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Birthday Invitation

2011-11-28T05:45:00.000-08:00

This invitation is for my Grandmother's 80th birthday. She asked for something with shells, and this really is just a peep of her sweet, feminine, fun, youthful, deep, lovely, beautiful nature. She is a jewel of a woman who loves with her whole heart. Every moment spent with her is a cherished one. Enjoy:)

The Birthday Invite

2011-05-12T06:42:00.000-07:00

Invitation I did for my husband's birthday this year...

(he likes arcade fire and their latest cd vibe fits in with his birthday vibe, this is the outcome)

Ernst&Christine Wedding Stationary

2011-01-11T02:01:00.000-08:00

I am working on Ernst&Christine's wedding invitation, the vibe is vintage, floral, colorful and playful...coming soon!

Marius & Anabelle Wedding Stationary

2011-01-06T05:14:00.000-08:00

Here are their wedding invitations. It was printed onto vintage feel textured off-white paper, folded and sealed with petersham ribbon.

The inside (english version)

The outside

The inside (afrikaans version)

Happy Holidays

2011-01-03T00:37:00.000-08:00

I found this old image that I love (don't know who the illustrator is...)
Just had to incorporate it into my end-year-happy-holidays-message-designs! Enjoy:)

Lafete and Frill&Frock Tea Party

2010-11-30T23:08:00.001-08:00

Marlise & Nicola asked me to design a floral invite for a dress & tea party they're hosting at Lafete. Marlise makes and designs the prettiest dresses and Nicola makes the most delightful treats, perfect combination!

Ernst & Christine's Save-The-Date!

2010-11-10T23:38:00.000-08:00

The background is some of their floral material their going to use at their wedding, with lace and buttons draped on top of it. Took photo's of it and then I designed the rest onto the photo we took of the floral material, lace & buttons...lots of fun!

Vanessa de Villiers Photography

2010-11-10T05:16:00.000-08:00

Finally, the blogsite I designed for photographer is up and running!! Go have a peep at the landingpage, the blog, about me page & contact page... I enjoyed designing it so much and learned a lot in the process! ;) My shout out to Juan Koekemoer & June Joubert for all your advice & help!!
www.vanessadevilliers.co.za

Ernst&Christine Wedding Stationary

2010-11-09T23:17:00.000-08:00

I have the priviledge of designing the wedding stationary for one of my close friends and her fiance, Christine&Ernst! Will be posting their save-the-date soon, all I will say for now...flowers, soft pastels, lots of lace, vintage, and all things pretty!

Exclusive Handbags for WoW Boutique

2010-11-08T22:46:00.001-08:00

This was so lovely to design and make! I designed all the prints and hand screenprinted it onto the fabric. The vintage floral handbags are handmanufactured and proudly South African. There are only 7 available, all 7 are showed here, you can purchase them at WoW boutique, corner of Dorpstreet and Ryneveld street (across Ryneveld 5 restaurant) in Stellenbosch.

Cream vintage blue floral handbag with grey airballoons print

Cream vintage dark cream floral handbag with grey airballoons print

Vintage blue floral handbag with grey balloon-girl print

Vintage dark cream floral handbag with white balloon-girl print
Vintage blue big florals handbag with grey umbrella print

Vintage dark cream big florals handbag with white umbrella print
Vintage blue small florals handbag with umbrella grey print

Vintage dark cream small florals handbag with white umbrella print
My logo&name for handbag range, handprinted onto tag

Handbags

2010-11-08T09:59:00.001-08:00

A sneak peak to the range of handbags I designed and made...will be posting it in its entirety soon! Available at Wow Boutique, corner of Dorpstreet and Ryneveld street, across the road from Ryneveld 5.
I designed the prints and screenprinted them onto the vintage floral fabric by hand. The bags are hand manufactured and proudly South African!

Vanessa de Villiers Photography

2010-11-01T13:50:00.001-07:00

Watermark I designed for Vanessa Photography's photo's

Vanessa de Villiers Photography

2010-11-01T13:40:00.001-07:00

The 'Contact Page' I designed for Vanessa's blogsite

Vanessa de Villiers Photography

2010-11-01T13:24:00.000-07:00

The 'About Me' page I designed for her blogsite.

Vanessa de Villiers Photography

2010-10-29T05:26:00.000-07:00

Just a taste of the blogsite I'm designing for photographer Vanessa de Villiers...

