Shoppe Love {Save-the-Date Stamp}

Today I'm sharing with you one of my fav & most versatile rubber stamps from the shoppe, our {Save-the-Date Stamp}.

I guess what I love about it is it makes it SUPER easy to turn just about anything into a Save-the-Date message to send out to friends, family and colleagues to let them know about your next special event. Stamp up large stickers, boxes filled with macaroons, wine labels, notebooks, cards, envelopes, paper bags and all kinds of fabulous goodies.

Simply write your details - time, venue, date, rsvp and TA-DAH a Save-the-date ready to go. Whether you're having a birthday party, kitchen-tea, wedding, bridal shower or work function this little stamp will reserve your day with your guests. 

Our stamps have a beautiful old world charm which I love, made from premium maple wood with the design laser engraved into the top. This stamp is 13,3cm x 6,9cm.

Meet our official Elephantshoe tattlygirl

It's no secret that I HEART Tattly Temporary Tattoos, so much so that we are selling these Brooklyn, New York based babies in our shoppe here in South Africa.

Today I'm happpeeeee to announce that mmmmeise will be our official #tattlygirl representing Elephantshoe's quirky and cute tattoos from Tattly. She will be wearing & snapping with blackframephoto our current and upcoming designs featured in store.  

Keep an eye out for her pretty amazing instagram pics.  

We all scream for ice-cream with these four fun popsicle tats by Julia Rothman! Purchase them here {POPSICLES}

Just Focus Tattly by Lila Symon's {Stay on track with this reminder}. Purchase it here {JUST FOCUS} 

Paperie : Wedding Stationery {Ilse & Aleks}

While James and I have been redesigning the Elephantshoe blog and putting together our new shoppe we decided not to post up our recent portfolio pieces onto the old blog. {It's strange but, it's a little like not wanting to wear your brand new shoes with an older pair of socks.} Now that the new site is up, I am feeling so excited that I can start to share with you the projects we have been working on over this last year. I will be posting them up weekly so stay tuned.

After spending this past long weekend in the quaint little town of Greyton in the Western Cape I thought that this post from Ilse & Aleks wedding would be fitting. They were married on the Third of November 2012 at The Oaks Estate set at the foot of the Zonderend Mountains.

We were blessed with the wonderful task of designing their wedding invitations and stationery for their farm chic celebration. Thank you Ilse, Aleks and Antoinette (Ilse's lovely mom) for working so closely with us to get every piece just right.

Their wedding day was photographed by Catherine Mac Photography. Cath captured every detail and it is a real treat for me to share them here on the blog.  

A BIG thank you to Andre and Maritsa from Blackframe Photography for taking and editing the rich and beautiful photos of our stationery also seen in the post below.  

Ilse's silk wedding gown was designed by Marianne Fassler, isn't it just perfection?

We used their venue in Greyton and their elegant navy and cotton colours as inspiration. The iconic oak tree on the farm was a meaningful symbol to the couple and was perfect to use in developing their wedding logo. The victorian inspired, Cape Dutch, natural feel prompted us to go for their letterpress, silk screened kraft invitations with all the activity cards with information for the weekend ahead neatly stacked in a stitched pocket. 

Enjoy scrolling through their stationery goodness. 

We illustrated their digital Save the Date shown above by hand using lead and navy pencils. 

The classic Delft décor set the tone for the design of the A-frame name cards, placemats and table numbers.