Dee & Lala Letterpress

Holy cuteness! I’m completely taken with Dee & Lala’s line of letterpress goodies. The illustration style is seriously adorable, and I love the bold pops of color against the crisp, white background of the cards. Plus, I just can’t resist

Eco Friendly Paper : The Green Line from Cake + Milk Paperie

Wonderfully colorful line illustrations decorate the imprintable stationery from Cake + Milk Paperie’s new eco-friendly line, a.k.a. “The Green Line”. Print your own personalized invitations, announcements, and stationery using the imprintables, which are printed on recycled, cover weight kraft paper.

Megan Creates Invitations and Notes

I’m loving the work of Megan Carty of Megan Creates. I simply cannot resist a cutie-patootie giraffe, not to mention her wonderful custom letterpress work. Megan does a little bit of everything, including custom wedding, party, and shower invitations, greeting

New Sponsor : b|e creative

Please welcome the newest Paper Crave sponsor, b|e creative! They carry stationery for all occasions, including super cute personalized note cards, thank you notes, and baby shower invitations. I’m also digging their personalized gift tags and enclosures. image from b|e

New Save the Dates from Minted

Minted has just introduced several gorgeous new save the date designs and, to celebrate, they’re offering Paper Crave readers a 15% discount on all of their flat printed save the dates. This includes all of the photo save the date

A New Website for Luxe Expressions

Luxe Expressions has just unveiled a new website, which showcases their ever growing collection of luxury wedding, baby, and social invitations. In celebration, they’re holding a contest to name the new design shown above. The contest will run until September

Jaelyn K Letterpress Invitations

I’m back, and I’ve got quite the stash of paper craves for you. First up, lovely modern letterpress invitations from Jaelyn K. Each design has its own appeal — from the modern tendrils of Sariah to the Asian feel of

Free Downloads from Wedding Style Guide

Found via Paper Forest — Australian magazine, Wedding Style Guide, has some fantastic (and free) downloads for all sorts of pretty wedding details, including labels, hang tags, invitations, and patterned paper for all different sorts of styles and themes. The

New Sponsor : Luxe Expressions

Please welcome Paper Crave’s newest sponsor, Luxe Expressions, whose custom couture letterpress stationery is just lovely. Luxe Expressions specializes in creating “envelope pushing” wedding, baby, and social stationery designs. image from Luxe Expressions

Crystal Kluge Hand Lettering, Illustration, and Fonts

As a huge hand lettering fangirl and general fontaholic, I am so excited about the work of Crystal Kluge. Her work is whimsical, inspirational, and just all around magical. From her hand lettering to custom lettered and illustrated maps to

Design*Sponge 2008 NSS Coverage

Eeep! Design*Sponge is brimming with eye candy from the 2008 National Stationery Show. Grace’s five part series on the show is filled with inspiration…and cravings for those of you who can’t get enough paper, which is probably most of you

Minted Customized Wedding Invitations

Minted is a snazzy new online store whose mission is to “discovery great stationery design everywhere and deliver it to [our] customers with their personal touches added.” They have design selections from some of the finest independent stationery brands, known

Cheree Berry Wedding Invitations

I’m absolutely loving these wedding invitations from Cheree Berry. Her work features a bit of everything (all of it gorgeous), from wonderfully unique envelope liner designs to fantastic illustrations, color schemes, die cuts, and typographic elements. Cheree Berry Paper opened

Ceci New York Couture Wedding Invitations

I continue to be astonished at the unique, beautifully designed invitations that I discover in my paper hunting adventures. Ceci New York is a studio that takes wedding and special event invitation design to the next level. From punk and

Oslo Press Invitations in Paper and Wood

I’m completely in love with the trend in veneer invitations and cards. The wood grain adds a completely new dimension to already beautiful designs. My latest find is Oslo Press, whose laser engraved wood and letterpress wedding (and other) invitations,

Pistachio Press Invitations and Stationery

I first discovered Rochester based Pistachio Press through their collaboration with INK + WIT on an awesome 2008 letterpress calendar. There’s plenty of eye candy to be found in their line, which includes letterpress stationery and wedding invitations (drool…see above).

Louella Press Engraved Wedding Invitations

I was so excited to find out about Louella Press’ gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous engraved wedding invitations. Their website is an absolute feast for the eyes. Louella creates custom work (example above) in addition to carrying a full line of invites,

Tiny Prints for Valentine’s Day

tiny*prints specializes in birth announcements, party invitations, photo cards, and matching labels for all kinds of different occasions. What’s fantastic is that the card designs are created by some favorites, including Night Owl Paper Goods, Paper+Cup, Oh! Joy, Petite Alma,

Kenzie Kate 2008

Kenzie Kate recently introduced four new wedding invitation designs, each with its own unique feel, and all incredibly beautiful: New Orleans : Gorgeous! I absolutely love this color scheme, with the deep teal and green. 10% of the proceeds from

Eco Friendly Paper : Earmark Invitations

Earmark Invitations creates elegant wedding invitations, everyday stationery, cards and more, with an increasing emphasis on environmentally friendly options. They are dedicated to reducing their environmental footprint and continue to increase their use of recycled and non-toxic materials with the

2007 Indie Collective Holiday Gift Guide

Yes, it’s that time of the year again. No need to worry, though, as you can get started on your holiday shopping by checking out the independent crafters and artisans featured in the 2007 Indie Collective Holiday Gift Guide. There

Hana Hou Oak Leaf Letterpress Invitations

These Glistening Oak Leaf Letterpress Invitations from Hana Hou Productions are absolutely gorgeous! I love the oak leaf beads — not a detail is missed. I’m continually amazed by what invitation designers are creating. Many independent designers, Hana Hou Productions

I Love Letterpress’ {Baby} Series

I Love Letterpress, a wonderful blog and directory resource dedicated to everything letterpress, recently finished up a series of features centered on “baby”, including letterpress baby shower invitations and birth announcements. If you love letterpress, then this series is a

Amy Smyth Made It

I was recently introduced to Amy Smyth Made It, a wonderfully funky stationery line by illustrator turned paper pusher Amy Smyth. As I pored over the site, I found it very difficult to choose just a few favorites to feature,