Polkadoodle Snowball Kisses

 

Happy New Year to all of you and I hope your 2022 is going well. Ericka with Strangely Creative here and today I'm playing with a cute Polkadoodle Snowball Kisses set and PaperArtsy Infusions on photo paper.

For the New Year, I was cleaning up my craft room when I came across some photo paper. I wanted to play with some different background methods and so I decided to use PaperArtsy Infusions with my the photo paper.  The fun thing about the photo paper is once water is added to the powder it "freezes" on the surface and you can get a bunch of fun textures.

After playing around with a couple of backgrounds and colors (check out our Instagram), I decided to see if I could stamp the Polkadoodle Snowball Kisses directly on the photo paper and color it up using Prism Brush markers. I then individually added the Infusions in Lemoncello, Sunset Beach, and In the Navy. After each color, I let the paper dry before I added a new color.

I added the sentiment and some snowflakes around the background to finish my card. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend and a chance to create.

Topflight Supplies Used:

Crafty Individuals - Friends bring Joy

   Hi Everyone,

Cornelia here today! 

This week its anything goes and I used this opportunity to ink up this cute stamp by Crafty Individuals. 

I used gel press papers I had in my stash for t he background as well as for the birds. I stamped the birds onto the blue background paper. I stamped them again onto the yellow gel press paper and then fuzzy cut them. Glued them onto the background paper. Added a bit more orange color to the wings (water brush pens) and added googly eyes. Stamped the sentiment, drew a frame around it and cut it out.

I hope you liked this. Thanks for visiting. 

See you next week with more Topflight Stamps inspiration.

And here are the stamp supplies I used: 

Three Birds, Whatchamacallit- KTZ276

Versafine ink pad, Gel Press,

Fresco Chalk Paint, Speedball Brayer

Be Brave 2022! ~ Charmaine Canham

 

Hello new friends!

I am so very excited to post my first post here on the TopFlight Stamps
blog! I hope you enjoy my funky and random techniques on
paper and give it a try. I would love your
feedback on what you would like to see in the future. 

I am starting this year with a journal spread
using the PaperArtsy Jofy73 stamp set. 
This is such a large and beautiful set. Here is what I did:

I started by applying white gesso all over both pages.
Let this dry and start with the flower. 

I used heavy cardstock (110lbs) and sprayed three colors of
distress oxide on it. Let this dry and stamp the flower with
black ink. I used Versafine Onyx Black. 
Apply color and marks with posca or paint pens. 

Come back to the journal and apply the blue acrylic ink
 from Essentials by Marlene. I just got this paint set and love
the perfect tip at the end of the tube to use for
deliberate dot and line placement. 

Let this dry and let's stamp some leaves. I stamped and fussy cut nine of these.

With the dotted stamp, apply green ink to a gel plate and
stamp from the plate onto your journal. 

Adhere the leaves to the page on the left with liquid glue,
like I did here with Cosmic Shimmer Quick Grab glue.
This tube also has a handy pointed nozzle. 

Finally, stamp the sentiment included in this set on the right side of the page. 

Glue your pretty flower in the middle and then you're done.

And there she is! This was very fun and easy to do today and I hope you give it a try. All the products have been linked but let me know if you have any questions.

Talk Soon,

Charmaine

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New Year Card!

 Happy New Year! It's the first Tuesday of 2022 which means that you've got Kathi here with a New Year's card created with the wonderful cocktail stamp and a sentiment from the Nicci Battilana Eclectica ENB06 Rubber Cling Mounted Stamp Set by PaperArtsy on a background created with the Nicci Battilana Stencil PS291 by PaperArtsy and Sundance, Lime Punch, and Pine Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps.

Here's the card!

The cocktail from the Nicci Battilana Eclectica ENB06 Rubber Cling Mounted Stamp Set was stamped twice onto white cardstock and onto label paper, that was fussy-cut and used as a mask. Label paper was placed over the bottom of the cocktail glasses to ground the images.

Sundance Elements Ink was brushed over the masked images to create background. It was lightly misted with water to create some white splotches, then heat set.

