Today we’re thrilled to share the photos of Lauren & Jonathan’s custom Palmes wedding invitations! Lauren is a style editor for BizBash and worked with AaB Creates for her custom wedding invitations, which featured gold shine foil stamping and letterpress printing in our mulberry ink. Lauren worked with Little Flower Calligraphy & Gifts for the beautiful hand calligraphy on her envelopes, and she even ordered custom postage to match the invitation design! Many thanks to  Lauren for sharing these photos that her photographer, Jonathan Young, captured on her big day!

Photography courtesy of  Jonathan Young Weddings

We’re sending lots of happy birthday wishes to Monograham Paper & Gifts as the shop turns two today! Monograham is a carefully curated paper and gift boutique owned by Smock’s Creative Director, Amy Graham Stigler, and located in the heart of historic downtown Delafield, Wisconsin. The shop offers a lovely selection of stationery and letterpress cards, soaps, perfume, jewelry, books, frames, and more from many small independent businesses. Amy sources both local and national artisans to offer an inspired, eclectic mix of handcrafted goods. Here’s a peek inside Amy’s beautiful stationery boutique!

Today we’re celebrating from afar, but we hear there’s a party going on in Delafield! Here are a few photos from last year’s celebration — doesn’t the festive decor make you wish you were there!? If you’re in the area, be sure to stop by today for Monograham’s two year anniversary celebration!

Every client has a set budget and it can be difficult to balance cost with design.  Judy Paulen Designs knows just how to do this. By scaling the save the date size down from the standard, they free up a little room to add all the bells and whistles the client was hoping to include. The Odin design is pretty dynamic to begin with and when given the opportunity to add embellishments, the back pattern and envelope liner served as a perfect compliment.

ink: apricot + papaya | fonts: bretch + coombs | paper: 1-ply ivory | printing: letterpress | corner rounding | offset back pattern: fleming in apricot | offset liner: filby in papaya | std size: s5 | customization #: 15331 |

This elegant bat mitzvah invitation is brought to us by Mark Harris Stationers. The Delano suite with the right layout and font selection lends itself perfectly to mitzvah invitations.

ink: eggplant + orchid | font: kipling | paper: 2-ply ivory bamboo | printing: letterpress | offset liner: hoveton in orchid | invite size: S-8 | customization #: 16475 |

Printed in Black letterpress ink and Silver Shine foil stamping, this Sabion invitation suite is just brimming with classic grace.  The wonderful team over at LS Amster sent this invitation design for us to print – thanks guys!

letterpress ink: black | foil: silver shine | fonts: graham + cecilia | paper: 2-ply white | size: S8 | printing: letterpress + foil | foil edging: silver shine | envelope liner: metallic platinum | customization #: 16171

Eggplant and Orchid has proven to be a great color pairing, but the folks at Yes I Do! had to foresight to pair the chesapeake die with orchid edge painting. The embellishments serve as a perfectly subtle yet sharp accent to an already beautiful order.

ink: eggplant + orchid | fonts: percy + bescal | paper: 2-ply ivory bamboo | printing: letterpress | diecut | edge painting in orchid | offset liner: tesse in orchid | invite size: S-8 Chesapeake | customization #: 16508 |

Today we’re excited to share photos from a couple who recently tied the knot! Elissa and Chris worked with Cambridge Street Papers for their classic Vettore wedding invitation suite, and were kind enough to share a few of the beautiful photos from their May wedding. We love the way the postage stamps tie in with the wedding bouquet — such a thoughtful touch!

Photographs courtesy of Jessica Morrisy 

It’s hard to believe that the 2013 National Stationery Show has already come and gone! We had a great time at the show catching up with our Smock dealers and introducing new products, and we were beyond excited to be honored by the Greeting Card Association with our second Louie award for our “Like Campfires” letterpress love card! Smock also sponsored Oh So Beautiful Paper’s 2013 Paper Party, so it was a busy week for the team in New York! Here’s a peek at our booth display and some of the new products we introduced at the show. We’ll be posting a follow-up later this month complete with a DIY tutorial on how to make our festive cone garland! Here’s a sneak peek at some of our new holiday gift wrap, and a close-up of our decorative gift wrap display featuring hundreds of colorful cones. We also added new boxes and letterpress coasters to our line-up, too — keep an eye out for these great new products in a Smock store near you! Our new kraft collection was a huge hit as well! Photography courtesy of Nole Garey at Oh So Beautiful Paper

Attention Brooklyn Brides: we’re having a trunk show at Lion in the Sun! Join us on June 12 to view our brand new collection and work with design experts from Smock to create the letterpress wedding invitations of your dreams. Our new wedding album contains 24 gorgeous designs, an exclusive new calligraphy font by Molly Jacques, and some really exciting new offerings (digital printing! blind embossing! new foil colors! new sleeves!), so don’t miss it — contact Lion in the Sun to RSVP today!

By simplifying the Dawson design, and using a smaller S5 sized card this classy letterpress save the date was created. The grass green ink is just the right touch for a spring wedding. Thanks Gus & Ruby Letterpress for sending this order our way!

ink: grass | fonts: stockton + spencerian calligraphy font | paper: 1-ply white | printing: letterpress | size: S5 | customization #: 11535 |