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Mid-Century Modern Floral
This lively set was based on a 60’s style botanical motif printed in two shades of green. Designed by the bride (between her cake-baking sessions), the set was printed with two custom inks on 600g fluorescent white stock. First, a square save the date card — emphasis on the date. The playful greens grow inwards from all…
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Custom Monogram in Santa Fe
Ah, the blind-pressed monogram. Hard to go wrong when you use a lightly tinted white ink with a deep impression on thick cotton paper. We carried the variations of the monogram through to each piece — an accommodations card with a tear-off reply card, a menu, table numbers with a blind chevron pattern and inkjet numbers, and programs…
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Growing Businesses, One Card at a Time
You know how sometimes you have to move thousands of pounds of antique machinery from one edge of the country to another, and then get it all set up properly so you can keep your business running? Wait, you don’t? Ah … count yourself lucky. Parklife Press moved from lovely North Carolina to beautiful Portland,…
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Leaves in Motion
This cheerful set was based on Parklife’s Antiquity. It’s one of our most popular designs. As we describe on the site, “The overlapping light and dark motifs give this invitation a sense of motion that’s unlike anything else in our collection.” This version has been modified a bit: the couple chose pearl white paper and…
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Kindly Save the Date
Halloween’s over, midterm elections are in the rear-view mirror, and we’re barreling toward Thanksgiving (which, in our modern era, is a blink away from Christmas and New Year’s). Then, the recovery from all that, followed by the dull expanse of winter. HOW DID IT GET TO BE FEBRUARY ALREADY, you ask? Well, take a breath;…
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Gold Leaves
Here’s a set we did which shows off new technique. (Well, new to this blog … the technique itself is hundreds of years old.) Overall, it’s sort of a modified combination of elements from Whirl and Vignette, with a custom, gold-foil-stamped art element. This set included an RSVP card with printed return address envelopes, and…
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Calistoga Oak
This design is a testament to inspiration and collaboration, and to taking aspects from different designs to create your your dream union of design elements. To follow that metaphor, this set is a sort of marriage of the Californian and Vignette designs, with some art adopted from an earlier set. The oak tree illustration is…
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Perforation Perfection
This was a really fun set. Designed by graphic designer (and groom) Derek Howles — who, incidentally, also designs these super-cool cartography poster prints — it was interesting and unconventional. And art-y! Which is fitting, since they got married at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The set was comprised of a save the date…
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Roses in Rockville Centre
This was a set based on the Franklin design. Printed on 600g Pearl White stock in Marine and Periwinkle inks, the design has striking text printed over a delicate, floral background. The invitation, along with a reception card, RSVP card and envelope, were held together within the outer envelope by a monogrammed belly band in…
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Getting to the Chapel
Everyone has a smartphone, right? Or a car with some fancy navigation system? After all, it’s 2014! Through the magic of satellites, people can just enter an address, then follow along as their moving-blue-dot avatars progress to their destination. OK, for one thing — that isn’t true. Smartphones are everywhere, but even if every last…