Trick OR Treat? Card

 Greetings! It's Kathi here again today to share another Mixed Media project since that's our focus this week! I've used stamps by Carabelle Studio with Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArts, alcohol markers, modeling paste, a stencil, and die-cuts on this slightly deranged Halloween card.

Here it is!

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp both ravens from the Poe's Ravens Rubber Cling Stamp Set by Carabelle Studio and the eyeball from the Witches' Kit Rubber Cling Stamp Set also by Carabelle Studio onto white cardstock.  Carabelle went out of business last year, but some stamps are still available at Topflight Stamps!

Fussy-cut the ravens and the eyeball, color with Copic markers, and edge with a black marker. Use a gold marker from the Essential Metalllic Colorista Markers Set by Spectrum Noir to outline the raven's monocle and highlight his chain. Set the colored ravens and the eyeball aside. 

Use a door cutting die to cut mixed media cardstock. Use low-tack tape to cover the door frame. Paint the door with Twilight Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy. Let dry. Remove the tape and use colored pencils to add some shading to the door. Flip the door die-cut, place a piece of vellum over the windows, then adhere yellow cardstock over the vellum. Set the door aside.

Cut a piece of mixed media cardstock to 5.5" wide. Use Stone and Buff Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy to paint the cardstock. Use low-tack tape to adhere the painted mixed media cardstock to the back of a floor perspective stencil.

Add a dollop of modeling paste to a craft mat. Add a few drops of Stone Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint to the modeling paste and mix well with a palette knife. Spread the paint-tinted modeling paste over the stencil onto the painted cardstock. Remove the stencil and the tape. Let air dry for a bit, then use a heat gun at a distance to heat set it.

Create a 5.5" x 8.5" card from white cardstock. Adhere the stenciled dimensional floor to the bottom of the card. Cut a piece of brick patterned paper from the Bricks Textures 6x6 Paper Pad by Craft Consortium Ltd. to 5.5" and adhere to the card as shown. Trim whatever white space is left at the top of the card. 

Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to edge the card. Adhere the ravens and the eyeball to the front of the card. Adhere a silver metallic flat backed half globe to the door to become a doorknob.

Use alphabet dies to cut black cardstock and adhere to spell out the sentiment.

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

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Poe's Ravens Rubber Cling Stamp Set by Carabelle Studio

Witches' Kit Rubber Cling Stamp Set by Carabelle Studio

Twilight, Stone. and Buff Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy

Bricks Textures 6x6 Paper Pad by Craft Consortium Ltd.

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Essential Metalllic Colorista Markers by Spectrum Noir

Thanks for visiting today!

Mixed Media + Halloween and Katzelkraft

Hello, Lisa Hoel here. This week at Topflight Stamps our theme is "Mixed Media". I love using "all the things" so this is right up my alley! I'm in Halloween crafting mode so I chose to make an appropriately themed card.

The background is a Gel Press print to which I applied texture paste through a PaperArtsy Mini Stencil, then sprinkled with Oiled Slate WOW Embossing Powder. Once the paste was dry, I heat embossed the powder. I layered on die cuts, fussy cut Katzelkraft stamped images and fabric.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the Topflight Stamps store for a wide selection of different and hard to find stamps, stencils and other paper crafting supplies from all around the world! Also keep an eye here on the Topflight Stamps blog. There is new inspiration posted daily!

Topflight Stamps Supplies Used:

Katzelkraft Stamp Set - Cats

Katzelkraft Stamp Set - Pilgrim

PaperArtsy Hot Picks stencil - PM025

WOW! Embossing Powder - Oiled Slate

Masterpiece Design Memory Planner Die Set - Tag Mini Album

AALL & Create die sets - SkyCrosssed Paradise #34

Versafine Pigment Ink Pad - Onyx Black

Gel Press Plate

PaperArtsy Fresco Paint - various

watercolors

Distress Plaid Paper Pad

Happy Halloween - A Mixed Media MemoryDex Page

It's Tuesday so you've got Kathi here to share a project with you. This week the team is focusing on Mixed Media. Since I'm still (always) in Halloween mode, I've made another page for my Halloween MemoryDex album using the Spring Sprouts Die Set 49 by AALL and Create, Dee of Darkness Clear Stamp Set 1198 by Janet Klein, Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy, and the Hot Picks Mini Stencil PM016 by PaperArtsy.

