Making new Swirly gift tags

We are busy creating away this weekend finishing up the ornaments for the goodie bags for the Mary Engelbreit workshop. We are crazily adding ribbon and fraying all the ornaments, getting ready to ship out on Monday (hopefully!).

Also, we got our new business cards in the mail this week. We are happy with the results (of course the paper weight could have been a tad heavier). These will be included in the gift boxes along with a brochure that is on the to-do list for this weekend as well.

Friday night we decided we should update our gift tags, adding a little graphic instead of the swirly above the "i" to represent the many holiday designs we create.

A Butterfly graphic we felt would cover all of our Spring & Easter collections

Leaves would be for all our Fall and Thanksgiving ornaments

Shamrock for St.Patrick's Day

Valentine's and possibly for baby girl too (we are still working on baby)

Christmas/winter ornament

and our Halloween ornaments.


We love to hear your comments and feedback from our posts. We really try to post as often as we can giving you a peek inside what we are creating here at the studio. If there are any questions you have for us, please feel free to leave a comment or email us here. Enjoy the weekend!

2008 American Graphic Design Award...Yeah!!

We were to thrilled to find out this week that our Swirly site won an American Graphic Design Award from Graphic Design USA magazine.

When we originally launched our site back in the day, we took it upon ourselves to do our site on our own, since we both have design backgrounds. This worked great in the beginning, but as our business grew we needed to consistently update our site for every season. We knew that we need some help organizing our site and also adding an ecommerce feature. So in the summer of 2007 we worked closely with a company called Brunello Creative here in Boston to create a new website. It was launched last November and works great for our needs. It's user friendly and it's easy for us to update on our own. The hard work must have paid off -- thanks Brunello and GD USA Magazine.

Here are inspiration boards we showed them to understand the look and feel we wanted to convey with our site.