I had these books made by my intern last summer (Adam, you ROCK)! After taking bookmaking in college, I knew if I ever did a book, it would be unique, hand-made and needed to have my logo embossed on it. This was a project that I knew Adam could pull off as he took the same class that I did from the same teacher – and man did he blow me away. I provided material, and searched and searched for the right color of yellow for that gorgeous leather, it had to be a source that I could order a lot of if necessary. FYI, when looking for thin bookbinding leather, in a myriad of colors you’ll want to search “Fashion Leather” along with the weight in ounces that you are looking for. Otherwise you’ll get lost in that sea known as Google.

We also have launched an online wholesale shop for quick ordering that is READY with Valentine’s goods and will continue to grow with product as the appropriate buying season approaches. If you are a brick & mortar or online retailer interested in stocking ready-made letterpress goods form Dingbat Press or if there is interest in carrying The BOOK, hit up our super-quick wholesale app and we’ll get you our terms and your login within the next 24 hours so you can get shopping!

Lastly (sorry so long winded – gasp), with the book we’ll be launching obviously the Dingbat Press wedding collection of the century – haha just kidding, but we think it’s pretty cool. To kick us off, next week and once a week ever week after that we’ll be showcasing a new wedding suite that will debut in the book totaling 12-15 designs ready for letterpress and for NSS. MAN I’m excited.

Letterpress Wedding Invitations | Printed on 110# Lettra paper, 2/0 inks.

Paired with a 4Bar letterpress RSVP and printed return envelope.

Invitation paired with inner and outer envelope combination, inner envelope lined with a letterpress maple leaf pattern.

Option 1: Maple Leaf wedding suite

This concept plays off a beautiful photo of a wedding cake with the maple leaves that the client sent over. Seeing that she had mentioned wanting bright colors, we explored oranges and warm coral/red on this option. We were going for elegant with the calligraphy typeface however wanted to explore some unique layouts for this. The inner envelope would be lined with the maple leaves liner, and the outer envelope is the cream, matching the paper stock used for the invites. The inner envelope is in poppy and both envelopes would look beautiful addressed with chocolate ink for her guests.

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Option 2: Heart Thumbprint wedding invitations

We LOVED the thumbprint heart concept that the client presented and thought it would be a good design to add in the requested plum color and the orange. Because we wanted to place emphasis on the thumbprint, we wanted the remainder of the invitation to invoke a minimalist feel with beautiful large margins and flowing typography to tie it in all together. Since the thumbprint is such a personal element of a human and no two are the same, we wanted to maintain that feel in the invitation with a simple typeface reflecting classic school penmanship. There are added dingbats throughout the layout as well, reflecting back on the symbolism of the heart and tying in the typography with the emblem. The envelop liner on this design is an overprint of purple ink on purple paper, to give the envelope a really stunning pop when opened. It sort of adds the detailing in the other pieces without making it look too elaborate or over the top.

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Option 3: Modern Dahlia wedding invitations

The last option was based off some client provided photos of the dahlias in a beautiful peach color. We wanted to bring in a monochromatic feel to this invite, emphasizing the oranges and peaches that are evident in that photo. Again we wanted to explore a more unique approach to the invitation layout with the typography. The flower pattern is carried across all the invitation pieces, and will make such a beautiful impression when printed.

If you were getting hitched, what suite would you go for?

These were custom letterpress baby announcement based off of the little elephant gift tags for sale in the shop. Done as a 2 color print and paired with matching envelopes they were so fun and adorable, I just love doing baby announcements :)

Also included in the order were custom thank you notes with baby’s name and the elephant to the side, man I think these are so precious, my poor kids were deprived seeing that I never did announcements for any of them b/c they were all totally unexpected deliveries!

LaKiesha wanted to order the monogram grad announcements but replace monogram with her school mascot. The great thing about university and the internet is that it’s easy to find a high-resolution .tif of the logo or even better an .eps

These were printed with Spruce ink and paired with matching envelopes on 110# paper. A6 (4.5×6″) and customization made these a perfect announcement for completing the task!