05.06.09
Seis de Mayo
We are officially not kidding when we say we can do whatever any of our customers want. For this Egyptian-themed custom Sweet Sixteen invitation from It's a Gift in Weston, Florida, we topped even ourselves. Custom die-cut pyramids? Check. A beautiful purple and gold color combination? Check. A name in ancient hieroglyphics? Hey, why not?
05.06.09
Leg, Lips, Feather, Arm
As a super, special surprise for all our fans, we introduce our second Hot Card of the Week, this beautiful nautical invitation. You know, sometimes things just float through here that are SO HOT that we just can't ignore them. This card is perfect for any nautical event, boat shindig, pier party, or just any event where you want to get nauti! (All apologies for that last joke.)
04.29.09
Stella
This week's hot card started its life as a design challenge from a national style magazine: design a set of wedding stationery that matches a new dress from a top designer. OK, we said, no problem. Oh, they said, could you get it to us in two days? Sure! We're Luscious Verde! We quickly designed, printed, and assembled this great pink, red, purple and white wedding stationery, lickety-split. Luscious Verde: yes we can!
04.22.09
Luscious Earth
Today we're showcasing a Hot Card of our own design, in order to show the world how our new cut paper images from our Bar/Bat Mitzvah update can be incorporated into existing Luscious Verde designs (in this case, an awesome folder from our Wedding Catalog, Volume I) . Take note of the cut paper tree at the bottom, a creative placecard for an environmental or nature themed bar mitzvah.
04.15.09
Taxing Issues
This week's hot card showcases what an organization can accomplish when it comes to event design (it's also a two-fer, at no additional cost to you)! We create many invitations for celebrations, whether they're graduations, corporate events, charity fundraisers, or your Uncle Larry's 60th birthday party. Adding your personal or organization's logo to the envelope liner makes these cards truly unique.
04.08.09
Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'
This week's hot card comes to us from our friends at the Stationery Company in Denver, Colorado. This beautiful custom wedding invitation features Green and Cream, two colors we're no strangers to here at Luscious Verde. Also, we centered a Grass eyelet in the custom-designed bicycle wheel for a little extra touch. We wish the happy couple many, many years of cruising together.
04.01.09
Cute Little Rascal
This week's hot card comes to us from Open Dialog in East Norriton, Pennsylvania, and it's got us seeing circles -- yes, we can do circles! This great custom Bat Mitzvah invitation features a silver circle top, accented with Fuchsia ink. Even moreso, the customer added an understated dot motif, which was replicated on the silver liner. What great choices for a spring event!
03.25.09
Rainy Days
Let a smile be your umbrella (-ella, -ella) with this glamorous custom Bat Mitzvah invitation from Perfectly Personal by Jen in Chappaqua, New York. It features the ever-popular-in-Luscious-Verde-circles "Gray With a Color" mantra, and also features an elegant Argyle pattern in fuchsia and white. All in all, one of the loveliest invitations we've done in recent memory.
03.18.09
National Hangover Day
Get "tuned in" (we're so funny) with this awesome custom birth announcement in dark brown and pink, designed by us and suggested to us by our friends at R.S.V.P. in Roslyn, New York. Why let your announcement be a blank screen? We can custom-design almost anything -- want a card featuring Abraham Lincoln riding a rollercoaster? We can probably do that.
03.11.09
An Optimized Future State
This cool and festive custom bubbles Bat Mitzvah invitation in fuchsia, teal and silver was designed by Stationery Stephanie in Short Hills, New Jersey. Reminiscent of spirograph drawings from the 1970s, the circle pattern on the portfolio cover is repeated on the pocket and main invitation panel, as you can see from this montage by our resident paparazzo, Lindsay.
03.04.09
The Mysteries of Londonderry Air
This week's hot card, from Out of the Box in Rye Brook, New York, has a lot of things going for it. It's a Bar Mitzvah invitation that has an outrageously cool custom die-cut of the soon-to-be-a-man's name, plied dark blue and silver paper, AND, top it all off, our new-ish lithography process, which we offer in silver (as shown), gold, white and cream. This card is so fine we want to take it home to meet our parents.
