paper love: the 1900 letter.

peacock parleur letterhead and detail.

Happy Friday!  Today's paper love comes from The 1900 Letter, a paper shop based out of Los Angelos.  They create enchanting, dark and hauntingly Victorian stationery reminiscent of 19th century letters.  If you know me well then you know that this is one of the things that I love.  A Series of Unfortunate Events and Dark Shadow are my favourite movies, I like the somewhat odd, creepy and magically enchanting.  The gears, devices and meticulous animal studys and illustrations of the 1800's are some of my favourites!

If you would like to view more of their lovely paper work you can visit their shop here.

Time Machine letterhead and Masked Bird Skulls letterhead.

Have the most wonderful weekend! xo, T.

all images from here.

paper love:. letterpress delicacies.

above: deer portrait in brown and vintage blue. image from here.
below: tandem letterpress card in yellow. image from here.

Happy friday ya'll! Today's paper love comes from Letterpress Delicacies, a little letterpress company based out of Austin Texas and run by Thomas Hollifield.  Each of the cards and prints are made using a mid-century Vandercook press and printed on 100% cotton paper,  read: no trees!

I love their sweet, vintage-inspired illustrations.  Bikes and anything French gets me every time! Their work ranges from a variety of cards for all kinds of thank yous and I love yous and sweet little prints, like the chocolate brown deer pictured above!

The illustration style - I love how things are shaded - and the gorgeous colour choices make these cards as sweet as can be!  To see more of their work you can visit their shop here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/letterpress?ref=top_trail.

above: Austin live music cow card. image from here.
below: vintage mushroom card in sea green. image from here.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! xo, T.

paper love:. kate & Birdie.



a thousand thanks card: image here. valentine please be mine card: image here.
world's best mom card: image here.  magnolia notebook: image here.

Happy Friday everyone!  This week has actually flown by pretty quickly, which is nice! Today's paper love comes from Kate & Birdie Paper Company.  Based out of a lovely little studio in the exchange district here in Winnipeg they are another local gem.  Started in 2004 by Gloria Wall she was joined a few years later by her husband Steve.
All of the paper good feature Gloria's whimsical, sweet, vintage inspired illustrations printed with vegetable inks on recycled paper.  Their work is sold all over the world, in over 800 shops and consists of notecards, card sets, flat cards, notebooks and wrapping paper!  I have a weakness for wrapping paper, I'm not really sure why but I just love it, it's just so pretty and makes a present so much sweeter!

I love her drawing style and the colour palette that she uses, the hot air balloon valentine card picture above is one of my favourites.  Normally I'm not so much into Valentine's Day but I would be rather excited to get that card, I love hot air balloons!  To see more of their work you can visit their website and online store here: https://www.kateandbirdie.com/

tangerine dahlia wrapping paper: image here.

Have a happy weekend! xo, T.

paper love:. rachel ink.

above: left: ferris wheel birthday card. image here. right: Typewrite thank you card. image here.
below: keys stationary. image here.

Happy friday friends!  Today I am super excited to introduce you to our first July paper love - Rachel Ink from Philadelphia.  I have absolutely fallen in love with all of her cards and stationery, they are super sweet, whimsical and absolutely wonderful.  If you know me even the slightest bit then you know that "whimsical" and "fantastical" are common words in my everyday vocabulary.  Her hand-drawn illustrations capture everything delightful that I love - from old dormer windows and keys, to antlers holding cupcakes!

Besides have a Etsy shop full of pretty cards, Rachel is also a part time architect!  A fact which made me really excited, it's nice to know that I have not in fact been the only architecture student who loves whimsical little black ink illustrations and sketches!

All of her cards feature her own drawings that are then scanned and digitally coloured before being printed on a variety of lovey papers.  The quality of her drawings is just wonderful!  You can look at more of her work here and to add to the sweetness Rachel is offering 10% everything in her store for thet month of July, just use the code DELIGHTFUL10.  Thanks so much Rachel!

above: antlers birthday card. image here.
below: left: dormer stationary. image here.  right: bird and balloon hello card. image here.

