Awesome-Sauce New Toy!
Greetings from Invitation Land! I just couldn’t resist sharing my new toy.
It’s an alphabet rolling stamp and it’s rad!
Check it out:
Seriously. My boss lady (as in the one I work with) and I became obsessed with finding this little tool after one of the stores we frequent started stamping our actors’ names onto a little tag on the bag. Cutest. Thing. Ever. And a vintage typewriter font? I die.
We started dreaming of all the things we could stamp and of course my mind went immediately to all the wedding stuff. We searched all over Los Angeles and beyond, only to finally discover this little tool here. Yes. Etsy to the rescue once again. Surprised? I’m not.
Anyhoo, a few weeks ago I decided to do our calligraphy myself (well our budget decided) and I thought maybe I could use the stamp as a bit of a shortcut and just write the name, then stamp the address. Not so sure about that anymore because while I LOVE how it looks, spinning those little letters around takes forever. I love the vintage feel though, and even the little imperfections. It’s definitely not the neatest tool (as in cleanest/most precise) but it is pretty awesome in my book.
So what do you think? Keeping in mind that our shindig is a quirky vintage/modern lovefest, do you prefer a mix of calligraphy/stamp or would you go with all calligraphy?
First words:
“NA-AH! AWESOME!”
That is all.
No wait- I vote yes for mixing it up!
i LOVE the calligraphy + stamp! So pretty! would it be easier or harder to do all calligraphy? Honestly i like the dichotomy of the styles. Also, do you HAVE invites? and now can you make mine? kthx. glad to see you’re still alive over there!
That is VERY cool. Might be easy to do the return addresses that way, but I can see how it would be a pain to spin them for each addressee’s address.
@roughit: Well. We are in the midst of making our invitations. Maybe in the next week or two we will actually have finished invites. But for now we have envelopes. AND the jury is still out on which is faster- my calligraphy or the stamp magic.
@Amberdawn: Yes we were thinking that just doing the return addresses this way might be enough (and easy enough) too!
that is awesome and adorable and if you can spare the time you should do the calligraphed names/stamped address combo!
I love the mix of the type font with the calligraphy – has a great look to it!
I love how the mixing it up looks. So friggin’ awesome! (I realize I use the term awesome a lot in my comments to you so I believe that your moniker is quite appropriate)
I love the combination of the two. It looks so good. We ordered a address stamp to use for our return addresses on our invitations but this is so much cooler. It would have saved all our invitees and the post office from my horrible illegible handwriting.
Ooh. Me likey. The black envelope with the white caligraphy and vintage typefont. YES. You have now kicked the bum of our custom return address stamp plus cool design address label idea out of the water. Wow.
Yay! Thanks for all the awesome words! I think I’ll try to do the combo- maybe between the two of us we can make it a faster process!
@Becca: The Black Envelopes/White Ink combo is my weakness. BUT don’t toss out the custom return address stamp just yet- I totally am trying to figure out how to get one of those to make the whole process faster. And because I wanna see our new last name stamped a bajillion times!
super cool! I totally want one
Oh, holy cow, that’s cool. I like their old-time wooden alphabet stamps, too.
Hmmm. Decisions. Decisions.
do it. yeppppp….it is rad, and if you do it one line at a time for all the invites, as in stamp the first line on all 100 invites (or however many), and then set the next line and stamp that line on all the invites, it won’t take as long as you might imagine. also, um, can i borrow that stamp?? lol
These stamps! My mom gave me one (along with about a ba-gillion other stamps) when she moved and didn’t need them anymore. Um, even though she borrows them every. single. week. Lol. My vote is calligraphy/stamp, but I know how long that takes, sooo we’ll just wait to see what you post next
PS We also went for the white-on-black combo. It looks so elegant! Good luck!
argh. Wordpress ate my comment. Anyways, I’m dying over your new toy! Loving the look of the calligraphy and the old typewriter-y font {yeah, yeah, join the club, right?} Can’t wait to see what you make of it!
I have them with red hearts! They are amazingly comfortable for fancy shoes!