I’m totally squealing with delight over this giveaway. Oh. My. Gosh. At Alt in January I had the awesome opportunity to see this machine in action & meet a couple of the lovely ladies behind the creative scenes. I’ve been drooling over it ever since.
images courtesy of Lifestyle Crafts
The L Letterpress machine is great. It’s designed to deliver all of the awesomeness of a gigantic machine, but only use a small amount of precious square footage. Lifestyle crafts has come out with several collections of plates ranging from Holiday to everyday. Lifestyle crafts has even started a custom plate program to allow you to design your own plates for printing. How great would that be for business cards? Wedding invitations? Holiday greeting cards? Really, the list is endless.
How would you like the chance to win one? Lifestyle crafts is offering one lucky IS•LY reader the following:
- L Letterpress Combo Kit
- 2 Inks
- 1 blossoms printing plate and 1 holiday printing plate
- Accessory Tool Kit
- Cleaning Cloths
- A few packs of paper
That’s over $280 worth of L letterpress awesomeness that I know all of you want. Here’s how to enter:
- Visit Lifestyle Crafts, check out their printing plates
- Leave a comment on this post telling me what you’d like to do with the L.
- Comment by 11:59pm (MST) Wednesday, November 10, 2010
- This contest is open for US residents only
- Only one (1) comment per person
- No purchase necessary
- One (1) winner will be chosen via random.org & announced Thursday, November 11, 2010
Good luck!!
This would be so helpful for our baby announcements! Our little one is due in the spring and my husband and I are already thinking about our design.
My daughter and I would make gifts for her sorority sisters.
I would make tags for gifts, various cards and the invites for my birthday party!
I would use it to make my Christmas cards and gift tags :) Thanks for the chance to win.
I wold use it for EVERYTHING…Christmas tags, Christmas cards, birthday cards, invitations….LOVE IT!!
I would seriously make everything under the sun. If I ever woke up from dying at the fact that I was getting one.
How cute! If I win, this would help me hybrid my holiday photo cards I am working on for Xmas. Plus it would be a great addition to my tools! Thank you for the chance to win an awesome tool
What a great idea! I just found your blog and I’m in love with your style! Thanks for sharing.
It looks amazing! I think invites for my son’s b-day would look way better with this thing.
I would letterpress so many lovely things to add to my wedding reception decorations!
eeek!
i design wedding invites & would lovvvvvveeee this.
All types of things!! I love graphic design and printmaking so I really think this little gizmo is sooo cool! Thanks for the opportunity!
I would make Christmas cards (and lots of other cards, who am I kidding!) with it – so much fun!!! All this papercrafting is becoming dangerous for me!
omg. fingers are crossed. i’ve got to get working on christmas cards…this would be a huge motivator.
Oh, I would love to have one! Would be able to make so many beautiful cards, tags and other stuff! I´ll cross my fingers!
Oh my gosh! I am desperately in love with letterpress and would make cards and prints and anything!
I would love to make invitations and cards with this!
Holy cuteness! I would have nonstop fun with all my friends and family making crafts with this magnificent machine!!!
I would make christmas cards and the best birthday cards ever! And some small artsy things just for fun for my house :)
I would use the letterpress to make my various greeting cards all year. I don’t really have any other means right now besides card stock and wooden stamps. U love your blog, Melissa :)
I would make gift tags and business cards. I love paper! What fun it would be to make things with the letterpress!
So fantastic, and ideal for the holiday gifts I have planned for family and friends – custom framed song quotes!
Christmas Cards and Birthday Cards and (since I’m a crazy organizer) lots of pretty labels!
No way–this is such an amazing giveaway!! I would use this on everything, but the first thing would probably be holiday cards and gift tags. LOVE!!
I’m dying to make some letterpress business stationary for my photo biz … this would be perfect!
I’d love to use this to make birthday cards for friends/family!
I would definitely be using this for birthday party invites, and various other party invites!
This L is fantastic!
ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES!
I would tons of greeting cards
for every occasion, and maybe
even some decals for my notebooks
and jewelry boxes =)!
oh wow! I’d make up some classy notecards for gifts. And, maybe some snazzy invitations to a Christmas party!
*Squeal!* Fonts at Good Look Cookbook and now a letterpress??? ISLY, you have stolen my heart. I would use this for custom photography packaging for my boutique. Yes, I’m a photographer, but I’m really a font/print/bookwormish-geek at heart.
And custom, handmade books for my daughters with their grandpa’s favorite tall tales, and handmade Christmas presents, and party invitations, and announcements and… what wouldn’t I use this for?
I would use it to make my business stationary!
HOLY BATMAN. that holiday card is gorgeous! I luv monograms, I’d probably make monogrammed gifts for ummm, everyone I know, Thanks for the chance.
I have been searching online all day for a company that would make letterpress baby announcements for our new addition Finley. I didn’t even know it was possible to make them myself. i would definitely love to try!
I don’t know if I’d ever stop making cards. I’d probably make up holidays and events just to make a card with this stuff!
I would love this!!
CARDS CARDS CARDS! Christmas cards, birthday cards, thank you cards…. plus I’d order custom plates and use it to finally jump start a home business I’ve been meaning to start for a while now!
I would love to use this for invitations and Christmas cards I need to make this winter!
I would make birthday cards for all my friends.
Stationery, Christmas cards, birthday cards, any cards! I would do so much with this awesome machine!
Christmas cards and new calling cards!
I would quit my job and make everything I could think of! Okay, but seriously, I would make cards and gift tags. Thanks!
I would make holiday cards and invitations! Thanks for the chance to win. I love this!
I have LOVED letterpress for so long and appreciate the craftsmanship. How fun it would be to make some of my own letterpress piecesand let my children make their own cards and gifts, too. I’ll pass the bug on to them! :)
oh my, how generous of them!
i adore the everday damask plate
but that holiday thicket plate is amazing too!
xo
I would LOVE this—fun for gift tags, cards, Love it!
There is no one thing I would make with this. What an opportunity! I would make little prints and put them in frames and give them away!!!!!!
Oh my heavens this is a divine giveaway! I would make all the pretty thank-you cards in the world that I could! So fabulous.
I would make note cards to send to my friends and family. My husband an I moved 3000 miles away from them… and I miss them. A hand made note card would let them know how much they are missed and loved!
I have an April wedding coming up…This would make some great name cards and thankyou cards!
i love the idea of letterpressed name cards for thanksgiving. Or a simple note card.
oh the ideas are endless.