Here's the MemoryDex page!

Here's a close-up!

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the Mummy Dee from the Dee of Darkness Clear Stamp Set 1198 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create onto white cardstock. Fussy-cut the image, color with Copic markers, and edge with a black multiliner pen. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to her eyes and a clear glaze pen to add dimension and shine to her earrings. Set her aside.

Use the main MemoryDex die from the Spring Sprouts Die Set 49 by AALL and Create to cut Mixed Media cardstock. Add drops of Vintage Lace, Haze, and Stone Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy to foam, pounce the foam on a craft mat to mix, then pounce the paint onto the MemoryDex page. Let dry or heat set.

Place a brick stencil over the dried paint on the MemoryDex card and pounce the foam over the stencil to add a subtle tone on tone brick pattern to the MemoryDex page.

Position the Hot Picks Mini Stencil PM016 by PaperArtsy onto the center of the MemoryDex card. Use low-tack tape to cover the stone apertures and the bricks of the the arch. Use black acrylic paint to paint the center of the arch. Let dry. 

Remove the tape from the stones of the arch, but leave the tape on the outside of the arch. Use low-tack tape to cover the center piece of the arch. Place the center piece in the center of the arch to mask the painted area.

Place a dollop of modeling paste onto a craft mat. Add a few drops of Haze and Stone Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy onto the modeling paste, mix well, and scrape the paste over the stencil onto the MemoryDex page. Remove the stencil, the tape covering it, and toss both parts of the stencil into a tub of water.

Use a palette knife to add a tiny bit of texture to the stones on the arch. Let the modeling paste air dry, then heat set. 

Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the web from the Dee of Darkness Clear Stamp Set 1198 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create onto the top left of the MemoryDex page. Clean the stamp and use the same ink to stamp the web on the top right. Heat set both webs.

Dust the MemoryDex page with anti-static powder. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the spiders from the Dee of Darkness Clear Stamp Set 1198 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create being sure to clean and dry the spider stamps between repositioning them and stamping. Add clear detail embossing powder to the spiders and heat set. Use a red marker to add color to the spiders' eyes.

Edge the MemoryDex page with Strawberry, Fantasia, and Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko. Heat set. Adhere the fussy-cut Dee of Darkness to the MemoryDex. Add a rub-on sentiment to finish the piece.

Please pop over to my blog, Kat's Tales of Stamping, for more information including complete supply lists. 

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Dee of Darkness Clear Stamp Set 1198 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Spring Sprouts Die Set 49 by AALL and Create

Vintage Lace, Haze, and Stone Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy

Hot Picks Mini Stencil PM016 by PaperArtsy.

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Strawberry, Fantasia, and Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Thanks for visiting today!

Stenciling over Patterned Papers

 Hi friends. Alanna here on the blog with you today with this pair of cards with a bit of a mixed media feel.

To get started, I trimmed down papers from the Wood Textures 6x6 paper pack from Craft Consortium. I then took the Leafy stencil from Visible Image and used a blending foam and white pigment ink and blended it directly onto the patterned paper.

I added foam tape directly to my white A2 notecards and then added the panels onto them. I die cut one of the butterfly dies from the Nature's Doily die set from AALL & Create. I die cut the outline die twice from white card stock and adhered them together. I then die cut the outline and center portion of the inner die together with some champagne-colored glitter card stock.  

I stamped my sentiment from the Classic Sentiments set from Heffy Doodle and trimmed it out. I added some thin strips of card stock behind it for a bit of dimension and then added it over top of my butterfly. 

I then used a die from my stash and die cut tiny circles from the same glitter card stock I used for the butterfly and added a few onto the card. 

Find these products I used below in the Topflight Stamps store. 

Crafty hugs! ~ Alanna

Mixed Media Bliss: Playing with Gel Press and Paints

 

Happy Friday, friends! Ericka here from Strangely Creative, and today I’ve been having fun with paints in two different ways: using my gel press and playing with the magical leftovers from my brayer. If you’ve ever worked with a gel press and acrylics, you know the brayer is your best friend for getting those smooth prints. But don’t toss those extra papers you use to clean your brayer—those sheets often have hidden gems of color and pattern waiting to be turned into something beautiful!

Step 1: Creating the Background

To start, I used my trusty PaperArtsy Fresco Paint in Lemon Meringue for the background. After letting it dry, I pulled out the Twilight paint to create a print. But before I pressed it down, I added some texture with bubble wrap. This technique left such a cool, bubbly pattern on the background, giving it some great texture and interest.

