New Wedding Invitations!

This week we released three new wedding suites on our site. We're so excited to add two more beautiful Joel Dewberry designs to our collection. Secret Garden and English Rose are both delicate and romantic, perfect for a Spring or Summer wedding.

In addition to these elegant invites we've also released a brand new design from yours truly named Darling Bud. The layered lines and textures in Darling Bud are just begging to be letterpressed but it looks just as pretty printed flat.

Some photos of the invites in different color ways.

 Welcome to the family sweet new suites!

Studio Snapshot, at work and home! Eunice and Sabrina in Anthology

Eunice and Sabrina are featured in the latest issue of Anthology, and we had to share a little taste!

The article shares a snippet of how the sisters' distinct personalities and tastes have molded their work and living spaces.

Did you notice the Joel Dewberry-designed backdrop from Eunice and Daniel's wedding? That's part of our Woodland Damask wedding invitation design— how great that she's re-purposed it as a bohemian-style faux window in her living room. Love it!

Sabrina's style is more graphic modern, and a lovely contrast.

There's so much more to read and see at the Anthology site.

Enjoy!

Real Wedding: Heidi & Todd

Last week, Green Wedding Shoes featured the beautiful southern wedding of Heidi and Todd.  Gorgeous, dreamy photos by Our Labor of Love.

We were so pleased they chose Woodland Damask for their stationery— it suits the occasion to a tee!

Peruse Green Wedding Shoes for much more beautiful inspiration!

Lynette Andreasen's Metalwork and Jewelry

Adore Lynette Andreasen's work!  She incorporates embroidery into a lot of her metal sculpture and jewelry. Love the contrast of textures.

Embroidered flowers on a pewter plate. Gorgeous and utterly fascinating! Want it!

That would be quite a piece to wear out on Valentine's Day, no?

Love the shadow, the silhouette and the softness of the fibers.

This one reminds us a touch of Joel Dewberry's Ironwork and Architecture designs.  Love, love!

Check out Lynettte's blog and site for more beautiful work.

Beautiful Enameled Jewelry by Jill Baker Gower

Jill Baker Gower's wallpaper patterned enameled earrings are exquisite!  We think they'd make perfect bridesmaids' gifts to coordinate with our Antoinette stationery design.  Such an elegant mixture of modern design and vintage patterns.

And how about this gorgeous enamel and silver pendant?  Jill teaches Metalsmithing at Rowan University in New Jersey, and she does beautiful work, including some very simple and elegant bridal commissions.

Splendid silver rings to match!  You can see more of Jill's work, including her fascinating sculptural jewelry here.

Eunice & Daniel's Wedding Stationery

Since we're stationers, paper played a big role in designing Eunice & Daniel's wedding. The first piece of inspiration was Rob Ryan, the whimsical London-based paper artist. Eunice illustrated this letterpress save-the-date poster featuring silhouettes of her and Daniel, and their two dogs Indie and Simon, along with a save-the-date for their London reception.

We used the silhouettes again to create a DIY cake topper, with the silhouettes laser cut out of balsa wood by our pals at Publique Living, and embellished with crepe paper flowers.

The wedding invitations were a variation Woodland Damask wedding invitation, created in collaboration with pattern designer Joel Dewberry inspired by his  Deer Valley collection.  The wedding invitations and save the dates were letterpress printed, while the details booklets and programs were digitally printed.

We used the pattern to create these program paddle fans, which doubled to keep guests cool during the ceremony...

...as well as these glassine confetti pouches, a tribute to the Beatle's All You Need is Love, Eunice & Daniel's exit song.

Check out more of the behind-the-scenes details on the Martha Stewart Weddings blog here.

Photos by Adi Nevo (stationery),  Gia Canali and Sara Remington.

Joel Dewberry pattern inspiration

Joel Dewberry recently launched his new Deer Valley collection, including these two gorgeous patterns.

We just love looking at Joel's work; it's always so fresh and lovely. To top it off, he's once of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. His patterns favored heavily into Eunice's wedding design, including the invitations, and a custom deck of playing cards (photos forthcoming soon via Martha!).

We adapted the patterns to a more muted, feminine palette to create letterpress note cards and wedding invitations.

Joel's Ginseng and Aviary collections are the inspiration between these two gorgeous custom wedding albums from Flyleaf Books and our Sparrows wedding invitation in espresso and rose, available both letterpress and digitally printed.

Photos of Aviary fabric via  Rainbow Fabrics' Etsy shop, and Ginseng fabric via Fabric Worm.

