Washi Tape as the Star

 Hi friends. Alanna with you today sharing a fun birthday card where some fabulous washi tape is the star of the show. 

To get started, I took the Presents & Cupcakes washi tape from Leane Creatief and added several rows of it to a piece of white card stock. I trimmed the panel down to trim everything up. I matted this panel onto a piece of black card stock which was then added to a white A2 notecard.

I stamped the large birthday sentiment from the Birthday Wishes set from Visible Image onto a scrap piece of white card stock. I then added a sub-sentiment from the More Classic Sentiments set from Heffy Doodle. I trimmed this panel down and added more card stock behind it to add dimension. 

I decided it was getting a little lost on the background, so I took a red Copic marker and went around the edges with it. This added just enough color to help provide some lift. Some red gems from my stash finish off this card.

Find these products I used in the Topflight Stamps store below.

Crafty hugs! ~ Alanna

PaperArtsy Mattint Tag

 

Hello friends! Ericka from Strangely Creative here and today I am playing with the new PaperArtsy Mattint and the Printed Tissue and making a fun tag. I started out selecting a portion of the Scrapcosy Printed Tissue and tore a piece out. I then applied some Mattints in Shark and Nutty to the front of the paper and let it dry. 

Once it was dry, I applied a layer of the Mattints to the other side of the paper and applied it to my tag and smoothed it on. When that layer was dry, I added some embossing ink and gold embossed the edge of my tag. 

 I added the PaperArtsy Dreaming and Doing sentiment set in gold embossing. The Mattints are fun to play with and I can't wait to play more with them to create some mixed media projects.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Topflight Stamp Supplies

Explore London with AALL&Create

  Hi Everyone,

Cornelia here today. This week is anything goes on the Topflight blog. I snatched up one of the new AALL&Create die sets, as soon as it was available in the store - this one is called Numberama. You can always use some numbers - especially those, little distressed ones! They come with the awesome scalloped frame in a set.

I stamped the bus and colored it with alcohol ink markers. I made a mask for it and brushed the background. Die cut the numbers. I heat embossed the sentiments and added them with foam tape. Cut myself anotyher piece of card stock and glued it to the back, so I have soem room inside it to write something and the card  can stand up on its own.

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: 

Numberama, Brit Bus Stop

Studio Light - Bold&Bright, Blender Brushes

Masking tape, Foam tape

Craft Emotions - I'm so Eggcited!

Hello Crafties, Mary Key here and this week along with my Team Members is "anything goes". I decided to make an easy card using Craft Emotions by Carla Creaties - Egg Faces and Bugs 6 stamps along with some watercolor paper and Versafine Onyx Blank ink.

First I did some inking two eggs and faces (this is such a fun stamp with endless ideas) to do some watercoloring and fussy cutting. My Background is using Bugs 6 stamp and watercolor. Then started arranging my images. I used Versafine Onyx Black ink for the sentiment and completed my card with green tone cardstock.

Thank you for stopping by and keep crafting!

Topflight Stamps Supplies Used:

Craft Emotions - Egg Faces

Craft Emotions - Bugs 6

Versafine Onyx Black Ink

Strong Roots, Powerful Wings Encouragement Card

 It's Tuesday so you've got Kathi here to share a project with you. This week theme is "anything goes", so I decided to get out the beautiful Eclectica ESC36 Cling Mounted Stamp Set by Scrapcosy for PaperArtsy and make an encouragement card. 

Here it is!

I used Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the Fairy Mannequin/Dress Form from the Eclectica ESC36 Cling Mounted Stamp Set by Scrapcosy for PaperArtsy twice — once onto a white image panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. The sticker paper version was fussy-cut and placed atop its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.

The button array from the Eclectica ESC36 Cling Mounted Stamp Set  reminded me of clouds. I used pale grey Distress ink to stamp the first button array to the left of the mannequin's head on the image panel and onto repositionable sticker paper. The sticker paper version was fussy-cut and placed atop its counterpart. The same grey ink was used to stamp the other four button arrays on the image panel. I got clever and stamped the button arrays two more times onto repositionable sticker paper, stacked the sticker paper, then fussy-cut to create four more clouds masks.

