Sunflower Best Wishes Card

It's Tuesday which means you've got Kathi here to share a project with you. It's another "Anything Goes" week and the beginning of September so sunflowers are in bloom! 

I've created a Best Wishes card with the Sunflowers Clear Stamp Set TE33 and a sentiment from the Flower Power Clear Stamp Set TE37, both by Tracy Evans Boutique. I also used the Polaroid Pop Die Set DI-89 by AALL and Create, the Russet Orange Elements Premium Dye Ink by Lavinia Stamps, Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko, and the Sparkle Clear Overlay Brush Pen by Spectrum Noir.

Here it is!

I wanted to use the "no-lines" coloring technique to color the beautiful large sunflower from the Sunflowers Clear Stamp Set TE33 by Tracy Evans Boutique. Use yellow and orange/yellow Memento Ink to stamp the sunflower onto white Copic-friendly cardstock then color it with Copic markers. 

Use the largest die from the Polaroid Pop Die Set DI-89 by AALL and Create to cut the image panel, then fill in the area around the sunflower with overlapping blue dots to create a pointillistic background. 

Position the beetle and the bee stamps from the Sunflowers Clear Stamp Set TE33 facedown on the image panel die-cut. Ink both stamps with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko and stamp. Remove the beetle stamp, then clean and dry the bee stamp thoroughly. Reposition the bee stamp facedown in another place on the image panel die-cut. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Heat set the image panel die-cut.

Use a Fine-tip marker to add red dots and lines to the beetle. Use a white gel pen to add white to his eyes. When dry, add green pupils. Use a clear glaze pen to add dimension and shine to the beetle's body. Let the glaze gel ink dry, then add another layer to build up the dimension to its body.

Use a yellow marker to add yellow to the bees' bodies. Use a Sparkle Clear Overlay Brush Pen by Spectrum Noir to add glitter to the bees' wings. Set the image panel die-cut aside.

Cut a piece of patterned paper to 4" x 6" to create the background panel.. I used patterned paper that is no longer available, but thought that the primarily orange paper from the Ink Drops - Sunset 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium would be a good substitute for what I used.

Use Russet Orange Elements Premium Dye Ink by Lavinia Stamps to stamp the small sunflower onto the background panel. Position the "Best Wishes" sentiment stamp from the Flower Power Clear Stamp Set TE37 by Tracy Evans Boutique facedown towards the bottom of the background panel. Ink the sentiment stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp.

Edge the background panel with  Russet Orange Elements Premium Dye Ink and Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink. Heat set the background panel. 

Adhere the image panel die-cut to the background panel, then adhere the background panel to a 4" x 6" black 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:

Sunflowers Clear Stamp Set TE33 by Tracy Evans Boutique

Flower Power Clear Stamp Set TE37 by Tracy Evans Boutique

Polaroid Pop Die Set DI-89 by AALL and Create

Ink Drops - Sunset 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium 

Russet Orange Elements Premium Dye Ink by Lavinia Stamps

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Sparkle Clear Overlay Brush Pen by Spectrum Noir

Thank you for visiting today!

Stars & Hydrangea

Hello all!  You've got Colleen here today, sharing a card that features STARS.  That's our theme this week at Topflight Stamps!  The base layer of the card has a piece of patterned paper from Craft Consortium Ink Drops - Ocean.  Then I made a background of stars with the Darkroom Door Starry Night Small Stencil, and a piece of patterned paper from Craft Consortium's Test of Time paper pad.  Though I used a gold stencil paste from Studio Light, the Topflight store has silver in stock for you!  For my focal point is a hydrangea flower and leaves from Hobby Art Stamps - Hydrangea, stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and fussy-cut and colored with alcohol markers.  I also stamped a postage stamp from PaperArtsy Ink and The Dog Mini 134 in the same ink and colored it as well.  This was tucked beneath a corner of the hydrangea.  The final touch is a sentiment from Lavinia's Sticker Collection - Uplifting Sentiments, mounted on foam tape.

Hope you have a wonderful week! ~ Colleen

Supplies used from Topflight Stamps:

Craft Consortium - Test of Time

Darkroom Door - Small Stencil - Starry Night

Hobby Art Stamps - Hydrangea

PaperArtsy - Ink and the Dog - Mini 134

Studio Light - Stencil Paste - Gold

(Silver available here)

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Lavinia Sentiment Stickers - Uplifting Collection

Craft Consortium - Ink Drops - Ocean

Studio Light Foam Tape 6mm

Deliver Joy

It's Tuesday which means you've got Kathi to share a project with you.  This week's spotlight is on AALL and Create's wonderful products. I used the new-to-me Deliver Joy Clear Stamp Set 1376 by Janet Klein with the Building Silhouettes Die 58 — both by AALL and Create to create this 6" square card.