We just love all the other applications of Joel's fabrics by Esty crafters, like this Ginseng-inspired clutch via Cotton Purr

Also love this chloe bag from Glitzy Gals

Check out all the wedding stationery we created with Joel here and the letterpress greeting cards here.

New Joel Dewberry & EIEIO designs!

After months of anticipation, the new Joel Dewberry and EIEIO designs are available for purchase on our website! The Sparrows wedding invitation design, above, based on Joel's Aviary collection is one of our favorites.

Joel's gorgeous fabrics can be found in all kinds of applications like this gorgeous tote bag from Ivan & Mary that we spotted on Style Me Pretty last fall. You can also buy his fabric by the yard here that you can use for crafting projects (think bridesmaid purses, fabric-covered  headbands, welcome bags, and table runners!).

 Shangri-la (show above) is another favorite.

EIEIO's  modern designs are sleek and refreshing. Meadow (shown above) is so perfect for an outdoor wedding, we can barely stand it! The subtle lines look gorgeous letterpress printed.

We're also loving Poppy Stripe in this red, gravel and pool colorway, inspired by many of EIEIO's beautiful paper designs (especially Flower Pop). Again, EIEIO's papers are perfect for crafting accessories -  napkin rings, wrapping favors, envelope liners, you name it!

All of the designs are available either letterpress or digitally printed; coordinating items such as menus, place cards, directions cards, programs, and thank you notes are available for order via phone/e-mail (contact us for more details). All colors can be customized, too!

Sneak peak: New designs by Joel Dewberry

And now for a sneak peak of our new wedding designs, part deux - Joel Dewberry! Joel is an incredibly talented textile designer and whose fabrics we'd been coveting! When we finally met we instantly connected - we completely identify with his "eclectic modern" philosophy  - it was a match made in heaven! Here's a sneak peak of the results of our collaboration on a new wedding invitation collection...

These designs will be available exclusively on our website in 2 weeks (both letterpress and digital). Check back soon, and check out Joel's amazing fabrics here.

2009 Preview Party!

We recently held our 2009 Stationery Preview party and are thrilled to report that it was a huge success!  We collaborated with some of the most amazing wedding vendors in the Bay Area to transform our working letterpress studio into a beautiful event space complete with red carpet!  Above, the fab Morgan Doan, event planner extraordinaire and mastermind behind this event, and Sabrina chatting by the welcome table.  Our sponsor booklet featured our new Sparrow design by Joel Dewberry.

Guests arriving...it was a fantastic crowd - some of the best and brightest in weddings...

The studio on its way to being transformed. Got Light? did an amazing job with the lighting and draping - we were truly blown away by the difference a little "pipe and drape" made.  The back-lit bar was provided by Blueprint Studio Collection and Wildflower Linens provided the lovely table clothes. DJ John Jow turned the place into a mini-nightclub with his expert music mixing.

Jane Hammond Events provided the seriously delicious hors d'oeuvres, including bite-sized crab cakes, empinadas, and mushroom tartlets and the most amazing brownies of all time.  Andronico's Market provided the excellent wine (selected by the talented Jeffrey Porter).

We made these little buffet signs - the holder was just a standard restaurant sign holder that we spray-painted a matte pink and the orchid pattern on the sign is from one of our new collaborations with Joel Dewberry.

One of the things we were celebrating was the launch of our latest invitation collections including a collaborations with EIEIO, Joel Dewberry, Julia Rothman, and the always amazing Lab Partners.  They did a destination series featuring New York, San Francisco, Hawaii and London (London and New York pictured above).  We've already gotten such and incredible response, we're already thinking about adding some new destinations to the line!

Sharla Flock designed the gorgeous floral arrangments - we love her subtle use of color and texture.

She used pieces from our large collection of flea market found vases and bowls to create an eclectic look.

One of our talented printers, James, did demonstrations of the letterpress printing technique.

We were also celebrating the launch of our new website which we are SO excited about.  The dapper Mr. Daniel James of Three Rings and brilliant event planner, Lisa Feldman, check out the new look.

We had a whole selection of our work on display - this was a variation on our popular Cherry Blossom design - including fan programs, and round menus designed to fit into the dinner plates.  We were also introducing our new digital printing option - an excellent (and fast!) alternative to letterpress (or a budget-friendly way to augment beautiful letterpress invitations).

Gorgeous photography by Allure West.

Thank you so much to all our incredible partners in this event and to everyone who came out for the party!