Stephan word 1

2010-10-14T00:56:00.000-07:00

Jeanne-Marié asked me to design an invitation for their youngest son's first birthday. The theme is 'monkey' because, like she said it: 'want hy is mos mamms se ou apie!' And their kids also like to watch Waybuloo, Stephan's sister said that he looks like the monkey in the program, so we just had to bring it into the design! And don't worry, he is the cutest, most beautiful baby you've ever seen! (just to reassure you after all this monkey-talk) :)

Promotional gift for Lizelle Lotter

2010-10-05T01:04:00.000-07:00

As promised, here is the finished work of the last design work for Lizelle. She wanted something special and lasting to give to her clients after they booked photography shoots with her. So I brainstormed and came up with the idea of a shopper bag nicely designed! I walked around in Stellenbosch until I found the perfect tree to draw. So when we were happy with the tree, it got screenprinted on this 100% cotton shopper bag with her website, and then Lizelle's logo was embroidered onto bag. What an awesome project this was!! Thank you Lizelle, was such a blessing working with you!! :) So...if you want one of these, go book a shoot with Lizelle Lotter!

Marius & Anabelle Wedding Stationary

2010-09-23T03:53:00.001-07:00

Here's the first part of Marius&Anabelle's wedding stationary, the save-the-date in english and afrikaans, yay:) Am so excited to start designing the wedding invitations!

Soon...

2010-09-09T06:58:00.000-07:00

Most exciting things happening! But it is still in the making, so I'll only peak your curiosity a bit... oh-so-beautiful material, petersham ribbons, pretty buttons, illustrations, printed by hand, boutique in Stellenbosch, exclusive, all in one package....mmmm that's all I'm saying...for now, but come back for the real thing soon!

Marius & Anabelle Wedding Stationary

2010-09-09T06:45:00.000-07:00

Anabelle is an amazing, friendly, fun girl who grew up in Paarl, but is working and staying in Singapore, where she met her to-be-husband, Marius. She asked me to design their wedding stationary and I am so very excited about it!! All I am saying is protea flowers, patterns, love letters, vintage greys = creativity meets beauty:) So, yes my fingers are itching to start illustrating...

Vanessa de Villiers Photography

2010-09-01T01:10:00.000-07:00

In the end this is the logo Vanessa chose for her photography branding... fun, feminine and fresh! The other logo's look will come on the blog with categories for her kids photography work - more playful and informal. So now I'm working on the header for her blogsite...will also be posting the watermark that will come on her photos soon...so keep peeping!

High Tea Invitations

2010-08-17T01:25:00.001-07:00

Here's the ladies tea invitations, royalty, womanhood and celebration is the theme Nicola wants:) I know its going to be an amazing day filled with joy and fun, and off course mouth-watering delicacies!

Dala-Marie Wedding Invitation

2010-08-16T01:06:00.000-07:00

These are seperate pages, going to be printed on textured off-white paper. Dala-Marie, it was such a priviledge to work with you, you're a joy to spend time with:) You're going to take his breath away!

Vanessa de Villiers Photography

2010-08-06T04:12:00.000-07:00

The first step of the identity for Vanessa. Fun, playful, professional, but informal, this is what she wants and that's also how she lives life, having fun and being professional with a touch of playfulness. Keep peeping for the next steps in the process of the identity for this upcoming photographer;)

Wedding Invitation

2010-07-27T02:22:00.001-07:00

Dala-Marie is getting married in November and I am designing their wedding invitations:) The vibe is bohemian floral with french flair, and she doesn't want it too formal, the same vibe as their save-the-date invite...keep a look out, will be posting it soon!

Opening of Frill&Frock

2010-07-27T02:12:00.000-07:00

Marlise asked me to design an invite from the logo for the opening of frill&frock. Here's the outcome*

High Tea

2010-07-19T23:54:00.000-07:00

Lafete is having a high tea. It's royalty, celebration, style, ladies being pampered, because they deserve it! Nicola asked me to design the invitations. Oooh this is going to be a royal treat:)

Vanessa de Villiers Photography

2010-07-19T23:34:00.000-07:00

Vanessa, from the Platteland Piketberg, contacted me very excitedly and asked if I will design her logo, watermark for photos, header for site and a blogsite. She loves photography and has an awesome frame shop in Piketberg, she loves without holding back and you just feel at home and welcome immediately with her. This is quite a big project and I'm enjoying every second of it!! Thank you Vanessa, I'm super excited with you! :)

