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Buy 1 monogram, get 1 free – plus new designs

The Aylee Bits monogram collection boasts of more than 470 designs you can choose from!  And there are more designs in the works so stay tuned!  Click here to order.

    

   

  

For today and tomorrow only, you buy one monogram for $3 and you get one free.  Just enter SUMMEREND under Promotion Code when you place your order.  Please read the promotion terms and restrictions below.

Click here to order.

* The BOGO SUMMEREND promotion starts August 25, 2010 11:00am EST and ends August 26, 2010 11:59pm EST.  The promotion applies to pre-designed monograms only, and does not apply to previous purchases or custom orders.  Must buy 1 monogram for $3 to get a free monogram.  Regular price (2 for $5) does not apply.  The BOGO SUMMEREND promotion cannot be combined with other promotions, so the buy 4, get 1 free daily deal will not apply.  All designs highlighted in green are not available for this promotion. 

Free Flash-based website from Wix.com

Do you like the Flash sites you see online and want one of your own, but don’t know how to use Flash?  Well, now you can for free at Wix.com.  I’m not a big fan of Flash websites as a lot of them are not universally accessible.  But you can do a lot of cool things (e.g. animations).

Now that our wedding is done, I decided to update our wedding website to contain mostly photos.  So I tried out Wix.  Here are screenshots of the site I created.

The Wix site editor was pretty easy to use if you’re starting from a template and you need to do basic editing.  Some actions that you need to do may not be easy to figure out sometimes.  The page manager is the part that I hate the most.  It’s hard to get to and hard to understand.  The editor also doesn’t have a media manager.  There’s no way to organize photos (for example) and if you need to use them again, you’ll have to scroll through a lot of pages if you have a lot of photos.

Ruth & Brian

One of my monogram clients, Ruth and Brian got married in beautiful Honolulu Hawaii.  It just gives you this warm feeling to see your work, no matter how small, be a part of someone’s special day.  Photos were taken by Chrissy Lambert.

You can see more of their wedding at Chrissy’s blog.

To order monograms, click here.

DIY: Newport wedding map and template

All of our guests including us are from out of town.  So in the guest welcome bags, we decided to include a map of key places including room blocks and where we’re staying.  The rehearsal dinner location will only be included on maps for those who are invited to the rehearsal dinner.

Our wedding map

Our wedding map

As we get closer to the wedding, I will be adding places/sites to see in Newport.  If you have any suggestions of nice places/sites to see, please leave a comment.

Now, on to the template…

Template
The Newport map template measures 8.5″ x 11″ and can be reduced.  It is in PDF format and can be used with image/graphic editors such as Photoshop and Illustrator. The basic template (see image below) is $10.  To purchase, click Buy Now below.

Basic Newport Map template (no additional streets):


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Newport map template by Aylee

For additional streets or customized map, please contact me.  Click here for instructions on how to create your own map.

The template in Word (doc) format will be available soon. But note that it won’t be as crisp as the PDF above. Stay tuned…

Pre-designed Program Fan Template

A pre-designed program fan template is now available!  The template is based on Alessandra’s program fans that I created.

The template is currently in black ($10).  To get the design color customized, purchase the custom-color template ($15).  Choose your colors from this color chart and enter the 6-character color code when you pay through Paypal.  Click here to purchase.

Pre-designed program fan template

Announcement re: Monogram orders

I just found out that my monogram order form wasn’t working since April 27.  If you have submitted an order, please resubmit by filling out the order form at http://ayleedesigns.gnyc.net/front.html?req-monograms.htm.  I’m so sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Passport Invitation template

The passport invitation template is now available (passpost save-the-date coming soon)!  The basic template is free while the pre-designed one is available for a fee.  Click here to purchase the pre-designed template.  Passport size is 3.5″x5″.

Basic template (DOC) 304kb – free
Pre-designed template (DOC & PDF) 5.36mb – $10 forever! :) until 3/12/09, $20 after that
     ** Click here to purchase **
Custom passport invitation/save-the-date – $50

The pre-designed template is based on the passport invitation below that I created before.

Passport Invitation - cover

Passport Invitation

Passport Invitation

Passport Invitation template - cover

Passport Invitation template

Passport Invitation template

Click here to purchase the pre-designed template.

Accepting monogram orders

I have decided to accept monogram orders.  Yay :) !  I’m still not able to provide service that can be physically draining (e.g. boarding passes and program fans), but I’m working on those pre-designed templates for those who want boarding passes and program fans.  To order monograms, click here.

Monograms

Turn your handwriting into a font

Isn’t it exciting to know that you can transform your very own handwriting into a font?  You don’t have to create notes or documents using those common standard fonts anymore.  You can now easily create digital notes with your own handwriting, adding a more personal touch.

So you ready to get your own handwriting font?  Kevin and Amanda’s Fonts for Peas offer this service for FREE!

You can also head on to Font Garden to get your font created.

Across the Blogosphere: Steps to DIY invitations

DIY invitationMrs. Cupcake of Weddingbee posted some very helpful steps and tips for doing your own invitations.  She is a graphic designer and made these gorgeous invitations for her own wedding. Click here for the full article.

Image from Dacali’s Flickr photostream