These embroidered business cards from designer and illustrator Nina Gregier are so incredibly cool – simple in design, but with a huge impact!  I couldn’t resist checking out Nina’s website; she has a number of additional embroidered typography projects in her portfolio, including a beautiful embroidered alphabet and art prints.
Check out lots more over on Nina’s website right here.
Photo Credits: Nina Gregier, found via Lovely Stationery
The folks down at Mama’s Sauce are really on a roll lately! Â First they create some seriously cool business cards, and now these awesome wedding invitations. Â Nick from Mama’s Sauce came up with the concept of basing the invitation design around an illustration of the couples’ shoes by Itchy Illustration, then incorporated the design into a horizontal tri-fold layout with a sunny yellow wax seal. Â Love it!
From Nick: The couple wanted their printed materials to be a balance of playful & classic.  When it came time to design the wedding invitations months after our first consultation, Julianne’s love affair with her shoes was still stuck in my mind.  I quickly sketched a scene of the couple standing side by side with a bright popping yellow, highlighting Jewel’s shoes.  Not your typical wedding invitation, but typical isn’t what the couple wanted.
I am especially in love with the tri-fold wrap. Â 110# Pearl White Lettra Duplexed to French Paper Lemon Drop, we experimented with a type of die cut that allowed the wrap to fold and expose the yellow paper underneath creating a tri-colored edge. Â A subtle detail that the most aesthetically sensitive recipients will surely appreciate. Â Add a wax seal and the wrap is complete.
A collaboration with our friend & officemate, the talented Brian Boesch of Itchy Illustration, Julianne & Phil’s save the date and wedding suite are amongst our favorites that we’ve designed and printed this year.
Very cool – I love the layered effect with the yellow tri-fold die cut wrap, and of course that wax seal!  Thank you so much Nick!
Photo Credits: Mama’s Sauce
My husband came home last night.  I snapped this photo while at the airport waiting for his plane to arrive.  I’m off to enjoy my first weekend with him in a long, long time.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone! xoxo
A few links for your weekend:
This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:
This morning I’m returning to one of my absolute favorite subjects – business cards!  I’ve rounded up a few of my favorite business cards from the last few weeks, and you can check out previous business card round ups right here!
The coolest card I’ve seen in a long time: black with white knockout (raised) text from Mama’s Sauce
Love the overprinting and texture in this business card, designed by Popcorn Initiative and printed by Cranky Pressman via FPO
More cool knockout text letterpress cards, this time in white on white, from Dolce Press
Cute blue and white striped double-sided business cards by Truly Smitten Studio
Silver foil on gray business cards by Andfold via Francesco Mugnai
Beautiful illustration and hand lettering by Stitch Design Co. via Lovely Stationery
Colorful orange and turquoise business cards with blind impression illustrations by Meg Gleason via Design Work Life
Simple and modern woodgrain business cards by Sona Hovhannisyan for Tereasa Surratt via Francesco Mugnai
Pretty pastel business cards by Foreign Policy Design Group via Lovely Stationery
As always, if you’d like to subÂmit your own busiÂness cards, you can e-mail me right here!
{images via their respecÂtive sources}
As I mentioned earlier, we’re in the middle of an incredible heatwave here in DC (and apparently half of the country).  When my husband calls home each night from overseas, we definitely spend a good amount of time complaining about the heat in our respective locations – which makes most of our conversations pretty boring, actually.  He comes home soon; we’re in the final stretch and just counting down the last few days.  It feels so good to know that this will all be behind us very soon.  Next week is shaping up to be a flurry of activity as I try to wrap up a few loose ends, thankfully most of it indoors.  But in the meantime…
…a few links for your weekend!
This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:
That’s it for me this week! Â I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here on Monday! xoxo
Photo Credits: Alicia Block