Lizelle Lotter thank-you-booklet

2010-07-14T09:29:00.000-07:00

This is what I've been up to and why I haven't been posting so much lately...it is an 8page booklet, was hard work, but I can't put in words how much fun I had with this! Lizelle is amazing and it is such an adventure and blessing to be working with her! I'm busy printing the booklet and can't wait to show the printed & binded version! After this, there's still a project filled with fun and design for Lizelle...so keep peeping:)

Frill&Frock Swingtag&logo

2010-07-01T02:33:00.000-07:00

Vibrant, timeless, fun with a bit of vintage coral red is what Marlise was looking for. Here's the outcome! Was awesome working on this, loved every moment of designing it! Marlise I know you're going to have great success following your passion, your dresses are stunning, I'm so excited for you!

2010-06-26T09:27:00.000-07:00

Here's a taste of what is to come in the booklet I'm designing for Lizelle:) The designs are full of playfulness, ice-cream colours and lots of fun!

Frill & Frock Identity

2010-06-10T03:07:00.000-07:00

Marlise has the most beautiful dresses, she will be selling it from home, she imports, designs and makes dresses. They are so pretty you want to eat them! I am designing her logo and swing-tags/bcards for the business. I am so excited for her! Marlise is such a friendly and fun person, it's going to be a joy working with you Marlise! :)

Lizelle Lotter thank-you booklet

2010-06-07T11:51:00.000-07:00

I am working on a thank-you booklet for Lizelle Lotter. She wants to give a creative, fun, designed booklet to say a special thank-you to her clients for choosing her as their photographer. I'm enjoying this so much, it's a bigger project, having a couple of pages and shapes we're playing with...but fun fun fun! will give you a peep of it soon**

Marsanne&Philip Wedding Invite

2010-06-02T02:11:00.000-07:00

Marsanne & Philip's wedding invite...on the inside! Marsanne is afrikaans and Philip is english, so they decided to make the wording a mix of the languages, so special! Their wedding is going to be sweet bliss. Love you guys! :)

Skin Correctives

2010-05-26T03:33:00.000-07:00

These are the final designs Sunandi chose for her beauty salon's corporate identity. It was such an honor doing this with her and I wish all the best of the best for this new venture & know she's going to be very successful!

The voucher. First - the front & 2nd - the inside, it folds open.

the logo

Front of the pricelist, it folds in 3.

Wedding Invite

2010-05-24T05:14:00.000-07:00

Marsanne&Philip are getting married in September. I'm designing the inside of their wedding invite. The colors are black & purple. Marsanne made the outside of the invite herself, with some of their stunning engagement photo's. Jami Smit, took their engagement photos & she's their wedding photographer, very talented and takes amazing photo's! Contact her at: 083 317 0652

Macaroon Tea Party Invite

2010-05-20T06:54:00.000-07:00

was so much fun working with Nicola, she loves colorful things, and just brightens my day everytime! Here's the invite: parisian, french, macaroons, tea party, pastels, what more can a girl want..:)

Identity for Skin Correctives

2010-05-19T07:40:00.000-07:00

A taste of the look...more coming soon...!

Parisian Macaroon Party

2010-05-14T14:29:00.000-07:00

Nicola, lafete, is throwing a parisian macaroon-tea-party! I am designing the invites...which will be in parisian french style...oooh can't wait for the tea party, its going to be girlyfun:)

Lizelle Lotter

2010-05-12T13:51:00.001-07:00

This is one adventurous, happy, super creative, fun girl and friend, she is an amazing photographer , do yourself a favor and have a peek at her work. She asked me to come up with something special to give to her clients when they book her as their photographer, so I started conceptualizing! We decided on super fun & exciting things...which we will be showing off soon!

'Skin Correctives' Identity

2010-05-12T13:44:00.000-07:00

Su is in a very exciting season, she married recently (was a stunning bride!) and is in the process of taking over a beauty salon, I am designing the logo, bcards, vouchers & pricelist all new, fresh and modern look with bit of french feel...so watch this space:)

Logo

2010-05-07T08:01:00.001-07:00

Christine is a fashion designer and makes the most beautiful bridal gowns and dresses. She has samples on facebook, contact her on: christineokennedy@gmail.com or go to her blog. She asked me to design a logo for her, and this is the one she chose.

