Lifestyle Crafts "L" Review & GIVEAWAY!!!

Giveaway Closed!!! Winner Announced on February 8th.

I am so so so excited about this review and giveaway! Lifestyle Crafts has brought the art of letterpress into the home with an affordable and portable letterpress for your very own!

Be sure to read the review, check out the site and enter the

giveaway for a Letterpress below!

What kind of projects would you make if you had your very own letterpress? Beautiful Christmas cards? Business cards? Announcements? A coordinated wedding package from the save the dates all the way to the thank you cards all printed beautifully in your own home?

Image courtesy of lifestylecrafts.com/blog

Maybe you are just wondering what a letterpress is? This is what Lifestyle Crafts has to say about it...

"Not sure what letterpress is exactly? Well, it's one of the hottest trends in stationery and it's been around for hundreds and hundreds of years. Letterpress is an ancient printing technique that involves printing words or designs with ink while simultaneously debossing the image into thick, soft paper. See the images above? The photo on the left shows the deboss aspect of letterpress with no ink applied to the printing plate. The photo on the right shows the combination of the deboss and ink.

The letterpress look is elegant, stylish, high-end and simply amazing. Nothing can beat the touch and feel of a letterpressed project. Unfortunately, it's has been somewhat difficult for a home crafter to create letterpressed projects. Until the L Letterpress, letterpress tools were antiques that were often expensive, large, heavy and hard to find."-Lifestyle Crafts Blog

Click here to see a little video about how to use the Letterpress....

I had the amazing opportunity to review one of these, and can I just tell you how my head is spinning with all the possibilities?

First of all the packaging is just beautiful for everything. I love the ink boxes, I want a display of them! :) Everything is really great quality and really easy to use.

It may look a little intimidating, but once you get going, it is super easy and so much fun! I am a very hands on and visual learner, so watching the video tutorial and doing it at the same time made it a piece of cake.

The "L" Letterpress runs through the Epic 6 die cut machine, and when you buy the combo kit you get some nesting circle dies to go with it. Super fun to emboss, and print on the different size circles to nest on your project. Lifestyle Crafts sells lots of great dies to use with your machine.

The printing plates themselves come with quite a few designs in each collection. The "L" Letterpress combo kit comes with enough to really get you started in the art.

What I am most excited about though is that they offer custom plates! You can design your own plates to use for weddings, business or just for fun-how great is that for branding your Etsy shops or Blogs?

You want to see what I made with my new "L"?

These fun CD covers for some valentine day presents! I ran some paper CD envelopes through the Letterpress with the Blossoms Tile Printing Plate. I also ran some white bias tape through to make my own custom ribbon. Then I punched some shapes with the die cut machine and used the Letterpress for the greetings.

We love "mix tapes" in our house, and my kids all have different favorite songs to dance around to, so I thought it would be super fun to give them all their own CD for Valentines day with some of their favorite songs, their individual lullabies that their dad sings to them each night and some other fun songs I think they will like. I love the fun envelopes and I think I will make some for friends, my hubby and maybe even for some teacher gifts too!

Do you want to buy one?

Lifestyle Crafts is offering a deal to all of you cute readers until Feb 6th...

Receive 20% off your entire order with code LC2011BLOG01.

(Better yet, give your hubby a wish list of items from Lifestyle Crafts for Valentines Day and give him the code so he can buy you more stuff!)

Do you want to win one? I thought so!

Lifestyle Crafts is giving one lucky reader the

Epic 6 tool/Letterpress Combo a $170 value!

It comes with everything you see here;

Epic 6 Letterpress & Die-Cutting Tool | L Letterpress Tool | Clear Packing Mat with Grid Paper Placement Guides | Ink Base | Ink Brayer | 10 A2 Flat Cards | 9 Printing Plates with Adhesive Sheets | 1 Black Ink | Circle Cutting Dies

To win just leave me a comment letting me know what you would make if you had your own Letterpress.

For extra entries, blog, tweet, and/or facebook about this giveaway and leave me a comment for everything you do. If you go to the bottom of this post there are little icons that make this easier! :) Winner will be announced on Tuesday the 8th!

Disclosure: Products reviewed were sent to me by the company in exchange for my honest opinion of the products. My opinion & review is my own and is no way influenced by any other part.

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