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Happy Weekend!

Happy Friday everyone! Did you all have a happy Halloween? Sophie was a little lion and all ready to hand out candy, but it was rainy and windy so we didn’t get as many trick or treaters as we had expected. More candy for us I guess? Anyway, I’m super excited for this weekend. I’m co-hosting a party for a dear friend due with a baby girl in just a few short weeks! And of course I’m looking forward to sharing the decor and paper details with all of you! But in the meantime…

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Photo by me via Instagram

…a few links for your weekend!

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Check back soon for this week’s cocktail! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here next week! Oh, and you’ll DEFINITELY want to check back in on Monday… I have some exciting news that I can’t wait to share with you! xoxo

New Baby Cards

As we head into full blown holiday mode, I thought it would be nice to take a quick break from all things seasonal with something that always puts a smile on my face: baby cards! So whether you’re attending a baby shower or sending your love to new parents, here are a few favorite cards for welcoming a brand new bundle of joy!

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1. Emily McDowell Illustration; 2. 9th Letter Press; 3. Smock; 4. Sugar Paper; 5. Sycamore Street Press; 6. One Canoe Two

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7. Rocket Ink; 8. Wild Ink Press; 9. Snow & Graham; 10. Hartland Brooklyn; 11. Parrott Design Studio; 12. Kimberly FitzSimons

Lots more new baby cards right here!

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Jessie + Spencer’s Storybook-Inspired Baby Shower Invitations

These adorable baby shower invitations come to us from Jessie and Jen of Shipwright & Co. – and they’re for Jessie’s own baby shower! The shower doubled as a co-ed pool party and barbeque, so Jessie and Jen wanted to avoid anything traditionally “baby” for the design. They drew inspiration from antique storybooks, incorporating whimsical illustrations and hand lettering. Beautiful!

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From Jessie (and Jen): These invitations were created for a co-ed baby shower doubling as a pool party and barbecue for an expecting mom (me!) who wanted something a little different for her shower. We set out to create an invitation that would be child-like without being overly cutesy. Our inspiration came from storybooks from the 1930s and ’40s, whose beautiful and whimsical illustrations conveyed the sense of childhood that we sought.

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 We printed the moon and animals in a light gray, set against irregular bubbles of overlapping color, to play around with the lovely way in which the translucent inks interact with each other on the lush cotton paper. The details of the party sit within each bubble in hand-drawn text. We loved the way the text pops against the background color and how the pressure of the press raises it up slightly, giving the whole piece that lovely tactile quality you get from letterpress.

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Lastly, we printed the envelopes in the same light green color as the invitations with more hand-drawn text and a different illustration of woodland creatures — this time a happy pair of dancing frogs. This project was hand printed on our 1911 Chandler & Price letterpress on Crane’s Lettra pearl white paper.

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Thanks Jessie & Jen!

Photo Credits: Shipwright & Co.

Happy Weekend!

Happy Friday everyone! Do you all have fun plans for this beautiful fall weekend? We’re heading to upstate New York to visit my husband’s family for a few pre-Halloween festivities. It’s a long drive, but I know Sophie will be happy to see her grandparents and cousins! I’m heading out to make our final preparations for the trip, but in the meantime…

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Photo by me via Instagram

…a few links for your weekend!

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

Finally, I made a little announcement on Instagram last week that I thought I’d share here as well. I’m looking to add some DIY contributors to the OSBP team! If you’re interested in contributing, click here for more details on how to apply!

Check back soon for this week’s cocktail! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here next week! xoxo

Baby Essentials: Baby Milestones

Between Instagram and my SLR, I probably have thousands of photos from Sophie’s first year. I’m so happy to have a visual record of her childhood, but I know that I want to keep a written record of her big milestones. Today I’ve rounded up a few of my favorite ways of keeping track of baby milestones, from traditional (but well designed) baby books to blank albums where you can paste a photo next to a short handwritten note about a particular milestone to these quick and easy baby milestone cards!

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1. My Sweet Muffin; 2. Campbell Raw Press hand bound photo album; 3. Loralin Design baby guestbook (such a fun idea!); 4. Double Bravo baby milestone cards; 5. Petit Collage; 6. Natalie As Is blank journal

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