Parklife Press

Custom Letterpress and Beyond

Tag: pearl white

  • Purple Petal

    For fellow Portlanders Nathan and Liene, we created a customized variation on our Petal invitation. We kept the round corners and multi-tone orchid art, but changed the fonts, orientation, and inks.

  • Letterpress Invites in the Santa Cruz Mountains

    This is one of our favorite client-designed wedding sets of the summer. Elaine and Joseph’s invites mimic the lush forest that surrounded their venue in the Santa Cruz Mountains, complete with ferns, pinecones, and slugs. We mixed a custom dilution of our Light Celadon ink to let the deep impression of the artwork really stand…

  • Belvedere in Lavender

    Our Belvedere invitation is traditionally rather formal — printed with a graphite ink and a blind impression for a bold but stark feel. But Maura and Matthew wanted something a little more playful and a touch more Downton Abbey. So we swapped out the Mrs Eaves text and Burgues Script for the more lighthearted combo of…

  • Golden Black Squares for MA Allen Interiors

    Another awesome duplexed card. This one’s for interior design firm, MA Allen Interiors. We actually printed wedding invitations for the firm’s founder back in 2010, and she came back to us for business cards after opening her Raleigh firm. On the front we’ve got gold foil on 30pt black museum board — and on the…

  • Business Cards for Dixon Kirby

    Another G Brand design, this one for design and builders Dixon Kirby. These are duplexed cards, printed with two inks on Pearl White Lettra for the front, and one ink on Adriatic Colorplan for the back.

  • Ostrich Invitations

    At the time of this post, a Google image search for “ostrich wedding invitation” turns up not a single invite with a full ostrich. Ostrich feathers, sure. But no full birds. Chia and Kendall sought to change that, and we were happy to help. Using our Fountain invitation as a template, we added a confidently-posed…

  • Antique Black Champagnium

    Back in April of 2015 we printed some excellent business cards for designer Amanda Benincasa. And then a few months later, she asked us to print her wedding invitations. The background floral image is actually just Pantone black ink — but when printed on the black Rising Museum Board, it creates a sort of bronze…

  • Business Cards for Virile Heart & Heritage

    For the New Jersey grooming gurus at Virile, we printed these thick two-sided cards on 600g pearl white Lettra with tinted white and black inks. We finished them with a rich brick edge paint. To help the impression pop, we like to use white ink tinted with a little bit of silver rather than print…

  • Stationery Fit For a Dean

    Walt’s stationery design is simple, but deceivingly so. We printed the three-color piece on 5×7 cotton paper with a fine halftone screen in the lighter blue ink pass, creating the illusion of a third blue — lighter than the lines that outline the abstract wave shape.