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Heather’s Creative Calligraphy Wedding Invitations + Holiday Cards

After falling in love with stationery before her June 2011 wedding with Karson Butler Events, Heather decided to infuse her wedding stationery style into a beautiful holiday card. Heather worked with calligrapher Betsy Dunlap to create her wedding invitations, then letterpress printed them herself at a local art studio. For her first holiday card as a newlywed, Heather once again incorporated Betsy’s beautiful calligraphy along with one of her favorite wedding photos from Katie Stoops. Both suites were accented with toile envelope liners and vintage stamps inspired by their historic wedding venue.

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From Heather: Our wedding took place at Tuckahoe Plantation in Richmond, Virginia, where my husband – and also Thomas Jefferson – grew up.  With the help of Karson Butler Events, we took wedding inspiration from Tuckahoe itself and, in particular, the blue toile fabric decorating my favorite bedroom in the main house – the toile became the envelope liners and table linens at the wedding.  I learned to letterpress print so that I could create my own invitations using Betsy Dunlap’s lovely calligraphy, which is reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson’s handwriting!

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Our wedding was so lovely, I wanted to recreate the feeling (and reuse my new printing skills) in our holiday cards.  So we used the same beautiful “Jeffersonian” script, but this time with red toile liners and a photograph of our wedding from our photographer Katie Stoops.  I had collected vintage stamps from ebay for our wedding and had plenty of Christmas ones left over, which was perfect for our holiday mailing.

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From Amber and Emily of Karson Butler Events: When Heather learned how to letterpress print for her June 2011 wedding, we were in awe!  Heather worked with calligrapher Betsy Dunlap to create her custom invitation suite.  Heather then printed her invitations at local art studio Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring. Finished with hand-selected vintage stamps and blue toile envelope liners, Heather and Addison’s guests were invited to a gorgeous Southern wedding held at the groom’s childhood home.  To date, it has been one of our favorite weddings to help design.

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Such a wonderful idea! Thank you ladies!

Design and Printing: DIY by Heather at Pyramid Atlantic

Calligraphy: Betsy Dunlap

Wedding Photography: Katie Stoops

Wedding Design: Karson Butler Events

p.s. You can see more of Heather and Addison’s beautiful wedding right here!

Photo Credits: Katie Stoops Photography

Thomas + Bonnie’s Illustrated Austrian Wedding Invitations

We’re continuing the travel-inspired theme with these whimsical letterpress invitations from Marissa at For the Love of Press for a wedding in Austria.  Marissa was inspired by the wedding location (a picturesque Austrian village) and traditional Austrian emblems to create an illustrated invitation suite with floral details and a playful gatefold layout. Such a wonderful way to set the tone for wedding guests!

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From Marissa: Bonnie and Thomas came to me from Austria wanting something playful, sweet, and charming with “hopefully” the added bonus of having some traditional Austrian elements.

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Inspired by the traditional landscape of Austria and the couple’s wedding location – a village in the mountains with white houses and red shutters everywhere! – we directly translated the location and ceremony venue into the outside of the invitation: a pair of playful hand-drawn red shutters, which opened up gatefold-style to reveal the invitation inside.

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We incorporated the Edelweiss flower (the national flower of Austria) into the design, along with other floral elements reminiscent of Austrian embroidery and clothing.

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The shutters, leaves, flowers, and some of the fonts were all hand drawn and illustrated to exude a playful, low-key vibe. These invitations were four color letterpress, which was insanely intricate and detailed to print in terms of registration (lining each color up next to the others) and time. Each invitation piece itself was printed on one piece of paper with the shutters on one side and the four color invitation on the other, so any mistakes and the whole thing had to be thrown out!

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The RSVP card was designed to look like a personal note from the couple and slipped inside the gatefold invitation, which was then bound with charming red and white bakers twine and a hand-lettered tag displaying the couple’s initials. We also created “thank you” cards that say “thanks tons!” in German along with adorable coordinating floral envelope liners.

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Thanks so much Marissa!

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

Photo Credits: For the Love of Press

Misty’s Modern + Rustic Baby Shower Invitations

Designer Misty Manley is expecting a baby boy later this year and was kind enough to send over the invitations that she designed for her upcoming baby shower.  The two-color letterpress printed invitations feature a mustard yellow and teal blue color palette, blind emboss woodgrain pattern, and fun chevron stripe envelope liners.  I’m absolutely in love with the custom rubber stamp that Misty designed for the envelopes – such a fun detail!

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From Misty: I designed these invitations for my upcoming baby shower.  I chose to do 2-color letterpress with a blind emboss of a wood grain pattern to match the theme of the shower, “How Tweet It Is” – which will combine birds’ nests, twigs, and rustic details with pops of a yellow chevron pattern.  The invitation is backed with teal paper.

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I also designed the matching seal and created a custom rubber stamp through Simon’s Stamps (a great resource!).  Finally, I lined the kraft paper envelopes with chevron stripe envelope liners.

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Thanks Misty!

Design: Misty Manley

Letterpress Printing: All Along Press

Photo Credits: Misty Manley

Cristina’s DIY Under Construction House Warming Party Invitations

Ah, the joys of moving.  As much as I love decorating a new space, it always takes me several months before I feel comfortable enough in a new space to invite guests over.  Designer Cristina Pandol (you might remember her creative map moving announcements) decided to take advantage of this transitional period and her new apartment’s industrial feel when planning her house warming party.  She created invitations with an “under construction” theme using rubber stamps and leftover wallpaper from her decorating adventures.

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From Cristina: After 3 months of being at my new place, I finally was getting my act together and having a house warming party.  Naturally, I needed an invitation.  Even though my place wasn’t completely put together, I figured “under construction” could be the theme for the party and my downtown Los Angeles loft would serve as the inspiration for the entire project.

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Since I had painted, hung wallpaper, and sewn throw pillows all myself, I knew that the invitation had to be completely handmade.  I also wanted them to complement the very industrial and urban aesthetic of my apartment.

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I drew the little tools and used Neutraface and AW Conqueror Slab for the type.  Once the design was finalized, I sent the stamp to be made and while I was waiting for that I set off to buy a ZAP! heat gun and Adirondack powder.  I stamped each invitation with clear watermark ink, then covered the wet ink with the powder, removed the extra powder by flipping the card over on a large piece of scrap paper, and then used the heat gun to melt the powder.

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I decided on a light gray envelopes to match my cement floors and to use the extra wallpaper that I had hung as envelope liners so every envelope was different.  I picked a forever stamp of Gregory Peck since he’s such a Los Angeles icon and the coloring of the stamp worked with the aesthetic and color palette of the invitation.

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Thanks so much Cristina!

Design: Cristina Pandol

Rubber Stamp: Hollywood Rubber Stamp Company

Photo Credits: Garrett Shannon

Sarah + Ryan’s Bright Hand-Lettered Wedding Invitations

This bright and colorful wedding invitation suite from Alison of Love Citron features two of my favorite things – watercolor and whimsical hand lettering.  Alison began by creating the lettering for the invitation suite, then added watercolor washes on both the invitation elements and accompanying ceremony programs. Alison selected bright pink and orange envelopes and patterned liners to complete the design.  So pretty!

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From Alison: Everything in this wedding suite is handmade. I hand lettered all of the text and edge painted the programs. We used bright accents, like hot pink envelopes lined with patterned paper and bright orange vellum response envelopes.

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I also wanted to include watercolor elements, so I painted the lettering on the RSVP. I also did watercolor washes on the ceremony programs and each individual element of the invitation suite.

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Thanks so much Alison!

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

Photo Credits: Love Citron