Parklife Press

Custom Letterpress and Beyond

Tag: blind

  • Blind Madhouse | Duplexed Business Cards

    Custom duplexed business cards for Austin’s Madhouse Development Services. On the back, in order to get extra bite into the fairly dense Keaykolour stock, we used a heated copper die rather than the usual polymer plate. FRONT Pantone 485U and 426U on 300g Lettra Fluorescent WhiteBACK Blind impression on 300g Keaykolour Chili Pepper

  • Ham Cards

    Wonderfully simple business cards for Jason Ham. Designed by the client and printed by us. PAPER 600g Fluorescent WhiteINK Black, Tinted White

  • Louisville Vignette

    This is a variation on our popular Vignette invitation design featuring black ink and the lovely Duende script font. PAPER 300g Ecru WhiteINK Black & Blind ImpressionTYPE Duende & Mrs Eaves Small Caps

  • A Wedding Between Two Ferns

    Last month we featured Luke and Robyn’s Mount Hood wedding invitation set. Sticking with the Oregon theme, this time we head south for Julia and Detlev’s wedding on the Umpqua River. Both the wedding ceremony invitation and the rehearsal dinner invite feature fern imagery – somewhat abstractly on the main invite and more realistically and delicately for…

  • Blind, Edged, & Converted

    We’ve been printing fancy letterpress business cards for Norfolk creatives Grow for a while now (check it out). Recently they asked us to print simple blind-pressed, edge painted notes along with custom printed and converted envelopes. To get the pattern on the inside of the envelope (called a “tint”) we first offset printed flat sheets with…

  • Business Set For Force Majeure Vineyard

    Washington’s Force Majeure Vineyard makes lovely Bordeaux and Rhone-inspired wines. We’ve been lucky enough to sample from their limited production and we think their wines pair beautifully with our custom letterpress stationery. We printed business cards, folded notes, and envelopes for Carrie and Todd using espresso and silver-tinted opaque white ink on Ecru Lettra paper.

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Vignette Reboot

    Another great set based on the on the Vignette style. The main invitation features beautiful, understated typography printed in stone ink and set off by a custom double border. The pieces are gathered in a belly band featuring the couple’s initials printed on gray cotton Pescia paper. The RSVP card includes a menu choice for the…