Letterpress Wedding Invitations

Several hours of preparation, 1,200+ impressions, 3 days off work, Jordan's incredible generosity, my husband's limitless patience and 600+ hand trimmed invitations later...

Letterpress

I took most of last week off work to letterpress my sister's wedding invitations. Letterpress was a dying art, but has seen a resurgence in the past few years. You can take classes at The Center for the Book here in San Francisco. After you complete the required classes, you can rent press time for $20/hour. I will post the final result next week.

Olive & Page Letterpress

I saw these beautiful letterpress gift tags and cards by Olive & Page at a letterpress fair. The website shows the digital version which doesn't quite do justice to the beautiful impressions made on the letterpress, so you will have to imagine them with the subtle smokey ink lightly indented into a thick creamy textured paper.

Ladies Who Lunch

I love this line of invitations from Studio Z Mendocino.

Stationary

I love this stationary. I'm feeling very heavily influenced by black and white graphic patterns lately.

Travel Mad Libs

These fun mad lib type cards were fun to mail from our trip.

Paper Trail

Knock Knock produces paper products with a sense of humor. I especially love the note pads and stickies.

Vintage Image Writing Blocks

These notepads are great to keep around your desk for scratch paper. Ars Antigua makes stationary and and other related products using great vintage images. There website is horrible to navigate, but click on writing blocks under the browse category heading and then be patient through the tutorial. Afterward you can search the images by category. The mirror image stationary and journals are pretty cool too. I have the Eiffel Tower image.

Pretty Paper Obsession

Anytime I see anything from Cavallini & Co. , I have to have it. Unfortunately for my pocketbook, they seem to be producing a lot of new items lately.