This week Featured Artist Mark van der Noord visited us from Holland. He has designed the Fly Away and Anchors Away invitation suites and he's working on a few more invitation suites for Love vs Design. He is an amazing artist and we were excited that he wanted to give our office walls some color. Below are a few photos from his work.
70 ways to assemble your wedding invitations
There are many different ways to assemble your wedding invitation, response card and enclosure card(s). One of our favorites is the popular and classy belly band. We just designed 70 belly bands in a variety of modern and vintage designs. Here are a few of them:


These belly bands are available in 70# Opaque paper stock and are non-adhesive. The design allows you to add the names, initials of the bride and groom and / or wedding date. You also have the option to change the design colors.
All 70 belly band designs can be found here. Which one is your favorite?
New Wedding Invitation Designs and Free Invitation Samples!
Happy Monday to you and yours! We recently added several new design suites to our site and are excited to share them with you. We understand the importance of touching our products and experiencing our high quality paper stock and printing techniques. For a limited time only, we offer 3 samples for free! See below for more details.
Ordering your sample package is easy:
1 Select your favorite wedding invitations and save the dates
2 Click ‘order sample’ and add the sample to your shopping cart
3 Check out (use code 3FREE) and you will receive your samples in 3 business days within the US and 8-10 business days outside the US.
Samples ship via USPS First Class for free within the 48 contiguous United States. For international sample orders, there is a $10 shipping fee. To prevent abuse, we offer only 1 free sample package of 3 samples per household. We reserve the right to cancel any order at any time.
Included in your sample package are:
Love vs Design in Martha Stewart Weddings Special
So excited that Love vs Design is featured in the latest Martha Stewart Real Weddings Special 2012! This issue is hot off the presses and includes our Back to Nature Insert Card and Save the Date.



The colors used in this Back to Nature suite are camel and tangerine. For a lot more great wedding inspiration, check out the Martha Stewart Wedding Blog.
Cover photograph by Kirsten Shultz/Martha Stewart Weddings. Calligraphy on cover and throughout the issue by Gail Brill Design. Story photographs by Emily Kate Roemer/Martha Stewart Weddings, Spring 2012. Copyright © 2012.
Printable Pinwheel Template
A pinwheel adds an instant dose of summer fun to any warm weather party or picnic and with Spring right around the corner, we thought it would be the perfect time to introduce a Pinwheel Printable! For a new spin on the traditional Pinwheel design we've scaled it down a bit so that it's the perfect size to work as a decorative addition to drink stirrers, straws, or cupcake toppers.

Printable Vintage Recipe Card
Here at Love vs Design we enjoy cooking (and eating!) new dishes and this week we're excited to share some Recipe Card Printables with you. These cards have a vintage feel balanced by a touch of modern style that is sure to fit with any kitchen decor. Whether you're saving favorite cookie recipes, or planning a post-website-launch feast like us, we hope this week's printable will inspire you to have some fun in the kitchen!
These Recipe Cards can be filled out in Adobe Acrobat so you don't have to hand write them. If you have any recipe ideas, we'd love to hear them from you!
You might also enjoy some other recipe cards we created last year, check em out here and here .
Printable Gift Card Envelope Template
Another Tuesday already, wow time flies when you're working on a complete new website 24/7 :) A few more weeks and we can finally share our new website with you, we're getting so excited!!!
And now over to this weeks Printable Template Tuesday... In the world of gift-giving, gift cards are great! They allow you to give someone a thoughtful present as well as the freedom to pick out their own perfect present. This week's printable template is a fun way to package your gift card and to remind everyone that good things come in small packages....or, more particularly, small envelopes. Happy Gifting!

Wedding Activity Card & Wedding Game Printable
Happy Tuesday! In the spirit of last week's Confetti Mad Libs printable, this week we're bringing you a matching Confetti Activity Sheet as another way to engage your guests at your wedding reception, engagement party or bachelorette party. Not only will it be a fun, interactive activity for each of your guests, it will leave you with something fun to look back on after the festivities are over. Enjoy!

Printable Wedding Mad Lips Template
Hello friends, Happy Valentine's Day to you and yours! Whether you're celebrating Vday or not, we hope you're enjoying this awesome Tuesday. Here at the LVD office we have a lot of exciting things in the works. In just a few weeks time we will be launching our brand new website, can't believe how much time goes into the design, programming, testing etc. We will share this with you soon!
For this weeks Printable Template Tuesday we created a Confetti Mad Libs, perfect for guests to fill out at your engagement party, bachelorette party or wedding reception. Hilarious wording combinations from your family members and friends guaranteed.
These cards are easy and free to download, print and cut. Have fun!

Printable Engagement Invitations Template
He asked and hopefully she said YES! Share your exciting news with engagement invitations. These printable invitations can also be used for your rehearsal dinner, bridal shower or bachelorette party.


These printables are nice to pair with A6 vellum envelopes. Also great in combination with matching ticket place cards, either flat or folded.
















