For the first time ever, Bella Figura will be at this year’s National Stationery Show! If you’re attending the show, drop by and say hello! We’ll be in booth 2241 with our BFF Smock. We’re so excited to share our passion for really gorgeous letterpress invitations so make sure to pay us a visit. See you soon!

Many thanks to our friend and calligrapher extraordinaire Sarah Hanna for lending her beautiful calligraphy to this year’s NSS invitation, too!

All new for 2011, we’re really excited about our new patterned envelope liners to coordinate with our letterpress invitations. They are super eco (digitally flat printed on 100% post consumer recycled paper) and super custom (in your choice of colors and patterns to make your letterpress invitations one of a kind). Our new liners are modern and traditional, vintage inspired and contemporary, and crazy cool. Pick stripes or solids, geometrics or florals, choose your favorite color and get started dreaming up the perfect letterpress invitations for your celebration!

It’s here! With great excitement we welcome you to our 2011 letterpress wedding collection! Created by an exclusive team of 20 of the hottest designers and illustrators from across the nation, our letterpress designs are even more inspired than ever before. New for 2011, check out our new patterned envelope liners, new eco pocketfolds in exclusive colors, new calligraphy styles, our new monogram and cartouche library, and our updated letterpress inks and fonts. Our letterpress samples are now just $3 making it even easier to see all of your favorite designs in person!

Get in touch! Our team of stationery experts look forward to helping you create personalized and inspired letterpress stationery perfect for your celebration.

As 2011 nears, we thought we’d pause a moment to recognize 2010 by celebrating our top selling letterpress wedding invitation designs from this past year. From the traditional and sophisticated to the modern to the vintage inspired, these wedding invitations were our clients’ favorites in 2010. A huge thank you to our amazing clients for making this past year the best one yet – we’ve got lots of exciting new things coming for 2011 so stay tuned!

{Deveril letterpress wedding invitations from our Signature Collection.}

{Classic Calligraphy wedding invitations by Debi Zeinert.}

{String Calligraphy wedding invitations by Patricia Mumau.}

{Harlow letterpress wedding invitations from our Signature Collection, designed by Jessica Tierney.}

{Urbanity letterpress wedding invitations by Tara Hogan.}

{Birch wedding invitations from our Signature Collection, designed by Jessica Tierney.}

{Vendage letterpress wedding invitations by Kamal.}

{Tara letterpress wedding invitations by Ben Whitla.}

{Victoria Calligraphy wedding invitations by Sarah Hanna.}

{Irving letterpress wedding invitations by Ben Whitla.}

This fall Bella Figura, our parent company Boxcar Press and our sister company Smock got a lot larger and moved into some shiny new digs. Our expansion (17 letterpresses, 55 employees, 24,000 square feet) makes us one of the largest letterpress shops in the country. For the past few months we have been packing up, building new walls, moving presses, expanding our print shop and moving our operations from one end of an old warehouse in downtown Syracuse, New York to the other. Now we’ve cleaned up our dust and we’re inviting you to come check us out!Come for shop tours, printing demonstrations, free giveaways, holiday shopping with Smock, refreshments, live entertainment and more. Letterpress lovers of all ages are welcome – we’ll have lots of fun activities for kids, too! We look forward to seeing you on Saturday between 10 and 4 – see you soon!

Last month we launched our second annual Election Day Sale where we asked Bella Figura clients to get out and vote! Why? Because we like voting. And we think everyone should do it more often. (It’s amazing what happens when we all get involved. We really can change the world.) Of course, we sweetened the deal a bit. Clients who sent us a photo showing us they went out and voted received 25 free letterpress invitation sets. This year we were blown away by the response! Brides, grooms, moms, dads, and even pets got in on the voting action! Herewith, a handful of the awesome photos we received and just a sampling of the inspirational people we’re lucky enough to get to work with here at Bella Figura – you all rock!

As we prepare for the holidays, we wanted to let you know about our sister company Smock’s newest holiday collection. From letterpress holiday cards to pretty and colorful offset holiday notes, from festive holiday gift wrap to letterpress photo cards and letterpress gift tags, Smock has the perfect holiday paper goods for your season’s greetings in new colors and new styles for the 2010 holiday season. Smock holiday is available now so start your holiday shopping today!

If you follow us on twitter, you may already know that for the past few months we have been packing up, building new walls, moving presses, expanding our print shop and moving our operations from one end of an old warehouse in downtown Syracuse, New York to the other. We are newly settled in our new space and working on cleaning up our dust (and, trust us, there has been a lot of dust), but we wanted to let you know that we’re going to be hosting an open studio (aka a really fun party) next month and you’re invited! We do hope you’ll join us – friends, clients, general public, and the curious at heart are all welcome. There will be many more details to come so stay tuned!

Here at Bella Figura, we believe in the power of few to do good for the world. In honor of Election Day (which just so happens to be tomorrow, November 2!) we are once again offering a special limited time promotion for orders placed in November. Send us a photo of yourself going out to vote and you will get 25 free letterpress invitation sets when you purchase 75 or more! (It’s that easy!) Visit our promotions page for details.

This campaign season we’ve found ourselves personally inspired by Patagonia, another like-minded business intent on doing good for the world. Their Vote the Environment campaign encourages citizens to get out and vote noting, “Your vote affects the air you breathe, the energy you use, and the water you drink.” Whatever your affiliation, wherever you stand on the issues we too encourage you to get out there and change the world – vote!

Today we are excited to announce our fall letterpress sample sale! For a limited time only (today through October 19) 100% of proceeds from the sale will go to benefit one of our favorite environmental organizations, American Forests. All of our letterpress wedding invitation samples will be on sale for just $1 (regularly $5 each) so don’t miss this limited time opportunity!

American Forests is an organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of our forests and wildlife, with every dollar donated going to plant a tree. Your purchase of our letterpress invitation samples will translate into trees that are planted for the benefit of the environment and generations to come! To shop now, you can view all of our letterpress invitation designs in our gallery and order online – happy sample shopping!