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New Designs

2010-08-31T15:41:00.001-07:00

I did these designs a while back but I just havent gotten around to putting them up. I wanted to update my protfolio a little with some more IN styles and colors. Sand and Turquoise are hot colors right now. The picture doesn't do the sand color justice in this photo. The inspiration for this invitation was a peacock feather and I think it came out nicely. Blue and yellow are extremely in colors this wedding season. Couple that with a little bling and you have an absolutely fabulous invitation.

Beach weddings are always in style. I love this invitation because it is so simple and easy just the right feel for a beach wedding. The linnen textured paper adds that extra Wow factor that just makes everything work

Wedding Invitation 411

2010-02-25T15:07:00.000-08:00

Ordering your wedding invitations can feel like a huge undertaking. When planning for your big day the invitations are the first impression your guests have of what your wedding will be like. It is very important to make a good first impression. Raisor Paper wants to make finding the perfect wedding invitation and wedding stationary simple and easy. So here are a few basics that will make the process a lot simpler and easier.

When do I order my invitations?
Three to four months before your wedding date. But the sooner you order the more time you'll have to proof and make changes. Always give yourself as much time as you can to address and stamp your invitations (this can be a daunting task especially if you are planning on a lot of guests)

When should I send my invitaitons?
Six to eight weeks before the big day is best. For guests coming from out of town it is best to send 10 weeks or more ahead. Any farther ahead than that it should be a save the date card with your invitation to follow.

Reply cards?

These can be as simple or as detailed as you want them to be. Reply cards usually include a yes or no answer from your invited guest as well as a space for the number attending. Including a reply by date helps you stay more organized by having all your responses by a certain date. Reply cards need to have their own stamped envelope and be included in your invitation. For more details about the wedding or to kill 2 birds with one stone you can also include menu selections for your guest to choose from. (Your Caterer will love you if you can provide exact numbers of entree selections in advance)

What other stationary will I need?
Ordering all your stationary needs for your wedding can be a great time saver and a lot of invitation companies will offer you a discount on other prints when you order all at once. (anything to save a little green) Here are a few other prints you should consider when ordering your invitations

Programs: This essential stationary item outlines the details of the wedding ceremony including the names of the bridal party, any important events, or even some details of an unfamiliar ceremony. It's also a great place to thank any important people or honor a friend or relative that has passed on. Programs are a great reminder of your wedding guests can take home with them so make sure they really spectacular.

Menu Cards: These cards are a great comfort for your guests (like to remind themselves of what they chose to have for dinner on their reply card) Not only does this card outline the dinner schedule and menu it is a beautiful addition to your place setting (so make sure it matches)

Place Cards: These cards tell your guests where they will be sitting for the ceremony. A good idea is to slip this little baby in with your programs as the guests arrive.

Favor Cards: If you are preparing a little something for your guests to take home with them it's a good idea to think about favor cards or tags. This is a good place to thank guests for attending your wedding and it makes a great momento.

Thank you cards: You're going to have to get thank you cards eventually and it would be great to get them in advance. You could even address them while you address you invitations saving you a lot of time after the wedding when you're trying to worry about wedded bliss. Try and send these out about a month after you get back from your honeymoon.

Now that you have the basics down it's time to have some fun. Invitations and stationary are a great opportunity to be creative. There are so many styles and options for your invitations. There are even places to get custom invitations to make sure they fit your personality and style of your event.

Order your wedding invtiatons and stationary at Raisor Paper

All about Baby

2010-02-25T14:00:00.001-08:00

Here are a few shower invitations as well as some birth announcements. These are a great way to welcome your little one into the world. To order contact us 480-628-8508 or mindy.raisor@gmail.com

Photo Wedding Invitaitons

2010-02-25T13:41:00.000-08:00

Photo wedding invitaions are perfect for a more casual event or for a Bride and Groom on a budget. Include as many pictures as you want with front and back prints. Photo invitaitons start at $.60 each (min order required)

To order contact us at 480-628-8508 or mindy.raisor@gmail.com

Photo Graduation Announcements

2010-02-25T13:29:00.001-08:00

Our photo Graduation announcements are perfect for Highschool or even College graduation. We personalize them with your photos so they are truly one of a kind. They are also budget friendly starting at just $.50 each (min order required) Contact us today to order 480-628-8508 or mindy.raisor@gmail.com

Graduation Announcements

2010-02-25T13:23:00.001-08:00

All of our Graduation Announcements are available in alternate colors. Contact us for a custom design consultation or to order 480-628-8508

Handmade Wedding

2010-02-04T08:50:00.000-08:00

ASU Graduation Announcements

2009-04-13T00:05:00.001-07:00

May is rapidly approaching and many of us are getting ready for GRADUATION!!! The big day is finally here. You get to move on from dorm rooms, leftover pizza and pulling all nighters and into the real world.

