I ordered this today for our office. But I think maybe I need to put it somewhere more prominent.

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It’s finally spring (we even got a little sun here in the pacific northwest last week to celebrate)! Now is the perfect time to order invitations for late summer/autumn weddings, so we thought we’d spice things up a bit with a promotion!

From now until May 1st, receive $100 off any Studio Collection order over $750! Orders must be placed by May 1st to receive discount. Our Studio Collection contains five designs that range from modern to tropical to romantic – letterpress printed on luxurious 100% cotton stock. Customize your favorite design with your choice of fonts and colors to really make it your own.

View the complete collection on our website here: http://bsdstudio.com/portfolio/studio-collection/overview. Any questions? Feel free to contact us any time at hello@bsdstudio.com!

It’s been quite a while since we’ve shared one of our real weddings, but I have a few lined up to share with you over the coming weeks! This wedding is one of my favorites from last year, and Chris Sollart very generously shared some of his gorgeous photos.

Icy and Jay were married in October 2010 at the Seattle Tennis Club. Icy initial approached us wanting a modern and fresh design that conveyed to guests that the wedding, while an elegant affair, would also be a really fun celebration. Icy brought along to her initial consultation some photos of the lace on her dress, which immediately inspired us. The lace contained a  floral pattern that was somewhat random and really beautiful.

Working from those photos of her dress, we created a modern floral design that was reminiscent of the lace but not overly feminine or romantic. The design translated so well into letterpress – the invitations are letterpress printed in an elegant navy and a really deep natural green on 100% cotton paper. We tied in additional shades of green with sage rsvp envelopes and deep mossy outer envelopes. The modern floral design is foil-stamped in white on the envelope along with the return address for an additional unexpected pop of modernity.

Icy and Jay’s wedding date was 10.10.10 – Jay is a web developer and was excited with the idea that their wedding date was all ones and zeros, which make up binary code. Playing on that, we added in a string of ones and zeros in the date on the invite – with the date itself standing out in a larger size and different color.

We carried the theme through on to programs and escort cards – Icy and Jay even had it carved into the ice sculpture set up at the bar! Their cake, created by New Renaissance Cakes, contains a beautiful and intricate representation of that lace on Icy’s dress.

Icy is a self-proclaimed “thank you card junkie” and loved the idea of ordering thank you cards with their invitation order. We created two different thank you designs for her and she ordered enough to keep her stationery drawer well stocked beyond the wedding!

Special thanks to Chris Sollart Photography for these gorgeous event photos! Visit his website here.

Here’s one of our letterpress designs available on the new Pressroom & Co. website (check out this post if you’re not sure what I’m talking about). I love the photo of the newly printed invite (left) – to view it larger (and to see more freshly printed designs) visit their flickr stream.

To see more of our designs available through Pressroom & Co., check out our designer page on their site (more new designs coming very soon)!

We are so thrilled to announce our partnership with The Pressroom & Company! The Pressroom & Company is a site featuring multiple designers and offering very affordable letterpress wedding invitations, baby announcements, and personal stationery.

In their own words…

The Pressroom & Company (TP&C) is a select group of experienced and passionate stationery designers, proudly offering beautiful stationery to an ever-expanding community of online buyers as of January 15, 2011. Our timeless designs and exceptional, yet affordable letterpress printing are a perfect match for all of life’s events.

TP&C designs are styled by renowned invitation designers from all over the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Their design styles showcase a wide variety of artwork from modern to vintage, floral to calligraphic and more. If you think our designs look good online, wait until you see them in print.

Brown Sugar Design has two new designs currently available through TP&C, with more coming very soon! Later this week I will be profiling these designs here on the blog, and I’ll also be featuring a few of my favorites from other TP&C designers! Stay tuned!

Visit The Pressroom & Company website here and keep up with their constantly updating Flickr stream here (letterpress lovers rejoice: items freshly off the press featured here!!)

We will be participating in the Seattle Wedding Show this coming weekend – this will be our seventh year with the show! We are in a new location this year – right up in front in booth #236. Tickets are available online for $2.00 off the regular admission price. We hope to see you there – visit our booth and say hello!

Pardon the blog silence for the moment, dear friends – we are in the middle of a move! Jonathan, Stella, Twinkie and I are knee-deep in boxes, tape guns, and sharpies. We’ll be back very soon – once the dust settles a bit and we’re in our new home we will have lots of great stuff to share – photos of recent work, an exciting new partnership, and much more!

I adore this letterpress print from Australian design shop Mitchell & Dent. You simply must check out the rest of their shop – many goodies to be found! When the tagline for a shop is “finery, frippery, and felicitous fare” how could you possibly go wrong?

I am smitten with these custom posters from Alexander & Co. I first discovered these through Ruffled and could not be more impressed. Their vintage inspired illustrations can be customized with your names, wedding date, wedding locale…even hair colors! We have many friends getting married this coming year – what a great gift idea!

We recently discovered we were selected for inclusion in the new design publication 1000 More Greetings! 1000 More Greetings features an expansive collection of correspondence for all occasions. We were honored to have two invitations featured amongst an impressive group of designs from around the world.

The invitations included include our London-inspired suite (featured on our blog previously here) as well as our studio open house invite (previously featured here).

Also featured in the book were some favorites like Sycamore Street Press, Orange Beautiful, Rifle Paper Co., and NicStudio! The collection is so much fun to look through – pick up a copy today!