Christy + Matteo’s Screen Printed Woodland Wedding Invitations

Lindsay from Paper Bloom sent over these nature-inspired screen printed invitations that she created for an upcoming wedding in Oregon.  Lindsay collaborated with the bride, a talented artist, combining Christy’s illustrations within the overall design.  To complete the natural feel of the invitation suite, Lindsay and Christy chose a green and white color palette screen printed on recycled kraft paper.

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From Lindsay: When Christy first contacted me about designing her invitations, she had a pretty good idea of what she wanted – illustrations of trees and Mt. Hood, a natural feel, and fun fonts.  I was even more excited about working with her when she told me she would like to draw the illustrations herself.  I love collaborating with artists!

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We chose recycled kraft paper for the invitation suite.  I knew screen printing would be the best method for ensuring nice ink coverage, particularly for the white design elements.

Woodland Wedding Invitations by Paper Bloom via Oh So Beautiful Paper

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I made a rubber stamp of the tree graphic that Christy used on a small tag and the back flap of the envelope, which we’ll also use on her reception items.  The natural jute string was a fun addition to tie it all together.

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Thanks Lindsay!

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Photo Credits: Paper Bloom

Lindsay + Steve’s Hand Lettered Wedding Invitations

Happy Monday everyone!  I’m thrilled to be starting the week with these gorgeous hand lettered wedding invitations from Molly Jacques.  I love Molly’s whimsical calligraphy and illustration work, so it’s no surprise that she would produce such beautiful wedding invitations!  Molly collaborated with the bride, a former designer and art director, who provided the overall art direction and produced the invitation design.  Molly also provided hand lettering for the bride and groom’s wedding website.  Stunning!

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From Molly: This invitation was inspired by my sketchbook drawings and was a collaboration between myself and the bride, Lindsay Keach.  Lindsay’s wedding will take place on a farm in Kentucky, so she really wanted a fun and illustrated feel to her wedding stationery.

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The invitation suite and stationery was letterpress printed on white paper with gray and yellow inks.  Their wedding logo was also created into a return address stamp to use with their stationery.  Lindsay created the overall design aspects, including the belly band and textile pattern for the RSVP.

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From Lindsay: Molly’s lettering is just amazing – it is exactly what I envisioned for our casual farm wedding, and she was willing to work with me to meet an incredibly tight deadline.  The blessing (and curse) of being a former designer is that I had a strong vision for our invitations and was able to create many of the supporting elements and produce the suite myself.  Molly’s handiwork really brought it all to life.  Our friend Rocket Caleshu at San Francisco Center for the Book lovingly letterpress printed everything on pillowy Holyoke paper.  The vintage Kentucky stamps, found on Etsy ages ago and squirreled away, were one of my favorite little touches.

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Lindsay and Molly also worked together on Lindsay + Steve’s wedding website, which features Molly’s hand lettering, Lindsay’s design, and Jenifer Wofford‘s illustration of the couple.  The site was programmed by Max La Riviere-Hedrick from Futurpruf.

Hand Lettered Wedding Website by Molly Jacques via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Beautiful!  Thanks Molly and Lindsay!

Art Direction: Lindsay Keach

Hand Lettering: Molly Jacques

Illustrations: Jenifer Wofford

Letterpress Printing: Lindsay and Rocket Caleshu, via San Francisco Center for the Book

Website Development: Futurpruf

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

Photo Credits: Molly Jacques

Friday Happy Hour: The Papa Doble

Ernest Hemingway was a great many things, including a Nobel laureate in literature.  For our purposes here, he was also prolific drinker and among his vast legacy are several great cocktails, including the rum-based Papa Doble.  Whether celebrating his life and work or trying to beat the sweltering heat we’ve been suffering under lately, enjoy one this weekend.  – Andrew

Papa Doble Cocktail Recipe via Oh So Beautiful Paper (6)

Read below for the full recipe!

 

Papa Doble

2 oz Clear Rum
1/2 oz Lime Juice
1/2 oz Grapefruit Juice
1/4 oz Maraschino Liqueur

Combine all the ingredients with crushed ice, shake well, pour everything into a chilled cocktail glass, and enjoy!