Hou Die Datum Oop Uitnodiging

2010-05-07T04:07:00.000-07:00

Dala called me earlier this week and asked me to design their save the date invite. She likes bohemian flowers with french flair and informal vibe....Here's the outcome! So excited for her, she is so sweet and this morning when we met to talk over the designs we enjoyed chatting that we almost forgot to focus on the designs:) Thank you Dala! You're going to be a stunning bride!

Birthday Invite

2010-05-05T00:13:00.001-07:00

The special man in my life's birthday is coming up...so he asked me to design an e-invite for a celebration with friends at our place...he loves surfing and we love travelling, so the look and feel is about that and the enjoyment of life...he's the bodyboarder in the invite...here's the outcome**

Wedding Expo

2010-04-28T02:38:00.000-07:00

At the moment I am working on business cards and brochures for Rusticana Hospitality Estate (wedding venue). They are hosting a wedding expo next week from 7-9 May. Click here to view their poster

illustrating childrens book

2010-04-22T06:24:00.000-07:00

At the moment I am working on various projects, one of which is illustrating a childrens book.. so I am drawing, playing with colours, paint and having lots of fun! But this is all I am allowed to share on this topic for a while, it's still publisher's secret;)

Baby Shower Tags

2010-04-16T05:01:00.000-07:00

These are the tags that is going to come around a present, at the babyshower party, with a pretty polkadot ribbon. I designed 4 different looks for the tags and they loved all of them, yay!

Wedding Stationary

2010-04-15T05:26:00.002-07:00

I just can't help myself... here is some more photos of when we put up the stationary and also how it looked when we were done;)

Baby Shower Invite

2010-04-13T15:29:00.001-07:00

This is the front of the invite...It's going to be printed on textured paper and getting a pretty ribbon on top;) Still busy designing the back of invite and then it's the tags, but more of that later! so excited doing what I love...designing pretty creative things for pretty creative people;) Jipee, here's back of invite!!:) Now, I'm going to get pretty paper and then off to the printers...

Baby Shower Invite

2010-04-12T04:23:00.000-07:00

Nicola is throwing a baby shower party for her sister-in-law, Martie Viljoen, and asked me to design invites and tags for the tea party. She likes peter rabbit and polkadots with butter yellow and dove grey colors...I know I'm going to enjoy this project soooo much!!! Can't wait to start designing;)

Photos - Wedding Stationary

2010-04-09T08:56:00.000-07:00

Photos of the wedding stationary I designed for Jo-Anni & Gerrit's wedding... Photos taken by June Joubert;)

Sock Packaging

2010-04-09T07:45:00.001-07:00

This bag has 3 compartments inside, you get 2 pairs of stylish socks plus the extra 'attachables'... But then you can take out the socks and use the bag to carry your baby's milk bottles/nappies ect with in a stylish bag! Scroll down to the booklet to read what the attachables and socks are all about;)

The socks come in the style matching the style of bag you choose, but the one pair is ankle length and the other knee-high length...for the fashionable babies;)

I made the socks by hand...took a lot of time and patience..

This cute booklet says everything about this project that needs to be said...enjoy

Sock Packaging

2010-04-09T07:35:00.000-07:00

This is a project I did in my 3rd year of studies. It is aimed at mommies who wants to look stylish while having to carry around the necessary baby things. This is the big stylish sling bag, this one is in abercrombie style, but I have so many ideas for styles it can go in! I will post the rest soon;)

Gerrit & Jo-Anni Wedding Stationary

2010-04-06T01:03:00.000-07:00

Here is some photies of the stationary while putting it up in the tree. The cards are fastened with a safety pin on the rope, in front is guest name & table nr, on back is the menu...Every guest had to take their own card off as part of the gift. My husband helped me with getting the rope around the beautiful tree and putting the apples at the end of rope. It took us 4 hours to finish the tree!! But we had lots of fun and laughs! Thank you my love! I designed 12 different designs for the cards, so only every 13th one looked the same, there were 187 guests at the wedding. More photies will follow of the venue and rest of stationary. Enjoy;)

Jo-Anni looked absolutely stunning, and their wedding was a whole weekend of celebration that ended on a high Saturday night when we all danced and laughed the night away! I am editing the photos, but will be posting it soon so you can see how it looked, my first wedding where I did all the stationary...yay!!;)

