Oh So Beautiful Paper

Archive for July, 2011

My husband came home last night.  I snapped this photo while at the airport waiting for his plane to arrive.  I’m off to enjoy my first weekend with him in a long, long time.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone! xoxo

A few links for your weekend:

• These are going on my wishlist right now: Pantone postcards!
• Because you can never have too many thank you cards
• The handwritten letter project.
• The iPad app from Lettered Olive is now available!
• Hauntingly beautiful
• Printable invitations for a summer picnic
• An awesome handbook for new designers

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

• Earthy chic wedding invitations from Akimbo
• Modern science graduation party invitations
• A round up of awesome business cards
• Pink + peonies = great combination for birthday party invitations
• Sweet illustrated letterpress wedding invitations
• Beautiful birth announcements for baby Amelia
• I love these celestial charts

Ashley at Fine Day Press created these beautiful prints to commemorate the legalization of same sex marriage in her home state of New York.   Both editions are 8×10″ prints of an original watercolor illustration, printed on luxuriously thick, textured, bright white paper with archival inks.  Ashley plans to donate 10% of proceeds to the Human Rights Campaign in the hopes that gay marriage will soon become legal through the entire country.

Thanks Ashley!  These prints are available at Fine Day Press

Photo Credits: Fine Day Press

I’m absolutely in love with these astronomy prints from Agent Gallery Chicago.  I love the moody contrast of the black and white charts, and each chart brings out my inner astronomy geek.  I think the constellation and moon charts are my favorite – so pretty!

Available at Agent Gallery Chicago, found via Mustard and Sage.

Photo Credits: Agent Gallery Chicago

This morning I’m returning to one of my absolute favorite subjects – business cards!  I’ve rounded up a few of my favorite business cards from the last few weeks, and you can check out previous business card round ups right here!

The coolest card I’ve seen in a long time: black with white knockout (raised) text from Mama’s Sauce

Love the overprinting and texture in this business card, designed by Popcorn Initiative and printed by Cranky Pressman via FPO

More cool knockout text letterpress cards, this time in white on white, from Dolce Press

Cute blue and white striped double-sided business cards by Truly Smitten Studio

Silver foil on gray business cards by Andfold via Francesco Mugnai

Beautiful illustration and hand lettering by Stitch Design Co. via Lovely Stationery

Colorful orange and turquoise business cards with blind impression illustrations by Meg Gleason via Design Work Life

Simple and modern woodgrain business cards by Sona Hovhannisyan for Tereasa Surratt via Francesco Mugnai

Pretty pastel business cards by Foreign Policy Design Group via Lovely Stationery

As always, if you’d like to sub­mit your own busi­ness cards, you can e-mail me right here!

{images via their respec­tive sources}

Beth from OneCanoeTwo welcomed her first child earlier this year – a darling baby girl named Amelia.  When it came time to send out Amelia’s birth announcements, Beth worked with photographer Heather Roth to create a collage of beautiful images of Amelia, which Beth used to create a 5 x 7″ digital print.  Beth then incorporated a letterpress printed belly band that contained all of Amelia’s birth information.  Such a wonderful combination of digital and letterpress – and I love that adorable scalloped border!

Thank you so much Beth, and a belated welcome to little Amelia!

Photo Credits: OneCanoeTwo