Paper Mobile Baby Announcements

October 06, 2011

Aww, these custom baby announcements by Luscious Verde are so adorable. The precious design features a soft pink and brown color palette, sweet type, and a custom cut paper mobile with lots of baby goodies – a stuffed elephant and teddy bear, butterfly, heart, and baby carriage. A rhinestone anchors the top of the mobile and adds dimension to the announcement, and the thank you note and return address labels feature coordinating heart graphics.

image source: Luscious Verde

Romantic Story Wedding Invitations

October 05, 2011

Today’s invitation crush is utterly romantic, totally sweet, and filled with lovely chemistry. The Story wedding invitation suite by Anticipate Invitations blends classic floral pattern in a rose and white color palette with do-it-yourself details for a look that’s a little bit Victorian with clever, modern style.

From Anticipate : True romantics at heart, Catherine and Thomas used lush peonies and lace cutouts throughout their wedding design. Tea cups filled with gumdrops held each guest’s name and seating assignment. Menus with scalloped borders were paired with table number vases wrapped in pressed velvet. Vials filled with cinnamon hearts—and a label announcing that ‘Love is Intoxicating’—were given as favors.

Above (right) : The awesome velvet table numbers were created using custom number rubber stamps overlaid with strips of velvet (velvet side facing the stamp). Lightly spray the back of the velvet with water, and use an iron on medium for about 10 seconds to crush the velvet. This technique works best with larger numbers, but Michael from Anticipate Invitations had success with type as small as 14pt.

image source: Anticipate Invitations

Mason Jar Wedding Invitations

October 04, 2011

I am all about mason jars, and it was crush at first sight when I spotted these Mason Jar Marriage wedding invitations by Honey Bee Invites, a new wedding invitation design company based in Atlanta, Georgia. The fun, die cut design and red/teal color combo instantly caught my eye, as did the super cute, baker’s twine tie at the top of the invites. Head over to Honey Bee’s site to see more of their custom invitation designs, including wedding invitations, baby shower invites, and holiday party designs.

image source: Honey Bee Invites

Cute Illustrated Wedding Invites by CUTandPASTE

October 03, 2011

Valentina from CUTandPASTE designed this fun, custom wedding suite for Erica and Massimiliano’s big day, and the sunshine yellow, black, and white color palette and sophisticated typography are an elegant contrast to the sweet, casual caricature illustrations, which were created by Federica Lucchi and feature the couple and their “animal family”, a fun-loving dog and a super cute bunny rabbit. Daisy illustrations serve as a graphic motif to tie the pieces in the suite together and to bring a casual element to the classic, typographic design.

The full wedding suite includes invitations, thank you tags, favor tags, ceremony programs, flower eyelets on select piece (such a fun detail!), and plenty of pins for the guests.

image source: CUTandPASTE

Sweet, Hand-Lettered Wedding Invitations

September 29, 2011

There’s just something about the scribbly hand-lettering and cute bird illustrations on these custom letterpress wedding invitations for Chandler and John’s October wedding, printed by The Mandate Press, that makes me smile. Such sweetness:

image source: The Mandate Press

Autumn Wedding Invitations by Dingbat Press

September 28, 2011

This gorgeous letterpress wedding suite by Dingbat Press is absolutely perfect for a fall celebration, and I’m totally crushing on the unexpected color palette of peacock blue and rust orange, which is vibrant, yet autumnal at the same time. Jennifer and Cristina’s letterpress wedding suite also included lovely details (I mean, besides the beautiful design itself), like escort cards paired with a sweet, die cut pouch.

image source: Dingbat Press

Claremont Collection : New Designs + Website

September 27, 2011

Rachel (ikat chic) Wedding Invitations

Oh, I do adore Claremont Collection, featured earlier this year in the Wedding Invitation Ideas lookbook (page 42), and I’m so excited to see that they’ve recently added several new designs … and they’ve launched a brand new site for the collection, too. Needless to say, I think that the new Claremont Collection letterpress wedding designs are awe-some, as is the chic new site. Check out this irresistible letterpress wedding invitation eye candy (and see all of the available designs here):

Allison (modern with a twist)

Emily (subtle pattern + bold color)

Isabella (formal, crisp,clean)

image source: Claremont Collection (photos by Trevor Dixon)

Dot + Flourish Wedding Invites

September 26, 2011

Today, I’m completely crushing on Hello Tenfold’s Dot and Flourish wedding invitation suite. Oh, my. Where to begin? The light teal, navy, white, and kraft color palette … swoon. Add to that sweet flourish elements and typography, mix with some pretty darn fantastic pattern (love the striped envelope liners!), and you have chic, modern suite that would be just the thing for any stylish occasion.

Pieces can be screen printed, digitally printed, or letterpressed. And coordinating programs, save the dates, menus, thank yous, and rsvps are also available.

image source: Hello Tenfold

Circus Tea Party Invitations

September 22, 2011

Jag Nagra of Page 84 Design is, without a doubt, the queen of unique and inventive tea party invitations. She created these awesome Alice in Wonderland tea party invitations that I featured last summer, and she also recently shared these super cool poster invites that she created for a circus-themed tea party for friends. What fantastic color and illustration!

Here’s what Jag had to say about this fun project:

For the 11×17 invitation poster, I illustrated 3 characters: the World’s Strongest Man, the Ringmaster, and the World’s Tallest Woman. These characters also made appearances on the wine bottles, along with a few other characters, including a fairly accurate self-portrait of myself and Angela on the Clown Label.

Labels were printed on glossy 80 lb. text paper, and – to add to the quirkiness of the event – were adhered onto mismatched wine labels. The total cost for printing the invitations and wine labels: less than $20. Goes to show that you don’t need to spend a fortune to make a strong visual impact!

Head over to Jag’s site to check out more label designs and lots of photos from what looks like an amazing party.

image source: Jag Nagra

Halloween Party Invites by Brightside Prints

September 21, 2011

Today, I’m totally crushing on the awesome collection of Halloween party invites over at Brightside Prints. The Snowy Owl DIY invitations are so cute! I mean, spooky. Totally spooky – 000h00h (spooky Halloween sound). They’d be perfect for a Harry Potter-themed party or an owl-themed Halloween shindig.

More of the great designs from Brightside Prints’ Halloween collection:

image source: Brightside Prints