02.25.09
Hope
A.K.A. Invites in Potomac, MD, a regular hotbed of LVC activity, designed this tiered and layered wedding information card in Chocolate Brown, Red and Cream. It's a luxurious weekend itinerary card for the guests, with area attractions and things to do on the last page. Many bridal invitations have a simple event listing, but when it's your special day, why not tell them in style where to take their screaming kids?
02.18.09
I Got a Snuggie for Valentine's Day
Today's hot card was originally featured in our wedding catalog as a rose red and chocolate brown wedding invitation. That invite was creatively morphed into a sophisticated Bat Mitzvah invitation by Toby Dondis in Waban, Massachusetts (stellar job!) . The resulting unique bat mitzvah invitation beautifully exposes our Roses color-tone pattern in deep red, pairing it with cream and a subtle hint of antique gold.
02.13.09
Verde is for Lovers
Because it's Friday the 13th, we decided to bring you an extra lucky Hot Card. This birthday party invitation came to us from the good people of Soiree San Francisco, and is originally from our Baby Announcement catalog. It's a first birthday party invitation that also incorporates a Valentine's Day theme, and it was simply too cute to pass up! (Excuse us if we spend Valentine's Day with a pint of Haagen-Dazs.)
02.11.09
It's Spelled "Lincoln"
This week's hot card comes to us from the lovely people of Kate's Paperie, in Manhattan and Greenwich, Connecticut. While the fuchsia and chocolate baby announcement itself is totally cute (and one of our favorites), we also love the inspired choice of a flowery liner. It's the little touches that make an announcement truly memorable.
02.05.09
Happy 30th Birthday, Rob!
Today's hot card is a pink and gray Bat Mitzvah invitation set that was inspired by the designs of Juicy Couture. A custom bedecked crown image was created by Luscious Verde's in-house design team for this very stylish (and lucky) teen.
01.30.09
Super Roll
This totally incredible custom Asian-inspired wedding invitation came to us from Kate's Paperie on 57th Street in New York, New York. The middle layer was supplied to us by the customer, who obviously has an eye for design. By working with the store and customer with supplied materials, we made something that no one else in the world would have.
01.21.09
Big Love
This sumptuous piece of custom stationery comes to us from Brenda at House & Paper in Miami, Florida. It's a wonderful personalized holiday card, the holiday being Valentine's Day (awwwww). Talk about a chic, unique card that no one else in the world will have! Pretty nifty, if we do say so ourselves.
01.14.09
Everyone Likes Journey
This week's hot card is a custom New York City wedding invitation sample that we made for kicks and giggles, and also as a way to show off our awesome custom die-cuts. We paired a light blue base with a purple New York City skyline to come up with a truly unique destination wedding invitation. For what it's worth, we could do a skyline of pretty much any city in the world. Try us!
01.07.09
Winter Wonderland
This week's hot card is a new, unique Bar Mitzvah invitation that comes to us from Letterheads, one of our creative retailers in Miami. They obviously know what they're doing, because this gray and white B'nai Mitzvah invitation with custom-paper-cut monogram is simply stunning. Fantastic design work, guys!
12.17.08
Secret Yeti
This week's hot card also happens to be the last hot card of the year. Before you get disappointed, feast your eyes on this custom Bat Mitzvah invitation from Small Fry Press in Pleasantville, New York. We gotta say, this invitation is one of the most unique that we've seen, incorporating new metallic papers and our awesome white lithography. Stay warm and stay chic!
12.10.08
Tha Santa III
This week's hot card is back from a two-week vacation and is tanned, ready and rested. This charming holiday card comes to us from the Stovall Collection in Oxford, Mississippi. It features our awesome new lithography ink in Silver (we offer it in White, Cream, Silver and Gold). We hope your holiday season is going well!
11.19.08
Get Well Paige and Sophia!
This week's hot card, from the Papery of Philadelphia, was inspired by (surprise, surprise!) our new wedding catalog, the most recent Luscious Verde goodness to hit the streets. It's a black and white damask wedding save-the-date that is definitely one of our finest save-the-dates yet. We can't wait to see what the couple has in store for their invitation!
