Bookeyed Jack + Bookeyed Suzanne by Crystal Kluge

Oh, do I ever look forward to a new font by Crystal Kluge, and this time she’s released two at once! I’m already imagining Bookeyed Jack and Bookeyed Suzanne in action, bringing life to wedding invitations, stationery, and graphic design projects that call for a hand-lettered touch.

Bookeyed Jack might give me the side-eye if I called him “lovely”, so instead I’ll say that he’s handsome and strong, with a bit of mischief on the side.

Bookeyed Jack Font

Crystal Kluge Bookeyed Jack

Now Bookeyed Suzanne, she’s a real looker. She’s a “modern girl with vintage charm”, and her lovely serifs and swashes fill me with delight.

Bookeyed Suzanne Font

Bookeyed Suzanne by Crystal Kluge

images from Crystal Kluge

Teal Passport Wedding Invitations

Teal and Navy Blue Passport Wedding Invitations

Designer Danelle Bourgeois sent over these awesome teal, passport style wedding invitations that she created for Michelle and Steve and, boy, does this sound like it was a fun project! I’m really digging the pops of pattern and the personal, meaningful details that feature throughout the suite (mangroves!), and the tear-off boarding pass RSVP card is so much fun. Here’s what Danelle has to say about this super cool suite:

Michelle and Steve wanted their wedding to be themed around their journey, since they had been together for over 10 years. After a few discussions with them, it was decided to let their travels be part of the inspiration, so the invitation was to be a passport to their wedding. Teals and turquoise became a major part of the theme, and Michelle stumbled upon this perfect teal textured card from a scrapbooking store that was to become the cover of the passports.
The story of how Michelle and Steve got together is a sort of on-going joke with their friends. When they first got together, Steve wowed Michelle with his vast knowledge of mangroves. Yes, mangroves. They wanted to have a mangrove design somehow incorporated into the invitation, since that is where their journey began, so I designed a circular stamp style motif that contained Michelle’s mangrove design to go on the front of the passport where the coat of arms usually goes.
One of the more important (and fun!) parts of the invite was The Journey spread. Michelle and Steve put together a whole bunch of stats about their 10 years together including the number of Parisian snails consumed, hours spent in gumboots at music festivals and first romantic date movie they saw together. They’ve visited 17 countries in their travels together. Wow! That deserved its own little map to show those countries that they’ve been to and a little heart to show where they are now.
Teal Passport Wedding Invitations
Map Wedding Invites
Teal Booklet Passport Style Wedding Invites
Mangrove Seal Invitations
Tear Off RSVP Wedding
Boarding Pass RSVP Wedding
images from Danelle Bourgeois

How to Get Kick-arse Wedding Stationery

If you’d like to get some kick-arse wedding stationery designed for your upcoming wedding, and you’re completely lost about where to begin, then you’re definitely not alone. But Alicia Parsons from Akimbo has you covered with her new FREE e-book, How to Get Kick-arse Wedding Stationery : 4 Steps from ‘Wha?’ to ‘Wow!’.

How to Get Kick-arse Wedding Stationery will give you all of the information that you’ll need to make sure that your custom stationery design project goes off without a hitch, and Alicia has included several helpful checklists and worksheets so you’ll have all of your project specifics written down and right in front of you from the moment that you start working with a designer.

Just a few of the specifics included in this information packed e-book:

* Detailed explanations of a variety of printing and addressing options available to you for your wedding stationery

* How to get a custom stationery quote and compare potential vendors

* How to save money on your wedding invitations

* Invitation wording examples and suggestions

* How to give your wedding stationery your own personal touch

* How to write the perfect thank you note

Download your FREE copy of How to Get Kick-arse Wedding Stationery by Alicia Parsons, and prepare to go forth and have some kick-arse wedding pretties created for your own special day!

image from Akimbo

Playful Mid-Century Style Save the Dates

Playful Mid Century Save the Dates

Mid-century style typography, vintage stamps, a super cool custom emblem rubber stamp, and a rockin’ green and black color palette – how in the world could I not go gaga over these playful save the dates that designer Brian Hurst and his fiancee, Stephanie, created for their August wedding?

The fun fold-out design features an old school airplane pulling a “Save the Date” banner that’s revealed, along with the wedding details, when the card is opened. So clever, and undoubtedly a lot of fun for every guest who will be receiving one of these lovelies in their mailbox. Thanks for sharing these, Brian!

Check out more of Brian’s design work at The Quiet Society and The Quiet Society blog.

Airplane Save the Date

Mid Century Typographic Save the Dates

Brian Hurst Custom Save the Date

The aforementioned vintage stamp and custom rubber stamp action:

Vintage Stamps

Custom Rubber Stamp

images from Brian Hurst

Introducing Invitation Tuesday

I”ve been wanting to bring a little invitation love back over to Paper Crave since I started Invitation Crush last year, and what better way to do so than dedicating a special day to invitation features! Every Tuesday, I’ll be featuring yummy invitations here on Paper Crave, including individual invites, collections, and suites (submit your pretties to me right here), as well as roundups of the invites I’ve been crushing on over at Invitation Crush.

I’ve also been working like a busy little bee on the new Wedding Invitation Ideas lookbook, which will be launching soon. You can get the latest on the lookbook and what’s going on at Invitation Crush by signing up for my newsletter here, or by following Invitation Crush on Twitter and Facebook. I’m so excited about the new project; just wait until you see all of the beautiful invitations and save the dates.

And now, my first Invitation Tuesday roundup!

Invitations

Row 1 : Emma + Olof’s unique green and black letterpress wedding invitations by Fredrik Andersson and Elegante Press

Row 2 : Ornate navy blue and white wedding invitations by Sarah Drake (left); beautiful black and white typography invitations by Johanna Hörrmann

Row 3 : The BRIDES Fine Wedding Papers Collection from BRIDES Magazine and Checkerboard

Row 4 : New destination Boston wedding invitations from Hello! Lucky and Lab Partners (left); Art Deco Bouquet letterpress fill-in bridal shower invitations from Ilee

images from their respective owners