Ramblings

Looking for a little light reading, or hungry for more work? Catch up on archived blog posts and articles that feature The Paper Guppy. Most of these posts date back to 2012 - for more current work follow @thepaperguppy on Instagram.

Unveiled: 2/20/12

Last week we were fortunate enough to participate in "unveiled", an event held at the Four Seasons, Denver. Using the words "luxe" and "allure" Kerri from A Touch of Bliss planned a fabulous vignette. We contributed fabric backed menus that stood on each place setting, as well as the invitation into our vignette, which was

Bella Figura 2012 Designs: 12/23/11

So excited about the new Bella Figura designs for 2012! This year I designed 3 new invitation sets: Conservatory (top left) which is a vintage garden theme with a jade colored ink and copper foil edges. Pastoral (top right) is a illustrative garden drawing. And my favorite this year, the Royal Peony (bottom left). I

fun with stamps: 5/23/11

For Amy and Ryan along with Jenny and Kip we decided to have some fun with their stamp placements. On Jenny and Kip's save the date we integrated their fly fishing design into the stamp so the fisherman was catching the stamp, making it a part of the design and not so much an after

downtown elegance: 5/18/11

Lauren and Dan wanted a simply elegant inviation set that was unique to them. So we contracted Kelle to hand letter their names and monogram. With the ornate details of Kelle's caligraphy, we created a custom flourish that was foil stamped in matte silver on the invitation. This flourish also echoed throughout each peice. We

more style me pretty love!: 5/16/11

A couple months ago we were asked to create wedding stationery for a Style Me Pretty inspiration to reality shoot. The inspiration board had soft pink tones and ribbon details which brought us to create the ribbon flower illustrations that appeared on the invitation, menu, candle table numbers, and the escort books which also doubled