Oh So Beautiful Paper

Archive for September, 2011

Happy Friday everyone!  I’m super excited for this weekend – tomorrow is Crafty Bastards, the DC area’s biggest craft fair!  Is anyone going?  I go every year and always have the best time wandering all the different booths at the show.  I can’t wait!  But in the meantime…

Photo by me.  A few fall flowers and some fresh basil that I picked up at the farmer’s market yesterday. The basil is such a lovely addition to the bouquet!

…a few links for your weekend!

• A huge congrats to Ellie on the launch of the Hello Tenfold notecard collection!
• These hand-dyed scarves are soooo pretty…
• In case you didn’t already know, letterpress stationery makes a wonderful gift
• Pumpkin whoopie pies – yum!
• Beautiful floral wedding invitations
• True love

I’m also super excited to announce that the lovely Jackie of 42 Pressed is celebrating her return from maternity leave (you might remember their adorable baby shower invitations) with a fun promotion!  Jackie is offering free save the dates to couples who order their wedding invitation suite from 42 Pressed.  Just enter code RILEYKICKOFF when ordering!

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

• Danielle + Paul’s 1920s marquee-inspired wedding invitations
• 2012 calendars!  Check out Part 1 and Part 2 of our coverage (more to come next week!)
• DIY Tutorial: Rubber stamp save the date tags
• Elizabeth + JP’s classic wedding invitations
• Gorgeous navy and white wedding invitations
• Sweet and simple illustrated notecards
• A few favorite paper goodies from this week
• Pretty papel picado lasercut wedding invitations
• Vintage-inspired wedding ceremony programs

Welcome to the newest members of the Designer Rolodex!

• Crane + Co.
• Gus & Ruby Letterpress

That’s it for me this week!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here on Monday! xoxo

As much as I adore wedding invitations, I love it when couples put some thought and energy into their day-of stationery.  Designer and letterpress printer Stephanie Laursen sent over these fun ceremony programs that she created for recent clients Amy and Patrick.  Stephanie incorporated the wedding color palette of yellow and gray along with the bride’s love of antique wood type into a clean yet vintage-inspired design.

From Stephanie: Amy & Patrick wanted a low key wedding, with sunny pops of yellow and cool gray hues.  They wanted a hand-printed program to give to guests, both as a functional piece to be used at the event, and as something to take home to remember the day.  Amy loves blocks of type, and mixtures of different fonts, and wanted the program to have a vintage wood type feel.

Thanks Stephanie!

Photo Credits: Azuree Wiitala

This little round up is kind of random, but I thought I’d just share a few of the pretty paper goodies that have caught my eye recently.  Enjoy!

Beautiful blind deboss chevron notecards from Maida Vale

Let’s move to the mountains from In Haus Press

A lovely new print from Dapper Paper

Letterpress notecards in a classic stripe pattern from Sixpenny Press

Such a cute poster from Steel Petal Press – wouldn’t this be perfect for a child’s bedroom?

{images via their respective sources}

I haven’t been able to get these gorgeous navy and white wedding invitations out of my mind since spotting them on the Parrott Design Studio blog last week.  Sarah from Parrott Design Studio incorporated the bride’s favorite vintage wallpaper into the suite, using a scanned, resized version of the wallpaper pattern as backing for the super thick invitations.  The invitation suite also includes a double-sided RSVP postcard and an enclosure card pointing guests to Cassie and Ariel’s wedding website.

Betsy Dunlap provided lovely calligraphy accents for the invitation suite, including the names of the bride and groom, their initials, and rsvp card lettering.  Betsy also addressed 250 deep navy envelopes in a beautiful silver ink.  Simply stunning!

I love that Sarah used strips of fabric and custom wax seals to hold the assembled invitation suite together!

Check out more details on the invitations right here!

Design and Letterpress Printing: Parrott Design Studio

Calligraphy: Betsy Dunlap

Parrott Design Studio is a mem­ber of the Designer Rolodex – you can see more of Sarah’s beau­ti­ful work right here!

Photo Credits: Parrott Design Studio