For today’s Color Monday, we’re going to look at the marvelous flexibility of Damask patterns.

Damask has the ability to transform the overall feel with the colors you use. It can be bold or soft, vintage or traditional–all the while being modern and trendy.

We’re using three of our Damask Wedding Invitations to discover and illustrate how transforming these color changes can be. On the left is Floral Ornament Wedding Invitation a traditional and bold damask design.

The modern and trendy Damask Dream Wedding Invitations is on the right.  Front and center is the soft, vintage feel of Romance in Paris Wedding Invitation. These three diverse designs will all be transformed by color into completely new looks.

So let’s start off with a bold color palette.

Pop! When damask is used with hot, vibrant colors it becomes very unique and trendy. Bold colors jump right off the invitation. These wedding looks will not be forgotten!

But can something as strong as damask be soft and subtle too?

Of course. It’s so hard to resist these luscious color combinations! The sweet and airy designs are just what you want for a romantic and charming wedding invitation.

Can we make it look vintage just by changing the colors?

Yes–the tones now are muted to reveal these beautiful color combinations.

Now, let’s revert back to traditional Damask …

Clean and absolutely lovely. These colors suggest a more formal affair …

Remember … that all of these combinations have resulted from using the same three wedding invitations! Amazing! And of course you can do this too! Inside Design Studio, our personalization tool, you can play around with color all you want! Totally transform the look of the invitations just using color combinations to get the look and feel you want.

What style of damask to you like the best? Which is the most trendy?

Thanks for stopping by!

Lindsay

Welcome to Color Monday!

Today we’re going to lighten up our color palettes! We’re celebrating the ability to completely transform wedding invitations with color by flipping them all around. We’re going to take dark and serious designs and only switch the color to make them light and airy…

Here is Wall of Love, a beautiful wedding invitation with a cute little monogram and awesome swirls. (You should check out the folded invites! so pretty!) But instead of black we’re going to use Dusty Rose. Instantaneously the whole feeling of the design changes. The swirls become lacy and delicate. Instead of a serious and formal black and white wedding I have visions of pretty pink flowers perhaps even at a garden wedding.

Next we’ll play with Stemming Flowers, a great wedding invitation with a strong fall color combination. Just tweaking the colors to be more muted with lavender and gray this design would work wonderfully for a relaxed, springtime wedding. I can almost smell the lilacs and lavender.

And of course we’ve saved the best for last. We’ve taken the design, Abstract Flowers, and transformed the wedding invitation with brand-new colors. Flipping the black to white and swapping “coral” for the deep purple we have completely changed the look of this invitation. Using one of your favorite colors really makes a difference.

You can use ANY color you love and you can use it on ANY of our wedding invitations. Feel free to try your colors inside Design Studio, our online personalization tool. It is easy to see exactly what your invitation would look like in the color of your dreams! No need to order up front, just go play with color.

What favorite color would you love to use?

For those of you who really pay attention, we’ve done this before and just might do it again. Any suggestions on color or designs to try out?

Happy Color Monday!

Spring has finally sprung and with it–our color cues for today’s inspiration. No wonder spring and summer weddings are so popular–the color possibilities are endless. Are you stuck on a color palette for your spring or summer wedding? Or simply looking for a few fresh ideas?

Our inspiration today is for a: casual beach wedding, a spring wedding in pastels and a spring destination wedding.

If you’re new to Color Monday, the idea behind it is to inspire you with a myriad of color possibilities for your wedding stationery and to encourage you to look everywhere for inspiration–from nature, to a fashion magazines or like today, from pretty photographs/images. Once you find your color palette, it’s easy to translate them to your fave invitation design at MagnetStreet and watch your wedding style fall perfectly into place. Here’s what we mean:

As originally designed, our featured wedding invitation is entitled Botanical Bloom–a simple and clever design that showcases a fun and artsy zinnia flower on a chic, square wedding invitation. With each color change, comes a new feel and a new look. From soft to bold …

Romantic Beach Wedding

This soft, romantic color palette comes from a pair of jeweled flip-flops in the sand. Imagine a light, airy and casual wedding setting–with only your closest family and friends in attendance. The happiest moment of your life–envisioned just the way you want it.

Mix & Match Patterns

Our color palette for our spring wedding, springs from a mix of pastel-colored patterns–fun, quirky, eclectic. The setting could be indoors or outdoors. There might be mason jars on the tables or crystal goblets. Let your uniqueness shine through …

Italian Destination Wedding

Travel anyone? Or love the idea of a dream destination in beautiful Italy? This bold color palette is derived from a historic row-house in Italy. That’s amore! no? Gorgeous, dramatic and so much fun!

Notice how the zinnia absolutely pops off the invitation with each color change. And this is just with color! Once you add your font changes and special wording–your mood is set–whatever your wedding style!

Lots of inspiration can be found anywhere you look. Color can change any unsuspecting design into a work of art.

 Which is your favorite look?

Happy Color Monday: the day devoted to reinventing a Save the Date or Wedding Invitation design through the transformative effect of color. Today, we’re all about modern wedding stripes. Here are just a few ways that you can incorporate stripes into your wedding decor, attire, florals, etc. So fun! We’ve taken Sassy Stripes, a fun and contemporary striped Save the Date Magnet design and took it from sweet to formal to spring-y to preppy to romantic to sleek and chic …

Which is your favorite combination?

photo courtesies:

flower girl via Martha Stewart Weddings ,red shoes/striped skirt via Style Outside the Square, Striped tie photo by Marlin Munoz via Elizabeth Anne Designs, short gown via Poptastic