The L Letterpress is now shipping; I have not yet received mine. A girlfriend of mine found hers in store at one of the big box craft stores – and used a coupon. Rock on!
Here’s a video demonstration of the L Letterpress in action:
Stay tuned for my tutorial on making your own plates! I’ve made plates for custom embossing and polymer clay projects. I’m just waiting for my supplies to come in so I can shoot step-by-step instrux.
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Oh my goodness. I want one so bad. I’m going to be printing my invitations soon and this would be fantastic!
Which big box craft store would that be?
Archiver’s.
I’ve personally checked Michael’s and JoAnn’s: nothin’ yet.
I’m very curious about custom plates. I’d like to be able to make plates from an illustrator file. Please let me know if this is possible, I’ve been toying the idea of buying an antique press and this kit would make my life a lot easier!
Looks like fun! I’ve done some work with polymer clay in the past, I love it. Can’t wait to see your instructions for the plates!
@kate: it’s totally possible! My supplies should be here today or tomorrow and I’ll be putting up a tutorial soon after.
I’m so glad you’re putting up a tutorial on customizing! I got my L Letterpress this weekend at Paper Source and after the inital giddness, I’ve been suffering a bit from buyer’s remorse. (Which may be due to the fact that they didn’t have Christmas plates in yet, so I couldn’t get started right away on my project.)
I’ve been combing the internet trying to find project ideas and hacks for it, so I’m VERY excited to see what you post!
That looks awesome! How would you be using it with polymer clay?
I can’t wait to see all you can do with this! Looks amazing!
I have the best news ever! It is in AC Moore stores right now, along with the plates, ink, everything – AND they have a coupon on their website for 50% off a single item and it totally works for the L combo! That’s a savings of $75!!! I just went to my local store and they took the coupon no problem. To get the coupon just go to AC Moore’s website, click on store locator, type in your zip, find your store, and click on coupons/sales. there is a PDF you can dowload with the coupon! It’s only good until this weekend so hurry up before they change it! (the coupon specifically states it’s not good for things like cricut so I’m sure they didn’t think about this new letterpress when they created the coupons!)
yippee!!!!
@Cindy: I hadn’t thought of using it with polymer clay, though that might be an interesting experiment! I’ve made custom plates for polyclay projects and that technique can be used to make plates for the L Letterpress.
YEA!!! I’m so glad to hear this I ordered one last weekend but didn’t know if they were shipping yet or not!! Yea.
Eeeeeeee!!! I was so excited when I discovered this a few days ago, and I can not WAIT to see your tutorial on making custom plates! I was thinking that in the video, the plates look a lot like the clear rubber stamps – are they the same? If you have the clear repositionable rubber stamps, could you use those as plates?
I have to say I’m a little dissapointed with mine. I’m trying to print with the script letters and gold ink and there is a lot of smudging. The instruction book suggests this is due to “poor inking technique” or over-inking. But I’m still getting smudges in some areas while other areas are un-inked. I think getting the ink ‘just right’ is fairly difficult. I have yet to get one of acceptable quality.
Oh no, Anne! Some things I can think of to help troubleshoot (I don’t yet have my machine so I can’t verify any of this will work or not):
* Clean the plates really, really well with detergent and then clean with the mfg’s cleaning cloths. Maybe the manufacturing process leaves a film on the plates so that they’re not taking ink well.
* Are you using the suggested paper from the manufacturer? With letterpress the paper is very, very important.
@Christine: They’re not the same though they kinda look alike. The plates are hard plastic. Acrylic and rubber stamps are a bit too soft to leave an impression in the paper.