Oh So Beautiful Paper

Archive for November, 2011

As promised, I’m back with some more beautiful holiday cards!  This time we’re focusing on some vintage-inspired holiday card designs.  With delicate patterns, flourishes, and pretty fonts, these vintage-inspired designs are perfect for the sparkle of the holiday season.

Colleen Ellse

Steel Petal Press

 

Sugarcube Press

a.favorite

 

Starshaped Press

Pup and Pony Press

Wiley Valentine

 

Old School Stationers

Sweet Letter Press

For the Love of Press

 

Regas NY

Hour of Nine

Blush Design Studio

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*Starshaped Press and Wiley Valentine are some of my fab­u­lous spon­sors; for more on my edi­to­r­ial poli­cies please click here.

Um, how is it already the LAST day in November??  Eeek, time is going by so quickly!  With the holidays just around the corner, it’s time to jump right back into the holiday card round ups!   In case you missed them, you can check out the previous round ups right here.  Today’s round up is one of my favorites so far – we’re focusing on some of the sweet whimsical holiday card designs, from hand lettering to nature-inspired illustrations.

Studio Olivine

Echo Letterpress

 

Linda + Harriett Outlet

Yours is the Earth

Erin Wallace

ByvikINK

 

Quill and Fox

My Little Buffalo

Paper Lovely

Fat Bunny Press

 

Sass + Peril

Flora and Fauna Press

Honizukle

Confection Press

I’ll be back with more holiday cards a bit later, so check back soon!

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I’m working on a few more holiday card round ups for tomorrow, but first we have a few more 2012 calendars to get through!  Today’s round up features one of my favorite artists, a fun neon calendar, two beautiful constellation calendars (I think I might need to get both for myself), and lots of beautiful illustration and letterpress work.  Let’s get started!

I love the sentiment of this hand lettered calendar from Alexander Sprugle

Hellloooo cute calendar from Mr. Boddington’s Studio!

 

I love anything from Rob Ryan, including these annual desktop calendars.  This one is currently sold out, but I’m hoping they’ll add more soon!

This illustrated letterpress desk calendar from Studio on Fire has lots and lots of neon – so fun!

Delicate line illustrations in this monthly letterpress calendar from Lark Press

 

For those of you who love astronomy as much as I do, you’re in luck this year with two constellation calendars!  The calendar from Prismatic (left) features the astrology constellations for each month, and Little Bright Studio (right) features an illustration of the northern hemisphere night sky.

This illustrated monster monthly calendar from 55 Hi’s is so ridiculously cute!

 

Buy local calendar and tea towel calendar from Claudia Pearson

An eco-friendly desktop calendar from Cat Seto

 

A lovely woodblock calendar with bird illustrations from Bowerbox Press

Botanical illustrated calendars from Miles of Light

Pyramid Atlantic is a book arts center here in Washington, DC – and this year they created a community letterpress calendar!

 

A letterpress monthly tear-away calendar from May Day Studio (left); and a fun calendar for meat lovers by Drywell (right)

Spirograph patterns on this letterpress monthly calendar from Paper Boat Studios

Keep your calendar close by with this letterpress coaster calendar from Meadowlark Creative

And just in case you missed them, check out the earlier calendar round ups right here!

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I credit Jordan Ferney for my obsession with watercolor and letterpress.  If you’re not already familiar with Jordan, she’s the writer of one of my very favorite blogs, Oh Happy Day (she always has the most creative ideas!) and a fabulously talented letterpress printer.  Jordan started experimenting with watercolor and letterpress last year, beginning with these business cards and her family holiday cards, and I’ve been hooked ever since.  Jordan sent over these amazing wedding invitations that she created for a destination wedding in Greece earlier this year.  The complete suite includes a bilingual invitation, accordion booklet with travel and accommodation information, along with ceremony programs and menus for the reception – and each element was watercolored by hand!

From Jordan:  The invitations were watercolored individually by hand before being letterpress printed in a very light grey ink.  The English and the invitation and the Greek invitation were then duplexed together with one language on the front and another on the back.

The accommodations and travel information were listed in an accordion booklet.  The booklet cover was letterpress printed then duplexed with a letterpress striped paper.  The inside was watercolored by hand, scored, and then it was all sewn together with metallic silver thread.

 

The complete invitation suite was tied together in silver thread.  The outer envelopes were also letterpress printed and watercolored, and addresses were calligraphed by Emilie Friday before being mailed to guests.   The menus and wedding program were also hand watercolored and printed with a dark grey ink.

Thanks Jordan!  For more from Elias and Nancy’s wedding in Greece, check out their feature on Martha Stewart Weddings right here!

Check out the Designer Rolodex for more tal­ented wed­ding invi­ta­tion design­ers and the real invi­ta­tions gallery for more wedding invitation ideas!

Photo Credits: Alexis Birkmeyer for Oh Happy Day