The first of two business cards we printed for clients of the incomparable designer Chad Makerson Micheal. This one’s kinda nuts: A duplexed card with three letterpress inks plus sliver foil on the front, three letterpress inks on the back, glued and die-cut. Super tight registration on the inks and foil all around. PAPER Duplexed Gmund Matt 46 INK Black, PMS 2035U, PMS 2327U FOIL Silver Shine FINISHING Duplex, Die-cut This next one for Sespe Creek is another duplexed card with three letterpress inks both front and back. Such an awesome level of detail in Chad’s designs — perfect for letterp ..read more

Embossed and duplexed business cards for Portland’s Wildwood House! If you’re printing a two-sided business card and you don’t want to see the reverse of your embossed image on the back of the piece, we can duplex two sheets after embossing to hide the embossing. For this set, we embossed 350g Colorplan Pistachio, printed black letterpress on 300g Lettra Fluorescent White, glued the two together, and then die-cut to finish the card. It’s also a good idea to die-cut an embossed & duplexed card rather than trim it on a standard guillotine cutter. That way the emboss doesn’t get mashed by th ..read more

We’ve printed cards for the friendly folks at Empress a few times now. This time around, we helped develop a new design with artwork based on Emily’s tattoo, thick duplexed paper, and gold edge paint. PAPER Duplexed Colorplan Candy Pink & Lettra Fluorescent White INK Custom Green & Pink, Black EDGE PAINT Gold ..read more

One of the nicest fake products we’ve ever designed! We created this label to help illustrate our new line of Letterpress Labels & Tags. We printed this one with pale yellow and black inks on Pearl White cotton paper, then added peel-and-stick adhesive and a custom die cut. Photos by Gritchelle ..read more

In-house design for long-time Parklife clients Hadley & Nick. PAPER 600g Lettra Fluorescent White INK Stone & Custom Orange TYPE Day & Isabella EDGE PAINT Custom Orange Photos by Gritchelle ..read more

Designed by Kristin Allen for Ashley Grant Interiors, these thick two-sided cards are printed on separate 300g sheets, then duplexed after printing so that the impressions on the front and back don’t affect each other. Printing front and back on a 600g sheet is always an option too, but if you want 100% crisp and clean impressions, a duplexed card is the way to go. PAPER 600g Lettra Fluorescent White duplexed from 300g sheets INK Pantone 400U, 402U, 7562U EDGE PAINT Antique Gold Photos by Gritchelle ..read more

Beautifully designed (by the client) and executed (by us) rustic wedding invitation sets on our house cotton paper. We tear these ourselves for an extra-rustic look! PAPER Hand-torn 300g Pearl White INK Fog Photos by Gritchelle ..read more

Two-sided business cards for fellow Portlander, Emily Fabriconi of Empress Brow & Beauty. PAPER 300g Keaykolour Pastel Pink INK Black Photos by Gritchelle ..read more

You may recall that just last month we posted a Bodoni-Sans-based client-design invitation set. Well here’s another! This one’s got custom metallic pink ink to great a soft and subtle impression. INVITATION Custom metallic pink on 350g Colorplan Scarlet REPLY CARD Scarlet on 285g Cipria ENVELOPE Scarlet on Dusty Rose Photos by Gritchelle ..read more

Simple but effective! These are two-sided cards on thick cotton paper — we’d show you the back but the client wants their details secret. Use your imagination. PAPER 600g Lettra Fluorescent White INK Black EDGE PAINT Black Photos by Gritchelle ..read more