EMcreations

A handmade card maker in Fribourg

EMcreations is a small maker of handmade greeting cards and stationery in Fribourg. The site's footer describes it as "Cartes de vœux et créations artisanales réalisées à Fribourg, en Suisse" (greeting cards and handmade creations made in Fribourg, Switzerland), and the header calls the cards "artisanales faites mains", handmade. Wedding stationery (faire-part de mariage) is one of its product lines, alongside everyday cards, mini cards, personalized birth boards, a wedding planning booklet, an illustrated alphabet poster and watercolor workshops. The site is written in the first person by its maker and offers French and German versions.

The wedding page opens with the maker's view of the job: wedding stationery can take whatever form the couple wants. It can be sober and classic, a simple invitation, or it can take on a whole other dimension and become part of the decoration on the day. The rest of the page is a portfolio of examples, each headed with a first name.

The wedding portfolio

The examples show what the maker has actually produced and for whom.

• Louise: her very first wedding stationery, made for a young couple who wanted a floral, romantic design. The page notes that this drawing is not for sale.
• Manu: invitations for a bilingual couple who married in Tuscany. They wanted a Tuscan landscape on the card to take their guests on a journey before the celebrations began.
• Sarah: a set the maker says she is particularly fond of, built around lightness and restraint, with a composition of dried flowers in beige and white.
• Selena: warm tones and dried flowers.
• Erin: a feminine, soft look, following the clients' wishes.
• Joe: an example of mixing two ideas to create a new set, which the page says is also possible.
• Marine: a design for a couple who love diving, a subject the maker shares, and she writes that it was a great pleasure to work on.
• DeDe: a couple who love nature, mountains and hiking and wanted to tell their story through a landscape profile showing where they met, where they live and where they married.

Three more sets, Lumia, Frida and Eden, appear by name only.

Read together, the captions show how a commission starts. Each one names what the couple asked for: a style (floral and romantic, feminine and soft, light and sober), a color range (warm tones, beige and white), a material (dried flowers), a place (Tuscany) or a shared passion (diving, hiking in the mountains). The maker then turns that brief into a drawing. Couples who arrive with a clear idea of their story, their colors or the landscape of their wedding will find the portfolio a useful guide to what to ask for, and the Joe example shows two separate ideas can be combined into one design.

Work for planners and styled shoots

Several examples were made for the wedding trade rather than for couples. Charline was created at the request of Emmanuelle of About You, a wedding planning agency in Fribourg, for its stand at the wedding fair in Geneva, and Martha was another About You order, for the wedding fair in Lausanne. Véro was made for a styled shoot at the Papiliorama in Kerzers organized by the wedding planner Emmanuelle Cavigelli, and Alex for another shoot she organized, photographed by Marie Montibert. Marion was made for a photo shoot organized by Marisa of Graine de Prairie and photographed by Cotton Avenue.

For a couple, this matters in two ways. It shows the maker is used to producing full stationery sets that sit inside a styled decor, not just a single card, and it means planners in the Fribourg area already know her work.

Other products that overlap with a wedding

The home page promotes MON ORGANISATEUR DE MARIAGE, a booklet the maker describes as the gift to give a bride, aimed at the maid of honor or the bride herself, and as bringing together everything to think about to organize a wedding well. There are personalized birth boards (tableaux de naissance), sold as a small decoration and birth gift, and a matching triptych made after a dinosaur-themed birth announcement for her nephew.

Since summer 2020 she has run watercolor workshops, and the home page says new dates are available. The home page also mentions her taste for calligraphy on paper, which she has taken onto textiles in Les imprimés d'Aline & Emilie, a collaboration with the Fribourg tourism office selling T-shirts with Fribourg designs. The site has an online shop with TWINT payment and a section for resellers who stock her cards.

What the site does not settle

The wedding page publishes no prices, no quantities, no paper or printing details and no lead time; every set is shown as a one-off, so price and timing are a matter for a direct request. The site does not say whether the invitations are printed or made by hand card by card, or whether envelopes, table plans, menus or place cards can be added to a set, although the maker writes that stationery can become part of the decoration on the day. It does not say whether she works in English. The site is in French and German, and the wedding page is in French. Couples writing from abroad should say which language they need and ask how proofs are shared and how finished stationery is delivered, since no shipping terms for wedding orders are given on the wedding page.

How to get in touch

The site has a contact page and a short message form in the footer ("Un petit message"), plus an Instagram account where recent work appears. The site shows no phone number or street address.

Who it suits

EMcreations suits couples who want invitations drawn for them rather than chosen from a catalog, particularly couples in the Fribourg region or in French-speaking Switzerland. The portfolio leans toward florals, dried flowers, landscapes and personal themes such as a shared hobby or the places in a couple's story. The Tuscany set shows the maker has designed for a destination wedding for a bilingual couple. The caveats are practical: nothing on the wedding page gives a price or a timeline, and the working language beyond French and German is unconfirmed, so couples should get in touch well before invitations need to go out.