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Lifestyle Crafts: New Holiday Releases!

September 6, 2011 By Char @ Crap I've Made 7 Comments

Today is the day that Lifestyle Crafts releases their new holiday dies (code “CRAP” gets you 20% off). I was fortunate enough to get to try out some of the Halloween line.

Because I’m a giant sucker for the letterpress, I HAD to use that, too. The damask printing plate is quite possibly my favorite thing on Earth. You’ve seen it before on my Easter mantel. I used violet in place of yellow this time and instead of Spring…

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you get Halloween.

The bat is one of the new die releases. It comes with perforated fold lines to make it 3-dimensional. I left mine flat, since I wanted to be able to slip them into envelopes.

(Envelope printed using the spooked printing plates)

And since I was busy pressing and cutting, I decided to make some Halloween art for my bookshelves.

The background papers are letterpressed. (You can press regular old cardstock, it just doesn’t get the cool indentations that the fancy paper gives you.) The text is also letterpressed. The witch and the ghosts are part of the holiday release. Cute, right?

***Lifestyle Crafts provided me with some of their new holiday dies. I purchased the letterpress plates on my own.***

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Filed Under: Halloween, letterpress, paper

Easter Mantel, with the Epic Letterpress

March 20, 2011 By Char @ Crap I've Made 25 Comments

Remember how I mentioned that my Epic came without a cutting mat? One call to the folks at Lifestyle Crafts and they got one out to me ASAP! I decided to use the die cut feature to make this Easter banner. I printed the damask background that I showed you here on several squares. Then, I used a square die with rounded corners to fancy them up.

I used a circle die to cut pieces of white cardstock. The lettering is black vinyl I cut with my Silhouette. I only did this because my printer was out of ink. My initial plan was to print directly on the cardstock and then die cut around each letter.

The letters circles are attached to the damask backgrounds with glue dots. I punched holes and tied the squares together with ribbons. And then I used thumb tacks to attach them to the mantel. I’m classy like that.

The grass came from Hobby Lobby in sheets like this:

I cut them in half and laid them on top of the mantel. I used a little bit of that white tacky stuff that I cannot think of the name of right now to keep them from moving around.

The wreath details are here and the chick came from Pier 1. The carrots are from Shopko. The plastic white eggs are also from Hobby Lobby.

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to pick up your own Epic 6 (letterpress/die cut machine from Lifestyle Crafts for 25% off. Use code “BLOGCRAP” to take advantage of the deal!

Check back tomorrow to see a fun project using Silhouette’s new fabric interfacing and to get the details on this month’s Silhouette promotion!

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Filed Under: Epic, home decor, letterpress, mantel, paper, Pier1

Meet the Epic

March 14, 2011 By Char @ Crap I've Made 3 Comments

First of all, if your name is Lisa or Kelly, you should check this post to see if you’re one of the LUCKY pillow pattern winners.

Second, I’m closing down the GiftCardRescue giveaway around noon MST. GO ENTER NOW if you haven’t already.

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Lifestyle Crafts contacted me recently and asked if I’d like to review their Epic Letterpress and Die Cut machine. I love crafty gadgets, so I jumped at the chance.

My box was missing a cutting mat, so I haven’t tried the die cut function yet. Hopefully I’ll be able to talk about that later this week! Today we’re talking about letterpress.

Letterpress is so fancy, right? And I am so not! What’s a girl to do?

Well, I checked out the Lifestyle Crafts blog and read up on how to ink.

I love the little legs on the brayer so you can set it down!

And then, I recruited help. I put Macy in charge of the Epic.

She took her job VERY seriously. Note the tongue sticking out of her mouth.

Our first attempt was pretty good:

See that part where the arrow is pointing? My printing plate actually had a little plastic chip missing. None of the others did, so I think that was a fluke.