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Wedding Stationery Inspiration: MidCentury Modern

Happy Wednesday everyone!  We’ve had the pleasure of featuring hundreds of amazing wedding invitations over the years, but wedding stationery doesn’t stop with the invitations.  Today I’m thrilled to introduce a new column written by my friend Kelly from Studio DIY that is devoted to day-of wedding stationery inspiration, starting with some fun midcentury modern ideas!

Midcentury Modern design spans several decades and multiple styles.  Clean fonts, bold silhouettes, graphic patterns and offbeat color pairings are a signifying characteristics that come to mind.  Luckily, these qualities all translate beautifully from architecture and interiors into stationery!  If you dream of Eames or you just can’t bear to let this season of Mad Men end on Sunday, take a little cue from this once again popular style for your day-of wedding items!  Menus, place cards, table numbers and more… they all wear the midcentury hat quite well. — Kelly

Wedding Day Of Stationery Ideas: Mid Century Modern via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Photo by B. Mo Foto, Menu by TULIP Design Studio via Style Me Pretty

Wedding Day Of Stationery Ideas: Mid Century Modern via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Photo and Menu by Brancoprata via Green Wedding Shoes

Wedding Day Of Stationery Ideas: Mid Century Modern via Oh So Beautiful Paper Wedding Day Of Stationery Ideas: Mid Century Modern via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Photo by Andrea Hubbell, Table Number by Rock Paper Scissors via The Sweetest Occasion (left); Photo by Red White and Green Photography via Ruffled (right)

Wedding Day Of Stationery Ideas: Mid Century Modern via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Photo by Jasmine Star, Menu by Wiley Valentine via Green Wedding Shoes

Wedding Day Of Stationery Ideas: Mid Century Modern via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Photo by Andrea Hubbell, Table Number by Rock Paper Scissors via The Sweetest Occasion

Wedding Day Of Stationery Ideas: Mid Century Modern via Oh So Beautiful Paper Wedding Day Of Stationery Ideas: Mid Century Modern via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Table Numbers by Aubrey Doodle

Wedding Day Of Stationery Ideas: Mid Century Modern via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Photo by Our Labor of Love, Program by Stelie Designs via Style Me Pretty

Wedding Day Of Stationery Ideas: Mid Century Modern via Oh So Beautiful Paper Wedding Day Of Stationery Ideas: Mid Century Modern via Oh So Beautiful Paper

Place Cards by Nancy Nikko Design

Are any of you planning a midcentury modern-inspired wedding?  We’d love to hear what styles and themes are inspiring you these days!

{images via their respective sources}

Amber + Jeff’s Historic Stone Mill Letterpress Wedding Invitations

I’ve missed sharing wedding invitations over the last couple of weeks!  So today I’m excited to jump back in with some beautiful letterpress invitations from Laura Macchia and May Day Studio.  Laura created these invitations for a couple getting married at an historic stone mill – and the unique location definitely helped inspire the design for the invitation suite.

From Laura: Amber and Jeff will be married at the historic Lillian & Amy Goldman Stone Mill – part of the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.  They were interested in creating invitations that would give their guests a feel for the beautiful and unique location.

I illustrated the Stone Mill and surrounding landscape with fine lines and details that I knew would show beautifully with letterpress printing.

The centuries-old printing technique also emphasizes the historic character of the stone mill, setting the tone for an elegant wedding at the botanical garden.  The suite was letterpress printed by May Day Studio.

So pretty!  Thanks Laura!

Design: Laura Macchia

Letterpress Printing: May Day Studio

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

Photo Credits: Laura Macchia

New Giveaway! A Year of Stationery from Smudge Ink!

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As you might have guessed from my hints on Friday and earlier this morning, I’m super excited about today’s giveaway!  Smudge Ink is offering one lucky reader the chance to win a whole year’s worth of beautiful letterpress and offset printed stationery!  Can you imagine anything more perfect?

Smudge Ink is known for bold and vibrant letterpress printed greeting cards and custom wedding invitations (I’m proud to have them as a member of the Designer Rolodex) – along with calendars, gift wrap, and offset printed greeting cards.  I loved the sneak peek at some of their new paper goodies in the colorful Smudge Ink booth at this year’s National Stationery Show.

The winner will receive a package from Smudge Ink that includes letterpress and offset printed birthday cards, thank you cards, cards for the various holidays, boxed note cards – even two calendars!  The greeting cards are letterpress printed at the Smudge Ink studios, a renovated textile factory located in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, and all boxed notes and calendars are offset printed in Maine.

So here’s how to enter:  Visit and “Like” Smudge Ink on Facebook – then come back here and leave a comment with your favorite holiday of the year!  You’ll have until 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, June 7 to enter the giveaway.  One winner will be selected randomly and notified via email.  Bonne chance!

Photo Credits: Smudge Ink

*This giveaway is sponsored by Smudge Ink.  Official sweepstakes rules here.

