Topflight Stamps: Keep Your Balance

Greetings! You've got Kathi here today. I'm a bit late sharing a project with you this week.

But before I get to my late card, here's a Public Service Announcement! Topflight Stamps is having a Labor Day Sale so you should definitely stock up!

Anyway, I created for a friend with Katzelkraft's Cat Detective Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp and the Waterwall Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp. I also used the hazard strip stamp and the "Balance" sentiment from the France Papillon 01 Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set by PaperArtsy. I also used the Brick Textures 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium.

Here it is!

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the Cat Detective Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp by Katzelkraft onto white cardstock. Fussy-cut the Cat Detective, color him with Copic markers, and edge him with a black marker. Set him aside.

Choose one of the brick patterned papers from the Brick Textures 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium. Pat the patterned paper with an anti-static pouch. Use Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the Waterwall Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp by Katzelkraft onto the patterned paper. Add clear detail embossing powder, pour the excess powder back into the container, and heat set the powder.

Select a piece of grey cardstock that will match the brick patterned paper. Trim the paper to 6" wide by 1½". Use a black chalk pencil to add sidewalk cracks and a black chalk edge to the top edge. Use an embossing ink pen to draw puddles onto the sidewalk. Add clear detail embossing powder, pour the excess powder back into the container, and heat set the powder. Adhere the embossed "sidewalk" to the bottom of the 6" x 6" patterned paper as shown. Trim the background panel to 4¼" x 6" and edge with a black marker.

Place the colored, fussy-cut Cat Detective onto the background panel and use the black chalk pencil to trace around him. Remove the Cat Detective to keep him safe.

Use the black chalk pencil to extend the traced lines to the inside and outside of the traced lines. Smudge the pencil with a tissue. Adhere the Cat Detective to the background panel.

Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the Hazard/Caution Border Stamp from the France Papillon 01 Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set by PaperArtsy onto yellow cardstock. Trim the cardstock and edge with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink.

Use brick red ink to stamp the "Keep Your Balance" sentiment from the France Papillon 01 Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set onto a scrap of grey cardstock. Use a rectangle die to cut the sentiment, then edge with the brick red ink.

Adhere the stamped yellow Hazard/Caution border as shown then adhere the sentiment die-cut atop it as shown.

Adhere the card front to a brick red A6 card.

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

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Cat Detective Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp by Katzelkraft