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Sarah + Chase’s Texas Garden Party Wedding Invitations

These wedding invitations are such spring fun! Created by Kristen of Mountain Paper for a spring wedding in Dallas, the suite features a color palette of green and blue along with pretty vintage-inspired floral ornaments. My favorite part? The playful quotes that the bride included throughout the invitation suite!

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From Kristin: These invitations were created for Sarah and Chase, who are getting married in Dallas this spring. Sarah’s wedding palette of vibrant, springy blues and greens really shines on the printed page. The colors in combination with the curlicue typography is perfect for this fun couple. Sarah’s pension for dance moves that involve finger snapping and Chase’s hilarious Jay Cutler impression are just the tip of the entertaining iceberg!

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The mix ‘n’ match look of the suite reflects the bride’s bold personal style and incorporates a touch of vintage. Sarah’s vision for her event is an upscale garden party with all the familiar trappings of a classic Texas affair, so the design needed to reflect both the refined side as well as the fun, old-world southern side. We spent a lot of time creating the filigree elements that frame each piece. They needed to look just a tad imperfect while still lending structure to the page.

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Sarah’s favorite piece is the rehearsal dinner card, which invites guests to a shindig of microbrews and barbecue. My favorite pieces, on the other hand, are the clever quotes she decided on for the reverse of two cards.

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We stacked each enclosure snugly in a moss-green pocketfold and wrapped the whole packet with a garter printed with a matching filigree frame. (Sarah is a news editor by day and self-admittedly loves organization, so the pocketfolds were a given from the very start.) We printed all her recipient addresses on hefty, turquoise envelopes with more fun graphics on the back for the return address, too.

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Thanks Kristin!

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Photo Credits: Mountain Paper

Sarvenaz + Graig’s Art Nouveau Wedding Invitations

I love it when designers experiment with different printing methods to achieve a unique look – and that’s exactly what Jen from Starshaped Press did with these beautiful Art Nouveau-inspired invitations! Jen mixed a linoleum cut illustration with antique metal letterpress type to bring the couple’s vintage book cover inspiration to life in their wedding invitations. So lovely!

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From Jen: Sarv and Graig were keen on wedding invitations that would resemble mini posters and they had great inspiration in the form of a vintage book cover. Given that letterpress printing doesn’t have the opaque vibrancy of screen printing, we ran a few tests to see if we could successfully achieve two light colors on dark blue paper and were happy with the result; the colors were muted in a faded, old fashioned way.

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We decided on creating a piece that was 7×10″ so that it would fold to 5×7″ and mail in a standard A7 envelope. The image worked perfectly as a two-color linoleum cut after a little adjustment to the overall size and placement. The type is set in a mix of deco-meets-nouveau styles to pull the overall design into a more cohesive and streamlined form. It is printed in gold to pop out from the navy paper.

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The typesetting was very particular to achieve a subtle curve along the artwork. I loved having an opportunity to use our DeVinne type for their names; it’s a lovely and quirky typeface from the turn of the century that sadly doesn’t get enough play in the studio.

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The invitation folds in half, and on the front panel (what you see when you pull it out of the envelope) is a snippet of the overall artwork with their initials rendered in our mortised initial caps and an ampersand from the 19th century typeface, Dakota.

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The envelopes are sour apple green and the reply cards are pale yellow to give a little pop to the color palette. We continued the abridged image on the envelopes in gold (the return address is on the back flap) and carried through the multiple typefaces on the reply.

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Thanks Jen!

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Photo Credits: Starshaped Press

{happy weekend!}

Happy Friday everyone! It may have been a short week, but it was busy busy busy over here. Lots of planning for the 2013 Paper Party (yay!) during the National Stationery Show in May and a new special (but currently top secret) project that I can’t wait to share with you! Oh, and some not-so-fun tasks, too, like our 2012 taxes and trying to navigate the world of homeowner insurance quotes. But really, nothing makes me feel better than getting things done, particularly when the length of my to do list was starting to freak me out! Now I get to actually enjoy the weekend and spend time with my sweet little girl. But in the meantime…

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Photo Credit: JoyHey | Krista Palmu

…a few links for your weekend!

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

We have a fun cocktail coming up for you this afternoon, so check back a bit later for the recipe!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here on Monday!  xoxo

p.s. I’ve been spending a lot of time on Pinterest these days gathering lots of home and entertaining inspiration! If you’d like, you can find me right here!

Fisher’s Mountain Ski Theme Bar Mitzvah Invitations

Bar and Bat Mitzvah invitations are serious business. I love seeing all the creative themes for the receptions after the ceremony! These particular invitations come to us from La Petite Fleur and were created with a snow lodge and ski theme in mind, and actually incorporate custom made scarves! There are lots of other wonderful details in this suite, but I think my favorite is perhaps the most simple – the beautiful antler monogram created using Fisher’s initials.

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From Leigh: Our clients, leaders in the garment industry, came to us for a custom invitation suite for their son Fisher’s Bar Mitzvah. They asked for a unique suite that incorporated a piece of clothing and that was expertly handcrafted. Along with the event’s “snow lodge/après ski” theme in mind, we designed a monogram with Fisher’s initials – FR – and a “North Fisher” logo, both of which were used throughout the invitation suite.

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The North Fisher icon was applied to a custom made camel scarf, which would serve as a “pocket” for the suite’s letterpress printed, foil-stamped, die cut, two color invitation card, which was printed on embossed Barque paper.

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To house the various custom-designed inserts within this Mitzvah suite, we created a die cut pocket that featured an angled front with a blind embossed logo. On the inside back of the pocket was an illustrated ski scene, which was revealed once all the inserts were stacked inside, like pieces of a puzzle. Each of the insert cards was custom illustrated to feature a portion of the overall ski and snow graphics scene.

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The scarf, with its tucked-in invitation, was nestled in the bottom of the custom box. The accompanying graduated inserts and pocket were adhered to the inside lid. The custom box was then wrapped and tied with a brown suede belly band that featured the FR monogram in a white foil stamp, and secured with brown suede ribbon. Guest names and addresses were written in white calligraphy.

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Thanks Leigh!

Photo Credits: La Petite Fleur