Sweet and Alvin

Meeting with Sweet waas serendipity. I get a client, a friend, and a marketing specialist. LOL. Seriously, this project is really special. Midway, I had to fly out again and had to entrust this to my fishlings. I guess, I am always blessed to meet pleasant people, and that makes the stress go away. Sweet was so gracious, that even with just email correspondence, we worked this out magically. Maybe she and Alvin had a lot of practice since she's from Manila, and he's from Canada. Haha! Well, our long distance relationship did also prove to be successful, and Sweet and Alvin got their sugary sweet invitations on time.

envelope by the amazing paper-folding super mummy, Yoshie, quirky buntings hand-made by the lovely bride, Sweet herself,  and photo by Erron Ocampo.

I don't have the files here, but if you want to see the whole invite, please visit Alvin and Sweet's blog.

dean and jehan

 jehan wanted shabby chic and was so full of wonderful ideas. it was great and funny and crazy at the same time. almost ran out of time because it took us along time to settle for this bi-fold after so many also nice prototypes. blame my day job for sending me out of the country suddenly. but of course, nothing will stop me from delivering on time, not even distance.

cover art

a closer look

got this neat set of embossing stencils from germany.  am getting more on february. but for orders for more than a hundred, this needs time to make as we do it by hand.

 jehan and dean's invites are the first ones with the TGFP logo =)

i have a new addition to TGFP, my pretty niece Kim, is now my apprentice. she'll brave the traffic just to do the deliveries, too. LOL. She's also in charge of the other stuff that we do. here's a teaser:

dean and jehan and their faux plaster baroque frames

yup, i have minions who make props. will post photos of those soon. haha. my old highschool students have started working on teeny projects like this.

Chloe is turning 18!

i love Chloe's fabric envelopes. i love how they look and how they feel. my envelope maker rocks! she was 

stressed like crazy, but she rules. LOL. 

Chloe wanted something like VIP access to the backstage of a fashion show. and it has got to be french( haha, her second name is France). Here's what TGFP came up with. 

 

Shelah and Ivan vintage retro disco yeah!

Shelah wanted retro and disco and i love prints. we make a good team! but ivan is marrying her, and i'll settle for cardamom. LOL. this project was a breeze, but we had to hold our breath because philpost snail mail almost didn't make it on time to sweden. anyway, i hope you love this one. credits to the guy who made the patterns. in the future, i'll make my patterns, too. was just really busy these past few months.

stole the next photo from FB, this is the other side of the envelope. love the stamps and shelah's handwriting.

lyn and brian

japanese kitsch. as inspired by yoshitomo nara. for lyn and brian. had to blur some details, though. don't want anyone gate-crashing.

chrissele and carlo

i finished painting and processing the artwork in a 3 days i think. the monogram, now that took a long time. i did a couple of designs, but they didn't fit carlo and chrissele's personality. chrissele spent hours here working on her monogram. haha. here's what we came up with:

getting this printed this weekend. i'm excited!

Lanie and Ryan

hello! i really love my printers. they keep saving my life ( i was going to say ass, but you don't say ass in wedding blogs, right?). anyway, here is lanie and ryan's invite. i didn't post the inside as we don't want anyone to gatecrash, do we? i love love the printing. love it. love love it.

here's the design for the invitation cover art.

and what it looks printed. this invitation type consists of a card-type cover art with both sides in full color, 2 sheets of parchment inserts, and an envelope. (prices start at Php 85)

this project was completed while i was still suffering from jet lag from 4 different timezones. haha! i was really happy with lanie and ryan's feedback. only good words. lanie was so excited and already wanted to give them out the day i delivered the invites. haha! makes my heart feel good.

Bim and Gen's Save the Date Cards print outs

vacation :) and anna & roddy's STD cards

hi kids.

i'm going to china on monday, so i'm turning everything over to the lovely Yoshie (my future digital printer/envelope maker/tour guide/consultant) for the next two weeks. been busy with too much vacationing and two active projects. still trying too hard to make the perfect artwork for anna and roddy's formal invitation. in the meantime, here's what i've come up with the STD design. i was supposed to have it silkscreened but my silkscreen team can't figure out where to get the materials. did a sample print using a digital printer on 180 gsm watercolor paper. turned out lovely! will put them inside turquoise and apple green striped transluscent jacket-type envelopes. i hope anna will love them as much as i am loving the simplicity of the design and the kilig of the poem by rainer ma. rilke.

see you in two weeks!

sy-flores update

marijhune decided to go with something like this:

i misjudged her. i thought she was more into cutesy stuff, but turned out she prefers solid and bold colors. haha. Save-the-date cards usually just show names and the date, but due to our bride-to-be's request, i had to include the information.

sy-flores save the date versions 1 and 2

here are the versions that weren't approved, but i think they're worth posting here. the info on these are rather complicated since they will be giving the cards out in palawan, but the wedding will be somewhere south of manila. they just didn't want to confuse their guests.


they look sweet enough to eat.

our very first

hi, everyone!

and for my first entry, the Save the Date card design for my dear friends, Bim and Gen.

let me introduce ourselves. i'm abba and i have a nephew, who is also my partner. his name is vaughn, a.k.a. bog. but he's sleeping now because he has school tomorrow. our relationship is more of like friends than the mentor-student, guru-cricket,or tita-baby boy kind.

so i make the original artwork and bog manipulates them on his really hi-tech computer.

for bim and gen, we are making the invitations, too. i will post that after we get the test print. we'll also do the the place cards and the menu cards.

oh. so there. see you around!

love and kisses,

abba