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{happy weekend!}

My husband came home last night.  I snapped this photo while at the airport waiting for his plane to arrive.  I’m off to enjoy my first weekend with him in a long, long time.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone! xoxo

A few links for your weekend:

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

Sweet Pink Birth Announcements for Baby Amelia

Beth from OneCanoeTwo welcomed her first child earlier this year – a darling baby girl named Amelia.  When it came time to send out Amelia’s birth announcements, Beth worked with photographer Heather Roth to create a collage of beautiful images of Amelia, which Beth used to create a 5 x 7″ digital print.  Beth then incorporated a letterpress printed belly band that contained all of Amelia’s birth information.  Such a wonderful combination of digital and letterpress – and I love that adorable scalloped border!

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Thank you so much Beth, and a belated welcome to little Amelia!

Photo Credits: OneCanoeTwo

{happy weekend!}

As I mentioned earlier, we’re in the middle of an incredible heatwave here in DC (and apparently half of the country).  When my husband calls home each night from overseas, we definitely spend a good amount of time complaining about the heat in our respective locations – which makes most of our conversations pretty boring, actually.  He comes home soon; we’re in the final stretch and just counting down the last few days.  It feels so good to know that this will all be behind us very soon.  Next week is shaping up to be a flurry of activity as I try to wrap up a few loose ends, thankfully most of it indoors.  But in the meantime…

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…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

Photo Credits: Alicia Block

Stationery A – Z: Baby Congratulations

I’m definitely at the age where it seems like there’s a new little guy or girl to welcome to the world every week, and that means I’m on the hunt for pretty cards to send to the lucky parents!  Pick up a few of these cards in advance and you’ll be ready to celebrate all the new babies and parents in your life!

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Missive

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Fisk and Fern

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Anemone Letterpress

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Sycamore Street Press

Letterpress Baby Congratulations Card

Sugarcube Press

Smock Letterpress Baby Card

Smock Paper

Dutch Door Press

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Egg Press

Letterpress Baby Congratulations Card

A card for a soon-to-be mom, from Wiley Valentine

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Hello! Lucky

Letterpress Baby Congratulations Card

Ink and Iron

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Two pretty options from Rifle Paper Co.

{images via their respective sources}

*Smock, Wiley Valentine, and Hello! Lucky are spon­sors of Oh So Beau­ti­ful Paper.  For more on my edi­to­r­ial poli­cies, please click here.

Balloon Baby Shower Invitations from Gus & Ruby Letterpress

Baby shower invitations are generally cute by nature (babies!), but these balloon baby shower invitations from Gus & Ruby Letterpress are adorably playful and yet completely adult-appropriate.  Whitney and Samantha created these invitations for photographer Emilie Sommer‘s baby shower last November, printing the invitation text on a balloon for a fun 3D element accompanied by letterpress enclosures and mailing labels within a chartreuse mailer.

Balloon Baby Shower Invitations by Gus & Ruby Letterpress / Oh So Beautiful Paper

From Whitney: Samantha and I were thrilled to be able to design invitations for our dear friend, Emilie Sommer, owner of Emilie Inc. Photography, for her November baby shower held at the beautiful Black Point Inn in Prouts Neck, Maine.  The goal was to create something fun and different, but not overly playful or childlike.

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The concept for printing the invitation on a balloon came about as we brainstormed ways to make the piece interactive and 3-dimensional.  We love that the balloon is such an iconic childhood “toy,” but that we incorporated it in a way that feels mature and classy rather than juvenile.

Balloon Baby Shower Invitations by Gus & Ruby Letterpress / Oh So Beautiful Paper

We printed “inflate me” in blue ink on an A2 100% cotton, flat card, and drilled 2 holes so that we could tie the balloon onto the card with orange twine.  We then printed an additional insert card with the RSVP and registry information and adhered to gray card stock for extra dimension.  We filled an A2 chartreuse box mailer with white shredded paper and set the invitation right on top.  We letterpress printed the mailing label which was adhered to the top of the box, used an orange pen for addressing that coordinated with the twine, and sent them on their way!

Balloon Baby Shower Invitations by Gus & Ruby Letterpress / Oh So Beautiful Paper

So fun!  Thanks Samantha and Whitney!

Photo Credits: Emilie Inc. Photography