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January 2022 Round Up

Happy New Year! We don’t know about you….but we are feeling ‘22!! Many wedding and events vendors tend to plan on a little bit of a vacay or at least a “slow season” from the end of December until around mid-February. Don’t get me wrong, plenty of weddings still take place in that window (and […]

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How we remodeled our in-home studio to maximize space

At the end of the year, we like to clean up and organize the studio and prepare it for the new year. We generally do this activity the week after Christmas, and it usually takes a day or two. But this year, we went all out with a full studio remodel!  In 2021, we had […]

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We bought a GlowForge – here’s our experience so far

Coupon code for up to $500 at the end!  We’ve been getting a ton of questions about our laser-cut goodies- and the tools we use for them. Here’s a little review of our GlowForge and how we are using it within our stationery business.  We absolutely love to design outside the box (or envelope), and […]

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Mise En Place (Everything In Its Place, Including Your Guests)

This is part thirty-one of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! So, our final post today is going to explain how “place cards” differ from escort cards, which we learned about yesterday. Escort cards, as we know, includes a guest name […]

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Big Little Details: Escort Cards

This is part thirty of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! Welp, we’re down to our last two one-a-day’s in May! We wanted to explain these last two terms close together because they are often confused with each other but they […]

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Find Your Seat!

This is part twenty-nine of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! One design element of modern weddings that has creatively evolved the most over the years is the seating chart. The requirements for a seating chart are simple enough, some sort […]

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Signed, [Wax] Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours!

This is part twenty-eight of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! Dating back to the middle ages, wax seals were originally used to seal important documents and letters for secure passage to their addressee. Heated wax was poured over the seam […]

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Pantone is the Dewey Decimal System of Color

This is part twenty-seven of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! Pantone is a universal color classification system used by graphic designers, stationers, and many other artists around the world. The system assigns numeric values for every color (there are over […]

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Letterpress: The OG of printed word.

This is part twenty-six of a series called One a Day in May, where we will review one wedding stationery term every day in May! Letterpress printing is a technique that involves relief printing on thicker paper where the design is pressed into the paper with a printing press. Letterpress printing is the oldest traditional […]

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