New Items from Calavera Press

     Summer time is the time to celebrate!  There are many fiestas in the works with many clients requesting the cutest colors and adding a touch of personalization to their themed fiesta.  I just made the cutest cake topper for a child's 2nd birthday fiesta.  She requested multi-colored cupcake toppers and a matching cake topper for her child's smash cake.  I added a new touch to the cake topper with tissue paper at the top of the wooden dowel sticks to make it a more festive decoration.  Totally love it!

       I also was asked to create a mini banner for a customer who wants to hang it in her bedroom, above her bed.  She asked for 4" x 6" flags and the word 'AMOR.'  Ask and you shall receive!  It looks amazing!  I photographed it with the calavera wedding couple cake topper because I think it would beautiful to hang behind the cake table.

       I enjoy being a papel picado artisan and appreciate my customers special requests.  I welcome custom orders!  Arriba to many fiestas and cheers to life, love, and happiness!

Papel Picado Cake Topper for your fiesta!

Cupcake Toppers for your sweetie!

Celebrate your child's age with numbered cupcake toppers!

Mini Banner to adorn your fiesta!

Wedding Invitation Suite by Calavera Press

Papel Picado Inspired Wedding Invitation Suite - Includes
Invitation, Save the Date, and Reply Card 

I love how they added their own special touch to tie their
wedding invitations together - a feather and tag with their
wedding website.  It's all in the details!

A view of several invitations being assembled
and getting ready to mail to their guests.

Brown kraft envelopes and custom address
labels add a special touch to your unique
wedding invitations!  Wow your guests!

Hard at work ~ Hand-cut Papel Picado Banners

Calavera Press working on beautifully hand-cut papel picado banners, banderitas, and mini banderitas.

      Most of the outdoor celebrations seen throughout Mexico are decorated using papel picado. Panels of intricately pierced tissue paper are threaded on long strands of string, and hung in villages between rooftops, across porches, and inside ballrooms. Papel picado is a “must have” decoration for any Mexican themed fiesta.

    

       During the 19th century, in the era of the haciendas, laborers purchased all of their necessities from the hacienda store. Most of these stores stocked papel de China, or Chinese paper, known in English as tissue paper. The laborers began to use the paper available to them to create elaborate decorations for their festivities, possible producing extra so that they could sell them to other haciendas. In time, the laborers developed into artisans, advancing the craft of papel picado to an art form, and passing the skill on to each new generation.

      

      Today, the descendants of these laborers are still producing papel picado.  Using straight pins, and metal chisels, the artisans carefully carve their designs into the paper, cutting away the unneeded portions to reveal their designs. Careful thought is given as to which portion of the paper should be removed, so that the design is clear, but the paper remains resilient.  

       

       Papel picado is truly an art and a creative way to decorate any festivity!  Love is in the air, lots of baby shower and wedding orders are in the works.  Congratulations to our fiesta clients on their upcoming special events.  Que viva la fiesta!

Cheers y Salud, 

Tony & Sandy

The Calavera Press Team

Jeff & Karina's Wedding by Calavera Press

 Papel Picado Banners are a unique and inexpensive way to 
decorate any special event or occasion!  They add color, style, 
and fiesta flair that is sure to impress your guests!  

Jeff & Karina's Wedding 2013

I love how they used a banner across the bar area! Super cute!

Order a custom papel picado banner for your next event!  Check out my Etsy shop - Calavera Press