Loft Life Press

The moment I discovered Loft Life Press on Etsy I fell in love. I saw this beautiful hand painted print and just had to find out who designed this. Isn't there work just amazing?

For those of you who don't know, I haven't been taking stationery and invitation orders since I had Calder. Something just had to give, and I am too busy with larger branding and website projects to spend time on custom stationery right now. I just can't do it all and my workload is overflowing as it is (which is a huge blessing!)... but I'm learning how to say no (which was foreign word to me before becoming a mom.) BUT don't get me wrong, I still LOVE all things paper, especially when they're hand-drawn and custom designed like these jewels...


Hopefully some day when things calm down, I'll dive back into it, but for now I'll just sit back and drool...

Dreamy, romantic, and adoring of tiny details...did I mention that I fell in love??

Christine + Ian’s Woodland Wedding Invitations

My favorite invitation blog, Oh So Beautiful Paper, featured these invites as their favorite of 2011. I'd have to agree. They are pretty amazing! These were inspired by the woodland setting of their wedding venue, creating an incredibly cool laser cut invitation with pop-up cut out details!

 From Christine: 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.

 

So beautiful and creative!

Wedding Invitations from Antiquaria

Anti­quaria just opened up their cus­tom wed­ding invi­ta­tion design stu­dio and I'm obsessed with their designs! You can check out their full port­fo­lio right here, and I’m includ­ing some of my favorite invitations below.

For tons of more beautiful invitations, visit Oh So Beautiful - Designer Rolodex. You will not be disappointed!

Fig. 2 Design Studio

I stumbled upon Fig. 2 Design Studio's website and immediately fell in love..so, so cute! I love her website, blog, and colorful, fresh designs. Enjoy!

Who knew gift wrap could make you this happy??


{images via Oh So Beautiful Paper and Fig. 2}

yellow + gray

Although I don't use it as often as I would like, yel­low and gray will always be one of my favorite color combinations. Sarah from The Happy Enve­lope cre­ated these gor­geous wed­ding invi­ta­tions for a des­ti­na­tion wed­ding in Napa Val­ley.  She paired ele­gant script and serif fonts with beau­ti­ful pat­terns for an over­all design that is both laid back and sophis­ti­cated – and com­pletely stunning.

The entire suite is wrapped in oys­ter gray twine paired with a neu­tral khaki enve­lope and hand-lettered black ink calligraphy.

From Sarah: This wed­ding is a Napa Val­ley des­ti­na­tion event.  The upbeat color palette of yel­low, gray and taupe brings a sense of cheer to the whole suite.  All pieces were let­ter­press printed on weighty con­ser­va­tion board — thick enough to allow for let­ter­press print­ing on both sides of the invi­ta­tion.  All pieces were printed in a warm putty gray on the front, with var­i­ous pat­terns printed in warm yel­low ink on the back of the invi­ta­tion, the reply card, and the hangtag.

The bride wanted a laid-back, Cal­i­for­nia feel but with an under­stated, sim­ple aes­thetic.  The invi­ta­tion itself is fairly under­stated on the front with a mix­ture of type and a light dot­ted line motif.  The punch to this invi­ta­tion is the bold pat­tern print­ing on the reverse side of select pieces.

Red, White + Blue Wedding Inspiration

Ok, I know I'm a little late on this post since July 4th was over a week ago, but I couldn't resist posting this since we are still in the patriotic month of July! I found these fabulous pictures on one of my very favorite invitation blogs — Oh So Beautiful Paper  — you must check it out when you have time. Megan from Pink Piggy Design col­lab­o­rated with pho­tog­ra­pher Kate Osborne and other Utah-based wed­ding ven­dors on a fun photo shoot full of 4th of July-themed wed­ding ideas. In keep­ing with the sum­mer hol­i­day, there are lots of stripes, twine, and some of the most delicious-looking mini pies I’ve ever seen!

Thanks Megan for the red, white & blue inspiration!

Pho­tog­ra­phy: Kate Osborne
Paper Details: Pink Piggy Design
Cater­ing: Culi­nary Crafts
Rentals: Alpine Event Rentals
Nap­kins: Wild­flower Linens
Flo­ral Design: Stu­dio Stems

Photo Cred­its: Kate Osborne Photography