From The Studio: French-Inspired Letterpress Save The Dates

June 15th, 2011 § 3 Comments

Woo hoo – busy week around here, so we’re doing a little switcheroo – this weeks Tips n’ Tricks Tuesday will actually now be Tips n’ Tricks Thursday, along with our regularly scheduled Friday post. And since I’ve been neglecting my DIYers lately, this will be a post just for you on the scintillating topic of…

Adhesives. No really, it’ll be good. I swear!

Now back to the eye candy…

Danielle and Stephen are getting married December 30th of this year at the gorgeous and historic Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac in beautiful Quebec City. As their guests are coming from all sorts of places, this will be a destination wedding, with lots of important info they needed to share with guests – including the date!

I’ve been working with Danielle’s mother and sister on their wedding stationery, and they have put together a great wedding website with all the pertinent details, so we were free to do a very simple, to-the-point Save The Date, featuring just the necessary info. And what better way to do it than letterpress on cotton paper with hand-torn edges? Done. Add some gorg metallic backers in wintery steel grey and light blue? Done. Letterpressed envelopes too? You bet.

We wanted to mix something very formal, with something very French-inspired (it is Quebec City after all!) and a little dash of whimsy. I was searching for inspiration when I happened to come across this sweet Envelopments invitation, and inspiration hit:

One of the great things about being an Envelopments dealer is access to many of the illustrations etc. used in the fabulous samples, so I was actually able to use some of the same elements to create our own version (shown here “naked”, before the backers were applied):

And now with backers:

And finally a close-up of the letterpress printing. I’m swooning over here. I just love the look of letterpress, and we have a number of letterpress projects on the way in the last half of 2011, which has me really, really excited (can you tell?).

Next up, wedding invitations, and I could *not* be more excited about them!

Can you say custom architectural illustrations by a ridiculously talented artist? Gorgeous textured pocketfold? More letterpress loveliness? You will fall in love…but all in good time.