Anise’s First Birthday Invitations

For my daughter’s first birthday, I relaxed on the calligraphic formalities a little. I wanted to create invitations that were both playful but still had a little element of calligraphy to them.

Hand painting each invitation, I created a bold, hot pink central feature with loose script and roman lettering in white and dark pink shadow. I hand wrote the details in my own eponymous font style, ‘Anise’, and addressed each in formal Copperplate calligraphy.

As a little addition to her memory box, I also created an invite for Anise so that she would know what we sent to her friends on her birthday.