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2012 Calendar Round-Up, Part 2

As promised, I’m back with more lovely 2012 calendars to share!   I personally love calendars that function as both wall art and a useful date reminder (and use my weekly planner to keep track of appointments and , but for those of you who like to write important events on wall calendars, Snow & Graham has you covered with not one, two, but FIVE 2012 calendar formats – including a beautiful write-on monthly wall calendar!

Snow & Graham: 1) Accordion calendar; 2) Write-on wall calendar; 3) Monthly wall calendar; 4) Desk calendar; 5) Mini desk calendar

I love the illustrations and graphic patterns in these 2012 calendars from artist Leah Duncan:

Floral Wall Calendar 

Leah Duncan

Beautiful pops of bright color in these lovely letterpress calendars from Smock:

Peacock Calenday Floral Calenday

Smock

Once again, Hammerpress is offering a tear-away calendar for 2012, with seven different (and equally stunning) background design options:

 

Hammerpress

More bright color and pretty graphic patterns in the 2012 calendar from Egg Press:

Pattern Calendar Pattern Calendar

Egg Press

I love the hand lettering and pretty painterly elements in this tea towel fabric calendar from Avril Loreti:

Tea Towel Calendar

Avril Loreti

Beautiful illustrations in the 2012 wall calendar from Old School Stationers…

 Letterpress Calendar

Old School Stationers

…and 1 Canoe 2!

Letterpress Calendar Letterpress Calendar

1 Canoe 2

This modern and minimalist calendar from Melissa Design is absolutely stunning:

Large Wall Calendar

Melissa Design

And, last up for today, pretty floral designs in the 2012 calendar from Silhouette Blue:

Floral Calendar Floral Calendar

Silhouette Blue

If you haven’t found your favorite calendars yet, don’t worry!  We’ll have more beautiful calendars to share with you soon!

{images via their respective sources}

*Smock is one of my fab­u­lous spon­sors; for more on my edi­to­r­ial poli­cies please click here.

{happy weekend!}

Happy Friday everyone – and happy first day of Fall!  But seriously, how is it almost the end of September already?  Time is seriously starting to fly!  Do you all have interesting plans for this weekend?  My agenda this weekend is happily low key; hanging out with friends, a few fun errands, and a movie with the husband.  My favorite kind of weekend.  But in the meantime…

…a few links for your weekend:

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

A big welcome to the newest Designer Rolodex members!

That’s it for me this week!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here on Monday! xoxo

Photo Credit: The Swerve and the Static by Cinnamon, via Design is Mine

Melissa + Jordan’s Modern Silhouette Wedding Invitations

When it came time to design his own wedding invitations and save the dates, art director Jordan Eakin was inspired by the union of two family trees.  Jordan partnered with Sarah from Shed Letterpress to create a trifold invitation, with the invitation text mirrored by their silhouettes and a bit of personal family history.  Clean and minimal RSVP and accommodation cards completed the suite, all contained within the trifold and secured with a belly band with a quote from Emily Brontë (and one of my personal favorites!).

From Jordan: Our wedding package design was influenced by old family trees, books, cameos, antique silhouettes and a lovely pantone swatch.  We designed the invitation to represent our two family trees coming together and added our own cameos and silhouettes as a classic, timeless touch.

The trifold invitation was printed at Shed Letterpress in Durham, NC on 100% cotton, acid-free Rising Museum Barrier paper.

Thanks Jordan!

Concept and Design: Jordan Eakin

Letterpress Printing: Shed Letterpress

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

Photo Credits: Jordan Eakin

{happy weekend!}

The week following a holiday weekend always flies by, doesn’t it?  I can’t believe it’s Friday already!  Thank you all so much for your birthday wishes, blog anniversary congratulations, and all around positive vibes this week!  We’ve had nonstop rain here in DC and much of the East Coast, so I’m planning to spend the weekend curled up indoors with a good book and maybe a movie or two.  But in the meantime…

…a few links for your weekend!

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

Welcome to the newest Designer Rolodex members!

That’s it for me this week!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and don’t forget to enter the wedding invitation giveaway with Paisley Quill (the contest ends tonight at midnight)!  I’ll see you back here on Monday!  xoxo

Photo Credits: Magic Spice Cake by Janet Hill Studio

Charles + Jazmin’s Silhouette Letterpress Wedding Invitations

A few weeks ago, I came across these gorgeous silhouette wedding invitations created by Meg at Low Country Press – and immediately fell in love with the entire suite.  The design was inspired by the professions of the bride and groom (teacher and welder, respectively), with hand rendered illustrations of icons from their careers and silhouettes of the couple.  Meg was kind enough to share some additional images of this beautiful invitation suite courtesy of Elk Photo and Jade + Matthew Take Pictures, so let’s take a look!

Yellow-Gray-Silhouette-Letterpress-Wedding-Invitations-Suite

From Meg: Jazmin and Charles both have a passion for what they do – she’s a teacher and he’s a welder – as well as for life, and ultimately each other.  They wanted to bring that to life through their stationery suite by including custom silhouettes as well as icons to represent what they do: a ruler, apple, and books for her teaching, and a welding mask, tool box, and spark for his welding.  The invitations were a true first impression for the wedding, which included a photobooth complete with chalkboard backdrop and welding equipment as props.

Yellow-Gray-Silhouette-Letterpress-Wedding-Invitations

The gray and yellow color palette represented both the bride and groom – inspired by bright yellow school buses and industrial metal.  We incorporated the color palette not only through the ink colors, but the corresponding envelopes as well.  The envelopes also carried over the silhouettes from the invitation.

Yellow-Gray-Silhouette-Letterpress-Wedding-Invitations-Detail Yellow-Gray-Silhouette-Letterpress-Wedding-Invitations-Outer-Envelope

The invitation itself was printed on 220 lb Crane Lettra Bright White paper, giving the two color design beautiful letterpress impressions.  They saved money by printing the corresponding pieces, including the RSVP card and a map, digitally.  Overall, the suite reflected the happiness and love of the couple through what they do, and each other, shown through my love of paper goods.

Yellow-Gray-Silhouette-Letterpress-Wedding-Invitations-RSVP

Yellow-Gray-Silhouette-Letterpress-Wedding-Invitations-Detail Yellow-Gray-Silhouette-Letterpress-Wedding-Invitations-Outer-Envelope

Yellow-Gray-Silhouette-Letterpress-Wedding-Invitations-Envelope

So pretty!  You can check out more from Low Country Press right here!

Design and Printing: Low Country Press
Outer Envelope Calligraphy: Savannah Calligraphy

Photo Credits: Top image by Jade + Matthew Take Pictures (chalkboard suite), all other images by Elk Photo

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