Topflight Stamps: A PaperArtsy Mixed Media Card

It's Tuesday so you've got Kathi here to share a project with you! This week's focus is on PaperArtsy's fabulous products.

Here's a mixed media card created with Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints, Ink and the Dog Mini Stamps, and the LPC033 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Lynne Perrella — all by PaperArtsy.

I've wanted to create a master board for a long time and decided it was the right time to do so. Visit Leandra Franich's You Tube to watch three videos that do a much better job of describing how I created the painted part of my background.

Add a penny-sized drop of Irish Cream Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint by PaperArtsy to a craft mat. Buff Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint is a good substitute. Use the 2" Brayer by Speedball to spread the paint onto the craft mat which also will equally apply the paint to the brayer.

Gently roll the paint-filled brayer onto a full 9" x 12" sheet of Mixed Media paper until the paint on the brayer is gone . Roll the brayer into the paint on the craft mat to re-load the brayer, then roll the brayer onto the panel again. Repeat this process until the paint on the craft mat is dry. The paint on the background panel will be dry as well.

Apply a penny-sized drop of Caramel Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint to the craft mat, then repeat the process described above.

Continue this paint application process using Irish Cream, Mermaid, BoraBora, Blah Mange, Prawn Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints until the panel is painted you're happy with the results. You can use Buff or Snowflake Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints to mute the colors if desired.

If your background is a bit uneven, as mine was, use a Sanding Block by PaperArtsy to sand it until it is smooth. Be sure to remove the paint dust when done. I find that a Swiffer duster works really well.

Use brown Archival ink to stamp the Ink and the Dog Mini 124, Mini 126, Mini 129, and the Mini 132 Cling Mounted Rubber Stamps onto the background. Use the same ink to stamp the key stamp from the LPC033 Cling Rubber Stamp Set onto the background as well.

Here's a photo of my stamped "master board".

Paint a small piece of Mixed Media paper with Buff and Caramel Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints. Use black Archival ink stamp the Ink and the Dog Mini 115 Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp by PaperArtsy onto the painted paper. Use a small rectangle die to cut the painted paper. Edge the die-cut with turquoise and aqua archival chalk inks. Stipple pink archival chalk inks over the the panel as well. Heat set the panel to dry the ink thoroughly.

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the Ink and the Dog Mini 115 Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp again onto white Copic-friendly cardstock. Fussy-cut the cardstock version and color it with Copic markers. Edge the colored butterfly with black cardstock and adhere it over its counterpart on the painted inked die-cut.

Cut the master board in half. Use the largest die from the Quirky Post Die Set 87 by AALL and Create to cut one half of the masterboard. Use the turquoise and aqua inks to edge the die-cut.

Cut a piece of aqua/turquoisish cardstock to the same size as the die-cut and use to mat the die-cut. Adhere the matted die-cut to a kraft/tan A6 card. In hindsight, I should have matted the image panel die-cut onto a turqoise/aqua A6 card. Alas.

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

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Buff, Caramel, Mermaid, BoraBora, Blah Mange, Prawn, and Snowflake Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy