It seems fitting to end the year with one of my favorite projects — my 2012 collection for letterpress invitation company Bella Figura. This is my third year working with them, and designing the collections in the summer/fall is always really fun (and hard to keep secret). The new collection launched yesterday, and here are my designs!

Thanks for reading Mint! It’s been a wonderful 2011 and I’ll see you right back here the first week of January. Happy Holidays!

We have a few tea towels leftover from this weekend’s craft market, and they’re now in the shop. Hurry before they’re gone!

Bella Figura has been playing with some styling, and I love the new spin it gives on my Pyramid design. Fun, right? You can see more on their Flickr page.

Also, a quick peek of my 2012 Bella Figura collection, launching soon!

All photos: Bella Figura

I was so excited and surprised to see my Collection wedding invitation (available through Bella Figura) featured in the latest issue of Southern Weddings Magazine! The invitation (below) was featured along with some other blue and white Bella Figura letterpress invitations, and you can see more of the feature on 100 Layer Cake.

We’re doing something new at Hello Tenfold this year — holiday invites! Although any invitation in the shop can be customized for holiday parties, these invitations were designed with the season in mind.

Also be sure to check out Hello Tenfold’s digital holiday and party invitations on Paperless Post!

Design: Hello Tenfold
Photography: Oh, Darling!

This Friday my new Hello Tenfold studio will be open to the public for the first time! While I’m mostly there during the week, the studio doesn’t get a ton of foot traffic so we don’t have regular hours. But once a month Durham has open galleries and studios for Third Friday, and this will be our first! If you’re local, we hope you’ll stop by. Brendan and I will be there (807 E Main St, Studio 3-130) with wine and snacks (while they last) from 6pm – 9pm.

To get ready, we spent much of last weekend thrifting for studio furniture, hanging up artwork, and putting the finishing touches on some display shelves. This week we’ll install the shelves, purchase some plants and flowers to warm up the space, and make a notebook showcasing the existing invitation collection. New photos of my space coming soon!

And now for the randomly chosen giveaway winners… drumroll…

Congratulations to Monique Lopez who wins Julia Rothman’s book Farm Anatomy. ALSO, congratulations to 1st place winner Stephanie who wins a PUBLIC bike crate, bell and light, and to 2nd place winner Jenny, who wins a crate and a bell. Thanks to all who entered, and to Storey & PUBLIC for last week’s giveaways!

Photo credits: Golden Belt

I’ll be adding many new designs to the Hello Tenfold shop in the coming weeks! Here are a few, many of which are now available through Paperless Post as digital invitations. We’re working on fall and holiday invitations now and would love to help with yours!

Direct shop links: 1 (pinecone) / 2 (embellish) / 3 (boho stripe) / 4 (boho dot) / 5 (cactus) / 6 (zigzag)

Photography: Oh, Darling!

Cara and Nate wanted romantic, modern wedding invitations with a twist on the traditional look for their wine country wedding. While we stuck with more traditional fonts, we added a literal twist to the layout and some vintage-inspired flourishes. A pattern on the envelope liner jazzed things up. Cara and Nate’s invitations were screen printed on thick, 100% cotton paper.

Design: Hello Tenfold
Photography: Oh, Darling!

This is a project I’m so excited about — a collaboration with online stationer Paperless Post! The thing I love about Paperless Post is they believe your digital correspondence should have the same luxurious look and feel as a letterpress invitation, and they carry a wide assortment of digital envelopes and envelope liners to complete the package.

You’ll recognize some of the designs in my collection, but many are brand new! You can see some of them here and some holiday designs here. (All of the text is customizable, so if you’re planning an engagement party, say, just switch up the text to accommodate, and send your invites for less than the cost of a stamp.) More will be launching in the coming weeks and months, so stay tuned!

If this is your first introduction to Paperless Post, there’s a really great article about them (and the twenty-something brother/sister owners!) on the NY Times site.

Happy day! The brand new, everyday Hello Tenfold collection is live!

I originally thought Hello Tenfold would begin with an everyday collection, but I quickly fell in love with wedding invitation design. So today is a big “finally!” for me. The note card designs were inspired by doodles turned into patterns, vintage ephemera, and patterns found in nature. Each design is available as a boxed set or individual card, and with the exception of the “geo” cards which launched last week, all are screen printed on luxurious cotton paper. (The Geo cards are printed on pale pink or soft white recycled paper.)

You can get free shipping for the next week with the code EVERYDAY.

Hooray!