Plurabelle’s New Site!

In honor of the new year, PlurabelleCalligraphy.com has gotten a makeover. We’re starting 2013 with a new website filled with fresh photography, previously-unpublished projects, and an entirely revamped blog. Stop by and take a tour!

Rachael & Justin: A Montana Wedding

Prepare yourself — this one is a real stunner. Back in March of 2011 I was hired by Rachael, one of the sweetest clients I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with. She came to me with a rich color scheme of purples, greens, and blues, and a gorgeous invitation suite designed by none other than Rifle Paper Co. For the calligraphy, I mixed hues of gouache to match colors in the illustrations Rifle had done, and we ended up with hunter green envelope addresses and yellowy-sage place cards.

Just last month, Style Me Pretty published a three-part feature on Rachael & Justin’s Montana wedding (here, here, and here). I suggest taking a look at the expanded image gallery to see more of the amazing taste and talent that came together to make this celebration so jaw-dropping.

The wedding is also featured in Style Me Pretty Weddings: Inspiration and Ideas for an Unforgettable Wedding, published last month by Clarkson Potter. This book is seriously beautiful so get a copy!

{ Photography by Jose Villa Photography  |  Calligraphy by Plurabelle  |  Wedding Invitation, Program + Escort Card Design by Rifle Paper Co.  |  Floral + Event Design by Joy Thigpen  |  Full wedding credits list here. }

As a final touch, I created a logo of the couple’s names that was printed in their wedding album.

Playing Catch Up: Miscellaneous July 2012 Updates

{ The view from my apartment’s skylight, overlooking the 11ème arrondisement }

>>  Thank you to Eunice & Sabrina at Hello!Lucky for featuring my work on the Hello!Lucky blog. I’ve long been a fan of their designs so I’m really flattered by their kind words.

>> This wedding I posted about in January was just featured on Style Me Pretty. The expanded image gallery is worth a look because this wedding is a beauty, not to mention staggeringly large, with 400 guests and 24 bridesmaids. I will never forget calligraphing the 500 envelopes for this couple, which involved converting every flat surface in my studio into a drying rack, and a lot of ice for my wrist!

>>  My friend Jessica Marquez of Minature Rhino – embroidery artist, photographer, crafter extraordinaire – is publishing a book and you should all pre-order it ASAP! The book is called Stitched Gifts and while it will be released by Chronicle Books in October, it’s available for pre-order at Amazon now.

>> I almost literally ran into Karl Lagerfeld rounding a Paris street corner today. To me, this is an update worth mentioning.

{ Photo of a spread from Stitched Gifts, the new book by Miniature Rhino’s Jessica Marquez.
Photo © Jessica Marquez, via her blog. }

Martha Stewart Weddings, Summer 2012

{ Photography by Bryan Gardener for Martha Stewart Weddings, Summer issue, © 2012 }

The new Martha Stewart Weddings Summer issue is on newsstands now, and Plurabelle Calligraphy was comissioned to design an alphabet of flourished capitals and numerals for this magazine’s nifty issue-within-an-issue, Design-It-Yourself Style (pages 257, 260–261, 263). The alphabet is applied to 3 D.I.Y. projects, each of which has downloadable templates through marthastewartweddings.com so you can try them out yourself. Above are photos of all three, and below are links to the instructions and templates for each. Enjoy!

Mini Barrels of Matches Favors: Instructions, Eyelet Template, Chevron Template, Faux Bois Template, and Watercolor Template

Monogram Table Numbers: Instructions and Template

Favor Tags: Instructions and Template

{ Photography by Bryan Gardener for Martha Stewart Weddings, Summer issue, © 2012 }

{ Calligraphy in the above templates by Plurabelle Calligraphy  |  Chevron pattern by Noelle Fitzgerald O’Reilly  |  Watercolor pattern by Antiquaria  |  Eyelet pattern based on design by Erica Hernandez  |  Faux bois pattern uncredited in magazine }

The Guardian: National Stationery Day

April 24th was Britain’s National Stationery Day and Plurabelle Calligraphy was featured in The Guardian’s article celebrating “inspirational craftsmen and women from across the globe, working in paper and card.” I’m so honored to be a part of this line-up along side such awesome stationers. Kudos to all of you – your work is an inspiration to me!

Country Living Magazine, April 2012

Country Living Magazine included my ex libris rubber stamp in its April “Fresh Picks” section. I’m so flattered! The issue is on news stands now, and you can purchase a custom calligraphed ex libris stamp of your own right here.

Book Feature: I Heart Stationery

Yay! I’ve been so excited to announce that Plurabelle Calligraphy has been featured in the February 2012 release from Universe Publishing, I Heart Stationery: Fresh Inspirations for Handcrafted Cards, Note Cards, Journals, & Other Paper Goods. The book is an overview of the hottest trends in all things stationery that are sprouting up around the globe. Author Charlotte Rivers contacted me back in December 2010 with this book idea and asked me to submit samples of my calligraphed rubber stamp designs. Well, I’ve been waiting these 15 months to see the final product and I am beyond thrilled! More than anything, I feel so honored to be featured alongside such amazing stationery designers, illustrators, typographers and calligraphers from around the world. Many of the names in the book are ones I already knew and whose work I already admired, but I’ve also been turned on to dozens of new designers with mouth-wateringly beautiful portfolios. If you’re a fan of paper goods and beautiful hard-cover coffee table books, I highly recommend you invest in a copy today.

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All the rubber stamp designs featured in my section of the book can be purchased through my Etsy shop.

Joyce Kim Weddings: Plurabelle Interview

I was recently interviewed by the fabulous Joyce Kim of Joyce Kim Weddings. I will admit that I had to think for awhile before answering some of the personal questions, like what the simple joys are in my life, but I appreciated that because it was cause to reflect on these things that I don’t normally take time to consider. Thank you, Joyce! Read the interview here.

C Weddings – January 2012 Issue

Yay! I loved the result of this menu card collaboration with Cheree Berry Paper and apparently so did C Magazine. Their January 2012 weddings issue features the project in the wedding menu planning section.

c magazine weddings issue

C Magazine‘s once-a-year wedding issue has featured me in its new issue. Not once but twice! I was so thrilled to see my work in the pages of this fabulous magazine — I think the whole grocery store must have heard my shrieks!