OnceUponaPaper

Modern Ketubah, Guest Books & Watercolor Paintings

Woodside, New York On Etsy since 2009

4,771 Sales | 5 out of 5 stars

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OnceUponaPaper

Modern Ketubah, Guest Books & Watercolor Paintings

Woodside, New York | 4,771 Sales

5 out of 5 stars

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We are an artist studio offering handmade ketubah with coordinating invitations and guestbooks, original watercolor paintings with hand calligraphy and gold leaf details, many translated into woodcut and papercut designs, and art prints.
We use museum quality materials for our artwork and for all that is born from it.

With so many products being customizable, we invite you to browse our hundreds of designs developed over the past 9 years. However we encourage you to embark on a completely custom design experience. https://www.onceuponapaper.net/pages/options

The best place to start, contact us with your event date and materials needed and we will guide you throughout the process.

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Last updated on Jun 15, 2019

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We are an artist studio offering handmade ketubah with coordinating invitations and guestbooks, original watercolor paintings with hand calligraphy and gold leaf details, many translated into woodcut and papercut designs, and art prints.
We use museum quality materials for our artwork and for all that is born from it.

With so many products being customizable, we invite you to browse our hundreds of designs developed over the past 9 years. However we encourage you to embark on a completely custom design experience. https://www.onceuponapaper.net/pages/options

The best place to start, contact us with your event date and materials needed and we will guide you throughout the process.

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Two woodcut Ketubah waiting to leave for their weddings to be signed

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  • Ketubah Woodcut Light Branches - Modern sleek Ketubah art print

    From shop OnceUponaPaper

    $330.00 FREE shipping

    • 5 months
    I miss being in my studio and having a few works in progress around, and plenty of room to spread my colors... things will get better. mostly_sunny 30x22inch, Four Seasons Ketubah Commission.
    All custom requests are welcome.

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  • Custom artwork commission KETUBAH ↚ FOUR SEASONS Watercolor art Painting

    From shop OnceUponaPaper

    $900.00 FREE shipping

    • 5 months
    Brush calligraphy is a joy to make... It turnes out more precious than one made with a specialized pen.mushroom
    Bar mitzvah Custom Name blessing artwork
    by ElenaBerlo / OnceUponaPaper
    13x19inch
    All custom requests are welcome!

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  • BERESHIT Bar Mitzvah gift > Custom Watercolor BLESSING sign Hebrew English Judaica

    From shop OnceUponaPaper

    $100.00 FREE shipping

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    About OnceUponaPaper

    Sales 4,771
    On Etsy since 2009
    • CHERRY TREE BRANCHES Ketubah Commission watercolor painting with custom text calligraphy
    • Gold leaf details on ACACIA TREE SUNRISE Ketubah watercolor painting with custom text calligraphy
    • BELOVED GARDEN Ketubah woodcut - with custom text
    • PEONIES Ketubah giclee print - after original watercolor painting - with custom text
    • In our Studio - Ketubah, Guestbooks and Album are prepared for shipping

    In nooks and corners Cold remains: Flowers of the plum
    - Yosa Buson

    We are Genu & Elena, the creators of ElenaBerlo™ and OnceUponaPaper™, a husband and wife team with a mutual passion for art, painting, printmaking and illustration.

    We want to take a moment to thank everyone who put their faith in our artistic heart and hands. It is with your support this journey into customized artwork was made possible.
    We took small steps in giving our paintings a new purpose, each one specially requested by a new couple. And it all grew organically as we came to understand that capturing life’s precious moments in art helps us make sense of our presence and connects us to the past, present and future, and to beautiful new people.

    Our artwork derives from our day to day experience. As an architect you always start with pencil on paper. You need to sketch your ideas and give form to many aspects of a building and it’s surroundings. Many times your space planning drawings start looking like a cluster of basic geometric shapes following a structure. From there, our pattern paintings surfaced, especially the Trees of Life. It clearly suited our trees to be part of such an important moment in people’s lives, as they are a symbol of new beginnings, shelter, support and endurance beyond our existence. So many stand now as a silent witness to the promises made and signed by the bride and groom on their handwritten and painted Ketubah.

    All of our ketubah, guest books and albums start as a painting and they will continue to do so as we love the sensibility of the paintbrush that stands out no matter what the end medium is. We are still the only ones in the field offering a Woodcut Ketubah and painted guestbooks, and we are adding calligraphy and gold leaf as a special detail. With so many products being customizable, the large majority are made in-house. We continue to use museum quality materials for our artwork and for all that is born from it.

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    Shop members

    • Genu Berlo

      Owner, Designer

      Genu Berlo is fully involved in each project within the studio, and oversees all aspects of the concept, development and production. He also expands his interest beyond illustration into modern and contemporary art making. berlo.net

    • Elena Berlo

      Owner, Creator

      With a bachelors in Architecture, color and fine arts education at FIT, and architectural practice in NYC firms, Elena Berlo is now a full time painter blending the family life with her endeavour in fine arts. elenaberlo.com

    Production partners

    • Atelier13

      Bucureşti, Romania

      Our Laser Cutting Manufacturer delivers the papercut and woodcut components of our products with outstanding quality and attention to details.

    • GicléeToday

      Boyertown, PA

      Professionally printed in America with only top quality materials that exceed the standards set forth by the Fine Art Trade Guild for pH and lightfastness.

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