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Last year, a sweet little boy named Lawson turned one. To celebrate, Lawson’s parents threw him a party inspired by Curious George. His mother, Jeanie, contacted us to design + letterpress print his birthday invitation.

She loved the invitations we designed + printed for our little Em and wanted something similar in the style of his party. His party was not just Curious George but a vintage take on the classic stories. Rustic red, pale blue, navy and a cheerful yellow made up the party’s color palette.

Like Em’s “year of firsts” certificate, Lawson’s first year achievements were highlighted. His foot + hand print were letterpress printed true to size. At birth he was a tiny fellow, and his feet were only 1 3/4 inches long.

Did you notice what his first food was? Bananas! I got a good chuckle out of that.

We made the “year of firsts” card a different size from the actual invite and bound them together with yellow twine. And finally, a two color, letterpress printed, wraparound mailing label was affixed to each pale blue, open ended #10 envelope.

Happy birthday Curious Lawson! We hope you went bananas and had more fun than a barrel of monkeys at your party!

After seeing the invitation we designed + printed for Em’s baptism, Violet’s mother contacted us about ordering invites for her daughter’s baptism. Normally, we do not replicate a custom design for other clients. However, since this was designed for our daughter, we decided to modify the design slightly and accomodate her request. This is the outcome. Still elegant + beautiful.

We loved the design so much that we contacted her about offering the design to future clients. She gave us her blessing, so we’ll be updating our shop soon to include them! In the meantime, you can contact us if you are interested in placing an order for them.

We just added these sweet Valentine goodies to our shop. Enjoy!

Before we left for Disney, I secretly letterpress printed + mailed these fun party invites for Kacey’s birthday.

I was inspired by these invites and the shower in a box party that my family + friends put together for my baby shower a couple of years ago. Since we were going to be returning from Disney on his birthday and his friends are scattered all across the US, I thought this was a great way to get everyone together for a virtual party.

I came up with a little poem asking everyone to use the balloons + confetti included in the package and take a picture of themselves. I put a little card inside with his email address so they could forward the pictures directly to him. I kept it all a secret, and so did everyone else [thank you!], and day by day pictures started sprinkling into his inbox. Finally, on his birthday, I gave Kacey his own party in a box to open. He was surprised + loved it!

Inside the party in a box, I included three balloons + handmade confetti. Instead of driving myself crazy looking for matching confetti, I used two different sized craft hole punches to create confetti from the letterpress invite prints that weren’t quite perfect. Great way to recycle + keep the look consistent!

The invites + email card were tied up with twine and placed inside a kraft box along with the balloons + confetti.

Mailing labels were also letterpress printed and adhered to the boxes for mailing.

These were so much fun to do. Everyone loved the idea and he received so many funny + memorable pics and even videos for his birthday. I plan to put all the pictures in a little album for him.

Fun news! Today, I’m guest posting on Hellobee. It’s a new pregnancy, baby and parenting blog started by the founder of Weddingbee. I’m sharing a little bit of the design and printing process for these business cards we designed + letterpress printed for them. I hope you’ll join me over there!

We just added a few Joyeux Noël cards to the shop. Also, from now until Sunday, take 15% off your readymade order with code HOLIDAY2011. Enjoy!

I have so many projects waiting in the wings to be shared with all of you. Like these cards.

A talented acquaintance of mine recently started a photography business and turned to us to design her logo and design + print her business cards. She sent over a Pinterest board for inspiration [a brilliant idea by the way]. Right away we noticed that she was leaning heavily towards pattern + geometric shapes – especially triangles. We sent over several options for her logo and she chose this clean + geometric one.

For her business cards, we took the opportunity to get a little playful. Influenced by her inspiration board, we created this striped triangular pattern for the background. The pattern created a neat little effect when it was printed. The negative spaces of the pattern puffed up like soft, triangular pillows because of the printing process. We letterpress printed her cards double-sided on super thick 236# cotton paper in two custom ink colors.

Thanks, Meaghan. You were a dream to work with!

And, PS – if you are in the D.C. area, definitely check her out. She’s wildly talented. The use of color in her photos blows me away.