Greetings! It's Tuesday so you've got Kathi here to share a project with you. This week is "Anything Goes" for the TFS team. Since Thanksgiving is Thursday, I made a card which can be used for Thanksgiving or other special occasions.
But before I get to my card, I wanted to remind you that Topflight Stamps' Black Friday Sale Week is going on right now! There are so many wonderful products (both new and old) that make wonderful holiday gifts for family, friends, and yourself!
***Back to today's project***
So back when I saw the truck filled with critters in the Warm Hugs Clear Stamp Set by Jane's Doodles for Creative Expressions, I immediately thought of the holiday song "Over the River and Through the Woods" and knew that I wanted to use it on a holiday card. So here it is!
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko was used to stamp the critter-filled truck stamp from the Warm Hugs Clear Stamp Set by Jane's Doodles for Creative Expressions twice — once onto a 5" x 7" panel of white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. The sticker paper version was fussy-cut and placed over its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.
The acetate rolling hills mask from the Acetate Hills Mask Set by Lavinia Stamps was placed towards the top of the image panel and the flattish mask was placed over the truck covering the bottom of the image panel. Two colors of Copic-friendly blue ink were brushed over the top of the mask to create a night sky. While the rest of the image panel was still covered. White paint was splattered to add some stars.
I previously had traced the rolling hills mask onto cardstock and cut it out. I placed the top part of the traced cardstock over the sky portion, then brushed dark green Copic-friendly ink over the top of cardstock mask to create the top part of the hilly area. The same dark ink was brushed over acetate rolling hills mask to add the tops of additional hills. When done, I brushed lighter Copic-friendly green ink between the cardstock mask and the flattish acetate mask to complete the hilly background behind the masked truck.
A second previously traced and fussy-cut piece of cardstock was used to cover the hilly area of the image panel. Grey and black Copic-friendly ink was brushed over the paper mask and the masked truck.
The masks were lifted and the truck and critters were colored with Copic markers. I intentionally left the truck somewhat streaky to make it look old and worn.
Blue Belle VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts was used to stamp the words "happy" and "together" from the Artist Trading Coin Stamp Set 11 by That's Crafty. Additionally the sentiment "So Grateful" from the More Classic Sentiments by Heffy Doodle was stamped with the same ink onto wood-patterned paper from the Wood Textures 6x6 Paper Pad by Craft Consortium. The ink was heat set and both sentiments were die-cut, then edged with Blue Belle VersaFine Clair Ink.
A piece of plaid paper from the Distress Plaid Paper Pad by Creative Expressions was selected and cut with a large A7 rectangle frame die. The die-cut was edged with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts, heat set, then adhered over the image panel. The framed image panel was adhered to a grey 5" x 7" card, then edged with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink.
The sentiments were adhered to finish the card.
Please pop over to my blog, Kat's Tales of Stamping, for step-by-step instructions and complete supply lists.
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Hi Kathi. Your card is just perfect. I have this Jane's Doodles stamp and I love it so much. Thank you for showing the Lavinia stencils and how they work on this card. I will have to put them in my wish list. Thank you for making me smile today!
ReplyDeleteHappy Holidays Bo! I'm always glad to make people smile!
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