Before I jump back into my coverage from NYIGF, I just had to take a few minutes to gush over these beautiful wedding invitations from Bespoke Letterpress in Australia. Â I love the combination of hand lettering and serif type, not to mention the stunning blind impression wheat border. Â And that patterned envelope liner? Â Such a fun surprise!
Check out more over on the Bespoke Letterpress blog!
Photo Credits: Bespoke Letterpress
Today I’m loving these crisp black and white wedding invitations from Nicole at Umama. Â Nicole drew her inspiration from her favorite Walt Whitman poem, Out of the Ocean, incorporating a sweet anchor pattern in the envelope liner and a bold enlarged stripe pattern.
From Nicole: In this suite, I drew upon the words from Whitman’s poem, Out of the Ocean:
Out of the rolling ocean, the crowd, came a drop gently to me,
Whispering, I love you, before long I die,
I have travel’d a long way, merely to look on you, to touch you,
For I could not die till I once look’d on you,
For I fear’d I might afterward lose you.
I was inspired to create a subtle nautical invite that captured the ocean from Whitman’s point of view, pensive and bold.
The design includes stripes along the bottom, a nautical monogram, and sweet anchors in the envelope liner.
Just lovely! Â Thanks Nicole!
Photo Credits: Umama
After a week away from my computer, I’m jumping right back into the swing of things. I’m spending a few days in New York for the New York International Gift Fair – I’ll have a couple of recaps from the show later this week! But first, Christine sent over her amazing DIY wedding invitations last week, and I just couldn’t wait to share them! Christine and Ian were inspired by the woodland setting of their wedding venue, creating an incredibly cool lasercut invitation with pop-up cut out details!
From Christine:Â Our wedding will be in the woods on Ian’s parent’s home. From the first day of brainstorming, we both agreed that we wanted our wedding to take place amongst the trees. For the past few months we’ve spent nearly every weekend at the property, building and landscaping to make what we hope will be an incredibly beautiful wedding location.
We wanted the invitations to give our guests a sneak peek into our wedding, without revealing too much.  We used a laser cutting machine to create a pop-up forest that surrounds the headline message on our invitations – Join Us in the Woods.  The laser cut cover stock was then sewn to laser cut kraft paper for a cool multidimensional effect.
Within the full invitation suite we included a perforated RSVP card and a field guide with sketches of local wildlife.
We completed the invitation package with handmade buttons cut from branches found on our property. Â The invitation suite was wrapped in red and white butcher’s twine around a paper bag belly band.
The perforated response card leaves guest with helpful information and local map. Â Food is selected by drawing a line from “Yes” to the corresponding food selection. Â Names were hand-stamped using a Japanese stamp-kit, while the card was printed on kraft paper using our home printer.
The final enclosure was an accordion style, fold-out booklet with illustrations of area wildlife.
So cool!  For more on the invitation production process, you can check out Christine’s blog right here. Thanks Christine and Ian!
Photo Credits: Christine and Ian
Happy Friday everyone!  Today I’m in Asheville, North Carolina to attend the Ladies of Letterpress Conference – I’m looking forward to meeting so many talented printers over the next couple of days!  Next week I’m taking some time off to relax with my husband, and I have two amazing guest bloggers lined up to fill in while I’m away.  But in the meantime…
…a few links for your weekend!
This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:
That’s it for me this week! Â I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Â xoxo
Photo Credits:Â Virginia Galvez via You Are My Fave
I will always love a wedding invitation that incorporates any kind of map detail, and these letterpress topographic map invitations printed by Parrott Design Studio are no exception. Â The couple will be married in Maine later this year and created the design themselves, using the wedding location as the basis for the topographic element. Â I love the simplicity of the blind impression detail in the topography and the pops of red.
So, so pretty. Â Check out more photos and a bit more about the design over at Parrott Design Studio!
Photo Credits: Parrott Design Studio
