Scared for Halloween?

Greetings! It's Tuesday, which means that it's Kathi here with a project to share with you! I'm firmly in Halloween mode and have created a scary card with the Humanoids (KT2223) Unmounted Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft, the FP001 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by France Papillon for PaperArtsy, the Halftone Skull and Redemption  stencils by Andy Skinner for Creative Expressions

Here's my card!

I started the card by brushing Squeezed Lemonade, Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry, Blue Print Sketch, and Chipped Sapphire Distress inks onto mixed media cardstock using the fabulous new Blending Brushes by Time For Tea then heat setting to dry the ink. 

Grey and black ink were brushed over New York City Skyline and heat set again. White hybrid ink was sponged over the Halftone Skull Stencil then the panel was heat set again. I'm into heat setting. The word "Scared?", from the was Redemption Stencil , was positioned on the skull's forehead, Post-It Notes were used to mask the other words, then white ink was brushed over the stencil onto the image panel.

Two of the stamps from the Humanoids (KT2223) Unmounted Rubber Stamp Set were stamped onto white Copic-friendly cardstock.  The hazard sign and the caution tape stamps from the FP001 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by France Papillon were stamped as well. All images were colored with Copic markers, fussy-cut, then edged with a black marker.

A spider rub-on was added to the center of the hazard sign to reinforce the creep factor of the card. The image panel was trimmed, then edged with Black Soot Distress ink. Washi tape was added to the base of the card, then the image panel was matted onto yellow cardstock, then onto a 6" square black card. The stamped and fussy-cut images were adhered as shown to finish the card.

If you'd like to learn more about this card, please visit my blog, Kat's Tales of Stamping.

Topflight Products Used:

Humanoids (KT2223) Unmounted Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft

FP001 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by France Papillon for PaperArtsy

Halftone Skull Stencil by Andy Skinner for Creative Expressions

Redemption Stencil by Andy Skinner for Creative Expressions 

Blending Brushes by Time for Tea Designs

Thanks for visiting today! See you next Tuesday!

Thrift Store Up-cycle!

Hello, Lisa Hoel here! Once upon a time I stumbled across this vintage microscope kit in the bulk bins at the thrift store. It was far from complete but it did have the actual microscope and some of the original parts. It was cheap and in a fairly rough and incomplete state – a perfect candidate for an art project!

The case itself was in pretty good shape.

Inside!

I cut pieces of heavy watercolor paper to fit over the original cardboard inserts. They were kind of beat up so they needed covering. I also wanted to be able to stamp and stencil on the inside surfaces! The base color is a combination of Squeezed Lemonade and Antique Linen Distress Oxide Sprays and then I mostly used Prism inks, a new line of inks Topflight Stamps is now carrying for the stamping and stenciling.

Details:

I thought the Katzelkraft Monsters Stamp Set looked like little microscopic beasties so they were perfect to stamp and fussy cut for embellishing this project.

The kit originally came with two books. I replicated the cover of one using design software and then stamped one of the Monsters stamps onto it.

The second side:

Those little monsters crack me up! I love working with the Katzelkraft stamps.

Thanks for stopping by! Below is a list of supplies I used. 

Topflight Stamps Products:

Katzelkraft - Monsters

PaperArtsy - Tracy Scott 24 stamp set

Stamperia - Corrugated Cardboard

Stamperia, Antonis Tzanidakis stencil - KSAT05

Visible Image Stencil - Collision

Prism inks - Apple Green, Peacock Green, Smoked Paprika

Blender tool

Monsters Rule!

Hello Topflight fans! CraftyPaws here today to share some whimsical CAS monster cards with ya'll. I silly monsters from the Katzelkraft "Les Monstres des Carpates" are so quirky that little else is needed to craft some super fun cards.

I featured three of the monsters from the stamp set to create three single layer cards. I stamped one monster on each card front and then created masks for each of them so that I could temporarily cover them and lightly blend on a bubbly background using some Tim Holtz Distress Inks and a Dylusions "Quote Bubbles" stencil to add a little visual texture and color. The Claritystamp Stencil Brushes made getting a soft blended patterned look easy.

The first card is an anytime card. I used the stamps from the Concord & 9th "Sophisticated Script" stamp set to stamp out "monster" and then hand wrote "hugs" in a simple bubbly font. I Copic colored this monster in saturated red, blue and golds and then blended on some Squeezed Lemonade and Spun Sugar background bubbles. I added a textured pink bubbly paper strip on the right side of the card as a finishing touch.

The second card is a birthday card. I used a sentiment from the Inkadinkado "Kids Quotes" sentiment stamp set with black and red ink. Then I Copic colored the monster in red, orange and yellow. The bubble background was made with Squeezed Lemonade, and this time I used a red, white and black plaid strip from my scrap box for added interest.

The last card is a feel better or uplifting card. I used another sentiment from the Inkadinkado "Kids Quotes" sentiment stamp set with black and orange ink. I Copic colored the monster in blue and orange, and I used Spiced Marigold Distress Ink for the bubbly background. I dug into my scrap box again and found a cute yellow and black polka dot patterned paper for the decorative strip.

I hope you enjoyed these fun and fast cards. I certainly had fun crafting them! If you'd like to see more details or a video share of these cards, please check out my blog post HERE.