Darkroom Door Bookmarks

Hi Everyone,

Cornelia here today. This week it's anything goes on the Topflight blog.  I decided on making some bookmarks with the pretty Darkroom Door Chrysanthemums.

I used water color paper for my background. Sprinkled Brushos (yellow and blue) onto the paper and generously added water to have the colors blend. You can used regular watercolors for this as well. 

I stamped the blooms and added a bit of focal color as well as some highlights with a Posca pen. Stamped the sentiment. Lastly I added some ribbons.

I dabbed away some of the color from the above bloom, as it was a bit too dark for my taste. I alos added a bit of color to the leaves.

On the bookmark below I added a texture stamp on the side and colored it in a bit.

I hope you liked this. Thanks for visiting. 

See you next week with more Topflight Stamps inspiration.

And here are the stamp supplies I used: 

Beautiful Blooms, Abstract04

Reading,

Brusho Yellow, Brusho Prussian Blue

AALL & Create - The Earth Laughs in Flowers

Hello Crafties, Mary Key here! I am going to use AALL & Create stamps and stencil. #119 Print by Numbers, #110 Digits Checked Stencil, and also #58 Scribbolour washi-tape.  It's one of those moments when you don't know what to make as a card. I like using AALL & Create to just put together something to make a card. I will be sending this card to a friend to keep her smiling. 

First I cut a slimline base card out of white cardstock paper. I used #110 stencil Digits Checked Stencil and used a brown tone color and just did some blending on my silicone mat. 

Next, I used #119 Print by Numbers stamp and used Versafine Clair Nocturne ink to get a crisp black color onto my slimline card and did a little heat dry with my embossing heat gun.

I started to add some pieces of washi-tape onto my card using #58 Scribbolour Washi-tape. I like how it looks. I started to just stamp the flower part in Versafine Clair Nocturne onto waterpaper, fussy cut and did some watercoloring with my brush markers and added a little white ink to just give it some pop.

Lastly, heat embossed onto black cardstock the sentiment within the stamp with white embossing powder and cut it out.

Now to put my slimline card together onto black cardstock to just make the colors standout. I added some foam tape to raise my flower onto my card.  Here is the final card.

Thank you for stopping by and keep creating!

Topflight Stamps Supplies Used:

AALL & Creatte #58 Scribbolour 

AALL & Create #119 Print by Numbers

AALL & Create #110 Digits Checked

Tsukineko VersaFine Clair - Nocturne

 

Kitten Me!

Greetings! It's Tuesday so you've got Kathi here to share a project with you. This week's theme is "Anything Goes" for the TFS team! Since I missed International Pet Day last week and since I'm a crazy cat lady, I decided to make a card with the super-cute Cats 1 Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Craft Emotions, which features four adorable cats, some feline accessories, and several sentiments. I really like this set because the cat stamps don't have tabby stripes or spots, so I can make the cats look mine. 

Here's the card!

I selected the sneaky cat stamp (to represent Domino Nimbus) and the sleeping cat stamp (to represent Harley Quinn) from the Cats 1 Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Craft Emotions, positioned both stamps facedown onto the white cardstock on the stamping platform, inked them with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko, and stamped them twice — once onto the image panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 

I used Copic markers to color both cats to resemble my kitties, fussy-cut the sticker paper versions and placed the fussy-cut images over their counterparts as masks.

Grey Copic-friendly dye ink was brushed over the masked images using Premier Blending Tool and Premier Blending Sponges by Hunkydory Crafts. The same grey ink was used to stamp the pawprints from the Cats 1 Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Craft Emotions behind the cat. 

Sentiments from the Cats 1 Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Craft Emotions were stamped with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko onto the image panel.

The image panel was die-cut with the smaller die from the Frayed Frames Die Set 26 by AALL and Create. The larger die from that set was used to cut black cardstock which was used to mat the image panel. The matted image panel was adhered to a pale grey card to finish the project.

