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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful (and restful) holiday weekend with friends and family – and wish those of you traveling for the holiday a safe journey!

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Lettering via Cautiously Obsessed

In lieu of weekly links – a few holiday events and sales from some of my favorite shops and stationers! I may add a few more here between now and Monday if you want to check back!

Silhouette America is offering several options for OSBP readers through Monday 12/8 at 11:59pm MST – just use the code IHEARTPAPER to access all the sales below!

  • Portrait Bundle: Portrait machine & 1 free year to Club Silhouette for $179.99
  • CAMEO Bundle #1: CAMEO machine, Designer Edition software upgrade, Dust Cover, 4 Tools and $25 Download card to the Silhouette Design Store for $269.99
  • CAMEO Bundle #2: CAMEO machine, Design Edition software upgrade and 1 free year to Club Silhouette for $299.99
  • CAMEO & Portrait Bundle (One for you, one for a friend!): CAMEO machine, Portrait machine and 2, $25 Download cards to the Silhouette Design Store for $299.99
  • Already a Silhouette user? Use my code to receive 40% off at SilhouetteAmerica.com (*excluding machines, design downloads, download cards, subscriptions and gift cards) PLUS Free Shipping on orders over $25 for the lower 48 states
  • 50% off all designs at SilhouetteDesignStore.com – no code needed!

Cyber Monday Sales!

  • 9th Letter Press is offering 30% off for Cyber Monday (with code CYBER30)
  • Almanac Industries is offering 25% off through Monday (with code givethanks)
  • AHeirloom is offering 25% off (with code AHcyber25)
  • Angela Liguori is offering 15% off through Monday (with code grazie14)
  • Ban.do is offering 25% off the entire site through Monday – no code needed!
  • Betsywhite Stationery is offering 30% off on Monday
  • Blabla is offering 20% off on Monday (with code wow20)
  • Blackbird Letterpress is offering 20% off Friday through Monday (with code xmas14)
  • Brightroom Studio is offering 20% off through Thursday December 4 (with code SHOPSMALL)
  • Britt Bass is offering 20% off through Monday (with code HOLIDAY HANGOVER)
  • Dinara Mirtalipova is offering 15% off Friday through Monday (with code BLACK15)
  • Egg Press is offering 30% off on Monday (with code cyberfunday)
  • Emily McDowell is offering 20% off everything through Monday (with code IGFOODCOMA)
  • Farewell Paperie is offering 35% off through Monday (with code YAYINTERNET)
  • Fig.2 Design is offering 30% off on Monday (with code CYBERMON14)
  • Forage is offering 35% off the entire site (with code HOLIDAY) and free shipping through December 8!
  • Graceline Illustration + Calligraphy is offering 30% prints and classes on Monday (with code shopsmall)
  • Hammerpress is offering 20% off (with code THANKYOU20)
  • Hello Tosha is offering 20% off on Monday (with code THANKFUL)
  • Honeycomb Studio is offering free shipping through Monday (with code shopsmall14)
  • Idlewild Co is offering 30% off + free shipping (with code BABYITSCOLD)
  • Julie Song Ink is offering 25% off her Etsy shop (code BLACK14)
  • Knot and Bow is offering 25% off through Monday (with code 25PERCENT)
  • Ladyfingers Letterpress is offering 30% off plus a free letterpress surprise through Friday December 5! (with code OMGDEALZ)
  • Linda & Harriett is offering 30% off through Monday (with code THANKS)
  • MAIKA is offering 40% off through Monday (with code SOTHANKFUL)
  • Mon Voir is offering 25% off her shop (with code BLACKFRIDAY)
  • One Canoe Two is offering 25% off on Monday (with code CyberMonday25)
  • Our Heiday is offering 30% off (with code CELEBRATE30)
  • Parrott Design Studio is offering 30% off Monday through Thursday (with code HOLIDAYCHEER)
  • Postable is offering 26% off on Monday (with code CYBERMON)
  • Printerette Press is offering 30% off in their Etsy shop (with code MONDAYMONDAY)
  • Rifle Paper Co is offering 30% off site wide through Monday – no code needed!

Favorite Thanksgiving Printables

Looking for menus, place cards, and thankful cards to serve as the finishing touch on your Thanksgiving table? Here are a few quick and easy printables – including a few favorites from right here at OSBP â€“ that you can incorporate into your Thanksgiving celebration!

Thanksgiving Printables via Oh So Beautiful Paper

1. Leftovers Labels

2. Hand Lettered Thankful Cards

3. Printable Take Home Bags

4. Calligraphy Leftovers Labels

5. Calligraphy Thankful Cards (in two different styles!)

6. Printable Menus, Place Cards, and Thankful Cards

Happy Weekend!

