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2011 Recap

Happy New Year! 2011 has been a crazy year for us! We’re so excited to see what this new year has in store for The Paper Mint Press, but we’d also like to reflect on some of 2011′s biggest moments. – July: We officially open for business! We launched our website and proudly displayed our [...]

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Moving an Old Style C&P 10×15 Press

Ok, so I promised my readers (and myself) that I’d document every bit of restoring this beast. Well, I thought I’d start by blogging about how we moved the press from point A to B. Just to put it in perspective for you, this machine is not small or easy to move.  According to Excelsior [...]

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Business Cards

Just had to post a better photo of our business card. :) Quick update: We’ve been crazy busy with potential new clients + preparing estimates. Always a good sign! We are scheduled to print some new products/projects in the next few weeks. Some of the products will be for the online shop, and another is [...]

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Entertain with Aqua & Red

Since we’re in the business of making party invitations, I thought it would only be appropriate to feature fun party how-to’s and all things party-related! Aqua and red. These colors are awesome when paired, aren’t they? Here are some photos that will surely inspire you for your next hoopla. 1a. Outfit / 1b. Red + Aqua [...]

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Mustache Guide

It’s finally available in our shop! Ok, we know that mustaches have been trending for a while now. I actually had the idea to do this about a year ago as a little birthday gift for Emil. He was trying to grow out his mustache for the entire month of November, otherwise known as Movember. [...]

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Hamilton Printing Museum + Target

We met a local paper craft artist and letterpress printer extraordinaire, Rachelle W. Chuang, this weekend (blogpost about this coming up!)  and she told us about a clothing collaboration between the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum + Target. Of course Emil and I totally perused Target that same weekend and we were honestly a [...]

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Woohoo!

We are officially open for business! :) Please follow us on Facebook, Twitter, & check out our Etsy!  We are in the process of adding some new products to the shop in the next few weeks so stay tuned! Thanks for all your support, friends!    

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Luau Wedding Invitations

Here is our latest project from our studio.  We designed and printed these postcard style invitations on Lettra’s 110lb paper in Pearl White.  The bride wanted a simple and informal invitation to reflect her casual wedding reception. No RSVP card or Save-the-date necessary for this one!  She was on a tight budget and even though [...]

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First Jobs

Hello!  I wanted to share the results of our first few jobs, which I blogged about over on my personal blog. We learned so much from these jobs – I can’t wait to print the next few projects! :) Here is an awesome post excerpt by Beast Pieces, a company we surely look up to [...]

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In the Studio…

Look what we printed yesterday in the studio! Those are terrible iPhone photos, but they turned out gorgeous! We were very ambitious – 3 jobs to complete in 3 hours (one job was a 2-color wedding invitation set), but we did it! It wasn’t as hectic as it could’ve been. We learned a few new [...]

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