Varieties of Fiestas!

We have been busy this spring with a variety of fiestas! Weddings, birthdays, baby showers, rehearsal dinners, first communions, and many more. I would like to share a couple of photos that came in as customer requests to make custom personalized banners. I love these opportunities because we get to do something unique to add to our customers fiesta decor!

Calavera Press is always open to new ideas and custom designs to match your fiesta theme.

Watch Tony at work making a custom banner for a Day of the Dead festival in November 2013.  Making hand-cut intricate designs is not as easy as it looks, but it is beautifully done with ease by Tony.  

Check out this beautiful San Antonio wedding with our gorgeous multi-colored personalized papel picado banners!  The bride and groom, Corey and Lydia, decided to go with a plus sign symbol (+) instead of a "&"symbol or a heart sign in between their names and it looked amazing!  They also used our tissue paper heart shaped cupcake toppers to decorate their cupcakes with - totally love them on display!  I truly enjoyed seeing my cake topper on top of their fantastic wedding cake - adorable!  Check out Bend the Light's blog to see more pictures!

Calavera Press was at Austin's Viva La Vida Festival and Parade as part of Mexic-Arte Museum's annual Day of the Dead celebration.  What a fun and colorful event full of amazing artists, musicians, food, and people!  We shared a booth with Etsy shops Viva La Fiesta, who specializes in custom pinatas for fiestas and Rockin' Sugar Skulls, who have a Dia de los Muertos themed shop with hand-painted skulls, coffin jewelry boxes, Day of the Dead pinatas, and much more!  We were happy to hear people in Austin were thrilled to find local artists of Mexican inspired goods.  Mission accomplished! We got to get the word out about our craft in papel picado artistry, pinatas, and hand-painted calaveras.  Enjoy some photos of the festivities!

Customer Photos

I love my clients!  I just received lots of amazing special event photos from them and want to share them with you.  We have been so busy these past  few months that we work, work, work and forget to snap pictures of our amazing art!

Here are a few pictures for you to view, more to come!

My Best Wishes Events for a wedding in Greece.

Meryl & Pat's baby shower fiesta celebration banderitas.

Meryl & Pat's baby shower fiesta celebration multicolor banner.

Christa & Steve's engagement fiesta!

Table number centerpiece decor, looks lovely!

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Mexican-inspired Nuptials on Etsy!

Click on the link to view Etsy Weddings and see papel picado table numbers by Calavera Press featured:       Mexican Inspired Nuptials on Etsy

Photo Shoot!

     I had a fun day taking pictures of papel picado banners we made for clients.  Jeanette has the most beautiful smile and looks like she's having fun decorating with a multicolor pennant for a festive occasion! I had a custom order request for a banner with three messages: 7/20/13, Thank You, and Carrie & Luke.  The clients are going to use it to take pictures and send to their loved ones in the form of a Thank You postcard.  I love the idea and had to capture some pictures to make it available for other clients to do the same.  Finally, I had them take a picture of a single papel picado flag to show how beautiful it looks to take pictures with and use it to make a unique memory of a special event.  I especially love to see a papel picado flag framed and displayed as a beautiful memento of a joyous wedding celebration.  My husband and I have the sacred heart banner with our names and wedding date framed and displayed in our living room and always get compliments when we have guests over at our house. It also serves as a reminder of our wedding anniversary (wink, wink), so neither one of us forget!  We just celebrated our 17 year wedding anniversary and it is nice to see our hard work, both in our marriage and business, that our marriage has withheld throughout the years.  What a beautiful way to honor our love and dedication!  

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Festive Multicolor Papel Picado Pennant

Thank You Papel Picado Banner to send to your guests
after  your special wedding day!

Our framed papel picado flag with our names &
wedding date that is hanging in our living room. So lovely!

Papel Picado Flag to photograph with and send
to your loved ones or frame for a nice memory!