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Sabrina + Alex’s Modern and Graphic Wedding Invitations
These wedding invitations come to us all the way from France! Designer Lise Mailman of Ruban Collectif was inspired by the groom’s love of music and the bride’s love of bright colors and wanted to create something true to their personalities. Lise mixed graphic black and white with pops of bright color and neon. I love the chic modern style!
From Lise: This is one of my latest custom wedding invitations that I made for a lovely French couple. He is passionate about music and has played bass guitar  in a rock n’ roll band since he was 16 years old. She loves Flamenco dancing and bright colors. I was inspired by the fact that they both love art (music and dance) and wanted to make them an invitation that reflects their personality.
 
I choose to go with a graphic poster style for the wedding invitations. They were delighted and super excited to have something more modern, with bright colors, different fonts, and graphic elements.
Thank you so much Lise!
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Photo Credits: Ruban Collectif
NSS Sneak Peek: Belle & Union
Today’s NSS Sneak Peek comes from another returning exhibitor – Belle & Union (Booth #1853)! Meg made a huge splash in her debut appearance last year, with a booth that had veteran exhibitors in awe and a fantastic collection of seriously awesome paper goods. This year Meg has doubled the Belle & Union line with 20 new greeting cards, art prints, a letterpress calendar, new gift wrap, and boxed sets. Here are some of the new goodies!
 
 
 
The flag card above is of particular note: a portion of all sales of will go to Operation Write Home, a non-profit that sends blank cards to soldiers deployed overseas to help them keep in touch with those back home. Meg and I both know how hard it is to have spouses and family deployed overseas, so I’m thrilled that Meg is contributing to such a fantastic program!
 
Thanks Meg!
Photo Credits: Belle & Union
Bettina + David’s White and Gold Winter Wedding Invitations
It’s not an easy thing to pull off an all white wedding invitation, but that’s exactly what Emily and Dianna from Fourth Year Studio did for Bettina and David’s winter wedding! The invitation was letterpress printed on thick cotton paper, with gold details in the RSVP and envelope and a silver striped washi tape accent. Perfect for a sparkly wedding right before New Year’s Eve!
From Dianna: Bettina is a good friend of mine. She catered my wedding with LUXE and since then has started the Sweetery. She has phenomenal style and I was thrilled with she was planning a wedding of her own. Bettina and David got married just before New Years Eve at the Knoxville Modern Art Museum.
The venue was perfect for a sparkly winter wedding. All the decor was white with touches of gold and silver throughout.  At our first design meeting Bettina and David said they wanted the invitations to be white – all white. Yippee!! Letterpress on 220lb cotton paper was the perfect way to achieve the all white (no ink) invitation. A silver stripe washi tape was used as an accent.
We printed in gold on the RSVP and envelope. Bettina and David had been together for a number of years and had quite a story of their relationship. Their story was printed on vellum and wrapped all the pieces together. It was finished up with a gold elastic tie. We had so much fun working together to achieve an invitation set we both though was perfect. To see the wedding in its entirety check it out on Dixie Pixel’s site. So much loveliness in one place!!
Thanks so much Emily and Dianna!
Design and Letterpress Printing by Fourth Year Studio
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Photo Credits: Dixie Pixel
NSS Sneak Peek: Pei Design
Our next Stationery Show sneak peek comes from a designer that had one of my favorite debuts last year – Pei Design (Booth #1774)! I love Pei’s modern style and knack for color. Last year’s collection included letterpress and foil stamped greeting cards, notebooks, and fill-in party invitations. This year Pei is expanding with art prints, calendars, notepads, wrapping paper, holiday postcards, and lots of greeting card designs! The new products are all locally printed in full color using FSC-certified paper.
Thanks Pei!
Photo Credits: Pei Design