Oliver’s Colorful First Birthday Party Invitations

Melissa from Atheneum Creative recently celebrated a huge milestone – her baby boy, Oliver, turned a year old! And while first birthday parties are definitely for the parents, anyone who has been through that first year knows that it’s definitely a milestone worth celebrating with family and friends. Melissa created some adorable invitations to mark the occasion, along with some cute day-of party goodies!

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From Melissa: The invitation included a letterpress card and accordion fold enclosure filled with photos from Oliver’s first year. We wanted to fill the party itself with lots of color and energy. We played up the number one through all the party materials.

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Plastic plates, water bottle labels, and stir sticks were all custom printed with the graphic while the napkins listed a few of Oliver’s favorite foods and activities. For the guest goodie bags we created a stamp to press large muslin bags filled with bubbles and snacks. Each bag included a custom button with the guest name.

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Thanks Melissa – and congrats on making it through the first year!

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Photo Credits: Chelsea Davis Photography

Gregg + Ilana’s Outdoors-Inspired Save the Dates

When it comes time to design their own wedding invitations and personal stationery, designers can often be their own toughest clients – but I always love to see the results! For her own wedding save the dates, Ilana from Sugar and Type wanted to capture her fiancé’s love of cycling and their shared love of the outdoors. Ilana incorporated lots of outdoors-inspired imagery with a horizontal layout, hand addressed kraft paper envelopes, and purple edge painting!

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From Ilana: My fiancé was a professional BMX Racer, and now rides Cyclocross all over the United States. Cycling is a huge part of our lives, and I really wanted to incorporate our love for the outdoors, hiking, biking, and soaking up the sun. After showing Gregg tons of options, he loved this approach! It was so rewarding to find something we felt represented our relationship.

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I was happy to call our dear friend Amy of Greengirl Press and be able to help her pull our prints off her Vandercook Press. We used 220 lb paper, giving us the opportunity to do a pop of color with purple edge painting.

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Thanks Ilana!

Design and Envelope Addressing: Sugar and Type

Letterpress Printing and Edge Painting: Greengirl Press

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

Photo Credits: Audra Zaba Photo

Jennifer + Brian’s Gold Foil and Black Wedding Invitations

These gold foil and black wedding invitations from designer Sandra Picco are just so glamorous – and perfect for a black tie wedding reception! Sandra paired the gold foil invitations with complementing black and white accents and gold envelope liners. Totally classic, and absolutely stunning!

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From Sandra: Jennifer had been doing lots of pinning and inspiration-gathering her wedding: a traditional church ceremony followed by a black tie-optional ballroom reception. Their colors were pink and black with touches of gold, so of course, I immediately thought that we should incorporate gold foil somehow. Her preference was to not use pink for the stationery, so together we decided to go with gold foil on black paper.

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Jennifer and Brian were working within a budget for their paper goods and foil stamping the entire suite was a bit too expensive. Instead we used foil for the invitation and belly band and a coordinating gold stock for the reception card and envelope liners. White reply cards paired with black envelopes and white outer envelopes tied everything together nicely and kept us within budget. Happy budget, happy bride!

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Thanks Sandra!

Design: Sandra Picco Design

Foil Stamping: Norman’s Printery

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

Photo Credits: Sandra Picco Design

Jennifer + Barron’s Gold Foil Watercolor Crest Wedding Invitations

Our next set of wedding invitations mixes classic sophistication with modern glamour and watercolor illustration! With a custom watercolor crest created by Happy Menocal, these invitations from Sandy of Roseville Designs feature gold foil text and a metallic emerald envelope liner. So pretty!

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From Sandy: The bride wanted to have a classic wedding invitation with a little bit of fun and glam! The starting inspiration was the gorgeous custom watercolor crest created by Happy Menocal. It featured the couple’s initials and their beloved dog, Pedro! We balanced the softness of the crest with gold foil stamping of their names in a modern script. We also included elements of the crest on the RSVP card to tie it all together. The entire suite was printed on double-thick ecru felt stock, and finished with a metallic colored envelope liner.

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Happy Menocal also created a married version of the crest, which we used in their day-of wedding stationery. We designed programs, menus, table numbers, and other signage that lived throughout the reception tent.

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Thanks Sandy!

Design: Roseville Designs

Watercolor Crest: Happy Menocal

Printing: StationeryHQ

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

Photo Credits: Roseville Designs, Wedding Photography by Hudson River Photographer

Ngaio + Julian’s Hand Lettered Ombre Wedding Invitations

Happy Monday! Our first set of wedding invitations this week come to us from Sydney, Australia-based designer Ngaio Parr – for her own destination wedding in Los Angeles! Ngaio’s colorful poster-size invitations feature split-fountain (aka ombre) screen printing in bright pink and orange along with hand lettering and edge painting. Playful mad lib RSVP cards provide the perfect finishing touch!

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From Ngaio: Although we live in Sydney we were married in Los Angeles, and wanted our invitations to be as bright and fun as the city itself. The invitations are designed and hand lettered by myself and screen printed as a split fountain into A3-sized posters by Half Hazard Press.

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The response card (which featured a mad libs component) and details card were both screen printed split fountain and edge painted, as was the thank you card.

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Calligraphic lettering on the envelopes and a custom address stamp helped make the envelopes as exciting as their contents. The most fun element of these invitations has been receiving some of the ‘colourfully’ filled out response cards.

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Thanks Ngaio!

Design + Hand Lettering: Ngaio Parr

Screen Printing: Half Hazard Press

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

Photo Credits: Jennifer Emerling and Ngaio Parr