Please pop over to my blog, Kat's Tales of Stamping, for more information (and photos of my cats on the sidebar). 

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Cats 1 Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Craft Emotions

Frayed Frames Die Set 26 by AALL and Create

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Premier Blending Tool by Hunkydory Crafts

Premier Blending Sponges by Hunkydory Crafts

Thanks for visiting today!

2 Clean and Simple Birthday Cards

 Hi friends. Alanna back on the blog with you today with a pair of clean and simple birthday cards.

To get started, I took the Floral Butterfly stamp from Studio Light and stamped it directly onto white A2 notecards with the Sugar Plum Shimmer Pearlescent ink. The stamp doesn't cover an entire A2 card front so I stamped it once and then moved it down so it would just overlap a bit and stamped the rest of my card panels.

Note that it looks like this set is no longer available from Topflight Stamps, but Studio Light has the Grunge Butterflies set that is very similar. 

After my card base was stamped, I took the Best Birthday Ever set from Visible Image and stamped the happy birthday sentiment with Versafine Claire Nocturne ink onto white card stock. I trimmed them down and then matted them onto some silver shine card stock. I added those to the cards covering up the area where my previous stamping had overlapped.

I finished off the cards by adding in some gems,

Find all the products I used in the Topflight Stamps store below. Crafty hugs! ~ Alanna

Visible Image Mother's Day Card

 

Hello friends! Ericka from Strangely Creative here and today I have a Mother's Day card using the Visible Image Golden Daffodils set along with the Grunge Tone stamp. For my background, I used a left over paper I made from cleaning off my brayer while making gel prints with PaperArtsy Fresco Paints.  I love saving these scraps, as they often make beautiful backgrounds. 

I started by stamping the daffodil and clear embossed it. I colored up the flower with some colored pencils adding some shading. I stamped the Grunge Tone in some Twilight PaperArtsy Fresco Paint and added it around my background.

I finished my card with the sentiment in the Golden Daffodils set. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend!

Topflight Stamps Supplies

Spring Chickens

    Hi Everyone,

Cornelia here today. Our theme this week is spring. And what's better than flowers and some spring chicks!

I used a background from my stash, that I made with a gel plate and a stencil from AALL&Create. I stamped the chicks onto scrap paper and colored them with alcohol ink markers. Stamped the chicks and flowers onto the background and added the cut out chicks. I die cut my card and wanted to mount it onto a solid colored background, but did't like the way it looked. So I sponged the remining frame on darker colors and glued it all onto a white card base. Added some Washi tape instead of a sentiment.

I hope you liked this. Thanks for visiting. 

See you next week with more Topflight Stamps inspiration.

And here are the stamp supplies I used: 

Ginko&Co- KTZ311, Little Birds - KTZ217

Numberama, Blender Brushes

Washi tape #23 Vivre, Gel Press

AALL & Create - Boy MOM

Hello Crafties, Mary Key here and this week along with my team members is Mother's Day/Spring. I am going to feature AAll & Create #135 Bricks & Bubbles, #107 Components Stencil, #935 Boy Mom along with #23 Vivre by Janet Klein.

I will be using white cardstock for my base and stamp the image from #935 Boy Mom on watercolor paper. 

First I will start adding colors using #107 Components Stencil with a blending brush.

Then next I use #135 Bricks & Bubbles Stencil with a blending brush.

Next, I use a piece of washi tape #23 Vivre for my bottom.

Next, I stamp my image #935 Boy Mom and watercolor my image and then fussy cut it.

Here is my final card using a peachy color cardstock to finish my card along with the sentiment from #935 Boy Mom. This was fun to make. Stencils are fun to use in so many ways to blending some color or paste to using a gel plate and some acrylic colors to watercolor and inks.

Thank you for stopping by.

Topflight Stamps Supplies Used:

AALL & Create #107 Components

AALL & Create #135 Bricks & Bubbles

AALL& Create #935 Boy Mom

AALL & Create #22 Vivre by Jane Klein