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The official blog for Parklife Press featuring custom letterpress wedding invitations, business cards, stationery, and much more.
Parklife Blog
1w 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
2M 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
1y 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
1y 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
1y 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
4y 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
4y 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
Parklife Blog
4y ago
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
Parklife Blog
4y ago
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
Parklife Blog
4y ago
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