Paper Guppy Inspiration

bella figura new 2012 designs

So excited about the new Bella Figura designs for 2012! This year I designed 3 new invitation sets: Conservatory (top left) which is a vintage garden theme with a jade colored ink and copper foil edges. Pastoral (top right) is a illustrative garden drawing. And my favorite this year, the Royal Peony (bottom left). I just love how the peony turned out. It started as a pencil drawing and held quite a bit of detail through the printing. You can view the rest of the invitations I designed for Bella Figura here.

style me pretty love: jen and geoff's wedding stationery

This post is a little overdue but we were lucky enough to be featured on Style Me Pretty this past week for Jen and Geoff's wedding. We worked with Jen and Geoff last year to come up with a modern invitation focusing on big chunky type! The invitation was letterpressed and the envelope was lined in a custom geometric pattern.

And we carried the invitation theme through to the reception stationery. The fabulous images below are from Jenna Walker Photographers.

sparks will fly on the fourth of july

Stephanie and Mason have a vintage inspired theme for their wedding on the fourth of July. They wanted a fun, interactive piece for their save the dates, so we found a mini red, white, and blue paper fan to attach to their save the date. So cute! The fan also collapsed making it for easy mailing. Stay tuned for their full invitation set!

the dynamic duo

What a fun invitation set! Anne and Raj met on halloween night and love dressing up together so we thought it would be fun to illustrate some of their halloween costumes in their wedding stationery set. For the invitation, we illustrated Anne and Raj in their wedding attire. When it came time for the reception items we dressed them up! Each table represented a different costume and the escort cards corresponded to that table's costume.

hi there! and Beth and Brandon's wedding!

Oof. Sorry for the silence (a phrase I know I've written on this blog more than once!). It's been busy busy - which is great - it just means less time to do things like um blogging?! - ha!

One of the reasons this year was so busy was weddings - and not just client weddings but friend weddings to work on and attend! I love working with my friends because they often give me complete creative control - so I get to use them as guinea pigs for things I've always wanted to try. Enter our dear friends Beth and Brandon. Beth works for downtown Denver and Brandon is a structual engineer. They wanted their overall feel to be a little bit whimsical and of course incoporate the mountains since the venue was in Steamboat. So for their save the date I suggested we do a pop-up!

I designed the front to reference their love of craft beers and on the inside we had a banner giving some general information and then the Denver skyline set against the backdrop of the mountains. For the background we used a topographic map of Steamboat. So all of the elements incorporated pieces of both of them!

When it came to the invitations - we wanted to refine everything just a little bit. So, we used some of the leaf and tree graphics as well as the mountain logo from the front of the save the date. The entire set was offset printed on 130# natural white cover stock in dark grey ink.

Now it's a toss up for what I love most - the save the dates or the seating chart?! For the seating chart Beth randomly mentioned once that she loved advent calendars as child. So of course I suggested that their seating chart be modeled after an advent calendar. We had each of the couples listed and on a rough state by state layout and we drew icons to match the look and feel of where they were coming from. Then underneath we had another print with their table number. So each couple came up and pulled their tab open to reveal what table they were sitting at.

I loved how their wedding stationery was so interactive from start to finish!

A very special thank you to Beth and Brandon for their inspiration and for allowing me to get a little crazy with their wedding stationery!

save the date images: Jefra Star Linn

invitation images: The Paper Guppy

seating chart images: Andrew Prinsen