More on the L Letterpress

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?

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!

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!

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!

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.