Erin + Blake’s Gold Foil and Letterpress Wedding Invitations

The resurgence of metallics – and gold foil in particular – has been one of my favorite design trends over the last couple of years.  I love the subtle way gold foil text is paired with a letterpress blind impression (no ink) pattern in these wedding invitations from Courtney Callahan Paper.  Modern, fresh, and sophisticated all at the same time!

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From Courtney:  Erin and Blake are a modern couple with a keen sense of style, and they each had opinions on how they wanted their invitation suite to look.  For the blind impression pattern, we decided to mimic the circles used in the logo of their wedding venue, the Palladium; this element was carried throughout each piece of the suite and the materials used on their wedding day.

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Printed on Crane’s Lettra in pearl, the invitation suite was produced using metallic gold foil stamping and a letterpress blind emboss.  The suite included an invitation with hot pink edge painting, along with a reception card and response card with a custom monogram detail.  Inner envelopes were lined in hot pink to match the edge painting on the invitation.

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Thanks Courtney!

Design: Courtney Callahan Paper

Letterpress Printing: Accucolor

Check out the Designer Rolodex for more tal­ented wed­ding invi­ta­tion design­ers and the real invi­ta­tions gallery for more wedding invitation ideas!

Photo Credits: Jennifer Kathryn Photography

{happy weekend!}

So now that our big news is out, it’s time to wish you all a wonderful weekend!  Next week, the husband and I are jetting off to St. Lucia for a few days of rest and relaxation – I can’t wait!  While we’re away I’ll be sharing a little mini guide to DC, from restaurants to shops to museums.  I hope you enjoy the guide!  But in the meantime…

St. Lucia Map Illustration by Laura Bird

…a few links for your weekend!

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

That’s it for me this week!  We’re taking a quick break from Cocktail Fridays until after we get back from our trip, but if you’re looking or a fun recipe to try this weekend – try two of my favorite recipes so far: the Aviation or Vieux Mot.  Have a wonderful weekend!  xoxo

Mary + Ben’s Elegant and Rustic Letterpress Wedding Invitations

Happy Monday everyone!  You might remember these fabulous wood veneer save the dates from Melissa and Amy at Atheneum Creative – and today they’re back with the gorgeous wedding invitations and day-of stationery.  We’ll start with the invitations first before moving onto the stationery details a bit later today.  Melissa and Amy honored the rustic elegance of the save the dates with subtle wood veneer elements in the invitation suite.  So pretty!

From Melissa + Amy: We are so grateful that Mary and Ben trusted us with the stationery for their entire wedding day!  They allowed us to push the envelope on all their materials and challenged us to step it up!  We previously shared the letterpress printed wood save the date, which really set the tone for the invitation and day of materials.

 

For the invitation we introduced calligraphy while keeping the rustic look from the save the date.  Mary loves mixing materials and printing methods, so we letterpress printed the invitation and backed it with wood veneer, while foil stamping (and letterpress printing) the reception card.  The whole set is bound by a velvet bellyband and letterpress printed wood tag.

 

Just gorgeous!  Check back a bit later for the day-of stationery from Mary and Ben’s wedding, including their beautiful menus and ceremony programs!

Design: Atheneum Creative

Letterpress Printing: Sideshow Press

Check out the Designer Rolodex for more tal­ented wed­ding invi­ta­tion design­ers and the real invi­ta­tions gallery for more wedding invitation ideas!

Photo Credits: Chelsea Davis Photography

Rifle Paper Co. Spring Collection

Do you remember all the amazing new products that Rifle Paper Co. debuted back at NYIGF in January?  I was completely smitten with all of the beautiful floral and gold foil details on the new collection.  The Spring 2012 collection is available starting today, and I’m still just as in love as ever with the magnetic market notepads, floral journals, post cards, and pocket notebooks!

These pocket notebooks might be my favorite.  They come in sets of two, and I love the combination of floral motifs with gold foil!

 

These beautiful floral journals have a soft linen cover, smythe sewn binding, and are lined with metallic gold printing on the interior

You can check out the full collection right here!  Anna is generously offering 15% off all items in the Rifle Paper Co. ‘featured’ section (including all these new products!) with the code ‘PAPER12’ through April 4.  Thanks Anna!

Photo Credits: Rifle Paper Co.

Seasonal Stationery: Easter Cards

With only a week left (!!) in March, Easter is just around the corner!  Today we thought we’d round up a few favorite cards for those of you celebrating the Easter holiday.  Whether Easter is celebrated in your home or your neighborhood, the bright colors, references to fuzzy animals, and spring-inspired floral designs conjure a rousing warmth perfect for the new season and warmer days. – Tashia

line foliage easter 

Egg Press

Egg Painting by Quill and Fox

Fishers by by Enormous Champion White Bird Hot Foil Little Bird Notecard Set in Yellow by Letter C Design

Enormous Champion (left); Letter C Design (right)

Letterpress Easter Card Scandinavian Folk Style yellow mustard Tree of Life

Fluid Ink Letterpress

 

Social Proper (left); Hello!Lucky (right)

Sass & Peril

{images via their respective sources}

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