Oh So Beautiful Paper

I love the diverse range of design styles amongst exhibitors at the National Stationery Show – and these two sneak peeks couldn’t be better examples!  Katharine Watson creates beautiful stationery and textiles from hand-carved blocks (you might remember her guest post on block printing).  Her latest collection, debuting at the show this weekend in booth 1842, was influenced by the three months that she spent in India working with local block printers earlier this year.  So pretty!

Katharine Watson

Hannah from Pie Bird Press is known for her bright and colorful letterpress stationery.  This year she’ll be exhibiting as part of the Crow and Canary booth (3024-3026) along with Two Trick Pony, Enormous Champion, Gilah Press, Paper + Cup, Red Cap Cards, and many more of my favorite designers – it’s going to be a fun booth to visit during the show!

Pie Bird Press

Photo Credits: Katharine Watson and Pie Bird Press

My walking list for the National Stationery Show is already well past 100 booths (which is both awesome and overwhelming), but the Sugar Paper booth is definitely at the top of that list.  The ladies of Sugar Paper are returning to the show after a couple of years away, and their latest collection looks absolutely amazing!  With lots of new greeting cards, art prints, even calendars and new gift wrap sheets making their debut, I can’t wait to see the full collection at the show!

Yay!  Thanks Chelsea and Jamie!

Photo Credits: Sugar Paper

It’s officially less than two weeks before the National Stationery Show!  I can’t wait to walk around Javits Center and see what many of my favorite designers have been up to over the last year.  In the meantime, over the next couple of weeks I’ll be sharing a few sneak peeks into some of the new collections making their debuts at this year’s show.  First up, the brand new line of Leaf and Straw notecards from Moontree Letterpress and Studio Carta!

The Leaf and Straw collaboration began with a 2012 calendar, expanded to a collection of hand bound notebooks, and now these beautiful notecards!  The cards are letterpress printed in two colors on cotton paper and come with a matching envelope.  Available as single cards or in a set of six packaged in a glassine envelope, the cards are available in three lovely color combinations: red and gray, chartreuse and gray, and marigold and blue.  So pretty!

You’ll see lots more in a couple of weeks, but in the meantime you can check out Studio Carta and Moontree Letterpress!

Photo Credits: Studio Carta

Spring has always been my favorite season, and even more so since moving to DC nearly ten years ago – it makes me so happy to watch flowers bloom and see color return to the neighborhood after a long gray winter.  Lynn from Satsuma Press recently released her spring card collection and I love the way she captured the delicate beauty of spring in the new designs.

Each card is letterpress printed in four of my favorite colors – pale pink, ochre yellow, mist, and charcoal gray.  Check out the complete collection right here!

Photo Credits: Satsuma Press