Step 2: Adding a Textured Frame

Once the background was done, I grabbed the PaperArtsy France Papillon PS377 stencil and some texture paste to create a frame for a focal point. I love how the paste adds dimension to the project! I set the card aside to dry, but I wasn’t done playing with those leftover gel press papers yet.

 

Step 3: Stamping Flowers from Leftovers

While waiting, I took one of my brayer cleaning sheets (which had some gorgeous colors on it) and stamped the PaperArtsy Tracy Scott 58 flowers. Using colored pencils, I added a few highlights to bring the flowers to life, then carefully cut them out.

Step 4: Bringing it All Together

With everything ready, I used foam tape to add the flowers to my textured background, creating some fun dimension. For the sentiment, I stamped and white heat-embossed the word “bliss” from the PaperArtsy Sara Naumann 41 set. As a final touch, I hand-drew a simple frame around the edges to bring the whole card together.

This card was a joy to make—there’s something so satisfying about seeing leftover bits of paint and paper turn into a colorful, textured masterpiece. I hope this inspires you to break out your gel press and get creative this weekend. Don’t forget: those brayer cleaning papers can be just as valuable as your main prints!

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you have a wonderfully creative day!

Until next time, happy crafting!

 

Topflight Stamp Supplies

PaperArtsy - Sara Naumann 41 Shop at: TP	PaperArtsy - Tracy Scott 58 Shop at: TP	PaperArtsy - France Papillon PS377 Shop at: TP	Tsukineko - VersaFine Clair - Nocturn Shop at: CS | AZ | TP	PaperArtsy - Fresco Chalk Paint - Bubble Gum Shop at: TP
PaperArtsy - Fresco Chalk Paint - Lemon Meringue Shop at: TP	PaperArtsy - Fresco Chalk Paint - Pixie Dust Shop at: TP	PaperArtsy - Fresco Chalk Paint - Twilight Shop at: TP	Hammermill Paper, Color Copy Digital, 32lb Shop at: AZ
Ranger Ink - Texture Paste Shop at: SC | AZ | Misc	Gel Press - Reusable Gel Printing Plate Shop at: AZ | TP | Misc	Speedball - 2" Brayer Shop at: TP

Mixed Media Tag Fun with Paint

Hello friends! Ericka from Strangely Creative here, ready to share a colorful mixed media tag that I had a blast making. I was in the mood to play with some purple and fun textures, so I dove into my stash and came up with a cheerful yet moody tag.

I started with a vibrant gel press print as my base, using PaperArtsy Fresco Paints in Bubble Gum and Byzantium. The bright pinks mixed with the deeper purple created a perfect backdrop with a dreamy, layered effect.

Next, I tore up some PaperArtsy Printed Tissue and used Mattint in Jam and The Pink to adhere the pieces to the tag. I absolutely love working with Mattints because they not only serve as glue for the tissue but also add a hint of color, blending everything together seamlessly. The combination of textures and subtle hues added a lot of dimension to the tag.

I’m a big fan of words on my tags, so I reached for AALL & Create’s Nightshade washi tape. I love how the black and white elements from the washi contrast with the bright background, grounding the design and giving it a touch of mystery. To finish off, I used PaperArtsy Fresco Paint in Eggplant around the edges of the tag. This rich purple helped draw the eye toward the center, creating a focal point and tying all the elements together.

This tag was a joy to create! I love how the colors, textures, and words come together in a cohesive and dynamic design. I hope this inspires you to break out your paints and washi and create something fun today!

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you have a creatively colorful week! Until next time, happy crafting!

 

 Topflight Stamp Supplies

AALL & Create - Night Shade Shop at: TP	PaperArtsy - Fresco Chalk Paint - Bubble Gum Shop at: TP	PaperArtsy - Fresco Chalk Paint - Byzantium Shop at: TP	PaperArtsy - Fresco Chalk Paint - Eggplant Shop at: TP	PaperArtsy - Mattint Jam Shop at: TP
PaperArtsy - Mattint The Pink Shop at: TP	PaperArtsy - Printed Tissue Scrapcosy Shop at: TP	Gel Press - Reusable Gel Printing Plate Shop at: TP	Speedball - 2" Brayer Shop at: TP