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Xmas Gift Giveaway

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Amy

And the winner is…Emma Adams/ Gallupyhorsey and her comment “I just adore the black Lab print :) would love to give it a home :) xx” Congratulations

Thank You everyone who entered and please drop by tommorrow for our next weekly xmas giveaway!

Christmas is our favourite time of year! So the team at Pretty as a Picture want to share some Christmas cheer ;) and what better way than with a fantastic giveaway!!

We have filled our Christmas Shop with a collection of unique, exciting and fun gifts for everyone on your shopping list! Every week until Christmas we will have a giveaway!! For this weeks giveaway you must decide which item from our Christmas Shop you would most love to give as a Christmas gift this year and leave us a comment on this post to let us know. Then on Tuesday 6th December one lucky commenter will win their favourite gift item- simple!

Here’s a sneak peek at some of our favorite gifts in the Christmas Shop to get you started-

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How to enter our Xmas Giveaway:

  • Sign Up for the Pretty as a Picture Newsletter

  • Leave us a comment below to let us know which item is your favourite
  • Share with friends on Facebook – they’ll love you for it!
  • The winner will be chosen totally at random on Tuesday 6th December, announced, contacted & their prize sent out.

Enjoy & Good Luck x

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Christmas Gift Guide; Unique Stocking Fillers..under €40

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Amy

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

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Charity Christmas Cards

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Amy

Send a unique card this Christmas from our Woodland Fairies Collection in aid of The Alzheimers Society of Ireland.

Planning to send christmas greetings to friends and loved ones? By choosing our charity christmas cards you can help The Alzheimer Society of Ireland. The Alzheimer Society of Ireland is the leading dementia specific service provider, with services in communities all over Ireland.  This Christmas Pretty as a Picture will donate 50% of proceeds from our fairy cards to support  Alzheimers Ireland in providing their invaluable services.

Cards are blank inside so you can write your own unique message. The images are from the original watercolour paintings by our  inhouse artist Ailbhe Ryan. Shop for your Charity Christmas Cards in the Pretty as a Picture Xmas Shop today!

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Christmas Gift Guide; Stocking Fillers..under €20

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Amy

Great Christmas gift ideas for everyone on your list, from sweet and sophisticated stationery sets to chic gifts for fashion lovers.

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

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Wedding Timeline; 3 months to go

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Amy

3 Months to go, your wedding is now so close! You’re nearing the end of the wedding planning process. Hopefully your on schedule, see 4-5 months to go if you think you may have missed a step. For now though the time has finally come to show off a bit and give your guests an insight into the amazing weeding you and your fiance have been busy planning by sending out your invitations. We can help you with addressing your invites but when it comes to guests not RSVP’ing on time we’re afraid your on your own! So read on and print out our detailed checklist to be completed by you and your fiance over the next couple of months, oh and we’ve also included a cool guest book alternative idea this month in the form of our custom thumb-print guest tree. Happy Planning!! x

Send Invitations
Aim to send invitations out eight weeks before the wedding giving guests plenty of time to make arrangements. Also the earlier they receive their invite the earlier they RSVP, allowing you to make the final headcount! Send your envelopes to a calligrapher or make time to write them out yourself.

Chasseral Letterpress Invitation

Wedding Accessories
Wedding Accessories including cake toppers, guest books and ribbon to name a few are the little things that make your wedding unique. From the wedding ceremony to the reception, wedding accessories will make your friends and wedding guests take notice ensuring it’ll be a day to remember. Check out the Pretty as a Picture customised thumb print guest tree, a unique alternative to the guest book. Have guests thumb their print in chalk stamps and sign a message or just their signature on your customised tree. The result a gorgeous piece of art to remember your special day by.

Custom Thumb-Print Guest Tree

Hair and Makeup
Research hair and makeup looks and book your makeup artist/stylist. Read our blogs by make-up artist Clare Hogan Make-Up Artist for top make-up and beauty tips from engagement to wedding day. Clare addresses the diy v make-up artist debate, tries out 4 wedding make-up looks and more.

