Lifestyle Crafts

DIY Letterpress

Imagine crisp, graphic impressions that are sunken into the fibers of thick paper and brought to life with vibrant inks. If the classic beauty of letterpress stirs your inner craft-lover, this Grommet’s for you.

Lifestyle Crafts has made it possible to practice the art of letterpress at home, with its DIY kit. It has everything you need to print beautiful invitations, note cards, stationery and more. The tool that does the heavy lifting... er, heavy rolling... is the Epic 6, designed by Michelle Rasmussen. To create your custom projects, you roll inked printing plates through the Epic tool, which applies pressure to form impressions on the soft, thick letterpress paper.

The Letterpress Combo Kit comes with the Epic 6 tool, plus die cutting tools, printing plates, packing mats (for controlling the depth of the letterpress impressions), inks and paper. You can also choose additional inks and themed sets of printing plates designed for occasions such as weddings, birthdays, baby events or the holidays. There’s no better way to make a great impression!

— Ann

• Epic 6 & Letterpress Combo Kit with Bonus includes:
  
  • Epic 6 Tool and die cutting tool
  • Letterpress Starter Kit - see below for Details.
  • Bonus: Free "License Plate 4x8 Font" die cut kit

    

• Letterpress Starter Kit includes:
  • Letterpress Tool
  • Clear Packing Mat with grid
  • (9) Printing Plates

    

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  • Paper Placement Guides
  • Ink Base
  • Brayer
  • (10) A2 flat cards
  • Tube of Black Ink

• Inks:  Choice of 8 special tacky ink colors designed specifically for letterpress printing- Gold, Silver, White, Black, Red, Dark Green, Hot Pink, Navy

• Plates:  Choice of 5 Plate Sets- Christmas (Jubilee),Wedding/Thanks( Posy), Blossoms(Everyday), Baby (Petite), Birthday (Bubbly)

• Paper: Thick, soft paper unique to L that allows plates to make a crisp deboss and print. This paper is necessary to create the high quality look of letterpress projects.  Choice of:
  
  • (40) A2 White Folded Paper (4.25"x5.5" folded size), (40) A2 White Envelopes
  • (25) A7 Cream Flat Paper (5" x 7") and (25) A7 Cream Envelopes