Client Creativity with Seed Paper

Here at Of The Earth, we love to celebrate makers, creators, and artists. The creativity and skill that our customers exhibit with our paper and silk products never ceases to amaze us.

Seed paper tags customized by client
 

I’d like to shine a spotlight on Allyson of Daily Magic. You can visit her shop at www.livedailymagic.com. 

Allyson is using our seed paper tags as backing cards for her beautiful jewelry designs.

seed paper squares

Here you can see our new 2″ square tags with pink watercolor. The Daily Magic logo was added with a stamp, which is a great and easy way to personalize our handmade seed paper goods.

Large seed paper tags with blush pink dip dye

These are our large, 2.5″ x 3.375″ handmade paper tags, embedded with wildflower seeds. These tags are gently dipped into surplus fabric dye from our hand dyed silk ribbons.

Handmade seed paper with recycled fibers

Here you can see our large seed paper hearts. These particular hearts are made of our #47s paper, which contains recycled lotka fibers and even pieces of junk mail!

Thanks again to Allyson for her beautiful photos and wonderful feedback.

 

 

 

Summer 2019 Of The Earth customers showing off their many talents with our handmade seed paper and hand dyed silks.

hand holding a jute wrapped dishtowel with a green gift tag

Of The Earth customers had a busy summer. Here are some images that they shared recently of how they used our products.  They include wedding invitations, delicate jewelry, custom art, seeded goods and more!

Wedding Suites:

image of candle, wax seal and a card
photo: A. Brauer

Customized seeded wedding card

pink toned wedding invitation with sweet peas and ribbon
photo: Kristin Paige

Blush toned Earth Silk

purple colored gift wrapping
photo: Carrie Anne Fox

Purple Earth Silk

Gift Giving:

hand holding a jute wrapped dishtowel with a green gift tag
photo: Amelia Reddick

Green Seeded Lotka gift tags

three lavender flower pots on a glass table with dirt in plastic bags and flower seed paper butterflies attached
photo: Jen Noguez

Little seeded butterflies with blue larkspur

Artwork:

picture of orange flowers printed on white paper
photo: Marissa Kay

Printed on lotka paper

close up of botanical pendant
photo: srod2448

Queen Anne’s lace blossom used as flowering tree design

Fairy Glen and Handfasting Wedding Ceremony and Celebration Traditions

printed hand dyed silk ribbon
Hand dyed silk ribbon with hand lettering
Studio Chavelli hand lettering on silk ribbon

At the end of winter, a petite curly haired woman came into our shop looking for special paper to print her friend’s painting onto. It was an image of Fairy Glen in Scotland. She planned to use the image in her wedding invitation.

Hand dyed silk ribbon with black print
Printed silk ribbon

While she found our lotka seeded cardstock to be perfect for her project, she was also enchanted by the idea of using our hand dyed ribbons for a #handfasting ceremony. I told her that we can even print her and her fiance’s names on the ribbon. I hope we see her in the shop again soon because that would be a fun project.

Printed silk ribbon with white lettering
Hand dyed silk satin ribbon with holiday message

The green and gold ribbon image was posted in Pinterest by Studio Chavelli, one of our customers. It features hand-calligraphy for a bouquet. The pink and red images are printed here in our shop. So you can get a custom message printed in black or white.

You are welcome to come visit our shop in Seattle and find inspiration for your next celebration.

Here are some links to details about #FairyGlen and #Handfastings.
Handfasting
Fairy Glen

What’s the Buzz?

Seeded paper party favors

We were abuzz in the workroom this week. A bride-to-be in Colorado ordered favors with a customized “Meant to Bee” message on the back. I wonder if the couple met through a shared interest in gardening. Regardless, these little treats are sweet as honey and I hope their wedding guests love them.

We have hexagons with bees and a “Plant Me!” message on the back. Let us know if you’d like to join the hive!

P.S. Who else loves honey? These cute bears!

Wedding Sparrow desert elopement editorial piece

You should head on over to WeddingSparrow.com to have a look at the beautiful photos taken in Vantage, Washington.  The setting was stunning and the details were amazing.

You will wish it was the setting for your event.

silk ribbon bouquet

We were honored to be a small part of the day and are delighted with how it turned out.

Lots of talent and hard work went into making this happen.

