Joanie + Todd’s Romantic Linen and Lace Wedding Invitations

These wedding invitations from The Blue Envelope are so soft and romantic.  Amanda from The Blue Envelope worked with bride and groom Joanie and Todd to create a linen pocket fold-out invitation for their destination wedding in South Carolina – with just a bit of lace to tie the invitation suite together.  So pretty!

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From Amanda: Joanie and Todd were married at the beautiful Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina.  Joanie wanted her wedding invitations to be simple yet unique and elegant yet understated.  The wedding took place on the cotton dock and the entire wedding reflected the couple’s personality, right down to the cocktail straws that guests adorned in mason jars during the ceremony.

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After settling on a destination wedding on a holiday weekend, the couple decided to make it a three day event with a crawfish boil to kick off their new lives as husband and wife.  As a result, the invitation suite required several different pieces, each conveying a lot of information for their guests.  We wanted to come up with a way to make it all fit together in one beautiful package.

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We started off using card stock as our pocket fold invitation but it needed something more… I wanted the invitations to reflect not only the couple’s personalities but the simplistic elegance of the location.  We decided to use linen fabric instead of card stock and hand stitched the edges to create an invitation that unfolds into a pocket invitation.  We topped it off with a lace garnish to pull in that beautiful vintage feel.

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Thanks Amanda!

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

Photo Credits: Chris Berneking

{happy weekend!}

Happy Friday everyone!  We’re currently in upstate New York for a few days to spend time with my husband’s family, including our nieces + nephew, before the baby arrives in just a couple of months (eek!).  It’s also really nice to escape the heat and humidity of DC for a few days!  Today I’m heading out a bit early and hoping you all have a wonderful weekend!  But in the meantime…

Photo Credit: Ink Meets Paper

…a few links for your weekend:

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

We have a fun cocktail coming up for you this afternoon, so check back a bit later for the recipe!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here on Monday!  xoxo

Molly’s Zoo Theme Holiday Card + Moving Announcement

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Paisley Quill Holiday Card/Moving Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper (9)

Thanks so much Molly!

Photo Credits: Paisley Quill

*Paisley Quill is a sponsor of Oh So Beautiful Paper

Stationery A – Z: Thinking of You Cards

It’s such a treat to find a hand addressed card amongst the pile of bills and catalogs in your daily mail.  Even better: when someone sends you a card for no other reason than they happened to be thinking of you!  These cards aren’t prompted by a particular occasion, such as birthdays or holidays; some are blank, some are stitched, some sans-text, but all will have you picking up the phone to reconnect or even meet up … in person!  — Tashia

Chewing the Cud

 

Amy Blackwell (right); and Snow & Graham (left)

Honizukle

 

Dude and Chick

Kathryn White

 

Sugar Paper

Farewell Paperie

 

Rifle Paper Co.

Curious Doodles

 

Egg Press (left); and Hammerpress (right)

Pearl & Marmalade

 

Lulu Dee (left); and Banquet Atelier & Workshop (right)

Morris & Essex

{images via their respective sources}

Creative Birth Announcement Ideas

There are so many ways to announce the arrival of a new baby – from hand lettering to sweet newborn photos, floral motifs to nautical designs, the possibilites are endless!  Today I thought I’d share some of of the creative birth announcements that I’ve bookmarked over the past few months!

Baby Announcement by The Indigo Bunting via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Combination family holiday card and baby announcement by The Indigo Bunting

Tokketok Baby Announcements via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Tokketok baby announcement with calligraphy by Meant to Be Calligraphy, styling by Chelsea Fuss, and photo by Lisa Warninger

Calligraphy Birth Announcements by Lindsay Letters via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Lindsay Letters

Birth Announcements by Constellation & Co. via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Constellation & Co.

Twins Birth Announcement by Print in Cursive via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Letterpress twin birth announcements by Print in Cursive

Dauphine Press Baby Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Dauphine Press

Letterpress Birth Announcements by Rise and Shine Paper via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Design by Greg Christman, letterpress printing by Rise and Shine Paper

Paper and Ink Birth Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Nautical Birth Announcement by Paper + Ink via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Pink + Nautical baby announcements both via Paper + Ink

{images via their respective sources}

*Constellation & Co. and Dauphine Press are members of the Designer Rolodex