Topflight Stamps: Seashells at the Seashore

Greetings! It's Tuesday so you've got Kathi here to share a project with you. This week I've created a mixed media card using Darkroom Door's Seashells Red Rubber Cling Stamp Set, Seaside Red Rubber Cling Word Block, and Seashells Film Strip Red Rubber Cling Stamp. The background was created with Sea Glass, Caramel, Vintage Lace, Vanilla, and Buff Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy.

Here it is!

The first thing I did was to apply a few dots of each of the above Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints to a piece of Inkssentials Foam as shown below.

The paint bedotted foam was squished onto a craft mat to blend the colors, then applied to mixed media cardstock. This was repeated until two pieces of paper were covered. Both sheets were heat set.

A stamp platform was used to position the Seaside Word Block Red Rubber Cling Stamp. The stamp was inked with Arctic Mist Prism Ink by Hunkydory Crafts and stamped onto one of the sheets. The stamp and the background panel were kept in position. The stamp was cleaned, inked with Speckled Egg Distress Ink, and the background was stamped. The stamp was cleaned, then inked sparingly with Desert Sand Memento ink, then the background was stamped again. The background panel was heat set.

The same process described above was used to stamp the four shells and the starfish from the Seashells Red Rubber Cling Stamp Set. They were fussy-cut and colored with Copic markers.

Jet Black Archival Ink was used to stamp the Seashells Film Strip Red Rubber Cling Stamp onto white cardstock. The image was trimmed then brushed with multiple colors of Distress ink.

The border and word background panel were adhered to a black cardstock panel and the colored seashells were adhered. Blue cardstock, cut to 4.75" x 6.75" was edged with black ink, then adhered to a blue 5" x 7" card. The image panel was adhered to finish the card.

For more information about this card, please visit my blog, Kat's Tales of Stamping.

Topflight Stamps Products used:

Seashells Red Rubber Cling Stamp Set by Darkroom Door