Featured: Classic Grey Birth Announcements on OSBP

I designed these birth announcements for Laura, my very first wedding client after I launched my wedding collection and full time business. I've since designed holiday cards and baby shower invitations, but these announcements might be the most special. 

Laura chose a soft warm grey for the ink and envelopes and I love seeing something unexpected (grey versus the more typical pink) and the grey compliments the photo so well!

These announcements were featured on Oh So Beautiful Paper on Monday! Thank you, Nole for sharing!
 

Featured: Olivia's Gold Foil + Polka Dot Birth Announcements

I am so excited to share these birth announcements! Olivia is the daughter of Matt & Julie Norine (of Matt & Julie Weddings). They are friends and local wedding photographers here in Dallas and I was honored to do their birth announcements. They were featured on Oh So Beautiful Paper today, and many more photos are below!

As I was assembling these, I thought of how great they would be as a mini announcement too. You definitely will see these less often, but I love the concept just as much.

DIY Watercolor Birth Announcements

Usually, all the birth announcements that I do involve photos, so it was a nice surprise to have this project come my way. Taylor ordered my letterpress moving announcements as birth announcements, which was a fun idea on it's own, but then planned to have her daughter do a little watercolor art before mailing them to friends and family.

I loved this idea so much that I thought it would be fun to share a few ways you could personalize your own announcements or stationery with watercolor. I bet Maple's big sis did a better job, but it was my first time painting with watercolors, so I just played around with light pinks and peaches and this is what I ended up with!

We all know that I am a sucker for stripes… Big ones...

and small ones...

Ombre dipped.

or you could play with shapes...

Or just make a beautiful mess...

You can't really mess them up - my scrap paper was even pretty - and it's fun to have add a personal touch and make the truly one-of-a-kind!

Featured: Penelope's Letterpress Birth Announcements on OSBP

These announcements are especially close to my heart because this is my newest niece, Penelope. She is the cutest, sweetest little baby girl and I loved getting to design her birth announcements. I am so excited to share, now that they were featured on Oh So Beautiful Paper today!

Carley generally let's me do whatever I want, but I did know that she loves the clean look of letterpress, so that's what we went with. She opted out of traditional pink for the nursery and incorporated yellow, red and blue instead,  so I decided to go with red for the announcement, with kraft envelopes.

If you follow me on Instagram, you might have caught my little color debate on the day that these were printed. I was going back and forth on the colors, and wanted to experiment with them and so my printer and I tried both color ways. I ultimately couldn't chose a favorite and printed half and half. Indecision isn't always a bad thing :)

I love coordinating down to the stamp, so I ordered these new bird stamps and closed each one with tiny heart stickers from Thatch and Thistle.

I also designed some matching stationery with the floral pattern printed on the reverse side. Every girl needs her own stationery!

Baby Photography: Photography by Brea

Featured: Black Foil Birth Announcements + New Year Cards on Oh So Beautiful Paper

This design. I love it.

Clean. Modern. Black Foil. Suzanne's requests were music to my ears. She also has some crazy talent in the photography department and then, well she made a very cute baby. This is the making of a good birth announcement, if you ask me! The combination of black foil and the semi-gloss photo (which are attached to each card) is festive and striking. Love, love, love!

She came to me before the birth of little Jackson and had some fun ideas for them, but then captured this photo. Those kissable baby lips changed the direction of the design and I think the 'newborn kisses + happy new year wishes' is the perfect sentiment. Photos are everything to birth announcements, aren't they!? It's great to plan ahead (getting on my calendar is very helpful), but I say, wait to get the photo before you think to much about the design, because it really directs me and sets the tone for the card.

When I was packing this up, I stopped and just thought about how lucky I am that I got to design this. When a sweet person like Suzanne finds my work, lives in Dallas, wants foil birth announcements and something that no one has ever gotten in the mail before, and loves paper as much as I do… well, it's the perfect storm. A storm that brings beautiful babies and beautiful paper together!

I am so excited and honored to have it featured on Oh So Beautiful Paper today! My favorite blog! Thank you, Nole!