Have the happiest weekend! xo, T.

paper love:. paper ink press.

above: African Animals flat letterpress card set. image from here.
below: Woodland Animals flat letterpress card set. image from here.

Happy friday!  I hope you have all been having the most wonderful week.  I leave for the lake today for a few days and I could not be more excited.  This week's paper love comes from Paper Ink Press, a letterpress and paper studio from Palisade, Colorado, run by a lovely lady named Melissa.

All of her letterpress cards are printed one at a time on her 1917 Platen printing press and then scored by hand with her early 1900's table top press.

As you already know from this post I adore letterpress. And her cards are no exception.  I especially love the different "animals" flat card sets.  The rhinoceros in the African Animals set and the hedgehog and squirrel in the Woodland Animals set are my particular favourites!  What could possibly be sweeter than a hedgehog letterpress block?!

I also love the simple but super sweet word cards, maybe it's because they all use brackets and I have a tendency to over use brackets?! I'm not sure, but I still think they are awesome!

If you would like to visit her shop you can see more of her cards here.  She is currently holding a spring cleaning sale and lots of wonderful prints are 50% off!

above: OMG folded letterpress card.  image from here.
below: THANKS folded letterpress card. image from here.

Have a lovely long weekend! I can't wait to share pictures of the lake! xo. T.

paper love:. halfcat studio.

above: the entire set of Geometric Elements cards.
below left: detail of the water/winter card. below right: detail of the earth/summer card.
images from here.

Happy Friday!  Today I get to introduce you to one of my new-found paper loves: Halfcat Studio.  I discovered her lovey little shop after browsing through the paper goods section of Etsy one day.  Not only do I love her cards, especially the Geometric Elements set pictured here, but she's local!  The studio is run by Nicole Neufeld, out of her design studio here in Winnipeg and is the nicest person. She designs all of the cards and hand selects the paper for each one.  I absolutely love the slightly speckled, natural aesthetic of the milkweed paper that this set is printed on.

The Geometric Elements set is designed for each of the seasons/elements, winter, summer, spring and autumn.  I love the simple shapes and bold colours of each of the cards, especially the blues and purples in the winter/water design.

If you would like to see her more of her lovely work you can visit her Etsy shop here.

left: detail of the air/spring card.
right: detail of the fire/fall card.
images from here.

Thanks for letting me share another one of my paper loves, have a happy weekend! xo. T.

paper love:. amy butler.



above: sunblooms stationery box by chronicle books.
below: sunblooms correspondence cards also by amy butler and chronicle books.
both images from here.

So after I posted "things i love friday" I realized that I really really love stationery. And paper. And note cards. Therefore the only reasonable thing to do was to dedicate one day a week to discovering new pretty paper! And that day is today! I love writing letters so so much, I like the pretty pens and handwriting, the feel of good quality paper, the pretty patterns and prints, the anticipation of getting mail, everything!

Amy Butler is one if my favourite designers. I first discovered her through her fabric design, and most of the dresses and skirts that I've sewn are made out of her colourful, pretty, whimsical, gorgeous prints! Luckily theses lovely patterns can now be found on stationery, journals and note cards. So far she has two collections, the first "sunblooms" line [above] which I own the stationery set from, and "lucky flowers" [below] whose note cards my mum got for her birthday. [I may have bought them for her partly so that I could steal one or two.] Both of them make me so happy to write letters.

All of Amy's lovely designs and patterns come out of her Art of the Midwest studio she runs with her husband. Currently her gorgeous patterns cover fabrics, stationery, rugs, wallpaper and extend into yarn, sewing patterns and books! If you want to look at more of her sweet fabrics you can visit her website here: http://www.amybutlerdesign.com/mainmenu.php.

above: lucky flowers mix and match stationery set, by amy butler and chronicle books.
below: lucky flowers note card book, by amy butler and chronicle books.
both images from here.

I hope you have the most wonderful weekend! I can't wait to share more of my favourite stationery with you! xo.