WHEEEE!

Hello everyone!  Betsy on the blog here today sharing this fun & easy card.  I have used

two stamps sets today:

Hobby Art Ltd - Wheeee!

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and

For The Love of Stamps - Sparkling Snowflakes

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I first die cut my base using a dotted rectangle die.  For paper I used a piece of card stock 

that I did the shaving cream/dye reinker on.  This swirly method of applying color to a piece

of card stock usually makes a lot.  I have a stack of these! 

 But it really gave the look I was going for in this project!

I also cut a piece of plain what card stock with the same dotted rectangle die 

except one size smaller.  Then I cut it again with a stitched sloping hillside die.

I stamped my image with an alcohol friendly ink on a scrap piece

of white card stock. 

Then I colored it with Copic markers - with minimal shading and

fussy cut my image leaving a narrow white border.  I then heat embossed

with white embossing powder small snowflakes.

I adhered the snow slope piece and then foam taped the colored image on top at

an angle so they looked like they were sliding!  I added a variety of little sparkly

gemstones and some Stickles to the snow and my card was finished!

This was such a fun card to put together!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

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Other Products Used:

Prepared background panel

Copic Markers

Various Gemstones

White Gel Pen

2 Nesting Rectangle Dies

Sloping Hillside Die

Stickles

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

White Embossing Powder

Glue

For a more detailed tutorial please check out my blog:

/https://caringheartcards.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by!

Betsy

You Hold the Power...

Hello everyone!  Betsy on the blog today sharing with you this encouraging card using

AALL & CREATE - Curiosities   stamp set

This is such an interesting stamp set and very different.  I love the ideas that were popping into my head just looking at it!

I started by stamping the hand on Neenah card stock and coloring it with Copics.  I used a 

Copic-friendly black ink and when I colored, I extended the arm as I knew I wanted it to 

come from the side of the card.

Note when I fussy cut out the hand I cut off the string and heart.  I trimmed my background paper to

4" x 5 1/4".  I then stamped the sentiment and I also stamped just the string with the heart...lining up the string with the point of the star.  After I colored the hand I took a black Copic-friendly marker and extended the outline of the arm.

Next I added Stickles to the heart and I dotted the background with it using a toothpick.  I then adhered the hand using foam tape making sure the string that was visible on the finger lined up with the string on the base of the card.

I adhered a piece of specialty card stock to my A2 size white top folding card base.  Then as a final bit of bling I used a sparkle pen there and there...and that finished my card!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

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Other Products Used:

Black Hybrid Ink

Copic Markers

Background papers

Stickles

Shimmer Pen

Foam tape

For a more detailed tutorial please check out my blog:

/https://caringheartcards.blogspot.com/

Thank you stopping by!

Betsy

Silly Snowmen

Hello everyone!  Betsy here on the blog today sharing this adorable snowmen card using 

"Silly Snowmen" & "Snow Is Falling" from For the Love of Stamps:

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I started by white heat embossing a medium blue A2 size card base with the Snow is Falling stamp.  I masked out a die cut oval for my sentiment.  Although it didn't mask out cleanly, I really liked the effect it gave the oval when I did the heat embossing.

I stamped my images on Neenah 80lb Classic Crest Solar White card stock in a light gray ink.  I stamped 3 snowmen, 3 piles of snowballs and 3 single snowballs.  I colored them with Copics and added Stickles to give them some sparkle.  I fussy cut them all out.

Before assembling it all together I die cut a stitched wavy scalloped edge piece of the white card stock to use as the snowy ground.

I adhered the snowy ground on first and then the piles of snowballs.  I mounted each Silly Snowman on a mini wobble spring, shaded a bit of the ground with my Copic marker underneath each one and adhered them in various positions.  I added the snow balls and more Stickles on the ground and added a few more snowflakes and filled in some of the heat embossed snowflakes with a white gel pen.  That finished my card!

I hope you'll give todays tutorial a try.  These snowmen are just so cute and silly!

Topflight Stamps Supplies Used:

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For a more detailed tutorial please hop on over to my own blog at:

/https://caringheartcards.blogspot.com/

Thanks for your support everyone!  Have a great week!

Betsy

Color Blocked Butterflies

Hi Everyone and welcome to the Topflight Stamps blog - it's Jenny here! The clocks went forward in the USA today - ugh - I hate losing an hour. Such a small amount of time yet it really throws your day off!! I thought I'd create a couple of cards to bright up the rest of the day!

Today I am over on the Topflight Stamps blog and I have two cards for you which feature a similar theme - color blocking. I'm using a technique I saw Yana Smakula use recently. I created two panels using sparkly cardstock in rose, pale pink and a sage green by adhering strips to a piece of A2 size cardstock. I then trimmed one of the panels into 1 inch strips and adhered them to a white card base using foam tape, switching each strip but keeping the green down the centre.

I kept each of the cards simple. For this one I used Carabelle Studios Flight of the Butterflies.

I heat embossed one of the butterflies on vellum with metallic silver embossing powder and then fussy cut it out.

I adhered it to the color block strips with a foam strip. I heat embossed the sentiment from For The Love of Stamps Occasion Sentiments in white embossing powder directly onto the color blocks. As a finishing touch I added some clear sequins.

For my second card, before I adhered the panel to a notecard, I used the gorgeous Butterflies Stencil by Alexandra Renke.

I smoothed silver glitter paste all over the panel.

When dry, I adhered it to a white notecard. My sentiment is the Layered Hello by Paper Rose Studio. I die cut it from vellum and some of the card stock left over from creating the color blocking.

I then adhered it the the centre of the card. I added a layer of Diamond Stickles for extra sparkle.

I thought it needed a little something else so I heat embossed the teeny tiny 'Love' sentiment (from an older Alexandra Renke Love Hearts stamp set) onto black cardstock in WOW! Bright White Opaque embossing powder, trimmed it out and popped it up on foam tape. I finished the card with some of the same sparkling clear sequins.

You can check out more info on the supplies I used over on my blog. Have a wonderful day!