Tis the season to be busy...

I am used to being busy with Holiday cards this time of year but I have also been extremely busy with other invites as well.  Here are the designs I have been doing for the last month.

Catching up before I take time off........

So, it has been two months since my last post but I have been really busy with design work not to mention preparing for our little baby girl to arrive. I thought it would be good if I updated before I took some time off to spend with Alivia after she arrives. I will have one more post hopefully in the near future to showcase the wedding that I worked on in May and June.
Until then.....
This was for a friend's couple shower that is getting married Labor Day weekend.
My girlfriends Brother-in-Law is getting married this August and they were hosting a couples shower for the Bride and Groom.

As another part of that wedding preparation I designed rehearsal dinner invitations to work with their wedding invites for the Mother of the Groom.
This announcement was for a friend of my Sister-in-Law's. She is starting a new exciting chapter of her life and wanted to send an announcement with her new information.

Wendy is at it again. She is walking in the Breast Cancer 3-Day in Denver with a few friends. They are using Footloose and Cancer Free as their team name. Here is their logo.

This is what I have been working on finishing up so other than posting images of the Hruska/Plummer Wedding and maybe a couple small personal projects, I will be taking some time off from designing to get to know our little girl. She should be here any day......and yes when she is here I will post pictures to introduce Miss Alivia Miyoko Ahern!!

Spring brings Showers!!

I have been busy busy with the Hruska Plummer wedding that I will be sharing when I get some photographs of the finished product but until then I have some fun shower invitations to share.

The first is for some good friends that are due just a few short days before we are. I am so excited that our little girls will be friends and that we will be able to have play dates!! So these are for Denise and Mike.This second set is for my sister-in-laws, sister-in-law. I was really excited about theses because she wanted her invites to be of a bride silhouette. I have done many baby belly silhouettes but not a bride. I am very excited about how these turned out.

This last one is in fact another one of my belly silhouettes. Jen wanted a girl version of a previous invite that I had done for my friend Sarah. I don't like to use the same invite more than once so I changed it up a little.

The last is a little funny to post about because........well it was an invitation for me. My sister and my mom's good friend threw a wonderful shower for me back in my home town of Sidney NE. I had to laugh when thinking about doing these but then I separated my two babies.....Alivia and my business. So here is my invite!!

what's been keeping me busy........

Here are my latest designs.

This is a design that is part of my Belly Sillouette Collection. I have about 4 different designs using this sillouette. This one works for baby boys and girls.

This is for a shower that is taking place at a Sushi Restaurant in Downtown Omaha. They were designed to go with the shower's Asian theme.

Lucy is turning 2 at the end of October. She is having an Elmo themed party. These were really fun!!

designs for friends at work........

Here are a couple of new designs that I did for some co-workers (at my real job). The first is a bridal invitation I did for a friend and co-worker that is getting married September 20th. I hosted a shower along with two other ladies for her at work.

The second design was for another friend and co-worker. Her sister gave birth to a little boy on September 11th. Amy thought it would be fun to give her sister announcments as a gift. This is what we came up with for the Greer family.

More invites to share........

Here are the invites for a shower that I did for Wendy. I think she has officially become my best customer. I think it may have to do with the fact that she throws amazing parties. Who knows maybe we should go into the party planning business together. haha!!

Sharing My Designs

I have been meaning to do this for a while now but it has been on the bottom of my never ending lists of things to do. I have been thinking about it for a while now but I am in the process of looking at a business plan to take Designed by Sabrina to a full time business rather than the part-time business it is today. This will more than likely be a few years from now but I am starting the wheels of motion. I have revamped my logo, I am in the process of revamping my website and I am starting to blog my most recent designs. Although these are not all of my designs or even all of my most recent designs, it is a start. So.....Enjoy!!



I love surprise parties and I love old photos. This is an invite that captured both. Ron and Mary celebrated their 50th birthdays and the 30th wedding anniversary. Wendy and Trevor Fitch and Kalin Hicks planned a surprise party for them.






This was a baby shower announcement for our friends Annie and Sam Neal. Their baby girl is due April 6th.


Every year my mom gives her fellow teachers little gifts for Christmas. For the last two years I have designed "from the desk of" note cards for her gifts. This is this years design.


Shannon's little brother Brian is getting married to a really awesome girl Sarah. Shannon and Josh are throwing a shower. They decided that they wanted it to be a sports theme so what would be more perfect for an invite than a ticket.


Lastly, here are a couple of my Christmas designs for this year.