Best Wishes

Wishing everyone a happy holiday and a peaceful new year. See you in 2009!
Cheers, Jenn & Mary

Big Gifts Come in Small Precious Packages

When the Brennan's asked us to design a very special holiday card for them, we were beyond excited. We loved the idea of making a holiday card feel like a gift by layering the 3 cards and tying them together with bakers twine. We then topped it off with a hangtag. The copy we created for the card really inspired the format. We then hand illustrated the complete design and type and screen printed in white and gold. It was all sent off in a kraft envelope.

Hello, Holidays!

Our very talented and brilliant friend Sarah, of Sarah Silver Photography asked us to design her a special card for the holiday season. This custom designed card was beautifully letterpressed by our friends at Gilah Press + Design.

Candace & Yadin

Photos from their beautiful wedding. Enjoy! Photos by Belathée.

Show & Tell

We have been missing in action, but we are back with a few new fun projects that will not disappoint. Enjoy!

London Calling: NYC

Candace and Yadin live in London, were engaged in Paris and married in the Big Apple. Candace contacted us this summer to help her design some special items for her wedding in October. When we heard her story, we thought it was fate.

Candace and I (Jenn) realized we shared some of the same nuptial paths, it was kinda of uncanny. We both were proposed to at Pont Neuf in Paris, she was having her wedding at Studio 450 as did I and our color scheme was exactly the same, black and white with a pink accent. It was a perfect match.

We created a special logo for Candace and Yadin that was then applied to tote bags, letterpress prints, stickers, and thank you cards. Letterpress prints where done by our friends at Gilah Press.

Thanking Our Lucky Stars

Brooklyn Represent

Today, Vane over at the fabulous Brooklyn Bride posted  a little piece on our work. Check it out.

Public Displays of Affection

Finally the big, huge, gigantic, wedding day arrived last weekend and it was absolutely amazing. Mary looked gorgeous! I was passed along a preview of photo's and must show!! Kimberly from, Kimberly Reed Photography, did a brilliant job as you can see below. To see more of her work check out her website at www.kreedphotography.com

Marry, Mary, Quite Contrary

For the past year we have been working like busy bees to make Mary's wedding beautiful and perfect. It has been our testing ground for our future plans to design lovely weddings for all brides. Check out our process.

Save the Date

It all started here with the save the date card. Mary had found really cool skeleton keys for the table cards, so we wanted to start it off with the key concept. We thought that creating a a key ring like concept would be perfect. Then Mary came up with this amazing copy, that was on each key... to my love, to kisses, to passion, to my match, to my heart, to it all. Check it out.

Book of Love

A lot of love went into Mary's wedding invitation. It was a dream project for the both of us. The invite was all very handmade with the exception of the letterpress cards. The letterpress was printed by gilah press + design. As you can see they did a beautiful job. The front and back cover was wrapped in book cloth and stamped with a Gocco Press. The inside pages of the book were created with kraft paper. It was all packaged up in a muslin cloth envelope that was then mailed in a kraft paper envelope. It really was a true representation of Mary and Dave. It also conveyed the feeling of an outdoor vintage styled wedding to come. We must give a big thanks too all of our friends and Mary's sisters who tirelessly helped us glue and sew into the wee hours of the evening. Now, that is true friendship...Cheers!

Screen Printing 101

Ice Cream Social learns how to screen print! Our trusty friend Dan, gave us a tutorial on screen printing. Thanks to Dan we learned how to create these awesome welcome bags for Mary's guests at the wedding!

and voila! The final product.

Everyone received buttons to wear for free welcome drinks. Sweet!

Delicious Paper

Check out some of the hot summer cards we are sporting. Wanna see more...take a look at our etsy store: www.icecreamsocialpaper.etsy.com.

Our First Flea

Ice Cream Social was so honored when Etsy asked us if we would like to come and hang out under there tent and sell some cards at the Brooklyn Flea. It was a frigid April day, but none the less people came out in droves to support there flea urges. We met lots of great people and sold lots of cards. Here is a short video Etsy made from the flea, that features Ice Cream Social.

I Scream, You Scream

Welcome to our blog!

We are really excited to finally have a space to share our love of all things design. You will have the chance to get to know us, Jenn and Mary, founders of Ice Cream Social. Visit us often to see what we have been designing, what is inspiring us now, and what we are obsessed with (like ice cream). We want to share it all. So dig in, ice cream social style.