11.12.08
Dragon Fruit
This gray and orange hand sewn wedding save-the-date from Papers & Presents in Wellesley, Massachusetts, combines two creative designs into one -- and they're both from our new wedding album! The gray-with-a-color look is pretty hot right now, and it's a look of which that we personally can't get enough. These bridal invitations are simply great, if we say so ourselves!
11.05.08
Morning in America
These unique southern party invitations, done for Anne Grace Designs, are more cute-croc than scary-croc. The personalized custom die-cut reflects the customer's Cajun upbringing. The cool blue paper elicits calm while you realize that this crocodile will do you no harm.
10.29.08
Skate, Wayne
Purple, gray and dark blue colors accent this unique couture wedding invitation from our brand-new wedding catalog. It's a perfect mix for the chic couple wishing to incorporate a smidge of tradition on their wedding card. These invites will make sure your guests know that your bash will be just that.
10.22.08
Thar She Blows
For this whale of a baby boy announcement, we combine our Cloud blue and Snow white paper colors, a delicious mix of texture and color. A perfect addition is a killer personalized thank-you note.
10.15.08
Give Peace a Chance
This week's hot card is a peace, love and happiness Bat Mitzvah invite that mixes up a few of our paper colors in a way that's delightfully refreshing. It includes a yellow base and white top, complete with a green and orange peace sign. Four different ink colors complement this psychadelic custom invitation.
10.08.08
Rock and Roll Edition
This hot card is in honor of a hot day here at Luscious Verde. (More on that later.) It's a completely custom design that we cooked up from a personalized invitation idea by the birthday girl's mother and our retailer Laura Beth's Baby Collection. A replica of the size of a seven-inch single, it features our paper colors Fuchsia (hot pink) and Onyx Metallic (black) and a custom-cut record. Quite the big idea!
10.01.08
Waiting for North Dakota Edition
This out-of-this-world airplane birth announcement really takes off! (Sorry.) It features our newish paper colors Breeze, Kiwi, and our trusty standby, White Smooth. Give Luscious Verde your pilot project, and we'll be sure to pass your design test with flying colors! Ha ha! (Please don't hit me.)
09.24.08
Dance-Off Edition
This week's hot card is a testament that, in concert with a customer's creativity, we can make something incredibly special. This unique wedding invitation features a modified version of a design from volume two of our Bar/Bat Mitzvah catalog, showing that pretty much any of our designs fit with, well, pretty much any one of your events.
09.17.08
Hoot Edition
This card, one of assistant operations manager Lindsay's favorites, is from D.Y. Ink in Briarcliff Manor, New York. It combines a wonderful layered and textured feel with saturated colors. It's a fine color option for a masculine Bar Mitzvah.
09.10.08
A Milli Edition
This unique custom birth announcement comes to us from The Perfect Type in Scarsdale, New York. Whimsical animals are incredibly popular in these parts, and none more so than this cute elephant. The use of our paper colors Eggplant and Frosting pink add a touch of femininity and a wonderful splash of color.
09.03.08
Da Bomb Edition
This creative, colorful and floral Bat Mitzvah invite (with eyelets and matching custom die-cuts) is truly one of the most innovative and gorgeous invitation designs ever created by a Luscious Verde retailer and their customer. Kudos to Elise at No Regrets in Newton Centre, Massachusetts for the wicked cool design eye. We have "no regrets" about producing it for them! Heh! (Sorry.)
08.29.08
We're Outta Here Edition
This is one lucky baby. We're guessing his stylish mom and her equally hip Luscious Verde retailer (the awesome Say Cheese and Thank You in Irvington, New York) put together this colorful, unique orange and blue baby boy birth announcement and matching personalized stationery. It's a simple yet interesting design concept and we just love it!
08.22.08
Bartleby Pincus Edition
A totally hip, deeply saturated, colorful birth announcement for a boy that manages to be soft at the same time. Baby yellow and blue has never been so chic! We're impressed.
08.18.08
Case of the Mondays Edition
Colorful note cards with personality. We love the customer's color choice of apple green paper with a teal birdie and teal envelope for their personalized stationery. Makes us love green even that much more . . .
08.07.08
Rob's Half-Birthday Edition
This modern, layered, red, black and kraft colored bar mitzvah invitation and coordinating custom envelope liner is subtle yet very stylish. Just like we like it!
