Kristen’s Confetti Baby Shower Invitations

If there’s any celebration that calls for confetti, it’s a baby shower! Designer Lauren Chism sent over these bright and colorful baby shower invitations for her friend’s recent shower. Lauren filled vellum envelopes with a rainbow of handmade confetti – so fun!

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From Lauren: As a stationery designer, it’s been so fun to transition from weddings to babies with my friends. I have been lucky enough to design lots of special paper goods for my friend, Kristen, and I had the wonderful honor of designing the invitations for her baby shower this past fall. If I could use any word to describe Kristen, it’s ‘FUN’, so I knew that they needed to have a level of playfulness to them…  and lots and LOTS of color. We ended up going with a confetti themed shower and her sister thought it would be awesome if we could use actual confetti for the invitations… and so we did!

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After playing around with a few ideas, I decided to tuck each invitation inside a vellum envelope attached to bright yellow card stock. Each envelope was full of handmade confetti and sealed with a sticker. I tried to use enough confetti that you pretty much couldn’t avoid a little mess of confetti when opening. The back of the invitation featured all the details in a fun, unique layout. Everything was digitally printed, so even with the different pieces, it was still economical. I loved how every part fit with the bright cheerful (and COLORFUL) theme.

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Kristen always challenges me to go outside of my neutral color palette with her love for bright colors. Designing with lots of color pretty much goes against all of my natural instincts, but I have to say, the result sure is fun! I should do it more often!

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Thanks Lauren!

Lauren Chism Fine Papers is a member of the Designer Rolodex – you can check out more of Lauren’s work right here!

Photo Credits: Lauren Chism Fine Papers

Anna + Lanier’s Elegant Letterpress Calligraphy Wedding Invitations

I’m such a fan of the beautiful work of Sarah from August Blume – I even got the chance to work with her on my friend Maggie’s baby shower invitations a while back! So I was thrilled when Sarah sent over these elegant calligraphy wedding invitations with delicate blind letterpress printed details. So pretty!

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From Sarah: This invitation suite was custom designed for a sweet, Southern couple who were married in their hometown of Jackson, Tennessee. The bride and groom wanted their invitation to reflect their elegant, textural, and romantic wedding day. The suite was letterpress printed on 220lb Crane Lettra and incorporated a delicate blind impression to reflect on the couple’s reception venue – a historic hotel in downtown Jackson.

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The invitation and inserts featured beautiful calligraphy by Elizabeth Hardin and classic typography in warm gray. The stone colored reply envelope added another layer of color and texture. A custom die-cut quatrefoil monogram tag was slid on to a velvet ribbon wrap to tie it all together. Elizabeth’s calligraphy on both the inner and outer envelopes elevated the design and helped set the tone for such a special day.

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Thanks Sarah!

Invitation Design: August Blume

Calligraphy: Elizabeth Hardin

Letterpress Printing: Studio on Fire

August Blume is a member of the Designer Rolodex – you can see more of Sarah’s beautiful work right here or visit the real invi­ta­tions gallery for more wedding invitation ideas!

Photo Credits: Jackie Osborne Photography

Best of 2014: Baby Announcements + Shower Invitations

Baby announcements and baby shower invitations have come a looooong way over the years. I love that I now see everything from modern design to hand lettering to vintage-inspired – and everything in between! Here are a few of my favorite baby announcements and baby shower invitations from 2014!

Jackson’s Black + White Birth Announcements by Lauren Chism

Jen’s Nautical Baby Shower Invitations by Bright Room Studio

Caroline’s Strawberry Storybook Baby Announcements by Cynthia Warren

Penelope’s Floral Baby Announcements by Lauren Chism

Eva’s Hand Lettered Baby Shower Invitations by Goodheart Design

Cooper’s Modern Whimsical Baby Announcements by Paper & Parcel

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:

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Happy Weekend!

Happy Halloween weekend everyone! Today is the annual Halloween parade at Sophie’s daycare – and if you haven’t ever seen dozens of babies and toddlers in full costume all in the same place, well, it’s pretty much the cutest thing ever. This year, Sophie will be rocking a homemade costume of sorts: she’ll be a snail, which is just about the extent of my limits with a newborn at home. We don’t get many trick-or-treaters on our street, so we’ll be hanging out with friends and their adorable daughter tonight to help them pass out candy. Best of both worlds! But in the meantime…

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Photo by Shannon Kirsten

…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