Topflight Stamps: Happy PURR-day Gift Card and Tag

Greetings! It's Tuesday so you've got Kathi here to share a project with you. This week the team is focusing on gift card holders, tags, or containers. Since December is only a few weeks away, I need several of these because there are family birthdays, friends' birthdays, and the winter holidays!

Here's my gift card that has a pull-out tag, made with AALL and Create's Ribboned Whisker Wonders Clear Stamp Set 1214, the Purrfect Gift Clear Stamp Set 121 (retired), the Totally Dotty Stencil 87, the Top of the Pops Die Set 45 and the Tag It Yourself Die Set 27. Brushos, PaperArtsy Infusions, and VersaFine Clair Inks were

used as well.

Here's the card by itself:

Here's the card with the gift card pulled out of its hiding place.

This card was a bit complicated, albeit fun, to make. Rather than completely bore you, I'll give you the condensed version, then you can pop over to my blog for the verbose and boring instructions.

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko was used to stamp the cats and presents from the Ribboned Whisker Wonders Clear Stamp Set 1214 by AALL and Create. The image was masked and the solo cat (in orange) was stamped atop one of the gifts, positioned so it appears that he is lazily playing with the toy. The masks were lifted, the images were colored with Copic markers, then the panel was cut with the flag die from the Top of the Pops Die Set 45 by AALL and Create.

Sleight Blue and Rusty Car Infusions by PaperArtsy were sprinkled onto wet Bristol paper, misted again to activate the dyes. The background needed more blue and purple tones, so Ultramarine and Violet Brushos by Colourcraft added in the same way. The paper was thoroughly heat set, cut with the second largest flag die from the Top of the Pops Die Set 45, flattened, and used to mat the colored image panel die-cut.

Arctic, Very Peri, Blue Belle, and Medieval Blue VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko were brushed onto another piece of Bristol paper working from the heaviest application of the lighter blues to the lightest application of the dark blues to create the background panel. Fantasia and Lilac Bloom VersaFine Clair Inks were brushed over the Totally Dotty Stencil 87 by AALL and Create to add a pattern to the background panel. The panel was trimmed to 4.75" x 6.75" and edged with Fantasia VersaFine Clair Ink. The panel was heat set and set aside so I could make the gift tag.

The same inks were brushed onto another piece of Bristol paper, which was then cut with the smallest tag die from the Tag It Yourself Die Set 27 by AALL and Create and a pocket die from another die set in my stash. The slot die from the Top of the Pops Die Set 45 was used to cut a slot on the top of the tag.

Fantasia VersaFine Clair Ink was used to stamp the sentiment onto a strip of leftover inked paper and die-cut.

The layers were all adhered and the sentiment strip was adhered to finish the card.

Please pop over to my blog, Kat's Tales of Stamping, for step-by-step complete instructions and supply lists.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Ribboned Whisker Wonders Clear Stamp Set 1214 by AALL and Create