The new Betterpress Letterpress machine is AMAZING for cardmaking!❤️ Follow @inklipse for more crafting inspiration. Here I used the Butterfly Wishes design plate and inked it up with black Betterpress ink. This ink sticks well to the plates and will help you get a great image! Then, place the cardstock on and run it through the Platinum die-cutting Machine. This presses the image into the cardstock to get great stamping and letterpress texture.🙌🏻 To finish it off, I used the coordinating die-

We are starting to build up a variety of different greeting cards available in our museum store! This card is just for kix… literally. Here is a video of Jared letterpress printing greeting cards in a mix of green and opaque white rubber base ink. This press run involved printing 40 cards using a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. The front of the card was printed using an electrotype from the Brett from Pennsylvania Collection. The card says “Just For Kix” and notice the feet on the

We show a lot of videos involving letterpress printing individual letters of type and cuts. However, we sometimes make mistakes. Mistakes are okay though, especially when typesetting. The first print you make before a press run is called a proof so the print could be proofread. In this video, Jared letterpress printed a phrase with a spelling error. This was printed in Pantone PMS 7533c rubber base ink and using a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. The font is 24 point Caslon. In lett

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