Lauren’s Modern Black and White Moving Announcements

Designer Lauren Chism and her husband moved into a new home over the summer – and today she’s sharing her moving announcements with us! I share Lauren’s tendency to take a maximalist approach to personal stationery projects, so I’m loving the modern, pared down approach to her moving announcements. Just beautiful calligraphy, a couple of arrow motifs, and a modern graphic backing pattern – all in simple black and white. Perfect!

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From LaurenMy husband and I moved into a new home this summer and amongst all the excitement of furniture purchases and decorating, I didn’t forget that I had a fun excuse to send out some paper: moving announcements! When it comes to designing my own stationery, I tend to want to try new printing techniques and papers, which results in me going completely over the top. This time, I thought I’d keep it simple and – most importantly – affordable with some small, flat printed cards. Gotta save the big bucks for all that new furniture!

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The design started with the calligraphy talents of Lauren Essl of Blue Eye Brown Eye, who penned our new address for us to use. I love the idea of calligraphy for moving announcements. I was able to use the calligraphy on the cards and make a return address stamp with it, which made sending everything out even easier. Add in a fun arrow motif and kraft envelopes and they turned out to be just fun way to share our new address with family and friends.

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Not one to leave off any details in my stationery, I finished the kraft envelopes off with fun washi tape and Johnny Cash stamps, which might have been my favorite part of all!

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Thanks Lauren!

Calligraphy: Blue Eye Brown Eye

Design: Lauren Chism Fine Papers

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

Photo Credits: Lauren Chism Fine Papers

Sara + Bob’s Romantic Floral Wedding Invitations

Happy Monday everyone! Allie from AllieRuth Design sent over these beautiful wedding invitations – inspired by the English roses growing in the bride and groom’s backyard garden! Allie combined letterpress printing, digital printing, and even screen printing to create a romantic and vintage-inspired invitation suite that is full of color and texture. So lovely!

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From Allie: These invitations were designed for Sara and Bob, who hosted a beautiful backyard wedding at their home in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. English roses are abundant in their yard and happen to be Sara’s favorite, so we chose to use roses as the motif in her wedding stationery.

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I created floral and foliage patterns using vintage imagery, and paired them with hand lettering for a sweet and playful combo. Their invitation card, RSVP, and save the date were all printed by me using a digital/letterpress combination, which has become a staple in the AllieRuth studio. It allows for so much more color than a traditional letterpress printed piece, yet still gives couples the wonderful texture of letterpress.

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The dark green was chosen for the screen printed cards (printed by Mama’s Sauce) as a nod to their late night after party.

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Thanks Allie!

Design + Letterpress Printing: AllieRuth Design

Screen Printing: Mama’s Sauce

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

Photo Credits: AllieRuth Design

Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Watercolor

One of my all time favorite wedding stationery elements has to be watercolor. I love that it can be deep and rich, or light and airy and it just makes the most perfect color statement when brushed across any day-of item. And paired with calligraphy? Well that’s just too good. Take a look! —Kelly

Day-Of Wedding Stationery Inspiration and Ideas: Watercolor via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Menu by Julie Song Ink

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Photo by Taylor Lord Photography, Tags by Hip Ink Co via Style Me Pretty (left), Photo by Love & Perry Photography, Escort Cards by Strawberry Small Works Studio, Calligraphy by Kathryn Hashey via Style Me Pretty (right)

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Photo by Scott Clark Photography, Program by Treespace Studio via Green Wedding Shoes

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Photo by Lauren Peele Photography, Table Number by The Stationery Bakery via Ruffled (left), Photo by Jen Huang Photography, Table Number by Paperfinger via Style Me Pretty (right)

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Photo by Apryl Ann Photography, Place Cards by Blue Eye Brown Eye via 100 Layer Cake

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Menu and Place Cards by Shannon Kirsten

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Photo by Olivia Leigh, Calligraphy by Angelique Ink via 100 Layer Cake

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Photo + Sign by Anna Delores Photography via Style Me Pretty (left), Photo by One-Love Photography, Menu by The Aerialist Press via Style Me Pretty (right)

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Program by Julie Song Ink

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Anna + Max’s Elegant Gold Foil Wedding Invitations

Lindsay from Paper Bloom sent over these gorgeous invitations that she designed for her sister Anna’s wedding. The invitation features gold foil and calligraphy details from Angelique Ink with an elegant, vintage-inspired design and a dramatic black and gold damask envelope liner paired with blush pink envelopes. So beautiful!

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From Lindsay: I designed this suite for my younger sister Anna and her high school sweetheart, Max. This wedding has been a long time coming for our families and friends, as we have all been on this journey together since they fell in love at 16 years old. We could hardly wait for them to make it official!

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Throughout the wedding planning, it was really important to Anna and Max to stay true to who they are. They didn’t want anything too lavish or over the top: just simple, clean and beautiful. They chose to be married in the heart of downtown Portland, Oregon at the historic Benson Hotel, and picked a color palette of gold, black, and blush pink.

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There was a subtle roaring 1920s feel to the event. I incorporated gold foil on the invitation along with black and gold damask paper accents. Angelique Ink calligraphed their names and phrases for the inserts in her perfect Vintage Reserve style, and I kept the rest of the design and text simple and classic.

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Thanks Lindsay!

Invitation Design: Paper Bloom

Calligraphy: Angelique Ink

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

Photo Credits: Paul Rich Studio

Happy Weekend!

Happy Friday everyone! So, that whole thing about kids being sick the entire first year of school or daycare? NOT AN EXAGGERATION. We’re currently on virus number three in just under two months. I’m feeling like we can’t catch a break, but thankfully this round seems to be milder than the previous two. Thankfully, for the first time in several weeks, we have absolutely zero obligations for the weekend. We’re planning to take things easy, enjoy the last of this beautiful DC fall, and maybe do a few things around the house (maybe). I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! But in the meantime…

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…a few links for your weekend:

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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