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  • NEW 2019 Letterpress Wedding Invitations

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    Five new letterpress wedding invitation designs are out! Let’s take a look: FERN Tonal green-on-green letterpress with crisp copper foil, Fern is one of three new 2019 designs on our Parklife Colors paper. Great for island weddings, rainforest rehearsal dinners, deep woods baby showers, you name it.  We like to pair the Forest green invitation…

  • Louisville Vignette

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    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

  • New Parklife Invitation Style: Paige

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    Occasionally we design a custom invitation for a client, and we love it so much we decide to keep it for ourselves. This one, originally designed for Paige and Clayton’s January wedding, will soon be added to Parklife’s wedding collection. The new Paige invitation set is printed with black ink and a blind impression on…

  • A Wedding Between Two Ferns

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    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…

  • A Mount Hood Wedding

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    Perhaps you saw our 2013 blog post detailing the underused letterpress technique of halftone screens. In short, we can use tiny dots and on-paper ink mixing to create the illusion of gradations and multiple ink colors. For Robyn and Luke’s Timberline Lodge wedding, we used just two inks (a very light gray and a dark blueish-gray) to…

  • Business Set For Force Majeure Vineyard

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    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.