 

http://weddingsparrow.com/article/organic-desert-elopement-in-vantage

Belle Soul Wedding – Styled Shoot

So we were contacted by Allann and Sage from Belle Soul Weddings about our silk ribbon.  After determining what they needed we sent what we thought would work best for their shoot.  Please tune in here for the amazing results!

Green Earth Silk Ribbon
hand dyed Earth Silk ribbon

 

https://www.dropbox.com/styled-shoot.mp4

 

Earth Silk Ribbon - Photo Shoot
Noel Perrone photography – Hand dyed silk ribbon by Of The Earth

A great deal of work went into this production.  Please see below for all of the hardworking contributors.

 

Photography: Noel Perrone www.noelperrone.com

instagram: @noelperrone

Concept and Design: Belle Soul Weddings www.bellesoulweddings.com

instagram: @bellesoulweddings

Cake and Florals: Belle Soul Weddings www.bellesoulweddings.com

instagram: @bellesoulweddings

Hair and Make-up Design: Sunkissed and Made Up www.sunkissedandmadeup.com

instagram: @sunkissedandmadeup

Gown was provided by Now and Forever Bridal Boutique  @nowandforeverbridalbtq

Paper Suite: Elins Art Studio www.elinsartstudio.se

instagram: elinsartstudio

Bridal Headpiece and Boutoneirre : www.thewildroseaccessories.se

instagram: thewildroseaccessories

Ribbon: Of the Earth  http://www.custompaper.com/

instagram: @of_the_earth

Ring: Wild Gems by Sarah Lajah (custom made) http://wildgems.com/

Tux: Menguin https://www.menguin.com/

Lingerie: Petticoat Fair http://petticoatfair.com/

instagram: @petticoat_fair

Furniture: Marquee Rentals San Antonio ; http://www.marqueeeventgroup.com/

instagram: marqeesatx

Violinist, Talmage Spackman (Tal let us know how you want to be credited and if there is a web address)

instagram: @talspackman

Videographer, Honeygem Creative: http://honeygemcreative.com/

instagram: @honeygemcreative

Magnolia Rouge Wedding Styled Shoot

We were excited to see the news that a photo shoot we participated in (well, our ribbon anyway) was featured this week on MagnoliaRouge.com.

You can see the feature photos here.

You can see the whole collection from the wedding photo shoot here

Customer Feedback – How a quick recap of our customer’s experience keeps us motivated

   So here I am working on Saturday again, wishing I was with my family but still loving what I do.

   We filled over 40 sample requests this morning, broke ground on our new bachelor button flower bed, revised customer wedding proofs and generally tried to catch up from a hectic week.

   Feeling like I needed a break but unable to take one with everything that has to be done, I decided to check one item off the long list of overdue jobs as a means of getting a break of sorts; at least I was doing a new job, one that had not been done since 2013 and one that does recharge the batteries.

   I just updated our customer feedback page on custompaper.com.  It used to be that we would receive thank you notes mailed to us.  That is not so common anymore.  Now they just arrive via email.  We love hearing from our customers and are always so grateful when they share their happiness with us, however the messages arrive.  There are plenty of nice comments that reach us throughout the year but these are always our favorite as they are not solicited.  Etsy, Ebay and Amazon all prompt our customers to leave feedback about their purchase and we have many happy notes that arrive to us from those sites but the ones that are emailed to us directly just feel that much more genuine, and well deserved.  So thank you customers!  I do love the little boost I get from reading your words.

   I have shared them here with you so that other folks who have not yet decided where to buy their wedding supplies might be influenced by our customer’s words.  These are their words, the only edits have been to remove their last names.

   And now, back to work.

 Kevin

 

THEY ARE GORGEOUS!!!

Thank you so much!!!!!

We are thrilled and will definitely use you guys again!

Courtney

Thank you so much! So far it’s been a pleasure doing business with Of the Earth, It has become one my favorite websites and I will most definitely recommend you guys!
Best regards,
Joselyn T

Wonderful products and friendly support! Thank you for such a beautiful resource!

Hi Kevin, I got my paper I ordered in today and the burgundy color you suggested is perfect! Goes great with black marble. Thanks for the insight. I am sure I will be ordering more in the future. Thanks Again, Greg

Dear Custom Paper:

I ordered sometime ago the sapphire swirl Lotka paper. Today I used some of it to wrap Christmas presents.

It was beautiful.

