Lifestyle Crafts Epic Letterpress and Die Cut Review and Giveaway

When Lifestyle Crafts contacted me about reviewing their Epic Letterpress and Die Cut machine I said yes for a couple of reasons.

The first is that I love the look of letterpress cards and projects and wanted to try my hand at them.  I mean what is not to love about these cute letterpress cupcake flags Danyelle made using the Epic:

The second is that I love tools that multi-task.  This not only allows you to create letterpress cards, but also create die cut shapes.  And that includes any of the existing Quickutz shapes, which I happen to have a few of from my scrapbooking days.

And the third reason is that I am a true blue lover of buying crafting tools.  It is in my blood to want the newest, funnest, coolest.  And I know there are a lot of people out there like me.  So I wanted to try it out and really tell you if it is worth your dollars.

So my son's teacher was having a birthday and I thought we could make her a letterpress birthday card together.  She loves orange and I loved these fun circle flowers, so we went to work.

I have to say the quality of the ink and the paper that they sell is amazing.  The cards and envelopes truely beautiful and something that you would be proud to send a wedding invitation on.

So what did I think?

If you are someone that loves to make your own cards, either for holidays or parties, than this machine is definitely the perfect tool for you.  The combination of letterpress and die cutting capability gives you an endless combination of cards.

image from Kerry's Craft Blog

If you love making personalized favors for parties, this is also for you!  I personally think the machine lives up to its full potential when you are creating multiple identical images.  A lot of time goes into the set up, so printing 100 invitations wouldn't take much more time than printing 1.  The machine has great guides and tools for making it easy to line up the paper for repeat prints.

The machine and the materials are all great quality.  The only thing that I didn't like was the adhesive sheets that you use to attach the printing plates.  You have to cut around the shapes, and the shapes I love the most are very intricate which means lots of time cutting.  BUT I also happened to have some removable adhesive tape from my scrapbooking days and it worked perfectly with no cutting.

So although it is a little time consuming to make just one birthday card for your son's teacher, it is a great product for those of you that love to throw parties or make your own cards and on a regular basis.  You will really love the end product.

Do you want an Epic Combo Kit and an assortment of goodies to try out for yourself?

To enter to win, just leave a comment letting me know what you would use your Epic Letterpress and Die Cut Machine to create.

Want a few more entries?

You can post about this giveaway on your blog, twitter, or your facebook page.  Just leave an additional comment with a link to your post or tweet for an additional entry.  (One additional entry)

Head over the the Lifestyle Crafts blog and leave a comment, letting them know I sent you.  Leave a comment here and let me know you stopped over to say hello and you will get an additional entry.

You have until Sunday, April 3, 2011 at midnight (CST) to enter.  A winner will be chosen at random from all entries and announced the week of April 4th.  Winner has 48 hours to contact me.  If they fail to do so, they forfeit the prize and a new winner will be selected.

If you already own an Epic machine and want to pick up a few accessories, or if you just don't want to wait to pick up one of your own, make sure to enter the code BLOGBEDIFFERENT at check out you will get 20% your entire order at lifestylecrafts.com.  Valid through April 3.




***Lifestyle Crafts provided me with an Epic Combo Kit and accessories for the purpose of the review. They are also providing an Epic Combo Kit and accessories as a prize to the winner of this giveaway.  All opinions are my own and are based on my use of the machine.***