Bees go Crazy over InviteSite’s Wildflower mix Wedding Invitations
~ Brides Keen on the Design and Value ~
Ok, so I’ve got tabloid fever with all the news out of England these days. So forgive the overblown title! But truly, we are just lovin’ the new seed paper we’ve gotten in for Invitesite’s extremely popular plantable wedding invitations. Nothing I love more than seeing stacks of beautifully assembled wedding invitations. Yes, ma’am…
Plantable Wedding Invitations that Support the Bees.
Handmade cotton rag paper embedded with:
- Black-eyed Susan
- Sweet Alyssum
- Spurred Snapdragon
- Bird’s Eye
- Baby’s Breath
These wildflowers self-seed after blooming. The wild flower selection was carefully selected to help support bee colonies all over the country, many suffering from Hive Collapse Syndrome.
The seeds for these flowers are smaller that the Comso seeds we used in our papers last year. A detail of the letterpress printed art on THE NEW SEEDLING PAPER for the Seedling Wedding Invitation:
Detail Seedling Plantable Invitation : Letterpress Art
Display of Whimsey Grows Letterpress Printed Plantable Invites
Here are some images of the various flowers. If you click the photo, it will take to to the website with the specific botanical information. These flowers do well in the northeast and midwest, though most are drought tolerant for southwest gardens.
Black Eyed Susan Wildflower
Black Eyed Susan is the State Flower for Maryland.
Sweet Alyssum Wild Flowers
Sweet Alyssum is native to Southern Europe, but has naturalized in America. The plant is very hearty, loves the sun and is heat and drought tolerant.
Spurred Snapdragon Wild Flowers
Spurred Snapdragon are also naturalized on the northeast part of the US, but grow throughout America. We find them at our local farmers markets. One of my favorite flowers, my mother grew them in our garden.
Bird's Eye Wild Flowers
A flowering herb, Bird’s Eye is native to California.
Baby's Breath Wild Flowers
Traditionally associated to Weddings because the flower was so often used it bridal bouquets and flower arrangements. The wild flower is extremely hardy and sun loving. Bees love this flower!
And lastly, Scott’s hand drawing looks so spectacular on a stack of Plum Seedling Wedding Invitations:
Stack of 8 Plum Seedling Invitations is as high as 50 standard Wedding Invitations. This stack grows Hundreds of Wild Flowers.
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Simple Wedding Invitations | Sweet Romance
Simply, when an invitation card is minimal, the paper must be rich and the type must be exquisite. Letterpress, engraving, or fine silkscreen: recommended.
To celebrate the simple card with lovely printing on very good paper, we launched a line of super affordable eco wedding cards this year, and the response has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic.
The line is so affordable, that most couples have had us design and print for them. The paper is 100% cotton, thick, and made in the USA. It is the same paper all the high end letterpress designers are using and we pair it with affordable, handsome envelopes, real pressed flowers, and lovely handmade paper bellybands.
These invitations come in standard but large envelopes — the cards measure almost 8 inches tall by 5 and a quarter inches wide. Some designs are horizontal — with the pressed flower along the side:
Sunflower Pressed Flower Wedding Invitation
SUNFLOWER - the design above, is priced at $1 an invitation, if you want to print it. (heads up, the paper is really thick, so only works in a printer that can handle thick cardstock)
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Custom Stationery for Weddings and Events
Unless you’ve visited InviteSite’s showroom and extensive print shop, you wouldn’t know our history of custom design and letterpress printing. We still do a good deal of custom design work and elaborate stationery production for Los Angeles area clients - many who have become friends over the years.
In the spirit of collaborative design, we recently launched 3MusePress.com – a site to showcase custom invitations for weddings and events. These are more elaborate and collaborative projects and designs are priced on a per project basis. 3 Muse Press is still in development and we look forward to challenging projects to fuel and inspire us.
Invitesite is so well known for DIY, that we thought posting our custom work here would only confuse our visitors.
All comments as 3 Muse develops are eagerly welcomed!
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Letterpress Printed Monogram on Chocolate Wedding Program
Happy Labor Day everyone! Just a photo to post, with a nod to this no-work day. (Ha!) This a monogram letterpress printed on the Kaia wedding program. We changed the ribbon and created a really sophisticated program:
Letterpress Printed Monogram in Gold Ink on Bronze Shimmery Coverstock
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Azteca Training Center | Kathy Long and Maria Morales
Have a few pounds you want to burn before your wedding? Burn some of that stress off? I know what you mean. Contact stress is a part of our business (weddings planning is intense, and making sure all our customers are thrilled with our wedding stationery and service, makes our business a bit more stressful than most.) So, we do indeed appreciate a really good sweat and workout.
Letterpress Printing MMA champ
We’re lucky enough to have a world class mixed martial artist on our staff – Kathy is head of production and she kicks butt.
She also co-owns Azteca Training Center for kickboxing in NE Los Angeles, with Maria Morales, an amazing trainer.
Their classes are AMAZING. Anyone in the NE Los Angeles area, downtown, or Pasadena will find the best training and caring bunch around.
They have classes in Women’s Fitness Kickboxing, Muay Thai Kickboxing, Self Defense, Ninja Tots, Kid’s Muay Thai, and for the truly fierce, Reality Based Combat.
There are 6:30 AM classes. (You can work out with me, Cindy and Scott) 8 pm classes are really popular.
I’ve been working out 3 times a weeks for about 20 years, and these are the BEST classes I’ve found so far.
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