Vintage typewriter Father’s Day card
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Vintage Typewriter
This is a relatively simple card, but it gets the message across and who doesn’t love a vintage typewriter?
I got the idea for this card when I was looking at the die set on the Spellbinders web site. It’s called Typing Class and it’s on sale for only $20 right now. There are lots of examples you can scroll through there for inspo. One sample card featured a small-scale floral pattern paper for the body of the typewriter.
Pomological Paper
I liked the pattern paper, but I wanted to create a Father’s Day card, so flowers were less than ideal. Instead I found a fruit-themed paper pad from Graphic 45. It’s called Fruit & Flora. When it first came out I was so in love with it, that I bought several pads to have on hand. While I can’t get enough of the many unabashedly feminine designs by Graphic 45, Fruit and Flora is more gender neutral and its celebration of nature’s bounty gladdens this old Pagan’s heart.
I selected a plum color for the background and matted it with rose gold metallic cardstock on a Kraft notecard in A2 format.
For the body of the typewriter I selected a cream and orange pattern to give me plenty of contrast against the dark purple background. I doubled it up with sturdier white cardstock and then I ran a brown marker along the edges to lift them up off the background. For the background behind the keys, I went with black cardstock. Then I used more rose gold for the keys themselves, the space bar and the knobs on each side.
Sentiment
The Typing Class die set comes with a few sentiments, but what makes it so versatile is that there is a slit for adding a piece of paper to the typewriter. It’s 2.5” wide, so there’s plenty of room for a stamped sentiment. However, the typewriter die was originally meant for a 5 by 7 card. It still fits fine on an A2-sized card in landscape format, but you can’t make the sentiment card too tall. Originally I wanted each word on its own line, but that wouldn’t have worked.
I used a Waffle Flower stamp set called Oversized Happy to stamp the sentiment on cream cardstock and heat embossed it in copper. Then I slid the cream card through the slot in the die cut and glued it to the underside of the typewriter body.
To add dimension, I glued thick white craft foam to the underside of the typewriter and sentiment card, but for the knobs I had to use 1/8” foam strips. Then I mounted the typewriter on the matted card front. All that was left was to place my sticker on the back of the card and I was done!