Ed S

Hi Kevin,

Thank you so much! I can’t wait to get them in. You have been wonderful to work with, I really appreciate your patience and timeliness. I will certainly recommend you to friends and family in the future.

Sincerely,

Melissa R

I have had a wonderful experience working with Kevin. He has been incredibly helpful and very fast with returning emails and sending proofs. I cannot wait to get the invitations in. I just know they are going to be absolutely beautiful. Thank you!

Hi Kevin,
The invitations have finally arrived and they are absolutely stunning and unique!!! There is not much to say apart from the fact that these are the most beautiful wedding invitations I have ever seen.

Thanks a lot for all your hard work and precious help
Veronica

Kevin,

You are absolutely amazing!! I don’t even know how to thank you! You have gone above and beyond in every way possible and you have my sincerest gratitude!! If I could please have your address, I would make me very happy to send you a little thank you 🙂 Thanks again, Kevin! You are just incredible!

Anna

Hello,

I wanted to let you know that people can not stop calling me regarding my wedding invitations! They are perfect! Thanks again.

Sara 🙂

Hi, Im a beekeeper and I live in Quebec Canada. For many years by now, I use the lotka printable seed paper to make my honey labels. My little business grow up now and I also use your paper for many of my other product as cosmetics made with hives products (wax, honey, pollen etc…)

The people are always impress when I tell them to plant their labels and flowers will grow up :-). Many of them ask me how to proceed and I just decided to put the instructions on my web site. I would also like to give a little description of how you made this paper.

On your web site, its written that paper is made in Nepal by rural craft peoples. Could you explain me a little more what are Rural craft peoples exactly please? Do they are artists or peoples who try to get a better life?

Thank you very much for those precisions and congratulation for this wonderful paper that Im proud to use.

annie l

Good Afternoon Kevin,

I received the invitations today, they’re gorgeous! Thank you so much for putting them together and making this day so very special for us. They are the most beautiful invitations I’ve ever seen and will surely make our wedding day a fairytale come true. Thanks again

Lori & Gord

The process was quick and easy. Thank you for offering free samples for my wedding.

Oh wow! I just submitted my ordered and you’ve shipped in less than two hours! I love how reliably fast you work, not to mention great ribbon every time. Thank you, and have a beautiful weekend!

Leora Mauck, Co-Proprietor

Copper Willow Paper Studio

310.836.6004 and www.copperwillow.com

Hi Kevin,

I received the order, everything looks amazing!!

I want to thank you for your help, I will definitely recommend you and the company to anyone who asks!!

If you have a manger, I’d like to let him / her know how helpful and patient you were.

Thanks again!

Tanja

Thank you so much for sending us the samples in the mail. We thought that it would make our decision process easier but we loved everything!! Great quality product. We look forward to receiving the invitations we FINALLY decided upon soon. I will highly recommend you to anyone who is seeking stationary that is: outside the box. Many thanks again!

I absolutely love this paper company. For my wedding, I designed my own invitations using Of the Earth materials, saved a ton of money, and my guests were amazed to learn about seeded paper. I even planted my scrap materials for blooming wedding favors! Now I am starting my own company, and they have been so helpful while I select materials for boxes, packaging, and labels. Thank you!

Kevin Graham was a pleasure to work with and huge help.

The invitations are gorgeous and they arrived at the perfect time.

Thanks again for the excellent service!

Cheers,

Kelly S

Kevin,

I’m absolutely in awe over my wedding invitations!!! They are so much more than I’d imagined! Thank you for everything! I will highly recommend you in any way I can.

Sincerely,

Jessica

Hi Kevin-

I just mailed out our invitations you printed for me and I’m getting tons of compliments on them!

I thought they were beautiful and I’m so glad to hear others think so too 🙂

Thanks for everything!!

adrian

Appreciate the samples and the quick response. I am ordering this spool based on the color swatches I received, so thanks!

Thank you so much for all your help and prompt replies! It’s not often I receive customer service this great. I really appreciate it!!

Jessica

Excellent! Thanks again, Kevin. We love our invitations!

Thank you for excellent customer service. Kevin is helpful and courteous and a total pleasure to speak with. God Bless. LRD

Hi Kevin,

I just wanted to tell you how much I love the invotation! It is absolutely everything we wanted! Thank you for making it so easy and seamless to order everything.

The invitation is a work of art! Beautiful!

Many thanks!

Sarah B