Let Raisor Paper help you celebrate (and collect money from your family and friends) in style. I don't know if anyone has seen ASU's graduation announcements but can we say "Laaame" It is seriously a regular sheet of paper folded into a card with a picture of "Old Main" on the front and a standard message on the inside where the only thing different from everyone else is your name and degree. I can't believe they think these are nice invitations. They can even take the time to cut the paper to make a card. They just fold it over and hope you won't notice.

Come on people we've worked way to long and hard to have lame graduation invitations.

Tell you all what... as an ASU alumni myself I'm giving all ASU graduates a %10 discount on their invitation order from Raisor Paper. I can assure you they are way better than anything you'll get from ASU.

If you want to save even more money and get rockin invitations ask about our invitation kits where we design, print and cut everything and you put it together. Email us today for more info at mindy@raisorpaper.com

Here are some samples for your viewing pleasure. Order something you like or ask us to design you a custom invitation but you have to act now May is coming faster than you think.

Congratulations Graduates

2009-04-03T16:45:00.001-07:00

I had the pleasure of doing some graduation announcements this past week for some wonderful people. I love putting these together . It is so fun to see people going through different phases of life.

A Graduation is definately a changing point in people's lives. Don't get me wrong it's always a happy changing. Its a time to celebrate of the completion of 4 years of hard work to be handed a wonderful piece of very expensive paper. Seriously, I don't understand why you don't get something better than a lousy piece of paper at the end of so much work.

Needless to say whether it's celebrating the competion of Highschool and looking forward to a job or even college or a college graduation and being absolutely terrified about entering the "real world". It is all about celebrating your accomplishments. (however poorly they are rewarded) I love getting to help the celebration with my announcements.

So congratulations Graduates now go party!

Congratulations David and Melissa

2009-02-02T18:32:00.001-08:00

I had the pleasure of doing invitations for a wonderful couple David and Melissa. They had wonderful pictures done by Red Feather Photography so the invitations were so easy and ended up georgous! What a wonderful couple congratulations you guys!

ASU Graduation Announcements

2008-11-14T13:40:00.000-08:00

May is rapidly approaching and many of us are getting ready for GRADUATION!!!

Let Raisor Paper help you celebrate
(and collect money from your family and friends)
With our beautiful custom ASU Graduation Announcements.

I don't know if anyone has seen ASU's graduation announcements but can we say "Laaame" It is seriously a regular sheet of paper folded into a card with a picture of "Old Main" on the front and a standard message on the inside where the only thing different from everyone else is your name and degree. I can't believe they think these are nice invitations. They can even take the time to cut the paper to make a card. They just fold it over and hope you won't notice.

Come on people we've worked way to long and hard to have lame graduation invitations.

Tell you all what... as an ASU alumni myself I'm giving all ASU graduates a %10 discount on their invitation order from Raisor Paper. I can assure you they are way better than anything you'll get from ASU.

If you want to save even more money and get rockin invitations ask about our invitation kits where we design, print and cut everything and you put it together. Email us today for more info at mindy@raisorpaper.com Order by May 1st

Here are some samples for your viewing pleasure. Order something you like or ask us to design you a custom invitation but you have to act now May is coming faster than you think.

Congratulations Afton and Sean

2008-10-31T09:08:00.000-07:00

I had the pleasure of providing invitations for my sweet little cousin. I still firmly maintain that she is way to young (and in retrospect I'm too old) for her to be getting married already. But when you've found the most terrific guy in the world and you know it's right, then end of discussion.

I had the best time working on these invitations for her she is so sweet and I am so happy for her

Congratulations!

2008-10-08T22:09:00.000-07:00

It is almost Graduation time again and to celebrate we are bringing back our %50 off special on Graduation announcements and Invitations. This time around is to honor my Husband's graduation from Arizona State University. (finally)

Any time you get invitations they should be personal and showcase your individual taste and style. Let us create custom handcrafted invitations for your graduation.

Call or email us today to order mindy@raisorpaper.com or 480-628-8508

Dillards Bridal Show

2008-05-31T17:23:00.000-07:00

Today was the dillards bridal adventure bridal show. I snuck into the show on the shirtails of my wonderful friend Kate Lane of Red feather Photography. Unfortunately for me and all the other vendors attending there weren't very many brides that attended, mostly dillards shoppers that were there for the free food. However the show was by no means a total loss. We met tons of wonderful vendors from all over the valley. Check out our link list of vendors for some of the amazing companies we met.

