Summer Holiday Fun

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This is Irit here today and I am going to share my Summer Holiday Fun Mixed Media card.
One of the great things about Topflight Stamps are the full themed sets from stamp companies around the world.
And when our topic is Summer/Sea/Nature some of the best are Rubber Dance stamp sets.

This is a set I used for my Mixed Media Nautical card: Retro Beach stamp set
To make this card I used not less than 9 stamps from this set and they connect in the most perfect way to make any Nautical project.





The background layer was stamped with the nest stamp all around. I used white embossing powder and then painted the embossed image with emboss resist technique to get the outer frame for my card.
The inner "post card" was stamped with black embossing powder and the main image was colored with distress markers.

The background around the main stamped image was painted with a mix of blue paints and then some stencilled dots were added with clear/ gold texture paint. Some misted splashes were the last color touch for the card.

Small sea creatures were stamped and then hand cut to make the corner embellishment cluster on the right.
Three stamped hand cut words made the left corner sentiment.

As you can see no embellishments were used to make this card, but stamped image and mediums. I only added the twine piece to connect the corners to the anchor.

I hope that you liked my Nautical project and you can see more of my work in my own blog HERE.
Thanks for being here with me today and see you in a week with something totally different.

Nautical Art Card & Tag using Joy Crafts

 Welcome to the Topflights Stamp blog.  We're sharing summer projects on the blog this week. We're also having a HUGE sale on all our Summer Stamps. Be sure to check it out!!

 Hello from the Topflight Blog. This week the DTeam are playing with summer or nautical theme. Karen Bearse here asking how are you inspired?  One way for me is browsing the web and looking at all the wonderful art that is being created. All of a sudden inspiration strikes. I decided to make an art card using postage stamps, paint & sewing based on my recent muses. 

I got to play with the Joy Crafts Seashore Icons set. I have to say I love how detailed these stamps are. Hot Tip: Use an archival ink the first time you stamp with clear stamps & don't clean the stamp after. It will help other inks stick to the stamp & create a clearer image. 

My 2nd project is a tag that was already in progress. I keep a tin of tags next to my desk that are partially worked on. This one was perfect to add some nautical images! 

I have a quick tutorial on my blog on how these tags were put together & some close up shots which you can find here. Thanks for joining me today! See you next Thursday.  

Topflight, Crafty Individuals and Summer!

Welcome to the Topflights Stamp blog.  We're sharing summer projects on the blog this week. We're also having a HUGE sale on all our Summer Stamps. Be sure to check it out!!

Summer Sale Link

This week at Top Flight, it's summer!

The stamp for my first post

Crafty Individuals

Country Days-Bicycle flowers

My basic medium used

The blue and green Bistre

That I applied on a SB paper

And then sprayed with water

I then applied my stamp with ink

Stazon "timber brown"

I discolored the basket, the flowers and the bird with

bleach

My two TCW stencils

"Mini complicated hearts" 6 X 6

"Mini art is" 6 X 6

Inks used for my stencils

Distress Pumice Stone and Brushed Corduroy

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Summertime Fun

Welcome to the Topflights Stamp blog.  We're sharing summer projects on the blog this week. We're also having a HUGE sale on all our Summer Stamps. Be sure to check it out!!

Summer Sale Link

Steph here again with some fun stamps from the store.    These wonderful stamps are from The Netherlands!

Barbecue

I've used the Campfire Die from Joy Crafts.  To make it more realistic, I die cut it from 2 pieces of cardstock, cut it apart and reassembled it.

Campfire Die

Using the tent stamp from the Barbecue stamp set from Joy Crafts, I used a masking technique to add 3 different colored tents.

The Barbecue stamp set from Joy Crafts has tons of stamps to work with and also a grill die.  Using the grill die as the focal element, I worked a variety of stamps around it.

Thanks for stopping by and please pop by my blog for more crafty inspiration. 

See you next Tuesday.

Steph

Summer Sun & Island Escapes

Happy Monday Folks!

It's Clare with you today at the Topflight Stamps blog and  this week we are all in the mood for summer.  More recently the weather in the UK has been awesome!  Lots of warm summer days & nights have been some of my inspiration along with a superb selection of stamps from Topflight.

I used a versatile stamp set by Kaisercraft, 'Island Escape', all the way from Australia.  Along with some Distress Oxides through a stencil, I stamped the palm trees & the cheeky sentiment included in the set.

My next make was made in a similar way with the Distress Oxides but this time I chose to stamp using Visible Images 'Face It' over the top and add the flowers from the Island Escape set with 'Sand, Sea, You & Me (I love that sentiment!)

Every month I enter a postcard swap in the UK and with this month being a summer themed swap I decided to use the stamps to go on to my card.

I'd like to think I was sat under that palm tree sipping cocktails, I can dream right?

This stamp set is a really fabulous set with the flower and palm tree images and three sentiment stamps, the possibilities are endless and drumroll please...wait for it!  It is on special offer this week so pop over to the Topflight Stamps online store and grab yourself a bargain!

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you have enjoyed your visit today? We love to hear your comments.  There is something happening every day on our blog so hit the follow button for regular updates.

Happy Crafting,

Clare

Summer Cocktails

Welcome to the Topflight stamps blog. Today we start a week of Summer inspiration. From today until Saturday, July 15 at midnight EST all stamp in the Summer, Nautical and Travel Categories will be 25% off!! It's time to stock up on your summer stamps!!

Today, I'm starting off our Summer Inspiration Week with a card featuring a stamp from Carabelle Studio called Cocktails. I love the light and summery vibe of this card. I stamped the Cocktails with Versafine ink on Prima Watercolor paper and colored them with General watercolor pencils. I also created the sea and sky background with watercolor pencils. I was inspired by Sandy Allnock to create my own background - something I rarely do! The pink paper is from a Heidi Swap paper pad called Sunshowers. Be sure to check back tomorrow to see all the FAB summer inspiration from our awesome new design team!!  Donna

Cocktails

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A Glimmer of Light

Welcome to the Topflight Stamps Blog. Today we have an awesome card created by our FAB guest designer Tenia Nelson. She used the Visible Image Stamp Set called Glimmer of Light. Be sure to check out Tenia's Blog for more info on how she made this very cool card. 

And be sure to join us tomorrow as we kick off a week of Summer inspiration from our new designers!!

Glimmer of Light