Topflight Stamps: Lovebirds! A Red and Pink Valentine's Day Card

Greetings! It's Tuesday so you've got Kathi here to share a project with you. This week my Topflight Stamps teammates and I are focusing on a red and pink color scheme, so I've created a Valentine's Day card with PaperArtsy paints, stamps, and a stencil.

Here it is!

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko was used to stamp the birds from the JOFY Lovebirds JM20 Cling Rubber Stamp by PaperArtsy onto white cardstock. I took some creative license and filled in the line art on the bird's tails to facilitate fussy-cutting. Both birds were colored with Copic markers, and edged with a black marker. A dot of white gel pen was used to add accents to their pupils and a white pencil was used to add highlights to their beaks.

Small drops of Blah Mange, Taro Milk Tea, and Bubble Gum Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy were added to a piece of foam which was smooshed onto a craft mat to get the foam to absorb into the paint. The foam was then pounced onto a piece of mixed media paper until the panel was mostly covered.

Small drops of Claret, Blood Orange, and London Bus Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints were added to a second piece of foam. This was randomly pounced over the pink background to add translucent reds to the background.

Small drops of Blah Mange, Taro Milk Tea, and Bubble Gum Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints were placed onto the craft mat one color at a time, spread with the 2" Speedball Breyer, then randomly rolled over the background to knock back the bolder colors.

Small drops Claret, Blood Orange, and London Bus Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints were placed onto the craft mat one color at a time and spread with the 2" Speedball Breyer. A color at a time, a wiry pouncy tool was pressed onto the paint, then pounced onto the background to create visual interest. The pink/red background was trimmed to 4.5" x 6.5" and set aside.

True confessions, I hated the first version of the background, so I "rescued" it by brayering the Claret, Blood Orange, and London Bus Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints overtop.

Black/Gold pigment ink was used to stamp the clock heart from the Darcy 02 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by PaperArtsy onto the red painted background, embossed with clear detail embossing powder, and fussy-cut. The red background was trimmed to 4.75" x 6.75", edged with the black/gold ink, heat set, and adhered to a red 5" x 7" card.

Two decorative ribbon slider sentiment dies were used to cut another remaining piece of red painted cardstock. Both were edged with the black/gold pigment ink.

The Scrapcosy PS374 Stencil by PaperArtsy was placed over the remaining piece of red painted background. The black/gold pigment ink was sponged over the stencil onto the red painted background. This was cut into two strips which were then edged with the same ink.

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko was used to stamp the "Lovebirds" sentiment from the JOFY Lovebirds JM20 Cling Rubber Stamp by PaperArtsy onto a strip of the pink/red painted paper. The stamp was re-inked with the black/gold pigment ink, heat embossed with clear detail embossing powder, then cut with a small rectangle die-cut.

The pink/red panel was edged with the gold/black pigment ink and matted with the red background panel. The bottom strip was adhered to the pink panel as shown. The heart was centered and adhered, then both birds were adhered perching upon the heart.

The small red painted strip was threaded through the large ribbon slide die and adhered to the top of the card as shown. The smaller ribbon slide die was adhered atop the larger one, and the sentiment die-cut was adhered to finish the card.

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

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

JOFY Lovebirds JM20 Cling Rubber Stamp by PaperArtsy