Smock

Dec

12

Will You Be My Bridesmaid?

We are so excited to share this fun project we just completed for one of our favorite customers whose daughter recently got engaged.

The bride was looking for a creative twist on the standard “Will you be my bridesmaid?” cards. Together we came up with the idea to create sets of paper dolls representing each of the bridesmaids.

Her colors are orange and navy blue, so we decided to “dress” the dolls in the fabulous Oxford gift wrap sheets from Smock. Then, we had our favorite Charlotte calligrapher Grace Edmands pen each of the girls’ names in orange ink. We printed the invitation on a 5×7 card in navy and orange inks, featuring a poem created by the bride.

Our original inspiration was from this OnceWed blog post by Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co.

What do you think? Please share any creative ways you’ve found to invite bridesmaids to the wedding party.

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Nov

10

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Holiday / The store

What do you get when you combine the wonderfully whimsical designs of Smock’s holiday gift wrap with the terrific talent of Jessica, our resident paper seamstress in the Charlotte store? A fabulously festive frock perfect for ringing in the season of shopping for holiday invitations and greeting cards!

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Oct

12

Tis the Season to Order Early and Save!

Holiday / Promotions

Image courtesy of Smock

I know that the leaves are just beginning to turn and visions of sugarplums are not yet dancing in your head, but you might want to think “holidays” just long enough to snag some early-bird savings.

Check out these fantastic savings on holiday cards and invitations from some of our favorite vendors. Many of the promotions end on October 31st {some earlier}, so come on in and let us help you check this one off your list ~ before you even have a list!

Crane & Co.

Crane & Co. ~ the maker of some of the world’s finest hand-engraved holiday cards ~ is offering 10% off all personalized holiday cards through October 31st. This includes custom holiday cards and photo cards.

William Arthur

William Arthur, a perennial favorite for holiday cards, is offering 10% off all personalized holiday cards and invitations through October 24th. Their new sound cards let you send a true gift of memories ~ record your little one singing Jingle Bells and then send it off to Grandma & Grandpa with your holiday wishes for a keepsake that will be treasured for years.

For all of you who are as fanatical about letterpress as I am . . . Smock is giving free letterpress envelope printing on their luxury bamboo envelopes for all custom letterpress holiday items ordered by December 1st.

Dauphine Press

Another letterpress favorite ~ you will receive free letterpress gift tags{one for every holiday card you order} when you place your order by January 1, 2012.

Boatman Geller

Your only issue with Boatman Geller’s holiday photo cards will be whether to choose from their amazing assortment of fabulous designs or to create your own custom card with an endless amount of options. Have your image digitally printed right on the card or choose a card that has double-stick tape pre-applied for your actual photo. Boatman Geller is offering 20% off all holiday photocards ordered by October 31st.

Printswell

Through our co-branded website, you can order your holiday cards and invitations online while in your bunny slippers. With wildly popular designers like Stacy Claire Boyd, Roseanne Beck, Modern Posh, and more, you will have no trouble finding the perfect holiday photo card or invitation. Through October 31st, take 20% off all photocards plus 50% off matching return address labels or printed envelopes.

Update: Through November 15th, get 15% off holiday photo cards!

Wiley Valentine

Wiley Valentine is offering their signature jaw-dropping designs and 25 free holiday cards when you order at least 75 by October 31st. Can I get a Ho-Ho?

Dabney Lee

Dabney Lee, with her bold patterns and colors, is offering 20% off holiday cards ordered by October 31st.

So, jot down “Save on Holiday Cards” at the top of your to-do list and come on in so we can help you cross it off!

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Oct

03

Smock’s New Wedding Collection

Invitations / Wedding

We have just brought in the new Smock wedding collection and we could not be more excited to share it with you. The collection features fourteen smashing new letterpress wedding suites that may force even already married couples to get married again. Think rich and saturated colors, hand lettering, organic shapes, and really amazing bamboo paper, made just for Smock in a 500-year-old European paper mill. All Smock products are made in upstate New York.

