Lauren + Chuck’s Pink Brush Lettered Save the Dates

These save the dates from Alex of Goodheart Design are so sweet and simple – and beautiful! I love the combination of single color letterpress in pale pink (so romantic!) with Alex’s brush lettering style. Just perfect for a spring wedding!

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From Alex: Lauren wanted a lettered, soft and simple save the date so that’s what I gave her! This one was especially fun for me because it was my first all brush lettered save the date. Czar Press letterpress printed them in pale pink ink on thick paper. There is something about a completely handwritten invitation that makes it feel more intimate and special.

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Thanks Alex!

Design + Lettering: Goodheart Design

Letterpress Printing: Czar Press

Check out the Designer Rolodex for more tal­ented wed­ding invi­ta­tion design­ers and the save the date gallery for more wedding save the date ideas!

Photo Credits: Goodheart Design

Live Free or Die Bourbon and Champagne Cocktail

Just like last week’s Dark n’ Bubbly, we’re back with another recipe from the fantastic Death & Co bar book. I probably could fill up this column with recipes from that book (but I promise to mix it up again next week with another classic cocktail to round out our month of champagne drinks). This one is Live Free or Die, a sparkling bourbon drink with a lot of snap to it. – Andrew

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Illustration by Shauna Lynn for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Live Free or Die

1 1/2 oz Bourbon
1/2 oz Cherry Liqueur
1/2 Port
1 dash Absinthe
Champagne

Shake all the ingredients, except for the champagne, with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and top with the champagne. Garnish with an orange twist and enjoy!

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Between the cherry liqueur and the port – the original calls for ruby, but I quite like a white port here – could make for a pretty syrupy drink, even with the dash of absinthe. But throw in that champagne, with its dry acidity, and the drink is transformed: crisp, effervescent, but with a solid base of oaky bourbon.

A real treat for anyone who loves darker whiskey drinks and thinks champagne isn’t for them – this combines the best of both.

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p.s. The original recipe calls specifically for Rothman & Winter cherry liqueur, and we’d agree. Imported by Haus Alpenz, it’s one of our favorites and my go-to cherry liqueur.

Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, where we’ve been posting lots of our experiments before they reach our Friday Happy Hour column!

Photo Credits: Nole Garey for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Happy Weekend!

Happy Friday everyone! Did you all know that today is National Handwriting Day? To celebrate, my friends at Sakura are holding a week-long Instagram giveaway! Just write your favorite quote on a piece of paper (bonus points if you already have a Sakura pen or marker to write with!) and post your images using the hashtag #handwritesakura on Instagram. Next week Sakura will choose 7 winners to receive a prize consisting of their famous pens and markers! Also – today is the last day to enter the 2015 planner giveaway from Laurel Denise! But in the meantime…

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Image by Eva of Sycamore Street Press via Instagram

…a few links for your weekend!

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

Check back this afternoon for this week’s cocktail recipe! Have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here on Monday! xoxo

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