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{happy weekend!}

Hooray!  The big weekend has finally arrived!  The Stationery Show officially kicks off on Sunday, and I’m heading off to New York bright and early tomorrow morning.  I can’t wait to see everyone at the show!  For those of you on twitter, you can follow my progress through the show here, or follow this list that I’ve created just for the show.  I’ll be sharing photos from the show here on OSBP all next week, but in the meantime…

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…a few links for your weekend!

Also, I’m honored to have been featured over at the Bright Side Project this week!  The lovely ladies of BSP asked me to share a few of my favorite things — and you can enter to win a few of those picks!  Check it out right here!

I’ll be sharing a couple more NSS sneak peeks over the weekend before full NSS coverage starts on Monday — so stay tuned!

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Modern Geometric Pattern Wedding Invitation

I thought I’d take a quick break from NSS previews this morning to share a gorgeous wedding invitation from Dauphine Press!  Created for a July wedding, this invitation suite features bold pops of color and beautiful pattern details inspired by quilts made by the bride’s grandmother!

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The design team at Dauphine Press set out to create a beautiful wedding invitation that balanced modern and feminine design elements, including a custom vine motif and crisp geometric pattern.  They also chose to orient the invitation card horizontally instead of vertically for a less traditional approach.

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The overall suite includes a mix of traditional and contemporary elements. Dauphine Press included inner and outer envelopes and center-aligned typography to represent the traditional church ceremony, while also adding pops of color and pattern details.  The unexpected little details and the color palette made the design a perfect reflection of the couples’ warm and sunny personalities.

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The color palette for the invitation suite incorporated the groom’s favorite color, blue, with contrasting shades of yellow.  The combination of light turquoise and bright yellow reminded the bride of summers spent at the beach or by the pool — perfect for a July wedding!

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The geometric circular pattern used on both the back of the Save the Dates as well as the invitation envelope liners was inspired by one of the bride’s grandmother’s patterned quilts!

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From the bride, Sarah: One of my Grandmother’s wedding quilts influenced the design. Having so many of her quilts in my life, I felt an instant connection to the pattern.  I love how the clean geometric lines can also play into a stylized floral design, though while I love floral patterns, I wanted something that resonated with both James and me.

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Midnight Gardens Wedding Invitation

Now that the temperatures are steadily improving (even with a few setbacks, like today!) I keep dreaming about summer barbequeues and evenings enjoying our steadily growing garden from our front porch.  So it's totally fitting that Vanessa An Lim from Marina at Makina sent over this wedding inispired by the idea of an intimate midnight garden stroll, with twinkling stars and silhouetted foliage:

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Vanessa also designed a collection of totally adorable wrapping paper – printed by the good folks at Mama's Sauce – with random patterns, like the sweet little hearts below.  Vanessa, an IT graduate, created a program that places pattern on the gift wrap in random spots and in different colors – making each individual sheet a one of a kind!

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You can check out the gift wrap, wedding invitations, and lots more over at Vanessa's shop, Marina at Makina!  Thanks Vanessa!

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Heather + John’s Fabric Save the Dates

As much as I love paper, I absolutely adore it when couples incorporate fabric and other materials into their wedding stationery.  For Heather and John’s Save the Dates, designer Alan Valek incorporated natural canvas stitched onto paper digitally printed to resemble wooden planks – with a stunning result:

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Alan used a simple rubber stamp with chalk ink from Paper Source to create the Save the Date text in a crisp summer green – perfect for an August wedding:

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Alan is thinking about doing screen printed wooden planks for the main invitation – I can’t wait to see what he comes up with!

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{happy weekend!}

This has been a bit of a crazy week, so I'm definitely ready to welcome the weekend.  But before I run off, I just have to send a huge congratulations to my friend Ami from Elizabeth Anne Designs on the launch of her latest blogging adventure – Edit & Post! 

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Through Edit & Post, Ami will be sharing her knowledge on all things blogging, from WordPress Basics to general blogging and business tips.  I've learned so much myself from Ami over the last couple of years, so I know that Edit & Post will be an invaluable resource for any blogger.  Check it out!  But in the meantime…

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…a few links for your weekend reading:

That's it for this week!  I hope you all have a lovely weekend, and I'll be back again on Monday!

{image credits: rona keller, via designlovely}