Everyone knows how much I love letterpress, and when I heard about this giveaway on iDIY, I was jumping out of my chair with excitement! iDIY is giving away Lifestyle Craft’s L Letterpress to ONE special winner! If you’re considering doing your invitations yourself, take a look at this wonderful new letterpress machine!
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Letterpress is an intricate process, since it’s done by hand, one-by-one, piece-by-piece, but it’s gorgeous and it adds a special element to whatever you’re letterpressing! You can use the L Letterpress to make invitations, …

I LOVE letterpress, and if you don’t know what letterpress is, let me explain. It is basically the best thing EVER to happen to paper. If you’re a technical person, you can read about letterpress as it is defined by Wikipedia. In layman’s terms, it’s when the design and ink is pressed into thick, luxurious paper, creating a beautiful piece of paper artwork.
Letterpress is usually reserved for very elegant invitations. Now I’m seeing more letterpress invitations using brighter colors and more design. They’re all, of course, still incredibly elegant, but …

I’m a sucker for letterpress, and when I saw these invitations by Spark Stationary, I just had to share them! This is everything that I would have wanted in my invitation, and more!
I just love the pocket folder, and the letterpress design on it is absolutely amazing. The colors go together so well (I’m sensing an inspiration board in the future), and they make the whole suite just POP! And finally, the tie that holds everything together is something I would have never paired with a wedding invitation. Modern, functional, …