The Papa Doble is very tart, a little sweet, fantastically cold, and very refreshing.  I should emphasize, this is not very sweet.  If you want a sweeter drink than Hemingway did, you can increase the Maraschino Liqueur to 1/2 oz; this is quite tasty, but the sweet taste of Maraschino, reminiscent of almonds, can easily overwhelm a drink.  The clear rum can easily be overshadowed by the strong flavors of all that citrus and Maraschino, so consider experimenting with a more robust rum, like a Rhum Agricole or Cachaça.

 

Hemingway spent a lot of time in Cuba, visiting in the 1930s and living there for a time in the 1950s.  It was in Cuba that Hemingway helped develop the Papa Doble, his take on the Daiquiri (and for that reason known as the Hemingway Daiquiri). He wasn’t a fan of sweet drinks and wanted to take the sugar out of the Daiquiri; the original recipe probably included only a dash or two of Maraschino liqueur to balance all the sour citrus juice.

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There’s a huge range of Papa Doble recipes out there, many of which sound terrible.  I’m not sure which is the most authentically Hemingway, but I’m not sure it matters much either – play around with these proportions until you find a recipe that works for you!

Photo Credits: Nole Garey for Oh So Beautiful Paper

{happy weekend!}

It’s finally here, the summer Olympics!  Are you all as excited as I am?  It’s so funny to think that this time four years ago my husband and I were on our way to Peru for our honeymoon!  We watched the Beijing opening ceremonies from the Toronto airport while waiting for our connecting flight to Lima.  Now I can’t wait to watch the spectacle that is the opening ceremonies – not to mention all the competitions, from gymnastics to diving.  But in the meantime…

Photo Credit: Julian Bialowas 365 Day Project

…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

DIY Tutorial: Rubber Stamp Airmail Save the Dates

While digging though Emma’s stash of vintage stamps a while back, we stumbled across old airmail that she had received from a long lost pen pal.  It made us nostalgic for the days of hand written correspondence – which in turn made us think it would be the perfect thing to inspire this save the date design and tutorial!  Best of all….it’s super simple to put together.  – Bailey and Emma of Antiquaria

DIY Tutorial: Rubber Stamp Airmail Save the Date by Antiquaria via Oh So Beautiful Paper

DIY Tutorial: Rubber Stamp Airmail Save the Date by Antiquaria via Oh So Beautiful Paper

DIY Tutorial: Rubber Stamp Airmail Save the Date by Antiquaria via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Step One: Lay out an A6 piece of cream heavyweight card stock on a smooth, hard surface.  Ink your save the date stamp (we used our Airmail Save the Date Stamp) with navy ink.  Center your stamp over the card and press firmly down to make the print.  Since there are no longer handles on our stamps (see note at the bottom of the post), you will want to make sure that you apply even pressure to all of the stamp, especially the center.  Lift stamp off and let the card dry.

DIY Tutorial: Rubber Stamp Airmail Save the Date by Antiquaria via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Step Two: To add an authentic airmail feel, draw lines with a red felt tipped marker or pen in between the blue stamped lines.

DIY Tutorial: Rubber Stamp Airmail Save the Date by Antiquaria via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Step Three: Personalizing your wedding stationery makes your guests feel special and really sets the tone for your upcoming event.  Let them know how you want much them there by adding a note to each guest on a monogrammed manila shipping tag.  We used our (Cross my Heart Initials Monogram Stamp) in navy ink on the corner of the tag to coordinate the tag & the save the date.  We then used the same red pen to write a note to each guest!

DIY Tutorial: Rubber Stamp Airmail Save the Date by Antiquaria via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Step Four: Sometimes simple is best.  On the left hand corner of our envelope, we stamped our return address using our Old Typewriter Return Address Stamp.

DIY Tutorial: Rubber Stamp Airmail Save the Date by Antiquaria via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Step Five: We finished off the save the date design by tying the pieces together using this awesome airmail twine!  It couldn’t be more perfect.  We addressed the envelopes in red and sent them on their way!

Note: We at Antiquaria are thrilled to announce that we’ve made the switch to acrylic mounts for all of our stamp designs.  Not only do the mounts make the product look clean, sleek and beautiful, they vastly improve their functionality & make printing the stamps easier!

Materials:

Airmail Save the Date Stamp

Cross my Heart Initials Monogram Stamp

Old Typewriter Return Address Stamp

Stamp Pad in Midnight

A6 Cards in Luxe Cream

Manila Shipping Tags 4 3/4″ x 2 3/8″

Manilla Envelopes – ours were vintage but this is a similar product

Airmail Twine

Red Pen

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Photo Credits: Antiquaria