Blue and pink Copic-friendly ink were brushed over the masked image to create a sky. The masks were lifted and the clouds, fairy mannequin/dress form, and grass were colored with Copic markers.

A silver gel pen was used to go over the metal part of the dress form. I misplaced my silver pen from the Bright Vivid Metallic Colorista Marker Set by Spectrum Noir or I would have used that!

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko was used to stamp the sentiments from Eclectica ESC36 Cling Mounted Stamp Set. then silver detail embossing powder was heat embossed. The sentiments were die-cut with flag dies.

A 5x7 frame die was used to cut silver metallic cardstock, the sentiments were adhered, and the frame was adhered to the image panel.

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

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Eclectica ESC36 Cling Mounted Stamp Set by Scrapcosy for PaperArtsy

Bright Vivid Metallic Colorista Marker Set by Spectrum Noir

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Thanks for visiting today!

Butterflies & Sympathy

Alanna back on the blog today with a pair of sympathy cards. These can be hard cards to make so I like to have a few on hand to use when the need arises.

For these cards, I started by taking the Boxes 6 Up stencil from Darkroom Door and I blended on some Violet Chalk Elements ink from Lavinia. These ink pads are so juicy and absolutely perfect for ink blending. There are a ton of colors and all so pretty. You can find them all here. 

After my panels were blended, I stamped my sentiment which is from the With Sympathy set from Visible Image. I then took the Butterflies stamp/die combo from Love in the Moon and stamped it out a couple of times. I love how you get all these different styles and sizes of butterflies with so little effort. Both the stamp and the die do all the butterflies at once.

I sat these aside and then trimmed down my focal panels. I added them to some light purple card stock and then added these to white A2 notecards with some thin foam tape for just a bit of lift. I then added my butterflies and that completes these cards.

Find all the products I used today below in the Topflight Stamps store.

Crafty hugs! ~ Alanna

Hugs and Hisses

Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share my weekly project with you. The lovely Ericka filled in for me on Tuesday as I was away on vacation. This week my teammates and I are focusing on Katzelkraft's wonderful stamps. When I saw the Snakes KTZ315 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set, I immediately thought "HISS!", which meant it would work wonderfully with all my Katzelkraft cat stamps. I decided to use a smaller cat from the Cats on Books KTZ295 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set for this card since the snake could be looking at him.

Using a stamping platform, I positioned the upside-down cat from the Cats on Books KTZ295 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set to the right of an image panel, placed a Post-It Note over the book pile, inked the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko, and stamped him twice — once onto the image panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper, which was fussy-cut to mask him. 

I chose the knotted snake from the Snakes KTZ315 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set, positioned him to the left of the masked cat, then stamped him twice — once onto the image panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper, which was fussy-cut to mask him.

I used low-tack tape to cover the bottom of the image panel, brushed Della Blue and Confetti Elements Inks over the tape and the masked images to create a sky. 91% Isopropyl Alcohol was sprayed over the inked sky to blend and mottle the background.

The masks were lifted and the snake, cat, and grass were colored with Copic markers. The image panel was trimmed, edged with Graphite Elements Ink, and adhered to black cardstock.

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink was used to stamp the "hugs and kisses" sentiment from the More Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle onto the leftover inked cardstock and an extra "hugs" onto plain white cardstock. 

The sentiment panel was cut with a ribbon cutting die and edged with Graphite Elements Ink. The "h" from the extra "hugs" was punched with a tiny rectangle punch, trimmed, edged with a yellow Copic marker, and adhered over the "k" in kisses. 

Patterned paper from the Ink Drops - Candy 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad was selected, trimmed to 5.25" x 4" and edged with Graphite Elements Ink. The image panel was adhered as shown. 

Stitched border dies were used to cut the same patterned paper and black cardstock. The patterned paper border was edged with Graphite Elements Ink, threaded through the ribbon slide sentiment die-cut, adhered to the black border die-cut, and added to the top of the patterned paper background. The last step was to adhered the cardfront to an A2 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:

Snakes KTZ315 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft

Cats on Books KTZ295 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft

More Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle

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

Della Blue, Confetti, and Graphite Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Thanks for visiting today!