Head over to Real Simple and get these fill-in-the-blank invitations for your next cheese and wine, dinner, barbecue or dessert party/shower/celebration.  Chic, effortless, and um, free!

In yummy chartreuse, plum, pool, poppy, red and strawberry colors. Get all the downloads and how-to’s here, courtesy of Parsiri. The front is blank with a double-stripe border (so it can be personalized as in the above photos), and the back has a simple, modern branch design. Pair them with A2 envelopes in the color of your choice and voila! Perfect for bridesmaids’ gifts, thank-you notes or any other personal correspondence.

Sorry. I can’t help it. I know I need to slap stop myself from posting each and every DIY gorgeousness that Amy’s been whipping up at Eat. Drink. Chic (because if I don’t watch it, I could very well just repost her blogs here, haha!). But dang, can you blame me on this one? Yes, holy patchouli seriously folks, these labels are F-R-E-E.

Merci beaucoup, Amy!

My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I stumbled upon WedVert’s site recently. Blame it on these:

Oh yes. I saw the word FREE and, in a Rachel Zoe moment, diiiieeed!  DIY printable templates featuring stylish, vintage-inspired designs that match WedVert’s Yoko Chapman line of eco-friendly wedding invites! Drool.

Click on over to download all the coordinating candle shade, envelope wrap, fortune cookie, and votive wrap templates (with endless more creative uses!) for free, courtesy of WedVert.

{ photo collage credits: 1, 2, 3, 4}

And we’re ready to go! Off for some food and sun burnt fun with the fam this week, woohoo! I’ll be unplugging from my blogo-keyboard for now. Don’t worry, I’ve scheduled some posts and will try to micro-blog here.  Follow along so you don’t miss me too much, haha.

See you soon, and have fun wherever you are!

{ Tim Walker for Italian Vogue from here }