Wedding invitation digital plus letterpress - 'Off the rack' range

I designed these Letterpress invitations to be suitable for wedding, engagement, or save the date invitations even a special birthday! The product is an 'off the rack' item, meaning while it will be letterpress printed with your details, the image and style of text is left as standard to keep the costs down. There is no design or set up cost as it is template based.

The invitations are available as C6 (medium) or large 125x175mm (Large invitation size)

There are 4 different designs in the range. The digital top portion features
1. Australian eucalyptus leaves or gum leaves from a variety of Australian native flora.
2. Tropical palm leaves
3. Colorful peonies - a pretty peony bouquet
4. Elegant soft pink roses

You can purchase a Molly and Charlie SAMPLE over in our ETSY shop which allows you to see and feel the quality in real life. ROSE sample, GUM LEAF sample, PEONY sample, PALM sample.

The text below can be customized to say anything you like and is printed letterpress.
STOP PRESS - NEW ADDITION! - Also available as all digital (no letterpress)  for a super cost effective invitation!

SPECIFICATIONS: (Medium)
SIZE: A6 - 105x148mm
300gsm
100% cotton rag paper
Full colour - top illustration
1 colour - Letterpress text
1 sided

SPECIFICATIONS: (Large invitation size)
SIZE: 125x175mm
300gsm
100% cotton rag paper
Full colour - top illustration
1 colour - Letterpress text
1 sided

Samples are available for purchase in my ETSY shop HERE

Black and white letterpress wedding invitation suite

Simple and elegant are usually the 2 most common requests I get for an invitation suite. This elegant invitation definitely ticks all of the boxes. For this invitation and more, visit our GALLERY.

SPECIFICATIONS:
Invitation:
Size: C6 Insert
Paper: Gmund 100%cotton
Envelope: black with black and white rose liner

A tropical getaway letterpress destination wedding invitation

A prefect invitation for a tropical wedding escape to Koh Samui Thailand. Aren't destination weddings just the best!

SPECIFICATIONS
110x155mm
100% cotton rag paper
600gsm

Monogram Coaster letterpress invitation

These neat invitations were designed by Tim Adams of Live Creative in NSW. They are for a surprise wedding celebration. (OK 2 ideas that I wish I had come up with!!) The design is simple and very modern which I love.  They are printed onto our round coaster stock double sided and accompanied by a Kraft envelope.
I printed some just with the couple's monogram on one side to use as coasters on the day, and they were a perfect match to our 'Eat drink and be married' coasters Available HERE).

Specs:
Coaster card 600gsm recycle paper pulpside one gold, side 2 navy
90x90mm
Kraft envelope
Design By Tim Adams, Live Creative

Doily bliss wedding invitation

Prepare to swoon...

Specifications
Invitation
600gsm Crane's flouro white
3 colour press - blind impression, pink and cool grey

RSVP
300 gsm Crane's flouro white
2 colour press, pink and cool grey

(note - I have edited out the wedding date! Its there in 'real life'!)

My absolute favorite part of this invitation was this little pink detail!

Gumtree wedding invitation.

Bespoke and beautiful.
Inspired by the beautiful gumtree Alison and Luc were getting married under
'in the gardens beneath the gum tree'

NEW
This gumtree invitation is also available as 110x115 so that it fits into a c6 envelope!

Design process of a letterpress invitation

A brief look at all the things that go on to produce an original letterpress invitation... (before I even get to print)

1. The design brief.
We discuss: quantity, colour, size all of the items to be included (rsvp, transport cards envelopes), budget and how to cut costs ie -re use plates, print some parts digitally etc, and theme. In this instance, the couple was getting married 'Beneath a gum tree' and thought it only apt to incorporate this imagery somewhere.
2. The quote.
3. The agreement - Client signs and we all agree to the items and cost.
4. The deposit - a 50% commence work deposit
5. Design - the fun bit!

For me, this involved photographing leaves, surfing the net for images so I could get a shape and flow of gum leaves. did you know there are more than 700 spaecies of Eucalypt? Kings Park has many but the one I like best for shape of leaves and nuts was the Coolibah Eucalyptus Victrix (I think)

Next I draw, trace, redraw, retrace and scan into computer to clean up the image and turn it into vector based artwork. Once I am happy with the graphics, I typeset the text. Sometimes I will offer a client a few options different typefaces, layouts etc.

Part of the design and planning is making the plates re-useable so for the 2 colour jobs, the small gum leaves were used for all of the small cards as well as a belly band. The large gum tree design was also used as an envelope liner. This cuts costs.

6. Once design is set, its off to get plates made. At this stage, its too late to make changes and any errors result in having plates re-made - so I am always very nervous at this point!

7. Once I have them back, its off to cut paper and make a print plan which is a plan of what I will print first, in what order, when to trim etc etc. In this instance, The 'note on gifts' and 'note on transport' were digitally printed onto special coated cotton paper and then the blind impression of the leaves were printed afterwards 3-up and then trimmed; whilst the RSVP cards were letter-pressed in 2 colours so the text was pressed first and then the leaf - 1-up. Without a plan, I would be changing colours and wasting time on clean up not to mention wandering around aimlessly scratching my head wondering what to do next!

8. FINALLY I can print! But that's another story...

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