Masculine Birthday Card Using Leane Creatief & Katzelkraft Stamps

Welcome to the Topflight Stamps Blog!

This week we are focusing on Masculine cards. I've got a birthday card I made for a friend of mine who loves soccer. 

I used a panel of card stock that I had covered with PaperArtsy Infusions and Mowed Lawn Distress Inks. I heat embossed the soccer balls using Martha Stewart black embossing powder and colored in the soccer balls with a white Kirarina Wink pen. Then I trimmed the background because it was quite overpowering and added a white panel behind it. The sentiment is from a Katzelkraft Holiday Sentiments Stamp set. I thought it was a great font for this masculine card. I just matted the sentiment strip with some black and white panels. I inked all the white card stock with the Mowed Lawn Distress Ink. 

This stamp set is so versatile for men and boys who love sports!

Sports Balls by Leane Creatief


This is a great set for so many occasions. 

Holiday Quotes by Katzelkraft

Thanks for stopping by!

Rubber Dance Stamps by Susanne Rose

Hi TOPFLIGHT STAMPS fans, Barbara back with my weekly blog post......I can't believe how quickly the weeks are flying by, it just seems a few hours since I did my last post 😏

Anyway, this week I've made a little tag/bookmark with some fabulous Rubber Dance Stamps, designed by Susanne Rose. I love Susanne's work, so when I saw these 'Textured Houses' I just knew I had to have them.

I inked up a piece of cardstock with Izinks , then laid a bubble stencil over the top and sponged through with white Gesso.

The houses were stamped onto an old book page,  cut-out and inked with contrasting colours, then adhered to the background. I mounted the coloured piece onto black card, as a base.

I coloured a piece of seam binding to match.

I love these little houses, so this won't be the last time you see me using them 😀

Topflight Stamps have a good selection of Rubber Dance stamps, why not pop over and check them out?

Catch you soon, but as always, have a fab, crafty weekend.

Barbara x 

This is the stamp set......

 

Monsters Rule!

Hello Topflight fans! CraftyPaws here today to share some whimsical CAS monster cards with ya'll. I silly monsters from the Katzelkraft "Les Monstres des Carpates" are so quirky that little else is needed to craft some super fun cards.

I featured three of the monsters from the stamp set to create three single layer cards. I stamped one monster on each card front and then created masks for each of them so that I could temporarily cover them and lightly blend on a bubbly background using some Tim Holtz Distress Inks and a Dylusions "Quote Bubbles" stencil to add a little visual texture and color. The Claritystamp Stencil Brushes made getting a soft blended patterned look easy.

The first card is an anytime card. I used the stamps from the Concord & 9th "Sophisticated Script" stamp set to stamp out "monster" and then hand wrote "hugs" in a simple bubbly font. I Copic colored this monster in saturated red, blue and golds and then blended on some Squeezed Lemonade and Spun Sugar background bubbles. I added a textured pink bubbly paper strip on the right side of the card as a finishing touch.

The second card is a birthday card. I used a sentiment from the Inkadinkado "Kids Quotes" sentiment stamp set with black and red ink. Then I Copic colored the monster in red, orange and yellow. The bubble background was made with Squeezed Lemonade, and this time I used a red, white and black plaid strip from my scrap box for added interest.

The last card is a feel better or uplifting card. I used another sentiment from the Inkadinkado "Kids Quotes" sentiment stamp set with black and orange ink. I Copic colored the monster in blue and orange, and I used Spiced Marigold Distress Ink for the bubbly background. I dug into my scrap box again and found a cute yellow and black polka dot patterned paper for the decorative strip.

I hope you enjoyed these fun and fast cards. I certainly had fun crafting them! If you'd like to see more details or a video share of these cards, please check out my blog post HERE.

New collection from Katzelkraft

Katzelkraft offers us its latest collection!

I love it!

The stamps used:

Farm Animal

Garbage can

Blocs-2

The background was made with Oxide inks

Broken China

Faded Jeans

Wilted Violet

Forest Moss

Bundled Sage

The animals and the bin have been colored with Copic markers

Nathalie Fournier/Topflight

Topfligt, Zinski and Carabelle

Today for Topflight, Paperartsy's "Minis Zinski"

Zini 28

Zini 29

Carabelle Studio "Sweet butterfly eyes"

Katzelkraft "Textures Grunge"

The background was made with Oxide inks

Salty Ocean

Broken China

Faded Jeans

Blueprint Sketch

Shaded Lilac

Walnut Stain

Gathered Twigs

Frayed Burlap

and the Zinski were colored with Copic markers.

Nathalie Fournier/Topflight

Unicorn Sparkle with Alexandra Renke

Hi Everyone and Welcome to the Topflight Stamps blog!   It's Jenny here, and today I'm joining you with a fun card created using one of my favourite stampsets carried by Topflight Stamps - the Unicorn set by Alexandra Renke.

Alexandra Renke is making waves right now in the cardmaking world and Topflight Stamps carries a great range of stamps, washi and stencils.  I love the modern feel of this set.

The card is very simple to make.  Using a 4x4" square of dark grey cardstock, I stamped the star flurry in the set with embossing ink, repeating to create a circle - (I used a special stencil to help me do this but you can also eyeball it).  I heat embossed with WOW! Embossing Powder in Frozen. I mounted this onto a lighter grey cardstock and then used foam tape to add it to a square card base.

I used Distress Ink in Peacock Feathers and Picked Raspberry and randomly painted it onto some coldpress watercolor paper, letting it blend, then heat drying it. I repeated this a couple of times. When fully dry, I heat embossed the Unicorn outline over the top in the same Frozen EP color and then fussy cut it out.  I popped it up on foam tape in the centre of the stars.  To finish, I scattered some iridescent crystals and coated the Unicorn in Clear Wink of Stella. 

You can find more details on other supplies I used over on my blog.  I hope you like it!

Jenny 

Junk Journal Using PaperArtsy Stamps & Emerald Creek Baked Texture Powders

Welcome to the Topflight Stamps Blog!

Today we are showcasing a Junk Journal created by our Guest Designer Lisa Hoel. Lisa used several Emerald Creek Embossing Powders and stamps by Crafty Individuals, Visible Image and PaperArtsy.

Emerald Creek embossing powders:
Baked Texture - Chunky Rust
Baked Texture - Vintage Beeswax
Baked Texture - Deep Sea
Baked Texture - Ancient Amber

Stamps:
from Topflight Stamps:

Paper Artsy, Lynne Perrella LPC034
Visible Image - Scripted Streets
Crafty Individual - CI-185
Rubber Dance - Vintage Script

For more information and pictures check out Lisa's blog post here.