The cocktail portion of the Nicci Battilana Stencil PS291 was secured over the image panel and Lime Punch Elements Ink was brushed over the cocktails. The horizontal mask was lifted and Lime Punch Elements Ink was brushed over the base of the image panel.

The image panel was was trimmed, which left some plain Sundance Yellow cardstock. The sentiment was stamped and cut into two panels. 

The image panel and sentiment panels were edged with Lime Punch and Pine Elements Inks, then adhered to a green card.

Please pop over to my blog, Kat's Tales of Stamping, for the detailed instructions and complete supply lists. 

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Nicci Battilana Eclectica ENB06 Rubber Cling Mounted Stamp Set by PaperArtsy

Nicci Battilana Stencil PS291 by PaperArtsy

Sundance, Lime Punch, and Pine Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Thanks for visiting today! All my wishes for a happy, healthy, serene, and prosperous New Year that doesn't require daily cocktails!

Hey Llama! with Time for Tea Designs

 Happy New Year, everyone! This is Rachel Kleinman from rwkrafts and I'm so excited to share my first cards as a member of the Topflight Stamps Design Team!

I have quickly fallen in love with the adorable images from Time for Tea Designs and the sets are so easy to mix and match with one another. I used the Time for Tea stamp sets "Car Critters" and "Grateful for You Background" to put together this scene. This little llama looks so smitten to be driving around the glittered Andes mountains with his winter scarf!

The images were colored with Copic markers and then fussy cut. The llama is popped up on foam tape to make sure he's the star of the card. The "Hey!" sentiment is stamped with Prism Ink in Blackcurrant Jam and I inked the banner border with Arctic Mist.

I had so much fun playing with the images in the Car Critters stamp set that I threw together another bonus card...

This darling little panda is clearly living her best life in her hot pink convertible. She's going on a shopping spree for sure :) I lightly inked the scene with Prism Ink "Rainforest Green" for the grass and Prism Ink "Arctic Mist" for the sky. I used Prism Ink "Slate Grey" for the sweet sentiment, which is perfect for a graduation or new beginnings card.

Thanks for popping in for my first cards with Topflight Stamps!

Topflight Stamps supplies used:

Time for Tea - Car Critters

Prism Ink - Blackcurrant Jam

Prism Ink - Arctic Mist

Prism Ink - Rainforest Green

Prism Ink - Slate Grey

Welcome to 2022 and Our New Design Team!

Well we have a bright, shiny new year ahead of us and it's going to be a crafty one too here on the Topflight Stamps blog! We are sad to say good-bye to two of our designers on the team – Karen Bearse and Connie Mercer. Ladies, thank you for the countless inspiring projects you have shared with us during your tenures. We greatly appreciate your talent and creativity! Best wishes to you in your new endeavors in 2022.

We would like to welcome two new members to the team. We are excited to see what they have in store for us! First…

Hello to Charmaine Canham! Charmaine dabbles in mixed media and always portrays it back to her first "paper" love: greeting cards. She is originally from South Africa and currently lives here in South Carolina with her Yankee husband, three kids, two dogs, and the neighbor's cat. She started making cards in 2017 after discovering and coloring Adult Coloring books as therapy for postpartum depression. She uses Copic markers, loves to watercolor, messes around with a Gel press, and usually ends up finger painting to add special touches on her multiple mixed media canvases. 

Next we welcome Rachel Kleinman! "My name is Rachel and I am a paper crafter and mixed media artist from California. My love for creating with stamps took off in 2009, but I have also been a scrapbooker my entire life! I love to create cards of all styles, especially those that are cute, bright, and colorful. I also enjoy making mixed media pieces that range from dimensional objects to tags and art journal pages. My work has been published numerous times in magazines and on manufacturers’ websites. I have worked with several design teams and creative product companies over the past several years. I am thrilled to bring my artwork and creativity to the Topflight Stamps design team!"

Returning designers are Kathi Rerek, Cornelia Wenokor, Ericka Strange, and Autumn Clark!

Stay tuned and come back on Monday for the first project of 2022!