Great Christmas gift ideas for everyone on your list at the Pretty as a Picture Christmas Shop from sweet and sophisticated stationery gift sets to chic gifts for fashion lovers. Start your Christmas Shopping today!
Gift Vouchers, Dog Prints, Fairy Prints, Stationery Gift Sets
Great Christmas gift ideas for everyone on your list at the Pretty as a Picture Christmas Shop from sweet and sophisticated stationery gift sets to chic cards and prints for fashion lovers, or why not let them pick themselves with one of our gift vouchers.
Gift Voucher, Fashion Prints, Stationery Gift Sets
Christmas is just around the corner! As we prepare for our favourite season, we’re delighted to introduce the Pretty as a Picture Xmas Shop. From chic gifts for fashion lovers to sweet and sophisticated stationery gift sets for every budget we’ve got christmas shopping sorted for everyone on your list! And the best part is you won’t have to stand in any long Christmas shopping queues as its all on available in our online shop! So start your Christmas shopping today.
Here’s just a few of my favourite stocking filler ideas from the under €20 section..who said only kids love stocking fillers!
Gift Voucher , Notelets, Hello There Ellie Cards, Writing Gift Set, Isla Letterpress Writing Set, Keepsake Gift Box, Memo Pad, Fashion Cards
I had my bridesmaids picked out in my head for a while, but was trying to think of a nice personal way to ask them. I decided to make ‘will you be my bridesmaid?’ invitations. I love designing invitations and I love getting crafty but rarely have time to do it anymore, so this was a great opportunity! Whats more I had so much fun that it has inspired us to create some fun products for the Pretty as a Picture Shop including bridesmaids invitations and calling cards that can personalised for yourself or for friends as a great gift.
DIY Bridesmaid Invitation
I had come across some vintage bridesmaid patterns and loved the illustrations on the cover, they reminded me of those old school Bunty and Cindy magazines!
Inspired by 70′s fashion illustrations
I started off getting a photo of each of them (facebook can be handy!) and doing an illustration of us all in those style dresses.
Pen and watercolour illustrations
Next I wanted to get that old comic dotted print effect so I found this tutorial online.
Grainy dotted effect
Next I designed the background image and text and printed it out. I followed a really simple pop up card tutorial and put two horizontal slits in the back of the card. I stuck a piece of blue card on top of this to cover the slits. I mounted the simple ‘Will you..’ on to the top.
Pop up card
I carefully selected my wedding colours from some paint sample strips I had and used them to ask them their dress colour preference. (I got mine in Woodies)
I also did up a little RSVP card to match.
Main bridesmaid invitation
I finished it off by sealing the envelope with a mini oval portrait of each of the girls.
Final invitation suite!
Thanks to all my bridesmaid for saying ‘yes!’ I’ve promised not to put them in the lovely dresses they are sporting in these drawings!!
Want to ask your bridesmaids to partake in your wedding in a special way? Order your personalised bridesmaid invitations today!
Congratulations on your first wedding anniversary! Paper gifts are traditional for first anniversary gift so keeping with tradition (and also putting our own spin on it) heres our favourite gift ideas to fit that special paper anniversary
Wedding Dress Portrait
For a special gift that will be treasured for generations – we create custom portraits of the much loved wedding dress. Your wife will truly appreciate this stylish way to remember your wedding day and the dress she wore forever. Just select photos and we’ll do the rest!
Our professional in-house artist will will recreate the dress on artist quality paper resulting in an elegant piece of custom artwork to cherish for years to come. Portraits can be oil paintings, pen and ink sketches or a pencil sketch, depending on your budget. Browse our gallery of Wedding Dress Portraits and place your order today!
Gift Voucher
Gift Vouchers are a great idea for custom art work such as the wedding dress portraits as it means the bride herself can liaise with our inhouse artist, approve proofs request changes etc. And our pretty vouchers are printed on paper so still fit in with first wedding anniversary tradition 
Purchase your gift voucher today!
Personalised Stationery Sets
Our customisable personal stationery sets are the ideal gift for a loved one on any special occassion but particularly on a first wedding anniversary where the tradition is to give a paper gift! We have a range of personalised stationery pieces including social stationery sets, personalised notelets and calling cards. All of our stationery gift packages are presented in a beautiful keepsake box.
We love getting the opportunity to create something truly unique – and this card certainly was!! Three sisters came to us to design an extra special memorial card for their late mother.
Duplexed Letterpress & Digital Memorial Card – Front & Back
Upon meeting them we learned of their unique story. On the day their mother passed away, a rose bloomed in her garden with three buds surrounding it – they felt this represented their mother and the 3 sisters. They took a photograph of this and wanted to include it in her memorial card as it was particularly meaningful to them.
We decided to do a custom painting of the roses for one side of the card and to letterpress the other side with text and an illustration – so each side would contrast with the other.
Ailbhe sketching the first draft
Ailbhe’s initial sketch of the roses was done in pen and used for the letterpress side of the card which was printed in a grey ink. Then the watercolour version was used for the opposite side which was digitally printed. The two sides were then duplexed together and the corners rounded to create a truly meaningful and unique memorial card.
Rose Illustration in pen and in watercolour
We have since been told that many recipients have framed their cards as they can’t bear to throw them away!! If you would like more information on our custom design services please feel free to contact us.
Letterpress Memorial Card – Front
This stylish and earth friendly stationery set is an ideal gift for the keen writer. Let them pen their thoughts on luxurious letterpressed eco bamboo paper perfect for quick notes, love letters, thank you notes, just about any occasion you can think of really! Sets comes hand tied with ribbon, making them pretty stationery gifts your friends will love and use! See Pretty as a Picture Gift Shop for different patterns/ to order your gift set now.
Letterpress Notelets and Greetings Card Gift Set
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