06/04/2010

{happy weekend!}

Happy Friday everyone!Â I’m anxious to get a start on the weekend, particularly since I get to hang out with this awesome lady (and amazingly talented writer) tonight!Â Other than that, I’m looking forward to a relaxed, lazy weekend and escaping this swealtering summer heat.Â Hmmm… maybe strawberry lemonadeÂ with some of my remaining strawberry supply?Â Anyway,Â I’ll be back next week with Father’s Day cards and lots, lots more! Â But in the meantime…

…a few links for your weekend!

A new must-watch – this documentary about printing with wood type, found via freshly{blended}
I’m having so much fun reading the entries to Ami and Cyd‘s Inspired Creations Contest – my twoÂ favorites so far are this and this!
Love this sneak peek at the Gus & Ruby shop in Portsmouth, NHÂ – and of course the sweet words that go with the photos.
Pistachio tapenade?Â Sign. Me. Up!
I can’t stop staring at Jenna’s amazing wedding invitationsÂ – I love the combination of pink letterpress and gold foil!
I’m completely smitten with every detail of this we like it wild wedding…
Pinwheels are so much fun!
A beautiful wedding shower.
And, just in case you missed it – New Orleans wedding invitations with gorgeous calligraphy from Betsy Dunlap!

Oh, and don’t forget!Â You have until midnight tonight to enter both giveaways this week – click here to enter to win letterpress business or calling cards from Gwyneth Paige, and here to enter to win letterpress wedding invitations or save the dates from Hello!Lucky!Â

{image credits: paper garland by bookity via soolip}

05/25/2010

NSS 2010 – Part 11

Whew! Â Eleven recap installments later and I’m finally ready to wrap up the coverage of this year’s Stationery Show. Â I saved the most photo-heavy booths for last, so let’s dive right in! Â First up, the Crane booth, where I caught a glimpse of the new Studio collection as well as old stationery and invitation favorites:

{love the grosgrain ribbon lamp and fold-out folio for seating card displays at a wedding!}

{cards from the new Studio collection}

{gorgeous embossing details on this wedding invitation}

{crane & co.}

Did you know that every single card from Crane’s bordered stationery collection is hand painted? Â This year, Crane brought two hand-bordering artisans down to the Stationery Show to demonstrate their craft:

{a bone folder is the only tool used to create a uniform width for each border}

{the final product!}

Next up are a couple of what I affectionately refer to as the “mega booths” with several participating exhibitors in one booth area. Â First, the Ladies of Letterpress booth, featuring Pistachio Press, Thomas Printers, May Day Studio, Paper Mill Designs, Ink & Iron, Hazel and Violet, Dandy Lion Press, and Flywheel Press!

Next, the Let {her} Press booth featuring Bird Dog Press, Paper Stories Letterpress, Paper Parasol Press, Robin Beth, and Lucky Bee Press:

{bird dog press}

{paper parasol press}

{paper stories letterpress}

{lucky bee press}

{robin beth}

I also stopped by the Vigo booth to check out the latest from Delphine, as well as cards and gift wrap from 1973 and many others:

{delphine}

{I love the foil stamping details on these cards from sanna annukka}

{cute cards from the claudettes}

{awesome gift wrap}

So that’s it from this year’s show! Â If you missed any of the recaps from the show, you can check them all out right here. Â I’m already looking forward to next year’s show!

{all photos by Oh So Beautiful Paper}

*Delphine is one of my fantastic sponsors, for more information about my editorial policy please click here.

05/23/2010

NSS 2010 – Part 8

This next group of booths from the Stationery Show includes a few of the booths that managed to fit an incredible amount of personality into their tiny space! First up, Enormous Champion, with tons of details from their Kingdom Animalia series and letterpress stationery all the way to their customized booth sign offering free high fives, hugs, and handshakes:

{enormous champion}

Night Owl Paper Goods had one of my favorite booth designs at last year's show, and this year did not disappoint! The booth was totally full of Night Owl's signature wood veneer stationery and letterpress cards, as well as new notebooks and a sneak peek at their 2011 calendars:

{night owl paper goods}

Over at the Sycamore Street Press booth, Eva and Kirk used charcoal gray fabric backdrops and a sweet paper garland to highlight their new letterpress cards, prints, and 2011 poster-style calendar:

{sycamore street press}

Even with a more minimalist booth design, the Old Tom Foolery booth is a must-visit at each year's Stationery Show. This year, Joel and Lauren debuted a poster field guide to typestaches (mustaches created from different fonts) and a new headline collection of greeting cards:

{in keeping with Old Tom Foolery's signature typestache, each booth visitor was asked to pose with an OTM typestache-on-a-stick — can you spot me and Ami in the mix?}

{old tom foolery}

I always love stopping by the Two Trick Pony booth at the Stationery Show — the bold stripes and bright colors make for a very happy booth environment! And this year, in addition to their collection of screen printed note cards and invitations, you can check out a peek at Two Trick Pony's first ever calendar:

{two trick pony}

Ami and I stopped by the Twig & Fig booth to check out their latest greeting cards and invitation designs — the team at Twig & Fig has also been working with some pretty unusual materials recently, like the hot pink acrylic invitation below!

{kind of incredible, right?}

{although intended for a bat mitzvah, I could totally see this swarovski crystal invitation also being used for a bridal shower}

{twig & fig}

And last up for this group, Hammerpress, with some of my all-time favorite Valentine's Day cards, as well as other holiday cards, calendars, note cards, and prints:

{this year, hammerpress created the most beautiful letterpress paper bird garland — which you can see in action over on the haystack needle}

{hammerpress}

More soon!

{all photos by Oh So Beautiful Paper}

05/14/2010

{happy weekend!}

Hooray! Â The big weekend has finally arrived! Â The Stationery Show officially kicks off on Sunday, and I’m heading off to New York bright and early tomorrow morning. Â I can’t wait to see everyone at the show! Â 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.Â I’ll be sharing photos from the show here on OSBP all next week, but in the meantime…

…a few links for your weekend!

Cool vintage typography
Save the Dates printed on a feather!
These watercolor business cards are insanely gorgeous
I love the gold foil stamping and cool typography on this packaging
Love bird wedding invitations
Letterpress masks – how fun!
Beautiful sunflower stationery – just in time for summer!

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

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

{image credits:Â cavan images}

04/16/2010

Foil Stamp Wedding Invitations

Rachel from Jolie Jolie featured these utterly gorgeous black and white wedding invitations from a designer friend of hers â€” and I am completely smitten with the foil stamp details on the black reception/rsvp card:

Aside from the line-drawing heart on the vellum belly band (a nod to Deny’s proposal), the invitation is completely devoid of imagery, but makes a huge graphic impact through the contrasting typography â€” letterpress printed in blue ink on white paper for the main invitation and blue foiling on black paper for the reception card. Â I love it all!

{image credits: Manu Chau Photography via jolie jolie}

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