{"id":36103,"date":"2010-03-24T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.163.193.130\/~junebugw\/blog\/what-junebug-loves\/?p=36103"},"modified":"2013-08-20T17:56:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T17:56:32","slug":"wedding-invitation-design-from-ephemera-letterpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wedding-invitation-design-from-ephemera-letterpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Invitation Design from Ephemera Letterpress"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/whatjunebugloves\/january2010\/ephemera-wedding-invitations-letterpress-1.jpg\" alt=\"wedding letterpress invitations created by Tara Bliven of Ephemera Letterpress\" title=\"wedding letterpress invitations created by Tara Bliven of Ephemera Letterpress\" border=\"0\"><br>(above images by <a href=\"http:\/\/arielnaynebeker.com\/\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/arielnaynebeker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ariel Nay Nebeker<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Here at Junebug we&rsquo;re longtime fans of the work of invitation designer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ephemera-press.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.ephemera-press.com\/index.html\">Tara Bliven of Ephemera Letterpress<\/a>. She&rsquo;s been a <a href=\"\/wedding-planning\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" mce_href=\"\/wedding-planning\/default.aspx\">Junebug member<\/a> since the get-go and we&rsquo;ve loved seeing all the creativity that has poured from her design shop over the years! In her studio she prints every piece of letterpress herself using a beloved hand-cranked Vandercook (circa 1966) or pedal-operated Chandler &amp; Price (circa 1912). You can see a bit of this behind-the-scenes action in the images above. So cool! Tara is also super skilled in illustration and calligraphy, and the writing on her blog makes us giggle and smile every time we read it. Thanks Tara! Check out a few sets of her gorgeous wedding invitation designs that are just perfect for spring! <\/p>\n<p>Pretty pink cherry blossom letterpress wedding invitations&hellip;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/whatjunebugloves\/january2010\/ephemera-wedding-invitations-letterpress-cherry-blossom.jpg\" alt=\"cherry blossom wedding letterpress invitations designed by Tara Bliven of Ephemera Letterpress\" title=\"cherry blossom wedding letterpress invitations designed by Tara Bliven of Ephemera Letterpress\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Woodsy fir tree and mushroom letterpress wedding invitations&hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/whatjunebugloves\/january2010\/ephemera-wedding-invitations-letterpress-fir-trees-mushrooms.jpg\" alt=\"fir tree and mushroom wedding letterpress invitations designed by Tara Bliven of Ephemera Letterpress\" title=\"fir tree and mushroom wedding letterpress invitations designed by Tara Bliven of Ephemera Letterpress\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Edgy and romantic winged heart letterpress wedding invitations&hellip; <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/whatjunebugloves\/january2010\/ephemera-wedding-invitations-letterpress-pink-winged-heart.jpg\" alt=\"pink winged heart wedding letterpress invitations designed by Tara Bliven of Ephemera Letterpress\" title=\"pink winged heart wedding letterpress invitations designed by Tara Bliven of Ephemera Letterpress\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sweet springtime floral whimsy and lovebirds letterpress wedding invitations&hellip; <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/whatjunebugloves\/january2010\/ephemera-wedding-invitations-letterpress-floral-whimsey-birds.jpg\" alt=\"floral whimsy and bird wedding letterpress invitations designed by Tara Bliven of Ephemera Letterpress\" title=\"floral whimsy and bird wedding letterpress invitations designed by Tara Bliven of Ephemera Letterpress\" border=\"0\"><br> (above images by <a href=\"http:\/\/arielnaynebeker.com\/\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/arielnaynebeker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ariel Nay Nebeker<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laluzphotography.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.laluzphotography.com\/\">La Luz Photography<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(above images by Ariel Nay Nebeker) Here at Junebug we&rsquo;re longtime fans of the work of invitation designer Tara Bliven of Ephemera Letterpress. She&rsquo;s been a Junebug member since the get-go and we&rsquo;ve loved seeing all the creativity that has poured from her design shop over the years! In her studio she prints every piece of letterpress herself using a beloved hand-cranked Vandercook (circa 1966) or pedal-operated Chandler &amp; Price (circa 1912). You can see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"kia_subtitle":"","footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1014,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-wedding-professionals","category-wedding-ideas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}