The kit comes with a clear plate for you to spread your ink out on. NOTE: A little ink goes a LONG way! I selected Navy, and it's a vibrant, gorgeous shade. I felt like for my first try, I was being too ambitious. My assumption was that I was going to mess it up. When I was ready, I used my jazz hand to peel off the second sheet of white paper to expose the tacky and adhere the plates to the clear side of the press. As you can see, there are very clear guides to help you get the measurements just right - it's truly letterpress for dummies (which is great for me). I ended up removing the word "Love" so that I could just try the posies first.
I decided to go simple for my first card - so I picked two plates from the Posy Kit to try. I really love lollipop flowers! For about five minutes I didn't understand that the adhesive didn't come on the back of the plates. What you need to do is use the adhesive sheets that come with the kit to adhere the plates to the printing system. The kit comes with 4 adhesive sheets in clear, and in between two white sheets is the sticky stuff. To use the adhesive, peel off the top layer of white and stick your printing plate to the clear.Īfter you do this, cut around the plates as closely as possible. The posies had a lot of places to cut, but I'm not patient, so what you see above is about as good as it's gonna get. I was hoping my lack of patience would not cause problems, but I was willing to take the risk. I first laid out all the goods. I'm not necessarily an instruction book reader, but there are a lot of components to the letterpress process. That's not a bad thing, I just want to strongly suggest that you read the instruction book completely before beginning. You may be disappointed if you jump in, or you might screw something up. I gave both the Epic Six and the L Letterpress a go, and I'd love to share my results. I have to tell you upfront that I was pleasantly surprised. Note that the L Letterpress and the Epic Six are sold separately but what I love about Lifestyle Crafts is that they designed L Letterpress to work with their existing machine rather than creating a whole other machine you have to purchase.
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You may have seen letterpress cards I have seen them in stores on many an occasion and wondered how I could make them myself without a large, professional machine. I was more-than-thrilled when Lifestyle Crafts released L Letterpress - a printing platform you can use with their Epic Six machine to recreate the look of letterpress at home. I adore the look of letterpress. If you don't know what it is, it's a printing process that embosses and inks at the same time, giving your paper an interesting texture and beautiful finished look.
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