 

Order Wedding Favours
Favour’s are the perfect way to show your appreciation to guests and ensure they will always remember your special day. Favour ideas include edible favours, charity favours, check out The Alzheimer Society of Ireland’s wedding favour cards, coasters and favour tags to name a few!

Tip: It is a really nice touch to have the design of your favour tags matching the rest of your wedding stationery and they can also be customised with your names and wedding date to make them even more unique. Favour Tags usually include a message to your guests as a whole such as “thanks for celebrating with us” but you could also consider individual messages for close friends and family.

Gifts
Shop for gifts for each other, bridesmaids, parents etc.

 

 

Finalise wedding transportation


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First Wedding Anniversary Paper Gift Ideas

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Amy

Unique Wedding Anniversary Gifts at Pretty as a Picture

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.

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Wedding Dress Portrait Sketch; Kate Middleton

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Amy

The royal wedding has come and gone, but it seems wedding trends from the most watched wedding of the century such as small bouquets, white bridesmaids dresses and vintage cars are here to stay What we loved most is the dress! Kate Middleton revealed her wedding dress on the morning of April 29th (after months of speculation about what she would wear) and we weren’t disappointed!  There are just so many beautiful elements of this dress that we love! Ailbhe has sketched a wedding dress portrait (one of our pen & ink wedding dress portrait sketches) of Kate’s wedding dress to capture these favourite elements!


Fashion Print Kate Middleton Wedding Dress

What we love about Kate’s royal wedding dress

Traditional
We love that Kate’s ivory gown by designer  Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen, was so traditional.

Sweetheart Neckline
Kate’s Wedding dress featured a sweetheart-neckline. We love this look so feminine and pretty and very flattering!

Lace
Bride Kate’s fitted dress has a long sleeve lace overlay and we are not surprised that lace wedding dresses are a big trend now! Ailbhe was able to capture the lace detail in the sketch.

Royal Couple Kate & William

Embroidered Flowers
The bodice and 9foot train of Kate’s dress were decorated with delicate lace applique flowers, the design incorporated the four floral emblems of the UK, the rose, thistle, daffodil and shamrock and was made at the Royal School of Needlework using Carrickmacross, an Irish originated lace making technique! We don’t envy the embroiderer though, sketching this took long enough :)

Fashion Print Kate Middleton’s Dress

Kate Middletons dress is on display on at Buckingham Place this summer! In honour of this we have had Ailbhe’s wedding dress portrait sketch professionally printed in gallery with archival inks, perfect gift for fans of the royal couple and for fashion lovers around the globe who tuned on the morning of April 29th to see the dress that is sure to influence weddings throughout 2012. Click here to get yours

If you have your own fabulous wedding dress, check out our wedding dress portrait gallery.

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Fashion Prints; unique gift idea

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Amy

Introducing the Pretty as a Picture set of 4 limited edition illustrated fashion prints. These cool fashion illustrations are based on the idea of over accessorizing, we were also poking a little fun at at the ‘designer pet’ trend.  What a perfect treat for yourself or your fashion loving friends. We can bet that even “the girl who has everything” doesn’t have her own set of these amazing special edition prints to pretty up her walls. Order your fashion print now

A great gift idea for friends at christmas, birthdays well any special occasion really!

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Bird Brain- who needs brains when you look this good

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Cow Girl- not your average country milk maid
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Catch me if you can- fast paced, high fashion- just try to keep up!
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Lady Rhinestone- who needs gems and stones when you can have the real deal?!!

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Writing Set Gift; unique gift idea

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Amy

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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Fairy Portrait – Sarah

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Jane

Ailbhe recently painted a ‘Fairy Portrait’ commission for Sarah – a gorgeous bubbly little girl who dreams of being a pretty fairy! We started by getting some photographs from her Mum. We combined these photographs to get the best angle for Sarah’s face and her hair. We also included her favourite teddy – Molly!

A magical floral scene was painted in watercolour and Sarah, the fairy, was sat upon a flower stem clutching Molly.

Do you know a little girl who would like to see themselves transformed into a fairy, perhaps for a special birthday gift. See our custom art shop for details or email us at info@prettyasapicture.ie

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