Sunday, April 24, 2022

Variations on The Arty Squares Collage Stamp

Greetings! It's Kathi here to share two cards created with the new Arty Squares Collage Red Rubber Cling Stamp by Darkroom Door.

Here's the first card which is rather bright. It also uses Darkroom Door's Coffee Time Red Rubber Cling Stamps and Grid Background Red rubber Cling Stamp by Darkroom Door.


This background for this card was started using the 2" Speedball Brayer to apply Sundance Elements Ink to the 5" x 7" Gel Press, then pulling the print on mixed media cardstock. VersaMark ink was used to stamp the Arty Squares Collage Red Rubber Cling Stamp onto the yellow background. Black Detail Embossing Powder was applied, the excess was dumped off, then the panel was embossed.

A wet paintbrush was used to remove the yellow ink from the Arty Squares and the piece was heat set. 

Sundance, Confetti, Mermaid, Pine, Russet Orange Elements Inks were used as watercolors. The lid of the ink pad was squeezed onto the pad which deposited ink on the inside of lid. The ink was misted with water, then applied to the Arty Squares Collage with paint brushes.

The image panel was trimmed, distressed with a scissor blade, and matted on black cardstock.

Onyx Black VersaFine Ink by Tsukineko was used to stamp the cup and saucer from the Coffee Time Red Rubber Cling Stamp Set onto the left over piece of yellow Gel printed mixed media paper. The coffee cup and saucer were fussy-cut. Chalk pencils were used to add shading to the cup and a black pen was used to edge the coffee cup and saucer combo.

A piece of yellow cardstock was used to create a 5" x 7" card. Onyx Black VersaFine Ink was used to stamp the Grid Background Red Rubber Cling Stamp on the base of the card. 

Here's the second card which uses Darkroom Door's  Arty Squares Collage Red Rubber Cling Stamp with the coordinating Arty Squares Small Stencil. I also used the Bottles Red Rubber Cling Stamps by Darkroom Door and a sentiment from the Rise Up Clear Border Stamp #490 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create. 


I started this card stamping the Arty Squares Collage Red Rubber Cling Stamp with Onyx Black VersaFine Ink onto mixed media cardstock. Bermuda Elements Ink was used to stamp one of the bottles from the Bottles Red Rubber Cling Stamp Set onto the background and onto a Post-It Note, which was fussy-cut. A ruler was placed horizontally and Distress ink was sponged over the top of the image. The ruler was moved to cover the top part of the image and darker Distress ink was sponged over the bottom of the image panel. 

The Arty Squares Small Stencil was placed over the image panel and the same Distress ink was sponged over the stencil into the squares, which deepened the color.

Bermuda Elements Ink was used as a watercolor to color the bottle. My original plan was to use Darkroom Door's Tall Flowers Stencil in the bottle. However, I seemed to have hallucinated its purchase and/or misplaced it. So I stamped a small flower with Sundance Elements Ink, then watercolored it with Sundance and Henna Elements Inks. A watercolor marker was used to add the flower stem. 

Bermuda Elements Ink was used to stamp the sentiment from the Rise Up Clear Border Stamp #490 as shown.

Please visit my blog, Kat's Tales of Stamping, for more detailed instructions and complete supply lists. 

 Topflight Stamps Products Used:


























Thanks for visiting!

Friday, April 22, 2022

PaperArtsy JOFY Slimline Card

 

Happy Friday! Ericka from Strangely Creative here and I hope you all had a wonderful week. Today I'm playing with the JOFY 112 set along with some PaperArtsy Fresco Acrylics. I love this beautiful set and I stamped and colored up several versions. For my card today, I used colored pencils and fussy cut the flowers out.

For my background, I used a printed script paper and added PaperArtsy Fresco Acrylics in Blue Moon, Truffle, and Taupe with my brayer. I then used the PaperArtsy Sara Naumann 41 set to add some more script to my background using Lavinia Dye ink in Truffle. 

I used the Alison Bomber 19 set for my sentiment using the same ink to finish my card. 


Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend and have a chance to get crafty.


Topflight Stamps Supplies Used




Thursday, April 21, 2022

Little Red Riding Hood in the Forest

   Hi Everyone,

Cornelia here today. This week it's anything goes on the Topflight blog. 
You probably have seen those fairy tale stamps by Janet Klein from AALL&Create. One of the best sets in my humble opinion is the Red & Wolf set. Jumped right into my shopping cart, LOL!
I first loosely sponged the background in green and brown. Stamped the forest - a combination of Katzelkraft and Lavinia trees, see below. Stamped the girl and the wolf onto scrap paper and colored them with Copics. Cut them out. Added some Lavinia mini mushrooms and the grass from the Katzelkraft Weeds set

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: 

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Her Wings Unfolded - a Journal page


 Good Morning
I played with a variety of stamps from a few of the stamp companies TopFlight Stamps carry to create this layer-looking journal page.

 

 


Here are all the products I used:


I wanted to make a layered look, or like another world was emerging from behind. Add white acrylic paint from Art by Marlene around the border of the blue background. 


Add dimension to the greenish background with an AALL and Create stamp and distress oxide. 


I tried to make the center more pronounced, so I added a brown background with distress oxide and water.

Stamp and color your little winged girl from AALL and Create and cut her out.


Add washi tape details and stamp the extra image from above onto the page.


Finally, add your sentiment and glue this and the girl with liquid glue.





I hope you liked today's playtime with me!

Charmaine






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