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25 Ways to Use Your Watercolor Crest for a Gracious Welcome!

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Cheers! Use Your Pet's Portrait at the Bar

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Watercolor Map - Decatur House Wedding

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20 Ways You Can Use Your Watercolor Crest at Home

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A DC wedding welcome gift.

Hi, friends! During the past few years, I’ve made some major changes in my business. One was my website! And while I was always designing gifts for clients and couples, I didn’t have a place to share them when my website was under construction. They’re too pretty and thoughtful not to share, so here’s a […]

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Y’all! I’m not sure if I have ever been SO excited to share a creative project with the world! For the past year, I have been pretty silent on social media as I focused my time learning how to take my watercolor designs and make them into lovely wedding welcome gifts! While the entire collection […]

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If you are a member of Rising Tide Society, there’s a good chance you use the Creative Community. But if you are new to the group/holding out on joining, let me share with you why I love using it! Before I begin, I must say that what I am sharing this with you is from […]

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Tis the season to eat, drink, and be merry! And that’s just what our friends at Elle Nicole Events were hoping to gift their wedding industry friends this holiday season! We started with elegant, glass mugs and filled them with all the essentials to make an adult hot chocolate. Chocolate covered peppermint sticks and candy […]

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Hello thoughtful, friend! You are such a sweetheart for wanting to gift your clients something special! You appreciate them for choosing you and want to foster a positive relationship right from the start. You decide to build your brand through sending client gifts. But what is that something special? How do you celebrate them with […]

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A custom watercolor map of DC by Alicia Betz of The Welcoming District.

Welcome to Washington, D.C.! That’s what my wonderful couple, David and Misty, wanted to represent with their wedding welcome gifts! And as I recently started offering custom watercolor map designs, in walked bride, Misty, who wanted to add this beautiful element to her special day! It was truly the perfect timing and I was so […]

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When Christiana and Kyle, a sweet couple from the D.C. area with roots in Brazil and Maryland inquired about wedding welcome gifts, I knew they were something special! I was in the beginning stages of offering watercolor crests as a way to add pretty details to wedding welcome gifts and they were the perfect couple […]

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A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of not only designing welcome gifts for The Real Talk Workshop, but also attending it! This exquisite event took place at The Anderson House in the Dupont neighborhood of D.C. How much would you love to be welcomed by this beautiful architecture everyday?! May I move in, […]

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I love painting the love story, fur baby(ies), and places that are special to you! My hand-painted artwork is digitized so I can help you apply it to gracious welcoming details like invitations, gift tags, labels, tea towels, games, and so much more!

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