Autumn Dreaming with Chou & Flowers

Hi, friends!  It's another Monday with Walter on the blog.  We're moving into my favorite time of the year - autumn.  I know that a lot of people don't want to rush the last few weeks of summer but I'm ready for some much cooler nights & mornings, beautiful colors, and the wonderful smells.  That's what inspired my design for this week . . . dreams of autumn!  I used two gorgeous stamp sets from the Chou & Flowers My Little Garden release to create it: Bird Cage and Artist Garden.

My thought was to have artist canvas and easel from Artist Garden be the vessel that displays the main image.  I started by stamping them onto a 4"x5.25" white cardstock panel.  I then took the woman on a swing stamp from Bird Cage and stamped it onto the center of the canvas.  With that done, I started to color the image of the woman.  I used a combination of markers from my stash to add both the main color and details.

I then used a light yellow gray alcohol marker to add a plain color around the edges of the canvas - using flicks of the brush tip to make uneven marks around it.  I then used light shades of red, orange, and yellow to blend a sunset around the woman.

I decided to add some leaves from the Artist Garden set on each side of the swing, stamped them with Rusty Hinge Distress Ink, and added some red highlights to the leaves with an alcohol marker.  A small brush and Pumice Stone Distress Oxide ink add a light gray/brown hue around the outside of the canvas.  I lightly spayed the whole stamped panel with water, let it dry, and then lightly sprayed it with rubbing alcohol to help fade the image a bit and make it look more dreamlike.

The final steps were to create the sentiment strip and faux washi tape strips that I used to embellish the card.  For the sentiment strip, I ink smooshed a strip of white cardstock into a mixture of Rusty Hinge Distress Ink & water and dried it.  I then stamped the word Dream from Bird Cage with Vintage Photo Distress ink.  I stamped two pieces of the faux washi tape with Rusty Hinge Distress Ink, colored them with markers, and fussy cut them.  The sentiment and embellishments were then added to the card.

An overall simple card to create and one which could easily be switched to a spring or summer theme.  It would be fun to do that and have the same design, with different color schemes for those seasons, to send to someone special over the course of the year!

Thanks for spending this time on the blog with me today.  I'll see you here again next week.  Until then . . . be well!

Topflight Products Used:

Chou & Flowers - Clear Stamps - A5 - My Little Garden - Bird Cage - MON114

Chou & Flowers - A4 - Clear Stamp Set - My Little Garden - Artist Garden - MON115

Tsukineko - Versafine Clair Ink Pad - Nocturne

 

Golden Autumn Layers: A Mixed Media Fall Card

 

Hello friends! Ericka from Strangely Creative here, and today I’m welcoming a little bit of fall into my craft room with a colorful mixed media card featuring the beautiful leaves from PaperArtsy Alison Bomber 53.

There’s something about fall crafting that makes me want to pull out all those rich colors, layered backgrounds, and touches of gold. For this card, I found a watercolor background made with leftover Lindy’s Gang Magicals and a fall-colored gel print in my stash.

Sometimes the perfect beginning to a project is already sitting on your craft desk!

Starting with a Leftover Watercolor Background

I started with a watercolor background I had previously created using some leftover Lindy’s Gang Magicals.

 

If you’ve followed me for a while, you know I hate wasting beautiful color! When I have Magicals, sprays, or paints left over from another project, I love using them to create backgrounds that I can save for later. This one had the perfect colors and movement for an autumn card, so it finally found its purpose.

Adding Golden Details

Next, I reached for the PaperArtsy Alison Bomber 53 stamp set. I stamped the leaves and number details directly onto my watercolor background and heat embossed them in gold.

The metallic embossing adds such a beautiful contrast against the loose watercolor. I especially love the way the gold catches the light while still allowing all those colors underneath to show through.

Creating the Layered Leaves

I wanted the leaves to have even more dimension, so I searched through my stash again and found a gel press print filled with beautiful fall colors.

 

I stamped the same leaves onto the gel print and heat embossed them in gold to coordinate with the background. After fussy cutting the leaves, I arranged them over the watercolor panel to create my focal point. Using the same stamp on both the background and the dimensional pieces helps connect all the layers, while the different backgrounds keep everything interesting.

Finishing Touches

To complete the card, I added a sentiment from the Alison Bomber 53 stamp set and finished everything with a simple gold frame. I didn’t want to add too much more. Between the watercolor, gel print, detailed stamping, and metallic embossing, there was already plenty of color and texture to enjoy.

Sometimes knowing when to stop is part of the creative process too!

 

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope this card inspires you to dig through your stash, rediscover some forgotten backgrounds, and add a little golden autumn magic to your next project.

Have a wonderful week and happy creating! 🍂✨

 

 Topflight Stamp Supplies

PaperArtsy - Alison Bomber 53 - Twisted Leaves Shop at: TP	WOW! Embossing - Clear Embossing Pad Shop at: TP	WOW! Embossing - Metallic Gold Rich Pale Shop at: TP	Tsukineko - VersaFine Clair - Nocturn Shop at: TP	Gel Press - Reusable Gel Printing Plate Shop at: TP
Speedball - 2" Brayer Shop at: TP

Halloween Shaker Card with AALL & Create

Hello, Lisa Hoel here! This week at Topflight Stamps our theme is "Halloween/Fall". AALL & Create has a great new Halloween collection out and I decided to make a whimsical shaker card using the Frightful Fun die set and Boosentials stamp set. 

The background is a heavy piece of cardstock I inked and stamped on. I also gave it a light spritz of green mica spray from the Lindy's Haunted Halloween Starburst Sprays set. I glued in some die cuts from the Frightful Fun set (although I did leave one ghost loose to shake around inside). The edges have walls of foam tape to contain all the shaker bits.

