Christmas Card - Engineering Tree

Engineers Christmas Tree Card

Once again, I'm inspired to use Altenew's Engineers Rule stamp set. This time I created a simple single layer Christmas card and here's how I made it happen.

Firstly, I masked a triangle onto dark navy blue notecard. Placed the notecard in my We r Memory Keepers stamping platform and arranged various stamp images from the Engineers Rule stamp set inside the masked triangle. Closed the door on the stamping platform to capture the stamps then used versa color ink in Hyacinth to stamp the images onto the card.

In order to define the triangle (tree) outline, I used a white gel pen to draw a dotted line along the inside of the masked area.

I then removed the masking tape and used my heat gun to dry the ink.

For the sentiment, I used "happy holidays" from My Favourite Thing's Hand Lettered Stamp set. I placed the sentiment stamp under the 'tree', stamped it with clear embossing ink and heat embossed the sentiment using silver embossing powder.

To finish off I adhered the notecard to a silver card base using double sided tape.

All done! Hope you liked this card and can draw inspiration from it for your own creations.

Happy crafting!

Mel Crafting

Christmas Card - Engineer's Blueprint

Engineer's Blueprint Christmas Card

I'm slightly obsessed with the Engineers Rule stamp set by Altenew I recently purchased so here is another card inspired by that stamp set.

This time I was going for the look of a blueprint image well-known to be used in the drawings world and thought it would be similar if I used light colored inks on a blue cardstock and here's how I went.

I took a A6 piece of navy cardstock and placed in my We R Memory Keepers stamping platform. I them arranged the varioius engineering tools and equipment from the Engineers Rule stamp set around the outside of the card before closign the door on the stamping platform to grab the stamps.

Using Hyacinth Versa Colour ink I stamped these images a few times using my stamping platform. I decided to use the lilac Hyacinth colour over a white pigment ink because it gives a more subtle look which appeals to me.

To make sure the ink was dry I gave it a quick drying with my heat tool before rubbing my anti-static powder bag tool all over the notecard in preparation for heat embossing.

I decided the sentiment "Wishing you a Merry and Bright Christmas" would look good on this card. As a bonus it meant I could utilise stamps from both My Favourite Things' Hand Lettered stamp set and Simon Says Stamp's Holiday Greetings Set 1. I stamped these using clear embossing ink and then heat embossing it all using white embossing powder.

To finish off I adhered this note card to the front of a silver card base using double-sided tape.

Overall I really am fond of the outcome of this card. I love the look of it, the idea of it and the masculinity of it - it's hard to make cards for guys sometimes! If I were to make this card again I would probably place the words closer to another so the sentiment is more centred in te middle of the card but that is the perfectionist in me coming out.

Hope you enjoyed the card and can draw some inspirations from it for your own creations.

Happy Crafting!

Mel Crafting.

Christmas Card - Engineer's Christmas

Engineer's Christmas Card

This is the first card of many that I intend to make using Altenew's Engineers Rule stamp set. I also used My Favourite Things' Hand Lettered Holiday stamp set too.

Firstly I took some black note card and stuck it to my We R Memory Keepers stamping platform using low tack masking tape.

Then I arranged the various tools and images in the Engineers Rule stamp set around the edge of the black note card. I used Versa Color in Hyacinth to stamp a surrounding border of engineering tools and images.

Using clear embossing ink I stamped Happy Christmas from MFT Lettered Holiday stamp set. Then I hear set it using white embossing powder from ranger.

To complete the sentiment I stamped "wishing you a" above Happy from Simon Says Stamp's Holiday Greetings Set 1. Then I used letters from an alphabet set to stamp "engineer's" above Christmas. I used Stampin Up whisper white ink for both.

Finally, I adhered the notecard to the front of a silver cardbase using double-sided tape.

I quite liked the watermark look of the border and I love how masculine this card turned out. Please note this card was largely an experiment, I would have liked to line up each part of the sentiments much straighter to give a cleaner and more engineered look. However, it hopefully gives a good idea of what I was trying to achieve and gives you inspiration to create something similar.

Happy Crafting!

Mel Crafting.

Christmas Card - Peaceful Trees

Peaceful Trees

Once again I wanted to use Simon Says Stamp's Clean Line Christmas stamp set and it's geometric trees that I was recently gifted to use. I thought it would be perfect to create a clean and simple Christmas card. I also wanted to use the 'peaceful' stamp from Simon says stamp's Holiday Greetings Mix 1 so that formed the basis of this design.

(I'll post a link to a process video here in the near future)

Simon Says Stamp Holiday Greetings Mix 1

Simon Says Stamp Clean Line Christmas

First of all I decided to stamp each of the 3 geometric trees in a shade of blue, green and red. For the blue I used Altenew crisp dye ink in Desert Night, the green is Ranger Archival Ink in Library Green and the red I used was Stampin Up Cherry Cobbler.

Ink Pads Used on this Card

I placed a A6 sized piece of 300gsm (~100lb) cardstock and each tree stamp into my we r memory Keepers stamping platform and lined them up using a ruler. I stamped the furthest from the edge of my stamping platform first, removed it from the door then stamped the tree in the middle, removed that stamp and stamped the final tree. Thus was to make it easier for me to stamp the separate colours cleanly while keeping them all lined up where I wanted them on the card front.

I decided I wanted to have the sentiment "wishing you a peaceful Christmas" so I lined up the smaller 'wishing you a' above the "peaceful" stamp with 'christmas' below. I stamped this using ranger archival ink in jet black but I wanted the "peaceful" part of the sentiment to stand out so decided to restamp it using clear embossing ink then heat embossed it with black embossing powder. When I did this I made sure the stamped images where completely dry before applying my anti static powder tool then heat embossing.

Heat Embossing Tools Used

That was all I wanted to do on this card to keep it simple but felt it needed something more. I decided to give the card a bit of dimension by using foam tape to adhere the card front to a 180gsm textured white card base.

All The Products Used on This Card

And it's done. It turned out really simple and clean. Just how I wanted it to be. Hope you enjoyed this card design.

Happy crafting!

Mel Crafting.

Christmas Card - Vellum Overlay

Vellum Overlay Christmas Card

I wanted to try out my alcohol markers properly so I stamped this bold flower background and used my touchfive alcohol marker - which I bought off AliExpress- to try out some colour blending.

Flowery Background Outline

To stamp this background I used Gina K Designs Jet black ink as it is alcohol marker friendly and coloured it all in.

Alcohol Marker Colored Background

Then I used clear embossing ink onto vellum to stamp "Wishing you the happiest Christmas filled with love, cheer & joy" from Simon Says Stamp's Holiday Greetings Mix 1" clear stamp set. Then I sprinkled gold embossing powder over the top and heat set it. I folded the top edge of the vellum over the top of the coloured background.

Vellum Overlay

To keep it in place I used double-sided tape to stick vellum on top edge to the notecard. Then I adhered leftover red strips with clear embossed stamping to the top and bottom edges. I founda  navy blue card and stuck the notecard to the front of that.

Finished Vellum Overlay Card

All done!

Happy Crafting!

Mel Crafting.