My favorite person/vendor I met at this event would definately have to be Kim Mcdowell of the Event Essentials. This woman is an absolute doll and a joy to talk to. She honestly kept me entertained for the majority of the event. The funny thing about Kim is they she was attending the event to showcase her and stationary invitations. Now people would think that Kim is in "competition" with me but that is definately not the case. No two invitation designers are the same. They each have their own style and designs. I love Kim's style she is completely different and fresh and I love having her as a referral source. Kim also does event planning another referral for my brides. check out her blog at http://mrsdesignher.blogspot.com or use or prefered vendor list to track her down. Thanks kim it was great to meet you and I hope we can have a great realtionship in the future.

Graduation Announcements

2008-05-05T11:06:00.000-07:00

In honor of my little sisters graduating from high school this month I have decided to shift my focus to graduation announcements and invitations.

I am disgusted at the invitations the schools offer they are so ugly, generic, cheap looking and ridiculously expensive. Graduation announcements should be personal and show off your individual taste and style. They shouldn't be so cheesy and the same as everyone else. You can't get that with the lame-o invitations the schools offer.

So to combat the ugly overpriced school's invitations I am offering %50 off my already discounted invitations to everyone who refuses to settle for anything less than they truly deserve personal unique beautiful invitations.

Call or email us today to order mindy@raisorpaper.com or 480-628-8508

Here are some examples for your viewing pleasure

Remember to mention our blog for %50 off our Graduation Announcements and Invitations

Fun with Photo Invitations

2008-04-26T15:49:00.000-07:00

I have recently discovered the joys of Photo invitations and announcements. They are modern, easy to design and take a whole lot less work than my handmade ones. Less work means faster delivery times and over all less expensive for my clients. They can be pretty much anything you want too because all of the designs are digital. They are so easy and so much fun I decided to do a photo invitation for my son's birth announcements (see above) I always recommend these to my brides that have tight time tables and tight budgets.

Photos used with permission courtesy of Red-feather photography Thanks Kate!

Congratulations to Tasanee and Cory

2008-04-20T19:39:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Tasanee and Cory. The invitations we did turned out fantastic! We did a gorgeous picture invitation with an even more fantastic black gate folded jacket with silver embossed text on the outside.

To save a little on time and money we ordered extra picture invitations that could be sent out with out jackets. They were still beautiful without jackets. I had my baby this month and it was quite the ordeal to get the invitations done with a newborn so I have to say thank you to Tasanee and Cory for their patience.

Congratulations again and Good luck on your wedding next month.

Congratulations to Darin and Chelsea!

2008-03-13T14:11:00.000-07:00

Congratulations! Darin and Chelsea!

I have been seriously slacking in updating this blog so I decided to pay tribute to some of the weddings I have been blessed to have taken part in.

These beautiful invitations were designed partly by me but mostly by the beautiful bride who wanted the most elegant and unique wedding invitations ever! She did a beautiful job with her design and I was happy just to make them for her.

We did a black outer envelope with all 4 corners folding in ontop of beautiful silver irradescent paper. The bride cleverly included their engagement picture on the end of a silver ribbon that folded up inside the invitation. The envelope was sealed with a beautiful silver sticker of the mesa temple.

I loved doing these invitations they turned out beautifuly!

First things First

2007-07-18T21:36:00.000-07:00

The very first thing you will want to do when designing your wedding invitations is decide on a style and theme. Hopefully you will have already decided the style and theme of your wedding so this should be an easy decision as your invitations will match your wedding theme.

Having themed can be crucial to the stlye and feel of your wedding. A bride having a super formal floral themed wedding would not want to send the wrong impression to her guests by mailing twine and burlap wrapped invitations. The whole feel of your wedding begins the moment your guest opens that perfectly sealed and delivered wedding invitation.

If you are having trouble deciding on a theme simply think of what message you want to send to your guests about your wedding. Once you have the message, all you need is the right way to say it.

If you need to seek professional wedding invitation designers and they can help you deliver the message you want the way you want.

Photo taken by Kate Lane of red feather photography www.red-featherphoto.com

Presenting your personality on paper!

2007-07-17T18:13:00.000-07:00

We are Raisor Paper Crafts. Who are we? We help you create the day of your dreams begining with the first and most important step, the wedding invitation. At Raisor Paper Crafts we design all of our products around you. We customize our beautiful hand crafted invitations to fit your personal taste and style. This blog was created to give you insight into our company and help you design and create the best possible wedding invitation even if it isn't with our company.