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 often!

Topflight Stamps Supplies Used:

AALL & Create stamp set - Boosentials

AALL & Create die set - Holey Fun

AALL & Create die set - Frightful Fun

Lindy's Starburst Sprays - Haunted Halloween

foam tape

Lavinia Elements Ink pads - Violet Chalk, Lime Punch, Sundance

Versafine Clair ink - Nocturne

various shaker bits

 

Spooky!

Greetings!  It's Tuesday so you've got Kathi here to share a project with you. BUT, before we get to that I wanted to remind you that you have a little less than 24 hours to take advantage of the Labor Day Sale! Treat yourself, treat a friend, buy your holiday gifts early! Just pop on over to the Topflight Stamps to fill your basket with goodies!

This week's theme is Halloween, which is my favorite holiday! I love everything about the holiday including creating projects for it, 

Here's my card created with the Dreaded Damask Cling Rubber Stamp by Indigo Blu, the Skull n Roses Unmounted Rubber Stamp by Crafty Individuals, and a sentiment from the Halloween Collection Clear Stamp Set 1 by Melina Dahl for That's Crafty. I also used six colors of Elements Premium Dye Inks by Lavinia Stamps and Clear Gloss Embossing Powder by Wow.

Ink the Dreaded Damask Cling Rubber Stamp by Indigo Blu with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko and stamp it onto a panel of Mixed Media paper to create the image panel. Heat set.

Brush Lemon Drop Elements Premium Dye Ink by Lavinia Stamps onto the center of the stamped panel. Brush Sundance Elements Ink slightly overlapping both sides. Brush Russet Orange Elements Ink on both sides of the darker yellow inked area. Continue this pattern using Mulberry, Merlot, and Flying Fig Elements Inks. Heat set the panel, trim, edge with a black pen, and set it aside.

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to ink the Skull n Roses Unmounted Rubber Stamp by Crafty Individuals and stamp onto white cardstock. Fussy-cut the image, color with alcohol markers, and edge with a black marker.

Brush a strip of Mixed Media paper with Lemon Drop Elements Premium Dye Ink. Heat set. 

Pounce an anti-static pad onto the inked strip. Use Russet Orange Elements Ink to stamp the "Spooky" sentiment from the Halloween Collection Clear Stamp Set 1 by Melina Dahl for That's Crafty onto the strip. 

Add Clear Gloss Embossing Powder by Wow! to the wet ink. Pour the excess powder back into the container. Heat set the embossing powder. Let the heated powder cool, then use a Sentiment Frame Die Set to cut the sentiment. Edge the interior part of the die-cut with Flying Fig Elements Premium Dye Ink. Heat set. Use the same die to cut textured black cardstock.

Adhere the Dreaded Damask to a black textured A2 card. Adhere the colored, fussy-cut Skull n Roses as shown. Adhere the framed sentiment to finish the card.

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

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Dreaded Damask Cling Rubber Stamp by Indigo Blu

Skull n Roses Unmounted Rubber Stamp by Crafty Individuals

Halloween Collection Clear Stamp Set 1 by Melina Dahl for That's Crafty

Lemon Drop, Sundance, Russet Orange, Mulberry, Merlot, and Flying Fig Elements Premium Dye Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Clear Gloss Embossing Powder by Wow

 

Thanks for visiting today!

The Witching Hour with Lavinia Stamps

Hi, friends!  It's Walter on the blog with you after a quick absence last week.  This week's theme for the Topflight Stamps team is Fall/Halloween, and I created a design that has a little bit of both included in it!  I enjoy a good spooky design and fell in love with Willow the Witch from Lavinia Stamps as soon as I saw her.  I used Willow as the center point of my design and added some additional Lavinia stamps to complete the scene.  It's a super simple design that relies on some masking, ink blending, and lots of stamping to bring it to life.

I began by using the Moon Stamp from Lavinia to stamp the moon using Morning Mist ink as well as to create a mask.  I fussy cut the mask and applied it over so the stamped moon so that I could ink blend the rest of the panel.  I applied Lavinia Violet Chalk ink around the outside border of the panel and then applied Lavinia Lime Punch ink to the inside.  I followed up with some Lost Shadow Distress Oxide ink and an ink pouncer brush to apply just a little hint of some mist in the scene.  This also helps to soften the very rich colors of the Lavinia Ink and cover up any darker spots.

With the ink blending done, I removed the mask from the moon and colored it with two shades of cool gray alcohol markers.  I could now stamp the rest of my scene!  I began with Willow to find the perfect featured position for her.  Once she was in place, I then stamped the Witching Hour sentiment, Mini Jinx Cat, and Willow's cauldron.  I was then able to finish the details of the scene by stamping Silhouette Grass and Silhouette Foliage.  Additionally, I used a silver gel pen to add some detail to the cauldron, gray alcohol markers to add the smoke coming up from it, green gel pens to add the position inside the cauldron, and orange gel pens to add the fire below it.  Gray alcohol markers were also used to expand the grassy area to provide some ground as well.

I absolutely adore this fun Halloween scene!  The stamps from Lavinia make it so easy to create wonderfully magical scenes.  I'll be back again next week with another project and post.  Until then . . . be well!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Lavinia Willow the Witch Stamp

Lavinia Mini Jinx Cat Stamp

Lavinia The Moon Stamp

Lavinia Witching Hour Stamp

Lavinia Grass Silhouette Stamp

Lavinia Silhouette Foilage

Lavinia Violet Chalk Ink

Lavinnia Lime Punch Ink

Versafine Clair Nocturne

Versafine Morning Mist

Hunkydory - Diamond Sparkles Glitter Gemstones Purple Sparkles