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the girl and the postbox from the Deliver Joy Clear Stamp Set 1376 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create onto alcohol ink-friendly cardstock. 

Fussy-cut the images and color them with alcohol markers (I used both Copic markers and Olo markers, which are listed on my blog). Use a black pen to edge them. Set both images aside.

Use the Building Silhouettes Die 58 by AALL and Create to cut watercolor paper, which I used because I wanted the buildings to have texture from the start! Be sure to retain all of the windows and doors that popped out after die-cutting.

Place low-tack tape or Post-It Notes under the roofs of the Building Silhouettes die-cut. Brush or sponge brick red dye ink over the tape onto the roofs. You'll notice that I also used tape to cover the chimneys and chimney pots. Remove and discard the tape.

Place low-tack tape or Post-It Notes to cover the newly inked roofs. Brush or sponge light grey dye ink over the tape onto the buildings. Brush or sponge light tan dye ink onto over the tape onto the building. Brush or sponge black dye ink over the tape, along the edges, and below the windows. Also used it to add black ink smudges to age the Building Silhouettes die-cut. 

Remove the tape from the Building Silhouettes die-cut. Use a black chalk pencil to create tiles on the roofs. Use grey and lavender chalk pencils to add shading and shadows to the roof.

Apply double-sided tape to the window openings on the reverse of the Building Silhouettes die-cut. Place the reserved cut-outs into their openings, then use watercolors to color them.

Select a piece of patterned paper from the Ombre 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium. This will become the background layer.

Adhere the Building Silhouettes die-cut to the patterned paper background. Adhere Washi tape to the base of the card front. Adhere the fussy-cut, colored girl and the postbox as shown.

Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the "warm wishes" sentiment from the Deliver Joy Clear Stamp Set 1376 onto the Building Silhouettes die-cut as shown. Trim the panel to 5.75" square and edge with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink.

Position the "Par Avion" sentiment stamp from the Deliver Joy Clear Stamp Set 1376 on the right side between the buildings. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp it. Position the "Deliver Joy" sentiment from the Deliver Joy set and position it on the top left. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Realize that it's a little crooked and hit yourself in the head. Hard.

Adhere the card front to a black 6" x 6" square 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:

Deliver Joy Clear Stamp Set 1376 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Building Silhouettes Die 58 by AALL and Create

Ombre 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Thanks for visiting today!

Waiting for Karma

It's Tuesday so you've got Kathi here today to share a project created for an "Anything Goes" theme this week.  I've been in an odd mood so I created an odd card with two of the critters from the Sea Creatures Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set KTZ226 by Katzelkraft, a sentiment from the No Regrets Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Visible Image, and patterned paper from the Ombre 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium Ltd. I also used Bermuda, Blue Atoll, Della Blue, and Confetti Elements Premium Dye Inks by Lavinia Stamps!

Here it is!

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the startled-looking odd creature and the pelican from the Sea Creatures Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set KTZ226 by Katzelkraft twice — once onto white Copic friendly cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.

Fussy-cut the sticker versions of the stamped creatures and set them aside to be used as masks.

Use Copic markers to color the creatures. 

Place a piece of clear acetate horizontally across the image panel right above the bottom of the critters, being sure that the acetate is covering the top of the image panel.

Brush or sponge Bermuda Elements Premium Dye Ink by Lavinia Stamps over the acetate onto the bottom part of the image panel so that it's covering the bottom portion of the creatures. Brush or sponge Blue Atoll Elements Premium Dye Ink over the acetate to complete their watery background.

Remove the acetate. Clean and dry it. Place the sticker paper versions of the critters over their counterparts on the image panel. Place the acetate panel so that it's sitting on the horizontal inked line covering the bottom part of the image panel.

Brush or sponge Della Blue Elements Premium Dye Ink onto the image panel, working horizontally from the top of the panel down to the acetate to create a sky background. Brush or sponge Confetti Elements Premium Dye Ink over the image panel to add some pink hues to the sky.

Use an alcohol filled Fine Spray Misters by Spectrum Noir to mist the background. This will blend and mottle the ink.

Remove the masks and the acetate from the image panel. Use a N6 Copic marker to increase the size of the worried-looking creature's pupil. Use a white gel pen to add a highlight to its pupil.

Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the "Karma" sentiment from the No Regrets Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Visible Image.

Trim the image panel and edge with Bermuda and Della Blue Elements Premium Dye Inks.

Select a piece of patterned paper from the Ombre 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium Ltd. to match the image panel. This will be the background panel.

Adhere the image panel so that it's centered on the patterned paper, then trim the background panel so that there are even borders around it. 

Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to edge the patterned paper, then adhere the card front to a black 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:

Sea Creatures Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set KTZ226 by Katzelkraft

No Regrets Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Visible Image

Ombre 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium Ltd.

Bermuda, Blue Atoll, Della Blue, and Confetti Elements Premium Dye Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Fine Spray Misters by Spectrum Noir

Please Note: 

• Katzelkraft is no longer in business, but Topflight Stamps still has a nice selection of their wonderful stamps in stock!
• The No Regrets Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Visible Image has been retired, but it's still available at Topflight Stamps!
• The new colors of VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko can be purchased at Topflight Stamps!

Happy Father's Day

 Greetings! It's Tuesday which means that you have Kathi here to share a project with you! This week's focus is on Indigo Blu and their wonderful products! 

Here's a Father's Day card created with the "Weird Is My Normal" Cling Mounted A6 Stamp Set by Indigo Blu.

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the Steampunk gentleman from the Weird Is My Normal Cling Mounted A6 Stamp Set by Indigo Blu twice — once onto white Copic-friendly cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.

Use Copic markers to color the focal image. Place a strip of Bolted Layers Washi Tape 106 by AALL and Create under the colored image. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of the Steampunk gentleman and place it over its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.

Place the small rectangle from the Snap Thoughts DI-90 Die Set by AALL and Create blades down on the image panel and secure with low-tack tape. Run the combination through your die-cut machine. 

Remove the image panel die-cut from the cutting die. Brush light grey dye ink over masked image and on a scrap of white cardstock. Use an Isopropyl Alcohol-filled Fine Spray Mister by Spectrum Noir to spray the image panel die-cut. This will add white speckles to the image panel die-cut and will blend the ink but won't pill the paper.

Remove the mask from the Steampunk gentleman. Use a dark grey marker to darken his pupils, then use a white gel pen to add catchlights. Use a fineliner and/or other Copic markers to touch up the image. Cut a piece of black cardstock so that it's slightly larger than the image panel die-cut and use this to mat the image panel. Set aside.

Select a piece of patterned paper from the Ink Drops - Midnight 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium Ltd. to use as a background panel. Trim it to 4.25" wide. Use a B39 Copic to edge the panel. 

Place the grey-inked cardstock scrap onto the base of a stamping platform. Place the "Happy Father's Day" sentiment stamp from the Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle facedown on the scrap. Use Medieval Blue VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to ink the sentiment stamp. Use a sentiment strip cutting die to cut the sentiment. 

Cut gold metallic cardstock with a Steampunk Corner Cutting Die and a Fancy Sentiment Label Die. Adhere the Steampunk Corner metallic gold die-cuts to the upper corners. Adhere the image panel die-cut as shown. Adhere the stamped sentiment to the Fancy Sentiment Label Die, then adhere them below the image panel die-cut as shown.

Adhere the completed background panel to a white-speckled navy 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:

"Weird Is My Normal" Cling Mounted A6 Stamp Set by Indigo Blu

Snap Thoughts DI-90 Die Set by AALL and Create

Bolted Layers Washi Tape 106 by AALL and Create

Ink Drops - Midnight 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium Ltd.

Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle *

(This set is on sale and is incredibly useful!)

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Medieval Blue VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Fine Spray Misters by Spectrum Noir

Thank you for visiting today!

Chou & Flowers Mushroom Card

Hello, Lisa Hoel here. This week at Topflight Stamps our theme is Anything Goes! I got this super cute little Chou & Flowers Mini Mushroom stamp and the 6" x 6" Craft Consortium paper pad, The Collector and I think they worked well together.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the Topflight Stamps store for a wide selection of different and hard to find stamps, stencils and other paper crafting supplies from all around the world! Also keep an eye here on the Topflight Stamps blog. There is new inspiration posted often!

Topflight Stamps Supplies Used:

Chou & Flowers stamp - Mini Mushroom

AALL & Create stamp set - Everyday Sentiments

AALL & Create die set - Holey Fun

Craft Consortium paper pad - The Collector

Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst Sprays - Industrial Chic

VersaFine Clair ink pad - Nocturne

watercolors