Greetings! It's Topflight Stamps Tuesday with Kathi! This week the TFS team is celebrating Christmas/Winter in July! There's also a Christmas in July Sale which means that all items in the Christmas/Winter category are 25% off!
Here's my Christmas card, created with Katzelkraft's Les Chats/Cats Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set and the Les Drôles d'Accessoires/Funny Accessories Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set. The sentiments were created with Lavinia Stamps' Musical Notes Small Clear Polymer Stamp Set, Seasonal Words Clear Polymer Stamp Set, and the Christmas Greetings Clear Polymer Stamp Set. The Bubble Talk Die Set 72 and the Polaroid Pop Die Set DI-89 by AALL and Create were also used as was the Distress Plaid 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad by Creative Expressions.
Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the Santa Hat from Les Drôles d'Accessoires/Funny Accessories Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft twice — once about 2 ½" down on the left side of a white cardstock panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.
Position the grumpy cat stamp from the the Les Chats/Cats Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft so that his ears and the top part of his head sit on the the masked Santa Hat. Ink with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp twice — once on the white cardstock panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart as a mask.
Position the mouse stamp from the the Les Chats/Cats Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set so that it's next to and slightly behind the grumpy cat. Ink with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp twice — once on the white cardstock panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart as a mask.
Repeat the above process with the singing cat from the Les Chats/Cats Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set.
Place a piece of low-tack tape horizontally across the image panel to cover the base of the critters and the bottom of the image panel. Sponge or brush sage green dye ink over the tape and the masked images to add a background color. Reposition the tape so that it's covering the top part of the image panel then heavily sponge the same sage green dye ink to ground the images.
Remove the masks and the tape. Use Copic markers to color the image panel. Use white gel pen to add highlights to grumpy cat's eyes and the the mouse's nose.
Use the largest die from the Polaroid Pop Die Set DI-89 by AALL and Create to cut the image panel. Edge with the green dye ink. Cut a piece of dark green cardstock ⅛" larger than the image panel die-cut and use to mat the image panel die-cut.
Add liquid glue to the pom-pom on Santa's hat. Pour white Fun Flock onto the wet glue. Set the matted image panel die-cut aside to let the glue/Fun Flock set.
Brush the sage green dye ink onto white cardstock. Use one of the speech bubbles from the Bubble Talk Die Set 72 by AALL and Create to cut the inked cardstock. Place low-tack tape across the back of the speech bubble shaped aperture on the inked cardstock panel and place the speech bubble die-cut into the opening so that it's held securely by the tape. Position the word "Joy" from the Seasonal Words Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps so that it's centered in the speech bubble die-cut. Ink the stamp with Spruce VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko and stamp. Remove the sentiment stamp. Position musical notes from the Musical Notes Small Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps on either side of the sentiment, ink the stamps with Spruce VersaFine Clair Ink, and stamp. Remove the speech bubble die-cut from the tape, discard the tape, and edge the speech bubble die-cut with sage green dye ink. Set aside.
Position the "Merry Christmas" sentiment stamp from the Christmas Greetings Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps onto the green-inked cardstock, stamp with Spruce VersaFine Clair Ink, and die-cut with a ribbon slide die. Edge the ribbon slide die-cut with sage green dye ink.
Select one of the green plaid patterned papers from the Distress Plaid 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad by Creative Expressions, cut to 4 ¾" x 6 ¾", and edge with Spruce VersaFine Clair Ink.
Adhere the matted image panel die-cut to the patterned paper panel as shown. Adhere the speech bubble die-cut to the top right of the image panel die-cut.
Use a ribbon border die to cut dark green cardstock, then thread the border die through the ribbon slide/sentiment die-cut. Adhere the combination to the bottom of the plaid patterned paper panel as shown. Adhere the card front to a dark green 5" x 7" card.
Please pop over to my blog, Kat's Tales of Stamping, for step-by-step instructions and complete supply lists.
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