This invitation suite is charming and classic and we love the recurring wreath motif.

We designed the wreath to incorporate the monogram that features the initials of the couple's first names and it looks so pretty on the different pieces.

Here's the layout of the gift tag that can be affixed to favors:

And we even used the illustration as a pale, tinted blind embossed element on the RSVP cards:

Now that Spring is kinda, sorta on its way, we've designed a brand new set of notecards. Even if it's snowing outside the window of our studio, at least we can make it feel sunny and bright on our presses!We've designed a set of 20 cards, featuring four different designs, each in a pretty, pastel color.

The hot air balloon is in a dusty light blue, the chandelier is in a gorgeous pink, the giraffe is rich charcoal and the flower bouquet is printed in a beautiful sunflower yellow. Purchase a set here and bring some sunshine to anyone you send a note to!

Our customizable notecard designs are a really popular product; there's nothing nicer than having personal social stationery to send out thank you notes or quick greetings. We recently added a couple of new designs to the collection which focus on vintage styling.The first layout features the phrase "From the desk of..." and references 1950s stationery designs.

Here's a close up of the printing:

We also have a new design that includes both a name and home address. Once again, we've channeled a Mad Men-style concept with classic fonts and a subtle, yet elegant double underline:

You can also view all of our other designs right here.

Our wedding invitations range from intricate custom layouts with bespoke illustrations to the very simplest, classic text-based designs. We are passionate about printing invitations across this spectrum and part of the appeal of our work is that we can really try to translate the personality of the couples we work with onto their stationery.Emilie and Andrew opted for a beautiful, clean layout that let the fonts, color and letterpress impression shine through. And we are massive fans of how these came out:

As soon as we heard from Helene at Corneau et Filles and looked through the beautiful sarongs on her website, we were excited to work on printing hangtags and other goodies for her shop.

We've worked on notecards, hangtags and - our favorite - the "how to tie a Corneau et Filles Sarong" cards! Here's a detail of one of the pretty illustrations:

Helene sent us a photo of the sarong cards piled up ready to be attached to the product:

We love printing custom items for other small businesses: it's a pleasure to work with other creative people to design the perfect paper goods to complement their products!

We are lucky enough to work with some wonderful clients. One of the nicest elements of being a custom letterpress printshop is that there are times when we begin by printing Save the Date cards...then wedding invitations...then Thank You cards...and then baby announcements!Here are the announcements we printed for the second child of one of our most loyal customers:

She loved the banner design we have used on a few other pieces and the color palette of raspberry and orange is joyful and perfect to celebrate the arrival of a little girl.

Last summer we printed a gorgeous wedding suite in summer green and cool gray. These two colors look lovely and fresh together and the design was accentuated with blind embossed motifs printed in the palest of pale green tint.

Here's a close-up detail of the tree illustration:

And here is a photograph of a few of the other items from the suite of cards:

Here at Sesame, we love the traditional art of letter-writing and the luxury of fine stationery. With an affection for all things paper, it's hardly surprising that we are still massive fans of printed books. Even in the age of virtual books, we love turning actual pages! The bookmarks from our selection of products were designed specifically because we want to perpetuate the traditional notion of a book. And we were delighted to be asked by our good friend, Matt Singer, to print a range of book plates that he designed.

The color palette and handwritten font caught our attention and the whimsical illustrations made us smile.

We now want to stick these into all of the books on our shelves!