Happy Friday everyone! Thank you all so much for the toddler sleep tips last week – we’re making incremental progress with Sophie’s bedtime routine, but these days I still feel like I spend about half my day putting either a toddler or a newborn down to sleep. Gah! This weekend I’m looking forward to celebrating a very special first birthday and working on a brand new project that I’m excited to share here in a couple of weeks! But in the meantime…

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Beautiful ceramic crystals by Redraven Studios

…a few links for your weekend:

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

DIY Tutorial: Holiday Envelope Addressing Ideas

As you might be able to guess, we send quite a lot of snail mail in our line of work. Whether it’s thank you notes, catalogs, color samples, or a letter to our loved ones, we try to make all of our outgoing mail a treat for the recipient to receive. Since we have holiday cards on the brain, we decided to come up with some fun and easy addressing options suited to the season. They incorporate fun lettering styles as well as stamping and we just love them all! Want more DIY addressing styles? Check out our first envelope addressing post here. Have fun with the designs and happy addressing! –Bailey and Emma of Antiquaria

DIY Tutorial: Holiday Envelope Addressing Ideas by Antiquaria for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Option One: Do Not Bend Pennant Stamp + White DIY Pointed Pen Calligraphy Addressing. White stamping and white calligraphy ink really pop off of this gorgeous fig colored envelope. While it takes time to perfect using a pointed calligraphy pen, feel free to experiment also with white or silver gel pens for a similar (and easier) effect.

DIY Tutorial: Holiday Envelope Addressing Styles by Antiquaria for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Stamp your Please Do Not Bend Pennant Stamp on the lefthand side of your envelope, just a hair above the center. With your pen, draw a line to the bottom with white ink.
DIY Tutorial: Holiday Envelope Addressing Styles by Antiquaria for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Next, address the envelope to your loved one using a pointed calligraphy pen and white ink. Start your addressing right below the pennant stamp, as shown above.

DIY Tutorial: Holiday Envelope Addressing Styles by Antiquaria for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Let the addressing dry completely (with white calligraphy ink this can take a few hours). Once it’s dry, add your postage and then stamp our Long Live Snail Mail Stamp to the left. Feel free to play with the lettering style of addressing on this design! A simple hand-written block print with white or silver gel ink also looks lovely (see below)!
DIY Tutorial: Holiday Envelope Addressing Styles by Antiquaria for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Option Two: Zig-Zag Stamp + Bold Brush Block Lettering. Adding a line of pattern along the bottom of the envelope instantly adds an air of “fun” to the design. When paired with an easy brushed address, the effect is bold and will stand out instantly among the bills and junk mail!

Mint-AddressingDIY Tutorial: Holiday Envelope Addressing Styles by Antiquaria for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Print your zig-zag stamp in black ink along the bottom edge of the mint colored envelope. You’ll want to make sure that each printing is close together but not overlapping.
DIY Tutorial: Holiday Envelope Addressing Styles by Antiquaria for Oh So Beautiful Paper

With a black brush pen, write out your loved one’s name. We decided to make big block letters for their name (with the mint color showing in the center) and a simple italic print for the address. Once the address is done, add your postage and our Long Live Snail Mail Stamp to complete the look!
DIY Tutorial: Holiday Envelope Addressing Styles by Antiquaria for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Option Three: Deliver To Banner Stamp + Hand-lettered Script. Bailey actually designed this adorable “Please Deliver To” stamp to use on her save the date a while back and we think that it makes the perfect snail mail statement on this coral envelope when combined with red addressing. The fun part of this design is that you get the look of calligraphy but with simpler tools! A common felt tipped pen made this gorgeous script. Incredible, right?

DIY Tutorial: Holiday Envelope Addressing Styles by Antiquaria for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Start by stamping your Deliver To Banner Stamp on the left hand side of the envelope, a little above center. Angle it so that you can nestle the lettering in underneath it. To make the hand lettered script, use your prettiest cursive and write the name across your envelope. Then, draw a second line along each letter, creating the thick and thin look (as shown above). Refer to a favorite script font for letter shape and style, if needed.

DIY Tutorial: Holiday Envelope Addressing Styles by Antiquaria for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Once you’ve done that for the entire name, color in the letters so that they are solid red. Finish out the addressing with a simple italic print for the address. We also added a fun flourish underneath the last address line to gussy the envelope up even more! Draw it in pencil first or practice on a scrap piece of paper if you need to before executing it on your envelope.

DIY Tutorial: Holiday Envelope Addressing Styles by Antiquaria for Oh So Beautiful Paper

While we think all of these styles would be perfectly suited to holiday greetings, we also think that they could be adapted and used on save the dates and Invitations as well! Play around with the techniques and find out what you like best with the cards that you’re sending. We hope that you have just as much fun addressing your cards as you do selecting them!

Materials and Resources

Special Delivery Stamp Kit: Deliver To Banner, Long Live Snail Mail and Do Not Bend Pennant

Feathers & Arrows Stamp Kit: contains the zig-zag stamp

Calligraphy Starter Kit

White Calligraphy Ink

Calligraphy Resources: Setting up your Tools,  Lower Case Alphabet by Bailey Rivera, Calligraphy Supplies

Brush and Felt Tipped Pens

For envelopes, we discuss many different envelope resources and options in a previous post, found here.

Current USPS Postage

Vintage Postage

Photography by Antiquaria for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Happy Weekend!

Hello! And greetings from Exhaustion Town, population: my family. Between the newborn and the toddler, we’re not faring too well when it comes to sleep these days. Anyone else experience major sleep issues when their toddler hit the 2 year mark? Sophie now goes into complete meltdown mode each night towards the end of her bedtime routine – and I’m having minor little panic attacks thinking about what this might mean for us as we try to get Alice into a regular night routine over the coming weeks. All advice is welcome! But in the meantime…

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Bouquet photo by Megan Gray (aka Honey & Poppies)

…a few links for your weekend!

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

Check back soon for this week’s cocktail! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here next week! xoxo