It all started with Christmas cards. I was a graphic design student and I wanted to give family and friends a gift but I didn’t have the money. My professor at the University of Cincinnati had just showed us his collection of Christmas cards he designs every year. I found it inspiring to see this unique portfolio of how this simple thing changes from year to year, how we grow as designers and how your life directs each design. I bought some beautiful decorative paper, some string and started creating. I wound up with about 30 uniquely different, gorgeous, string angel cards. I’m still kicking myself for not photographing them all! I mailed them out and what a response I received. Phone calls, notes, emails of people telling me how much they loved the card! From then on it was my thing, every year, a new and unique card. Soon I stopped buying cards for any occasion all together. I had to make each one.

Then school was over and all my friends were getting married. It seemed every six moths another invitation in the mail. Before long, it was my wedding. I wanted to make my invitation special. I had so many ideas. After about 5 designs I finally picked one. While I was working on these, a friend called and asked me to design her invitations as well, her wedding was only a week before mine. A couple months later, I created my sister-in-laws wedding stationery. And soon after, I started Perfect Paperworks.