You may have heard that starting this month you can now find Bella Figura at your favorite local stationery store. (If you haven’t heard, don’t worry. We’ll be talking a lot about our amazing retailers in the coming weeks!) This amazing letterpress baby announcement is the very first design we printed for a Bella Figura retailer, our friends at Byrd & Bleecker in Fort Worth, Texas. Featuring our New Calligraphy design showcasing stunning hand calligraphy from Debi Zeinert, it was printed in a custom hot pink ink. Many thanks to Libby and the team at Byrd & Bleecker for working with us on this gorgeous customization. We’re already in love with our Bella Figura retailers!

We printed these cute letterpress baby announcements earlier this year to celebrate the birth of little Isaac. They feature our Weber design printed in pale gray and cloud 9 inks and were designed to accommodate a wallet-sized photo. We can’t think of anything quite as special as a letterpress baby announcement to welcome a new addition to the family and we find these one particularly adorable.

As 2010 quickly approaches, we wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a very happy New Year! Thank you for making 2009 such a fabulous year for all of us at Bella Figura – it has been a pleasure celebrating with you and we look forward to many more happy occasions in 2010. We’re also thrilled to introduce our 2010 collection, created exclusively for us by some of the nation’s most talented and sought after designers and artists. Starting next week, we’ll be sharing lots of details about our new designs and our designers, but for now here is a little peek at just a few of the new letterpress wedding invitation designs that have us so very excited for 2010.

In celebration of 2009, check out some of our favorite customizations of letterpress wedding invitation designs we printed in 2009:

Majorca letterpress save the dates with grommets
Yellow and gray square Dewdrop letterpress wedding invitations
Cartoccio letterpress baby announcements
Pool and pale gray Buttonpom letterpress wedding invitations
My wedding invitations – Keswick in pale gray and mediterranean
Pink and papaya Somersby letterpress wedding invitations
Custom skyline letterpress wedding invitations
Deveril red letterpress wedding invitations

This darling letterpress baby announcement is based on our Floweret letterpress wedding invitation design. It is printed in papaya and champagne inks for a fresh and cheerful look, the perfect way to welcome a new baby girl to the family.

Printing really adorable letterpress baby announcements sure is great fun for us! These customized letterpress announcements are among our favorites of those we’ve recently printed and it’s easy to see why – they are so completely cute!

This particular letterpress baby announcement is perfect for welcoming a little boy. It’s our Airplane design printed in navy and taupe inks on our ivory cotton paper. It’s a touch masculine, but still perfectly playful and child-like.

Our Owl letterpress baby announcement is one of our most popular designs. This customized version is printed in bright daffodil paired with downy ink. Yellow and gray is such a popular color for letterpress wedding invitations, so it’s no surprise that new parents also love this combination for letterpress baby announcements!

Another customization of our Owl design, this letterpress baby announcement is printed in pumpkin and garden inks. While 1-color letterpress is always fun, we love how this 2-color letterpress adaptation makes the Owl design so special.

The great thing about letterpress is how easily we can personalize a design to perfectly suit all special occasions in your life. In addition to our letterpress wedding invitations and letterpress baby announcements, we’re also happy to print for bar and bat mitzvahs, birthday parties, anniversary parties – you name it! Any of our letterpress designs can be customized for the celebration of your choice.

{Check out more cute letterpress baby announcements.}