Oh Charleston!

So I am trying to give anyone reading our blog - is anyone out there (we LOVE comments) a better snapshot into what we do everyday. August is a bit slower for us so I have actually had some time to breathe this past week. I have been spending way more time reading other blogs and trend-shopping then I should be, but I digress. I wanted to share some photos of a set we did for a delightful bride, Sara. I could tell Sara had an artistic side upon meeting her the first time. She has a great sense of style. At any rate, she is getting married in Charleston this fall and is using a rich palette and we had the task of coming up with a design just for her. What follows is our heavy ivory stock, printed with a matte metallic coppery/gold ink. The backer card is a deep purple (which is hard to see in the shot). This purple is just gorgeous. The envelopes are a metallic rich, champagne/gold color.

Before and After

We loved meeting everyone at the show! This is the first of the long awaited before and after shots of the new digs.

Pushing the Envelope & Naming the Blog

One of the things I love *most* about letterpress is the design work I can put on envelopes. So to follow, are some of the latest envelope designs. We have been tossing around lots of ideas for the naming of this blog - hoping to kick it up a notch as time allows. And, it got me to thinking that "pushing the envelope" is what paperwhites press is all about. I started this little company wanting to bring a touch of big city style to the south, so in essence we are "pushing the envelope" everyday.

See you at the show!

Hope to see some of you at the Wedding show next Sunday August 17th at the fairground from 12-5. We will be there with bells on or something like that. Seriously, we will have some pretty nifty new invitations that have come off the press lately! We always enjoy hearing about weddings, colors, themes and ideas that our brides have, so if you are there - stop by and say hi!

Sarah + Kevin : July 12th

I had the pleasure of doing the invitations for Sarah and Kevin and also attending as a guest. It was a beautiful affair. Interesting note, on the invitation - it was worded "a fine affair to follow" and fine it was!

My friend Andrew Bryant captured the magic as the photographer! Read about it on his blog

Sarah is such a warm and special person. When I was asked at the wedding how I knew the couple, I told them I designed the wedding invitations. The response was - "they were so Sarah."

So what did the invitations look like? They were 7x7 squares, letterpress printed with a blind hit of a peony flower, meaning there was no ink laid into the paper. The type was done in a soft steely gray-blue script.

The wedding was at Sarah & Kevin's home and even the paint on her walls was that steely blue color! When I walked into her home, which is decorated with such amazing taste, I could put all the pieces together and smiled and thought, they are so Sarah.

I hope to post some invite photos of Sarah's set here very soon, but for now enjoy the digital file.