Hi everyone and welcome to the Topflight Stamps blog. It's Jenny here, and today I have a fun card for you showcasing an image from the Darkroom Door Classic Cars set. It makes a great birthday card or Father's Day card which is coming up soon.
The stamp set is super high quality red rubber, with three large, detailed images, and lots of co-ordinating sentiments. A great one to up your stash for masculine projects!
To create my card, I first created the wall of the road 'tunnel'. I trimmed a watercolor cardstock panel to A2 (4.25" x 5.5") and ink blended Distress Ink in Fired Brick all over it. I then ran it through my die-cutting machine with a brick embossing folder from my stash. To create some more dimension between the bricks, I also used Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo which I gently blended over the top so that it only adhered to the raised areas. To create the tunnel, I used a circle die and die cut it from the brick wall, and trimmed off the bottom 1.5". I then re-inked round all of the edges.
On a card base, I adhered a panel of black cardstock, and a strip of dark grey cardstock along the bottom. I then popped the brick tunnel up on the front with foam tape. I added some hand trimmed gold glitter cardstock to look like the central road markings.
For the car, I stamped it in copic friendly ink, coloured it with a variety of grey and blue copics. I added clear Wink of Stella to the metal trim and headlights, and white gel pen for highlights, then trimmed it out and popped it up on foam tape in the centre. I added Limoncello Nuvo Drops to the headlights to make them pop.
The sentiment was stamped in embossing ink and embossed with white embossing powder, trimmed out and popped up on foam tape.
I hope you like it! Any questions, please let me know, and you can find a full list of supplies over on my blog.
Jenny
Hi and welcome to the Topflight Stamps blog! It's Jenny here, with a card showing how to create a focal point using the fantastic Strobes stencil by Visible Image.
I used the stencil with Nuvo Mousse in Burnished Bronze over embossed woodgrain cardstock. By using a light hand, the mousse allows the pattern and texture of the cardstock to show through. I used dark cardstock for a tone on tone look, and set aside the panel to dry.
I also used as my focal image, a coffee cup from the Coffee Time set by For the Love of Stamps. I love this set, it has some great images and sentiment fonts.
Strobes stencil:
I stamped the main image and the sentiment onto kraft cardstock using Distress Oxide ink in Vintage Photo. I heat embossed the sentiment in clear embossing powder and popped it out with a circle punch.
I colored the coffee cup with copic markers. The main cup was shaded with 4 browns, and the flowers and leaves in pink and green. The lid and the base were colored using warm grays. I also added white and gold highlights with gel pens. As a finishing touch I added some Nuvo glitter drops (in chocolate) to accent the cup. I then fussy cut it out. Both the sentiment and the cup were popped up on foam tape.
I adhered the entire panel to a kraft card base. I used lots of masculine and darker colors here, but I think it's quite an uplifting card. The Strobes stencil really makes an impact (and it is definitely a visual of how I feel after I've had my first coffee of the day!)
Hope you enjoyed! If you have any questions, leave us a comment or hop over to my blog for more details on supplies I used.
Jenny x
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