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Hive, I’m not kidding—designing my invitations is driving me caraaaazy! I have invitation ADD, and I have an addiction to looking at invitations; it makes for a very bad combination. Just when I think I finally found something I just have to have, along comes something else I have to have a little bit more. I’m designing my invitations, all my paper rather, by myself…with the most basic processing platform: Microsoft Word. Don’t get me wrong—I’m enjoying it. I just wish I had the funds to purchase Adobe Illustrator to make it a tad easier. Here’s my all-over-the-place train of thought.

It started with a simple font and simple hearts:

{Image via Etsy seller Little Sparks Creations}

I was fixated on the heart invite for a few months, and I love that Mrs. Lox went with this awesome design. Then I started migrating toward tree or nature inspired invites.

“Lovebirds in a tree” invite:

{Image via Oh So Beautiful Paper / Design by Spark Stationery}

Willow tree invite:

{Image via Invitation Crush}

I sat with a blank document forrrever and tried to figure out how I could recreate something like this, but everything I did just looked like clip art. I altered my search and came across the image below, which convinced me I needed banners and white font.

Oh, pretty banners:

{Image via Invitation Crush / Design by Oh My Deer}

Banner with chevron stripes:

{Image via Etsy seller Cheerupcherup}

The colored paper and white typing make the statement in this suite, courtesy of Mrs. Pain au Chocolat:

{Image via Mrs. Pain au Chocolat on Weddingbee}

Solid color with white text:

{Image via I Should Have Been An Astronaut}

Next came the brackets:

{Image via Etsy seller Shine Invitations}

{Image via Minted / Design by Marabou Design}

So, to summarize, I like hearts, trees, banners, chevrons, brackets, color, and white text. Sweet, Honey, way to be all over the place. Looking at the images I have saved and comparing them to the ones I have recreated, I’ve learned this:

• I love letterpress.
• I like dark backgrounds with white text.
• I’m drawn to non-computer-generated images.
• I like having something to use on all paper elements (bracket, banner, etc.).

And you know what outlining this tells me? I have a challenge ahead of me. I can’t afford letterpress. My home printer doesn’t allow for white-text printing. And, I’m no artist; all my abilities lie in the computer arena. I’m screwed, y’all.

I’m going to walk away and:

{Image via Typophile.com}

Hive, who else had invitation scatterbrain while searching for inspiration?!