Review/Giveaway: Epic Letterpress tool

Lifestyle Craft sent me a complimentary Epic Letterpress and die cut machine to create with and review for your viewing pleasure.  

When it arrived, I literally tore open the box and squealed in delight seeing all the pretty things inside (ask my nephew Kaden who just stared at me with a blank look... sheesh, 12 year olds!)  Everything came in perfect condition, all nice & tidy and exactly as described. After opening the supplies and laying them all out, I've discovered it's like having my own little scrapbook store at my fingertips :)


Want to see what I made?

Using the cute saying "for you" that comes standard with the Epic combo kit along with the cookie cutter nesting circles and sweet flowers from the twigs & sprigs printing plates letterpress set in hot pink, I created an earring card for my little niece who is being baptized this weekend.  Allll week I've been thinking about how to wrap the earrings I made her {you know it's ALL ABOUT display!} and using the Epic made it an absolute snap!

Check out that pretty shimmery detail in the words :)

The first thing I did was pick out my cute flower & saying and moved them around a bit, knowing that I was going to poke holes in the flowers for the earrings.  I followed the provided directions to stick them on the letterpress tool but because this fun tool is new to me, I needed some more 411... luckily Lifestyle Crafts knew I did and had easy-to-follow video tutorials.  Awe-some!

    
  I rolled out the ink, which is pretty thick and goes a LONG way, and added a smidge of navy blue to create a purple-ish color but then decided I wanted to keep it super girlie and went back to straight hot pink.  I have to say that cleaning the roller and printing plates was easy peasy with the provided cleaning wipes.  {I wish I could use them on my baby! lol  I won't, for the record ;)}  


I rolled the printing pads through the Epic letterpress tool and immediately loved the result: 

Can you see the professional indent from the letterpress?  Classy!


I spied the cookie cutter nesting circles and went to work... again, so easy to use that I didn't need the video tute this time ;)

  
After I had my earring card cut out in a perfectly perfect circle, I glued it to coordinating paper with a gluestick and used my scallop scissors to match the petals from my flower printing plate. 

Goes well together, I think!  Oh and I have to mention that the ink was a perfect match on paper and what is advertised on the site/tube.  I don't like surprises when crafting so this was refreshing :)

To make the earrings I purchased some flower embellishments at the scrapbook store and simply hot glued earring backs to them.  

I then punched them through the middle of my flower print and ta-da: done!

Overall I was very pleased at how easy the Epic letterpress tool was for both pressing & cutting.  It takes just a few minutes to get familiar with it and before you know {BAM!} you're thinking of TONS of things to create and drooling at the lifestyle crafts blog ;)  Stay tuned next week for something else I have in the works with my toy!

What's that? 

Wondering how you can snag your own Epic Die-Cute/Letterpress Tool + assortment of fun accessories, valued at $169?

Good news!  

The generous folks at Lifestyle Crafts are giving Lolly Jane readers one of their very own to love on create pretty things!  

Leave us a comment right here telling us what you would make with this beauty OR your favorite project from the cute lifestyle crafts site.  As always, giveaway only open to followers of Lolly Jane.

For those who already own this sweet machine, enter promo code LOLLYJANE on any purchase for 20% off your entire purchase through 04/25/2011.  Good luck! :)

The fine print: Open to US residents only, one entry per person. Giveaway closes on 04/23/2011 @ 12:00AM MST and winner will be announced on our FB page.