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The official blog for Parklife Press featuring custom letterpress wedding invitations, business cards, stationery, and much more.
Parklife Blog
9M ago
Nice simple but bold hang tags and business cards for Quesada. The business card is thick 600g Lettra paper with black letterpress. For the tag, we printed gold shine foil on 350g Colorplan Mid Green and finished with a brass eyelet.
PAPER 600g Lettra Fluorescent White, 350g Colorplan Mid Green
INK Black
FOIL Gold Shine
FINISHING Eyelet
Photos by Gritchelle ..read more
Parklife Blog
10M ago
Beautifully designed business cards by Sophia Studio. Honored to help execute the vision with white foil on Colorplan Stone paper for the front, off-black letterpress ink on Fluorescent White Lettra paper for the back.
White foil on colored paper is such a great choice when you want reversed text. Opaque white letterpress ink doesn’t tend to print crisply and it’s not totally opaque. And printing a color flood background with knocked out text can look uneven and can lead to scuffing. White foil prints crisply and has near 100% opacity.
Photos by Gritchelle ..read more
Parklife Blog
11M ago
This is one of the most ambitious projects we’ve ever taken on. In 2020, Pasxa Wines in Walla Wall asked us to produce labels for their first vintage for about 5000 bottles. Since then we’ve worked with them each year as their production has more than doubled and this past December we finished work on labels for their fourth vintage.
Each label goes has a total of seven (!!!) letterpress inks. We use soft and supple 100% cotton Somerset paper, a stock that’s designed and manufactured for fine art prints. After printing, we hand-apply an adhesive backing then die cut the press sheets. At the ..read more
Parklife Blog
1y ago
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
Parklife Blog
1y ago
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
Parklife Blog
2y ago
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
Parklife Blog
2y ago
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
Parklife Blog
2y ago
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
Parklife Blog
5y ago
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
Parklife Blog
5y ago
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