Flower gift with engraved stone tiles

The first step in creating your personalized stone tile is super easy—and a ton of fun! Gather some tiles (ideally ones you already have lying around at home) with a dark surface; this will make the engraving stand out better, since the inside is often whitish!
Then use a hammer to break these tiles into pieces of the size you want to use for your decorative gift!

In the second step, I looked for engraving settings for the stone tiles based on my previous experience. The settings above proved to be promising right from the first try!
In XTool Studio, I experimented with the design of my engraving; of course, you can apply this to any individual tile or fragment, depending on how you choose to decorate the tile!

Next, gather the items you want to use to decorate the stone tile for your decorative gift. These can be natural materials like stones, wood, moss, flowers, and sticks (see picture). But you can also use any other decorative materials you like, in all colors and shapes. You know the recipient best. Customize the tile to suit their taste!

For the final step—assembly—I can’t give you a foolproof formula. The important thing is that everything holds together well, so you’ll use hot glue for most of it. But be careful: hot glue often doesn’t stick very well to very smooth surfaces, so you might need to use superglue to help it hold.

This simple engraving technique opens up a world of possibilities for creating beautiful gifts! As you can see in the pictures, my wife—who has a real knack for making beautiful gifts—and I have created several different gifts using stone tiles, all made from fragments of a single tile!