Floral Typewriter Greeting Cards

Hello crafty friends. Today's post features some really fun typewriter greeting cards with floral accents. I used Spellbinders clear stamp of the month with an accompanying die set for February 2022.

Orange type writer with floral accents on a greeting card. The text reads "Be bold or italic. Never regular"

Love this cute design!

I began by using my Misti stamp tool to lay down these images with some black versa fine ink. I love using the Misti because it ensures you get a usable stamped image. If you don't have one of these in your craft room yet I certainly think it's worth the investment. Next, I heat embossed my stamped images with Wow clear embossing powder.

Handmade greeting card featuring a blue typewriter on white embossed card base. The sentiment reads "I'm writing this just to say thank you".

A card I'd love to recieve.

Coloring in my stamped images was a lot of fun. I used a combination of alcohol ink markers, Tombow brush markers, and colored pencils. Because my images were embossed the clear layer allowed me to use any medium I wanted without fear of smearing the ink. I even used some watercolor on the typewriters simply because I love the way watercolor looks! I wanted to achieve some highlights on the typewriters so a fair amount of experimentation went into how I could do that. It's safe to say these images are mixed media.

After coloring in my images I used the accompanying die set to cut them out. I composed my images on a white panel after running them through the Spellbinders embossing folder of the month for February 2022. I glued everything in place, added some sequins, and mounted it all to an A2 card. I also experimented with a patterned paper background but much prefer the look of the white embossed background. What do you think?

Purple typewriter on patterned paper with floral accents.

Testing out the design with patterned paper.

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