Oh So Beautiful Paper

After moving to a new home and welcoming a second child, Molly from Paisley Quill decided to get super creative with her family’s annual holiday card – combining all three into one package!  Molly embraced the recent chaos, going with a fun zoo theme for the entire package accented with cute plastic zoo animals and lots of fun vintage stamps.

From Molly:  This year has been rather crazy for us.  We had another baby and purchased a new home that required lots of renovations in a short amount of time.  Needless to say, I fell behind on my correspondence.  So this year, I decided that it was high time I got caught up and sent everything out together.

In a little blue box, I sent our son’s birth announcement, our moving announcement, and Christmas card all together.  Tied up in a pretty little package and mailed to family and friends with lots of vintage stamps.  My friend Holly from the Paper Nickel gifted me the baby buggy stamp in honor of Callahan.

Since having two kids, our life has been a ZOO!  So I ran with the concept, creating both a birth announcement and moving announcement modeled after an information card from the zoo.  I had a custom stamp made and stamped all of the glassine envelopes with our new family “crest.”  I sealed the moving announcement with the zoo animals inside the envelopes and taped them shut with fabric tape.

Thanks so much Molly!

Photo Credits: Paisley Quill

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1. Barbara
   Twitter: doublebravo
   says:

   08/02/2012 at 5:02 PM

   WOWEE, ZOWEE!! Or, should I say, WOOWEE, ZOOEE!!! This is just a stunning set! I love all the attention to detail and NOT going digital with all the catching up to do but going GORGEOUS with all these tangible pieces of love and attention. Well done!!
2. Reina
   Twitter: AOW2006
   says:

   08/02/2012 at 1:45 PM

   Its so cool that you thought of something so clever with all the chaos! Those cards I’m sure, will be placed in an album to cherish for a long time. For some reason, I was thinking of a pic of you and your family in front of the home, with zoo animals somehow incorporated. You just blew my mind…in a good way! Have a great day!
3. Abigail says:

   08/02/2012 at 1:16 PM

   Gosh! I can’t imagine what it is like to receive correspondence like that!
4. The New Diplomats Wife
   Twitter: thenewdiplomats
   says:

   08/02/2012 at 1:13 PM

   i love this idea! we frequently have a lot going on and i’ve been tempted to bundle things as well – this turned out beautifully and what a fun package to receive in the mail!
5. Allie Peach
   Twitter: AllieRuth
   says:

   08/02/2012 at 9:27 AM

   This is so great! What a fun way to embrace chaos.