Smock’s all-new letterpress wedding invitations feature fashionable must-have embellishments, including unique die cuts, letterpress folios and pocket sleeves, hot new inks, hand bordering, and strong design, all printed on Smock’s luxury bamboo paper. These modern designs are about strong typography and pure wedding style. In addition to the wedding invitation, the new album showcases custom postage stamps, as well as letterpress save the dates, rehearsal dinner cards, menus, wedding programs, social stationery, favor tags, escort cards, reception cards, reply cards, direction cards, and web site cards. Several designs feature Smock’s exclusive calligraphy fonts.

One of our favorite features of Smock’s new wedding collection is the all-new Design Library. On trend with the latest styles for weddings, this new design library allows us to work with brides to make a design truly their own, with a gorgeous selection of hand-drawn and one-of-a-kind motifs; new inks; new fonts; new patterns; folios; sleeves; liners, and much more.

Smock is a true environmental letterpress and stationery line. In addition to printing on sustainable bamboo and 100% post consumer recycled papers, Smock is also wind powered, a member of Green America’s Green Business Network and donates 1% of sales to environmental causes as a member of 1% For the Planet. Smock offers free bus passes to employees to help encourage use of public transit and subsidizes 20-week Community Supported Agriculture memberships with a local organic farm. Smock regularly partners with organizations such as the Amazon Conservation Association, the Pesticide Action Network, and American Forests to help promote environmental causes that affect the globe.

You can see more of this fabulous line of letterpressed wedding invitations by visiting Salutations in Chapel Hill and Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Jan

27

Salutations Wedding Slideshow

Invitations / Miscellaneous / The store

Here’s a sneak peek of the wedding slideshow I just made for the Carolina Inn Bridal Fair in Chapel Hill this weekend, featuring loads of luscious letterpress.

Enjoy the drop-dead gorgeous photography by superstars Richard Israel, Smock, Nancy Ray, and Kristin Vining.

What’s your favorite?

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Nov

04

Uptown Glam Wedding on Style Me Pretty

Awards & Accolades / Wedding

One of our all-time favorite brides Marisa, and her August wedding to Neal Deaton, are featured on the Style Me Pretty blog today! The uber-talented Kristin Vining shot these amazing photographs of the event, which was pulled together beautifully by Dina Blazek of Dina Berg Blazek Events. Todd Crawford of Crawford & Company Fine Flowers outdid himself with the wonderland of white. So much sparkly elegance!

The wedding programs were gorgeous ~ covers letterpressed by Smock, inserts printed and ribbons tied by Salutations. As amazing as the programs are, they only hint at the incredible beauty of the wedding invitations, letterpressed and encased in a pocket folio printed by Smock with the pattern reversed to show mostly that gorgeous peacock blue. ::swoon::.

The great duogram and medallion from the invitations were carried through to the elegant menu cards. . .

. . . and the welcome letter that was dropped into the fun and eco-friendly welcome bags by Neela.

Marisa and her mother Debbie were one of the most delightful mother-daughter teams that we’ve had the pleasure to work with. And, of course, we are always thrilled to be working with Dina and Amy at Dina Berg Blazek Events and this A-list group of Charlotte wedding professionals.

All photos courtesy of Kristin Vining Photography.

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Feb

26

Salutations Invitation Featured

Miscellaneous

We areÂ thrilled to have one of our custom-designed wedding invitations featured on Smock Paper’s blog.Â We had so much fun with bride Liz Francis helping her put together this really amazing wedding invitation set!Â Smock is one of our very favorite vendors.Â They offer the most exquisitely designed wedding invitations, allÂ letterpress printed on eco-friendly bamboo paper.Â

It was a like-minded love of Smock thatÂ led Drea Cunningham of Casey Cunningham Photography to discover Salutations and are we ever glad she did!Â Drea and husband Casey areÂ two of the most talented wedding photographersÂ we’veÂ come across.Â Their blog In the Swim is wonderfullyÂ inspiring and showcasesÂ beautifully theirÂ gifted talents, and theirÂ zestÂ for a fun-filled life!

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