![]() The results of my Homemade snowflate printing plate. So I took an old plexiglass cutting pad from my Big Shot, a piece of Masonite and some duck tape and made this: I hinged the plexiglass plate to a peice of Masonite with duct tape to make my press. When I saw the home letterpress kit from Lifestyle Crafts I was intrigued but I wasnt about to spent $150 on a whim especially since I had a die cutter and zillions of rubber stamps already, they also have a starter kit that has the contraption that you use the printing plates with, ink and paper for $70 but that is still a lot of money in my book. The card base was pressed uninked then I used the same purple inkpad to rouge the edges. I like it! Here I inked the crown with purple ink before printing. It’s totally cool! This is how it looks without inking. You may be thinking “what’s the big deal? It looks like stamping” but that is only half of it because when you letterpress it debosses too! You can just plain emboss, ink the plate first and have a colored debossed image or you can run your paper through uninked then brayer ink (or swipe it with an inkpad) over it to highlight the raised design. Here I debossed the images without ink then used a brayer to add ink over the debossed designs. ![]() ![]() I feel like an evil genius! I figured out how to make my own letterpress contraption to use with my Big Shot Die Cutting machine, lookie at what I made: Some cards made with my homemade letterpress and printing plates from Lifestyle Crafts.
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