Vintage Princess Letterpress Invites + Printables

July 01, 2010 // kristen // 1 replies

Amber from Vintage Princess is helping to spread the letterpress love in the UK with her growing line of letterpress invitations and, coming soon, greeting cards and social stationery. I’m quite partial to the patterned letterpress invites in the Vintage Princess line, which are available letterpress or digitally printed.

Vintage Princess Letterpress Invitations

Vintage Princess also carries super cool printables, like this cute Baby Shower Party Kit. Love the colors!

images from Vintage Princess

Aspen Letterpress Wedding Invitations

June 30, 2010 // kristen // 1 replies

These gorgeous teal and chartreuse letterpress wedding invitations from Parrott Design Studio would be refreshing at any time of the year, but they’re particularly refreshing for me during what has been a very hot summer week.

Brooke and Marcus are getting married this summer in Aspen, Colorado, and Sarah Parrott took inspiration from the wedding location to create this oh so lovely wedding suite, which features aspen leaves, blind debossed mountains (love!), a ski lift, and a fantastic custom map of downtown Aspen. The bride completed the beautiful look by using vintage stamps that she collected as postage for the invitations.

Parrott Aspen Letterpress Wedding Invites

images from Parrott Design Studio

The Eco-Friendly Wedding Collection from Up Up Creative

June 28, 2010 // kristen // 1 replies

Eco Friendly Wedding Invitations Up Up Creative

I’m super stoked about the newly launched Eco Friendly Wedding Invitation + Save the Date collection from Up Up Creative. The new line features clean, classic, modern invites available in all sorts of vibrant colors, with bold typography and stylized illustrative elements throughout. I’m rather partial to the navy and pink design above (yep, that navy + pink/magenta obsession’s not going anywhere anytime soon). I also love the story behind the collection, which you can check out here.

You can see the entire collection, purchase sample kits, and check out the available colors — I always love to see colors + the fun color names that designers come up with — at Up Up Creative. All paper used is either 100% cotton or contains 100% post consumer recycled content.

Here’s a peek at some of my favorites:

images from Up Up Creative

Nonpareil #04

June 24, 2010 // kristen // 2 replies

Nonpareil #04 is here, and it’s amazing, if I do say so myself! The double-sized issue (seriously, it’s huge), titled A Silver Screen Soirée, includes features that were inspired by the movies and television shows. Our teams chose everything from a perennial female favorite, the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice, to Mad Men, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Chocolat, and even Lord of the Rings as their inspiration, and the results are an absolute feast for the eyes. Head on over to Nonpareil and have a look, won’t you?

And for brides-to-be, we have an awesome Minted giveaway going on through June 30, 2010. Check out details and enter to win 100 wedding invitation cards or save the dates!

image from Nonpareil Magazine

Paper Lovely Lacy Letterpress Wedding Invites

June 24, 2010 // kristen // 0 replies

Paper Lovely Lacy Letterpress Wedding Invitations

Thanks to Kim from Omaha, Nebraska based letterpress studio, Paper Lovely, for letting me know about this lovely and lacy letterpress wedding invitation suite that she recently finished for Jacque & Kevin. The bride wanted a very elegant, Victorian-like feel to her wedding, and the combination of the lace motif and the mauve-y pink ink set the tone wonderfully.

The invitation and rsvp postcard were both letterpress printed, and the menus and programs were thermographically printed, and my favorite detail from the suite has to be the letterpressed “new address” card that’s attached to the program. The bride wanted the guests to be able to remove the card and take it with them, so they wouldn’t have to lug the entire program around. Very smart!