Topflight Stamps: All Geared Up To Celebrate

Greetings! It's Tuesday, so you've got Kathi here to share a project with you! But before I get to that I want to let you know that Topflight Stamps has a BLACK FRIDAY SALE going on right now. You get 20% off your entire order and there are oodles of great new and old products to purchase as gifts for your friends, family, and/or yourself!

Now it's time to turn my attention to my holiday card that was created with the Steampunk Elf Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Indigo Blu, the Flowers and Gears Clear Stamp Set 195 by AALL and Create, the Christmas Greetings Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps, Steampunk Sepia Stardust Spray from Lindy's Gang's Industrial Chic Stardust Spray Set, and Brushed Nickel and Steel Shimmer Glitz Sprays from their Glitz Sprays Set.

Here it is!

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the larger Steampunk Elf from the Steampunk Elf Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Indigo Blu twice — once onto a piece of Copic-friendly white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.

Use Copic markers to color the Steampunk Elf. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel. Sponge or brush light grey dye ink over the masked image panel to add a background. Remove the masks. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to the goggle lenses and the Steampunk Elf's eyes. Set the image panel aside.

Spray a piece of black and a piece of white mixed media cardstock with Brushed Nickel and Steel Shimmer Glitz Sprays from the Glitz Sprays Set by Lindy's Gang. Heat set and spray again to achieve a mottled silvery shine on the black cardstock. Heat set until thoroughly dry.

Spray a piece of white mixed media cardstock with Steampunk Sepia Stardust Spray from the Industrial Chic Stardust Spray Set by Lindy's Gang and heat set. Spray again to deepen the color and add to the shimmer. Heat set. This panel will be the background panel of the card.

Flatten all of the sprayed panels by placing them (one at a time) onto the base of a

die-cut machine. Add a clean piece of cardstock atop the sprayed panel followed by both cutting mats. Run the sandwich through the die-cut machine several times until it is flat. An alternative is to place the sprayed and heat-set panel onto a magnetic surface, place a clear acrylic plate (like a cutting mat) over the panel, and add magnets onto the plate.

Place the Steampunk Sepia Sprayed panel onto the base of a stamping platform and secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape. Place two of the gear clusters from the Flowers and Gears Clear Stamp Set 195 by AALL and Create facedown on the bottom and right side of the sprayed panel. Ink the stamps with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to achieve good impressions. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform and heat set the ink. Trim the panel to 4.75" x 6.75" and edge with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink. Heat set the panel and set it aside.

Place the trimmed scrap of the Steampunk Sepia sprayed panel onto the base of the stamping platform and secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape. Place the "Season's Greetings" sentiment from the Christmas Greetings Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps facedown on the Steampunk Sepia scrap. Ink the stamp with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to achieve good impression. Use a sentiment cutting die to trim the sentiment. Edge the sentiment die-cut with the Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink.

Use a Sprocket Gear die, a fancy sentiment tag die, and the shadow die from the All Geared Up To Celebrate" sentiment to cut the Brushed Nickel and Steel Shimmer Glitz Sprayed black mixed media cardstock.

Use the "All Geared Up To Celebrate" die to cut the Brushed Nickel and Steel Shimmer Glitz Sprayed white cardstock and adhere it over its shadow.

Use a circle die that is slightly larger than the center of the Sprocket Gear die-cut to cut the image panel. Adhere the shimmery black Sprocket Gear die-cut over the image panel die-cut so that the Steampunk Elf is framed by it.

Adhere the "Season's Greetings Sentiment" rectangle die-cut to the black fancy-tag die-cut.

Adhere "All Geared Up To Celebrate" to the top left of the background panel. Adhere the Sprocket-Gear framed image panel die-cut as shown. Adhere the fancy label "Season's Greetings" die-cut as shown. Adhere the card front to a black 5" x 7" 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:

Steampunk Elf Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Indigo Blu