National Stationery Show 2012, Part 12

Aaaaand… with a dozen posts full of paper awesomeness, we’ve reached the final recap of exhibitor booths from this year’s National Stationery Show!  I’m ready for a super long nap as we head into the weekend, but first let’s take a look at some of the final stationery eye candy from the show!  First up, the Smock and Bella Figura booth.  I was super excited to check out the new gift wrap patterns and notebook collection, not to mention some of the new foil printed greeting card and wedding invitation designs!

 

 

 

Smock + Bella Figura

Every year, the Crane & Co. booth looks like a Fifth Avenue storefront – complete with gorgeous window displays inspired by Bergdorf Goodman and other classic department stores!  I always spend a few minutes gazing at the beautiful collection in each display…

 

 

 

 

I’m so happy to see Crane & Co. embracing its extensive history with Americana-inspired stationery collections – they’ve been around since 1801 and have printed stationery for several presidents and even foreign kings and queens!  At the same time, they’re incorporating modern design with bright new color options for the classic Crane & Co. hand bordered correspondence cards.  And is there anything more classic and elegant than white engraved text on red paper?  Beautiful!

Crane & Co.

I’m a big fan of the rustic vibe over at Old School Stationers.  I always love their colorful letterpress art prints, greeting cards, and calendars featuring their signature hand-drawn illustrations!

 

 

Old School Stationers

Nashville-based Erin from Arboreal also has somewhat of a rustic vibe going on, but with a stationery collection largely inspired by Erin’s travels to Italy.  The line includes gift wrap sheets, gift tags, and beautiful boxed note card sets.

 

 

Arboreal

The talented sisters of Spark Letterpress made a return to the Stationery Show with a huge booth full of gorgeous invitations, fun party bunting, and beautiful foil printed certificates and greeting cards.  I’m a longtime fan of the Spark wedding invitation collection, but I’m so happy to see them branching out with more Bar and Bat Mitzvah invitations and other party invitation designs!

 

 

 

 

Spark Letterpress

L2 Design Collective never fails to make me smile with their colorful screen printed cards and journals.  I’m seriously loving all the new holiday and Halloween card designs, and the bagel and cream cheese card below still makes me laugh!

 

 

 

 

L2 Design Collective

Envelopments recently collaborated with Kristy Rice of Momental Designs on an exclusive new wedding collection, called Trellis.  Kristy was on hand at the Envelopments booth to talk about the new designs in person.  Kristy creates the most amazing one of a kind hand painted wedding invitations  – and the Trellis collection captures her unique style in such a beautiful way.

 

 

 

 

Envelopments

That’s it folks!  I hope you enjoyed the recaps from this year’s National Stationery Show!  If you missed any of the last eleven posts or want to check out the booths from last year, you can see all of my stationery show coverage from the last four years right here!

Photo Credits: Stephen Michael Garey and Nole Garey for Oh So Beautiful Paper

National Stationery Show 2012, Part 10

As promised, I’ve got a bit more from the National Stationery Show to share with you today!  Some of my favorite booths are those with a sense of humor, from the sweetly funny to the totally snarky.  So today I thought I’d focus in on a few of my favorite booths that combine fun and humor with gorgeous stationery design.  First up, Maginating with some of the most adorable designs you could possibly imagine and several of my all-time favorite cards!

 

Love the iridescent foil – one of FOUR foil passes on this specific card!

Maginating

Nicole from The Nic Studio has a beautiful collection of illustrated cards that always seems to combine whimsy with a sense of fun and humor.  This year, I was completely blown away by Nicole’s amazing new series of large full-color art prints called “Animals Everywhere” – inspired by her 3-year old daughter’s imagination.  Gorgeous!

 

 

The Nic Studio

Amber from Flywheel Press always has something up her sleeve for the Stationery Show – from fun scavenger hunts to awesome letterpress greeting cards and wedding invitations.  This year I was particularly smitten with Amber’s new collection of cards inspired by classic movie moments (so fantastic!) and gorgeous split fountain designs.

 

Beautiful split fountain cards!

 

Flywheel Press

Lisa from Sapling Press has the most amazing sense of humor – her “dear blank” and “we go together like” card collections keep me laughing for hours.  This year I can’t get enough of her new card series of made up facts.  Genius!

 

Sapling Press

Lauren and Joel of Old Tom Foolery usually go for a minimalist black and white booth design, but this year they went all out with an INCREDIBLE wood booth designed by an architecture student friend.  So amazing – as are their hilarious cards!

 

 

Old Tom Foolery

I love the McBitterson’s tagline of “Cute, Sometimes Cranky Letterpress Cards” – so perfect!  The cards might get a little cranky, but they always make me smile.

 

 

McBitterson’s

The team at Oddball Press always seems to find the perfect combination of sweetness and snark in their greeting cards – and I love the way they incorporate old timey illustrations into their designs.  So awesome!

 

 

Oddball Press

I’m always excited to see the ladies of 9SpotMonk at trade shows.  They have a fantastic collection of color-in cards for kids that you might remember from the January Gift Fair, not to mention the hilarious thank you cards and letterpress beer and wine bottle gift tags below.

9SpotMonk

Check back tomorrow for more from the 2012 National Stationery Show!

Photo Credits: Stephen Michael Garey and Nole Garey for Oh So Beautiful Paper