Wedding Stationary

2010-03-23T23:51:00.000-07:00

At the moment I am busy designing wedding stationary for Jo-Anni & Gerrit's wedding. They are getting married at Waterval, Porterville. It's going to be an amazing wedding and I love every moment of working on the stationary!! Will be posting some of it soon;)
The outside of the song hand-out, it is A4 size and will be folded in 3 so it reads like a fold-out book..

baby invite

2010-03-08T04:33:00.000-08:00

This is Stephan, my sister-in-law asked me to design a postcard size invite for their son's christianing. I'm enjoying this project alot, as she gave me carte blanche and I can doodle and play to my heart's content!! Thank you Jeanne-Mari, I'm having so much fun!!

Yay! Business card for Nicole

2010-02-07T23:47:00.000-08:00

She wanted a vintage look and gave me freedom to play with the colours and elements, I enjoyed designing it and working with my newest sister-in-law! She is a fashion designer living in the west coast, in my hometown where I grew up, the beautiful Langebaan;)

Hanging Hearts

2010-02-07T23:16:00.000-08:00

I made the hanging hearts for Marene, my brother's daughter, it was her 4th birthday present...
I made the hearts by hand with the buttons and broaches, picked up a nice looking branch while walking in the breathtaking Stellenbosch, painted it white, and hung the hearts around it with silk ribbons and lace...was fun!

Is'nt she lovely!

identity

2010-02-03T01:58:00.000-08:00

At the moment I am designing a business card for my newest sister-in-law, Nicole van Heerden. The look is feminine and vintage, will be posting it soon!

Here it is! Gerrit & Jo-Anni's wedding invite

2010-01-18T05:09:00.000-08:00

final things

2009-12-23T05:36:00.000-08:00

I graduated 2 weeks ago in graphic design... What a privilege!! I finished Jo-Anni's wedding invite, but will only post it when she's send it out to their guests... Below you can see their save the date invite...

Jo-Anni & Gerrit save the date invite

2009-12-23T05:29:00.000-08:00

Design

2009-11-26T00:54:00.000-08:00

This is a project I did this year. Developing an identity for character of your choice, I chose Audrey Hepburn. It is a mixture of classic and feminine, I designed the business card to serve as a small fan. The first image is the promotional item.

photography

2009-11-23T01:43:00.000-08:00

I also enjoy photography, especially capturing precious moments... A great love is to photograph children and families, here's a few photos of my beautiful sister-in-law, Jeanne-Marie Robertson, a week before she gave birth to Stefan. My brother really has a stunning wife and the cutest children!! Enjoy..
They had a picnic in the garden at their home and I just captured them interacting with each other.. It was so much fun!
If you are interested in having photo's taken of your children, pregnancy and/or family please contact me!

working on now

2009-11-18T05:30:00.000-08:00

At the moment I am working at a design company just outside Stellenbosch. I'm doing illustrations for a magazine, so I have fun all day long with drawing and illustrating, two of my favourite things! I will be posting more of the illustrations soon...

And then I am also designing the wedding stationary for Jo-Anni de Beer (almost Coetzee) & Gerrit Coetzee, what a priviledge!! This I will only show you when they have handed it out to their guests. I'm so excited, Jo-Anni you're going to look stunning and I am so happy to be a part of your beautiful day!!!

Some of the work I did this year

2009-11-17T04:36:00.000-08:00

this is a bag that becomes a dress and clutch bag for girls who
don't have a lot of time to dress up for a night out,
but still wants to look stunning

The sling of the bag becomes the clutch bag and the bag itself becomes this stunning dress!
My stunning friend, Sunandi (almost De Wet) looking radiant, as always;)
my sincere thanks to my friends who helped me with this endeavour:
Christine O' Kennedy (she makes the most beautiful wedding dresses) she has samples on facebook or contact her on: christineokennedy@gmail.com;
Sunandi Venter (almost De Wet) who blesses me with her radiant personality and friendship who is also a professional in the beauty industry;
Moira vd Westhuizen who has a passion for photography and does it really really well, go have a peep at her site: http://moira.moowebsolutions.co.za/

oh happy day

2009-11-16T23:55:00.000-08:00

The end of some things is the beginning of great things.. I finished my studies at Stellenbosch Academy of Design & Photography a week ago and I am ready for this next season of my life! My heart is bubbling over, I have a desire to create and have so many ideas, lets see where this journey takes us...