INSPIRATION : MAINE

Oh, how I miss you, Maine. I just got back from the most beautiful place. Lakeside in Maine, 30 minutes from Portland. It's no secret that the Paperie has been a little crazy this year, with the never-ending move, and with R having baby number 2 (countdown a few more weeks!) and with all the new business stuff we're working on. Needless to say, a week in Maine was just what I needed to clear my head, re-focus, and get even more excited about the work awaiting me upon my return! Ok, so I did work on vacation too - I go a little crazy with TOO much relaxing :) Anyway, please excuse the lazy summer posting on this blog. Vacation is over now, let's get back in the swing of things! First image is a selection of polaroids I took of the lake, the second is the beautiful mica that washes up on shore.

CORPORATE ID : SNEAK PEEK

Just a super quick sneak peek at the re-design we are doing for Red Tree right now. We can't wait to send these to press!

FROM THE DESK OF

I'm looking forward to getting the full set cut down and assembled for you all to see. Everything we do is custom, but the job pictured here has been a real collaboration with the couple. PS short posts these days, we are in full swing with fall weddings!

PETALS IN PRINT

I LOVE these tiny little notecards! And I love an envelope with a bleed. Um, and the color pallette, RIGHT up my alley! So we made these as a gift for our wonderful intern Meagan, who we love! They are 4.25x4.25 square notecards and coordinating soft chartreuse envelopes, and we had enough scrap left over on the print job, that we cut them down into these darling gift enclosures, 2.25 inches sq. and paired them with these teensy-tiny adorable hot pink envelopes, which to be honest I am a little heartbroken to part with. The extras from that we cut into tiny little slivers to be used as gift tags or placecards for Meagan's next party. Really, these make me smile. Hope they do the same for you!

FROM THE DESK OF : ORNAMENTAL FRAME

Just a quick peek at a live proof that is off in the mail. The bride and groom are still deciding on the envelope color, but the palette of cream, brown, dark and light grey makes for a beautiful and classic invitation set. We did an updated take on the monogram / flourish and combined that with a decorative frame, making this invitation formal without being fussy.

INSPIRATION : AMY BUTLER

Amy Butler has been a design inspiration of mine for so many years now. Her color palette, style and attention to detail are impeccable. We're working on a project at the moment inspired by the beautiful fabric below

THE PERKS

Did I mention that we now share space with The Floral Studio who did the fabulous flowers at Mia's wedding 2 weekends ago. Anyway, the perks are almost as spectacular as the girls themselves!

FROM THE DESK OF & CORPORATE ID

So, I'm rolling the usual tuesday and wednesday posts together today since I had a busy start to the week & didn't get to post inspiration until yesterday. These are cards, designed by Kurt, that we recently printed for Kohli. She's a good friend with great style, and a joy to work with. We did the invitations for her wedding, printed these business cards, and are now working on the re-design of Red Tree's stationery system. Kohli is their rock star assistant manager! Enough links in one post already! I wanted to showcase the simplicity of the gorgeous cotton paper these are printed on, and the crispness of the printing, and how great these look all wrapped up in (you guessed it) glassine!

INSPIRATION : A. BRYAN PHOTO

Ok, so you all may not know this about me, but I used to be a professional wedding photographer... It's how I came into the land of weddings, and where I fell head over heels in love with pretty paper. It's been years since I shot a wedding, and I can't say I have missed it. It's stressful, and exhausting, and SO MUCH pressure. And then, I went to Mia's wedding, which we all worked so hard on, and which meant a great deal to us as friends of the bride and groom, and friends of some of the other vendors (we now share space with The Floral Studio who did the SPECTACULAR arrangements) and I watched Bryan work. And he shot film, from a Rollieflex, an old school twin lens camera, just like I used to shoot, and he shot with a Holga, a toy camera, just like I used to shoot, and he had an arsenal of toy cameas for playing around with. And it felt effortless and perfect. He had a second photographer shooting digitally I believe, and they shot a mix of color and black and white. I was excited, I watched them work, I knew they didn't miss a shot. There is nothing like rushing to reload film as the mother of the bride gives a speach, and STILL getting the shot. Outstanding. And here I am over a week later, still thinking about it, having an affair with film. I've pulled the polaroids out of the closet, I've ordered some film, I'm dreaming up subjects like my days in art school. This morning I got an extra special sneak peek at some of the pictures from Mia's wedding. I can not wait to share them with you once Bryan gives me the go ahead. For the mean time, feast your eyes on these, a quick selection of photos from their site. Be sure to check out their blog as well. I could go on for hours.... I don't usually swoon. I-am-swooning! They are an incredibly talented team of photographers!

REAL WEDDING SNEAK PEAK

I just wanted to share a sneak peak of Mia & Christian's wedding this past weekend! I can't wait to see the gorgeous photos from the professional photographers, but in the mean time, here are a few snaps from the Iphone! It was a beautiful wedding, and we're honored to have been a part of it! Best of luck and Congratulations, Mia and Christian!

FROM THE (messy) DESK OF

I can't even believe how fast my desk (which was clear this morning) dissapeared under a pile of paper! These are reception materials for Mia's wedding, and we are having another craft night tonight. On the docket... eating pizza, finalizing custom guest book, printing programs, hand cutting them into the frame shape on her other stationery, punching holes and stringing ribbon, die cutting the rest of her menus, and chatting about all the remaining pieces we have left. Also, I am left to using my desktop cutter for anything smaller than 8.5x11 at the moment. The full size stack cutter is parked on the floor in my sun room as it waits to be moved into its new home. It's too hard to cut smaller paper on the floor.

BROOKLYN BRIDE!

We're on Brooklyn Bride today! What an honor. I feel FAMOUS! No, but really, it is such a neat thing to see our work (especially because it's from my own wedding) on such highly respected blogs on the internet. It's really been cool. In the past, our wedding has been featured on Snippet and Ink, and our invitations have been on Oh So Beautiful Paper and Pretty Pretty Paper. Anyway, if you have not read the blogs mentioned in this post before, you better go read them now. They are wonderful. And jam-packed with outstanding wedding and paper design. Thanks Vane, Kathryn, Nole and Christine!

WE'RE GETTING THERE

As you all know from previous posts, we've been moving, for what feels like forever. First we bought this house and then we moved at the Paperie. It's been a lot of work and a lot of fun - here are pictures of my new studio in the new house. Hopefully by the end of the summer we will have the new studio at Coppermine Terrace all done and ready for pictures.

APARTMENT THERAPY

Apartment Therapy used this picture from our wedding in a recent outdoor entertaining article, so that is pretty fun! One of these days I will get around to posting all the places our wedding has been on the web.

FEATURED PROJECT : PAPER PARASOLS

Oh, Martha, thank you again for all your little projects! Mia (one of our best brides, friends, and reccomended vendors) came over last night to work on some crafts for her upcoming wedding. Counting down, 15 days! We used an idea from a recent issue of Martha Stewart Weddings, and dressed it up a bit with additional ribbon fringe, and tails. The parasols turned out darling and I can't wait to see her flower girls walk down the aisle with these!