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 the cutter clamp.

PAPER Duplexed Colorplan Pistachio & Lettra Fluorescent White
INK Black
FINISHING Die-cut

Photos by Gritchelle

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

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

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

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

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Five new letterpress wedding invitation designs are out! Let’s take a look:

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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 with Ecru reply cards and envelopes for easier writing. But if you prefer Forest paper and envelopes all around, that's an option too.

TIMBERLINE

Timberline pairs a soft matte inkjet-printed watercolor image with stark black letterpress type on our house cotton paper. Great for the Pacific Northwest, or anywhere pine trees are found. An inkjet run is priced the same as one letterpress ink, so the Timberline set is priced as a two-color design.

NIGHTSHADE

Tonal navy-on-navy letterpress cherry blossoms alongside rose gold foil text. This one can be adapted with other sorts of flowers too. Let us know what you have in mind! As with the Fern design, we can use either dark Parklife Colors paper or white cotton paper for the reply cards and envelopes (for easier writing).

VERANDA

Airy, playful, and charming, our Veranda wedding invitation pairs nicely with any outdoor spring or summer event. If you like, swap out the seafoam ink for another light/bright color to suit your taste.

HARVEST

Gold Shine foil and Dust letterpress ink on 300g Harvest paper. The detail in the oak leaf on this one is amazing! Harvest is lovely with gold foil, but can also be printed with letterpress ink (Cocoa, Espresso, and Black are great options) and you'll save a little money. We can pair these with Harvest-colored envelopes or with our white cotton envelopes if you'd prefer.

Photos by Gritchelle

Four ink runs per side (!) plus two different colors of edge paint.

PAPER 600g Fluorescent White
INK Custom blue, yellow, and two shades of gray
EDGE PAINT Custom yellow and dark gray

Photos by Gritchelle