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Molly’s Zoo Theme Holiday Card + Moving Announcement

After moving to a new home and welcoming a second child, Molly from Paisley Quill decided to get super creative with her family’s annual holiday card – combining all three into one package!  Molly embraced the recent chaos, going with a fun zoo theme for the entire package accented with cute plastic zoo animals and lots of fun vintage stamps.

Paisley Quill Holiday Card/Moving Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper (7)

From Molly:  This year has been rather crazy for us.  We had another baby and purchased a new home that required lots of renovations in a short amount of time.  Needless to say, I fell behind on my correspondence.  So this year, I decided that it was high time I got caught up and sent everything out together.

Paisley Quill Holiday Card/Moving Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper (6)

In a little blue box, I sent our son’s birth announcement, our moving announcement, and Christmas card all together.  Tied up in a pretty little package and mailed to family and friends with lots of vintage stamps.  My friend Holly from the Paper Nickel gifted me the baby buggy stamp in honor of Callahan.

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Paisley Quill Holiday Card/Moving Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper (8)

Since having two kids, our life has been a ZOO!  So I ran with the concept, creating both a birth announcement and moving announcement modeled after an information card from the zoo.  I had a custom stamp made and stamped all of the glassine envelopes with our new family “crest.”  I sealed the moving announcement with the zoo animals inside the envelopes and taped them shut with fabric tape.

Paisley Quill Holiday Card/Moving Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper (5)

Paisley Quill Holiday Card/Moving Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper (9)

Thanks so much Molly!

Photo Credits: Paisley Quill

*Paisley Quill is a sponsor of Oh So Beautiful Paper

{happy weekend!}

Happy Friday everyone!  It’s been a little over a week with our newest foster kitten and thankfully she’s already feeling much better.  She’s so ridiculously cute and playful, but like most cats spends most of her day sleeping on the couch.  Oh, to be a house cat…  She’ll be available for adoption soon, so if anyone in the DC/VA/MD area is interested in adopting an incredibly sweet 6-month old kitten, please get in touch!  But in the meantime…

Photo Credit: Fall Through Space

…a few links for your weekend:

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

On a slightly different note, I’m looking to add a couple of people to the Oh So Beautiful Paper team!  First up, an Ad Program Manager – if you have experience in online advertising and sales, I’d love to hear from you!  You can check out the full job listing and requirements here.

That’s it for me this week!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I’ll see you back here on Monday! xoxo

Creative Birth Announcement Ideas

There are so many ways to announce the arrival of a new baby – from hand lettering to sweet newborn photos, floral motifs to nautical designs, the possibilites are endless!  Today I thought I’d share some of of the creative birth announcements that I’ve bookmarked over the past few months!

Baby Announcement by The Indigo Bunting via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Combination family holiday card and baby announcement by The Indigo Bunting

Tokketok Baby Announcements via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Tokketok baby announcement with calligraphy by Meant to Be Calligraphy, styling by Chelsea Fuss, and photo by Lisa Warninger

Calligraphy Birth Announcements by Lindsay Letters via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Lindsay Letters

Birth Announcements by Constellation & Co. via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Constellation & Co.

Twins Birth Announcement by Print in Cursive via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Letterpress twin birth announcements by Print in Cursive

Dauphine Press Baby Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Dauphine Press

Letterpress Birth Announcements by Rise and Shine Paper via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Design by Greg Christman, letterpress printing by Rise and Shine Paper

Paper and Ink Birth Announcement via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Nautical Birth Announcement by Paper + Ink via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Pink + Nautical baby announcements both via Paper + Ink

{images via their respective sources}

*Constellation & Co. and Dauphine Press are members of the Designer Rolodex

{happy weekend!}

What a strange week!  From some crazy thunderstorms in the Mid-Atlantic area last weekend to the middle-of-the-week holiday, this week felt like a whirlwind from start to finish.  I’m looking forward to a low key weekend and hoping to escape the DC heat as much as possible.  I’m heading out a bit early today, but in the meantime…

Photo Credit: Scout’s Honor Co.

…a few links for your weekend:

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

That’s it for me this week!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here on Monday! xoxo

Modern Hand Lettered Birth Announcements for Baby Ryan

Hi again!  I hope all my U.S. readers had a wonderful 4th of July holiday!  Today we’re jumping back in with these adorable modern baby announcements from Paper Nest by Lesa.  The simple stripes and sweet hand lettering are a wonderful complement to the newborn photos – and I love that Lesa also incorporated a photo of the happy new parents!

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From Lesa: I went with a simple, warm gray stripe background; the stripes have a painted edge look as well.  The baby’s name is hand lettered in navy with bright green shading.  I just can’t get enough of stripes or a good warm gray, but the navy and bright green help bring in some fresh color.

Baby Announcements by Paper Nest via Oh So Beautiful Paper (3)

Baby Announcements by Paper Nest via Oh So Beautiful Paper (2)

Thanks Lesa!

Photo Credits: Announcements photos by Paper Nest by Lesa; Newborn photos by Alison Elyse Photography