Cheers!

Here's a card created for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's January's Bright and Cheerful Challenge 193 with one of the festive and fun cats from the Party Cat Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs. 

Products Used:

Party Cat Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock

Black Metallic Cardstock by Recollections

Tuxedo Black, Angel Pink, Rosebud, Sky Blue, Danube Blue, Lilac Posies, and Dandelion Memento Inks

Copic Markers:
Cat: C4, C3, C2, C1, C0, C00, BV0000, BV000, RV93, RV91, R81, Y23, Y21, Y04,  YR31, 

Cat's Hat: B24, B23, B21

Glass: B60, BG11, BG10, BG000, BG0000

Pink Glitter Marker by Grabie

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura of America

Kitten Smitten Pawprint Patterned Paper by Doodlebug Designs

Chloe 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Bella Blvd.

Medium Folk Heart Punch by Emagination

Tag It Yourself Die Set 27 by AALL and Create

Cheers Die by Elizabeth Craft Design

Low-tack Tape

Acetate Packaging

91% Isopropyl Alcohol

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Instructions:

1. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Drinks Cat from the Party Cat Rubber Stamp Set twice – once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
2. Use Copic markers to color the cat.
3. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart as a mask.
4. Place a piece of low-tack tape across the image panel so that it's covering the bottom of the panel.
5. Smoosh the Angel Pink Memento Pad onto the acetate.
6. Mist the wet ink with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol.
7. Press the acetate on the image panel to transfer the ink.
8. Repeat Steps 5 through 7 until you're happy with the amount of pink.
9. Clean and dry the piece of acetate. 
10. Repeat Steps 5 through 9 with Sky Blue,  Rosebud, Danube Blue, Lilac Posies, then Dandelion Memento Inks using the darker colors more sparingly.
11. Remove the tape from the bottom of the image panel. 
12. Cover the top of the image panel.
13. Brush Danube Blue Memento Ink onto the bottom portion of the image panel to ground the image.
14. Cut the image panel with one of the dies from the Tag It Yourself Die Set 27.
15. Edge the die-cut with Danube Blue Memento Ink and set aside.
16. Brush Sky Blue Memento Ink over a 2.125" x 6" strip of the pawprint patterned paper from the Smitten Kitten pad.
17. Brush Sky Blue Memento Ink over a 4.25" x 6" piece of cat text patterned paper from the Chloe 6x6 Patterned Paper pad.
18. Adhere the pawprint paper onto the right side of the inked cat text paper. 
19. Edge the layered patterned paper panel with Blue Danube Memento Ink.
20. Cut a panel of the pink cat head patterned paper so that it's slightly larger than the image panel.
21. Edge the panel with Angel Pink Memento ink.
22. Adhere the cat head print panel to the blue inked patterned paper.
23. Use the pink glitter pen to add glitter to the stars on the cat's hat. 
24. Trim the layered panel to 5.5" and adhere to an A2 card.
25. Use the heart punch to punch three hearts from the pink cat head patterned paper.
26. Edge the hearts and adhere to the left side of the card as shown.
27. Use the "Cheers" die to cut metallic black cardstock.
28. Adhere the sentiment die to the front of the card as shown.

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I hope that you get a chance to participate in  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's January's Bright and Cheerful Challenge 193!

I *Heart* Mew!

Here’s a punny Valentine’s Day card, created for Imagine Crafts, that showcases the blending of the new Baby Pink VersaFine Clair Ink with the Charming Pink VersaFine Clair Ink.  I also used Purell to create a fun ghosting technique!

Imagine Crafts Products Used:

Baby Pink, Charming Pink, and Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks *

Sponge Dauber

Tear It! Tape

Craft Mat

Other Supplies:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Raven Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

What’s Meow Clear Stamp Set by Funky Fossil Designs

Staggered Hearts Stencil by My Favorite Things

Speech Bubble Die-namics Die Set by My Favorite Things

Upper and Lower Case Thinlits Die Sets by Tim Holtz for Sizzix

Occasions Small Talk  Tim Holtz Idea-ology Stickers by Advantus

Flag Dies: Source Unknown

Make-up Brushes

Dried Out Baby Wipes

Purell

Spanish Orange and Yellow Orange Prismacolor Markers

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Repositionable Scotch Tape by 3M

Low-Tack Tape

Magnetic Glass Craft Mat by Glassboard Studio

Misti Stamping Platform by My Sweet Petunia

Big Shot by Sizzix

Instructions:

Steps 1A and B:

Use a make-up brush to apply Baby Pink VersaFine Clair Ink to a piece of white cardstock. Start at the top of the panel and work downwards.  The make-up brush creates soft textured look on the cardstock. Continue to brush downwards until the brush doesn’t put ink onto the cardstock (1A)

Use the same make-up brush to apply Charming Pink VersaFine Clair Ink from the base of the cardstock panel, blending as you go. (1B) 

Steps 2A and B:

Place the Staggered Hearts stencil over the inked panel. (2A)

Add Purell to a dry baby wipe until it’s saturated then use the wipe to apply the Purell over the stencil onto the cardstock. The Purell will lift the VersaFine Clair Ink, creating ghosted hearts on the background. Heat setting will accentuate the ghosted effect while setting the ink. (2B)

Step 3:

Place the inked cardstock panel onto a stamping platform. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the cat. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary for a crisp image.  Remove the image panel and use a paint brush dipped and the ink pad to do any necessary touch ups to the image. Heat set.

Step 4:

Use Prismacolor markers to color the cat’s eyes, taking care to avoid the black ink and contaminate your markers. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to the cat’s eyes.  No photos. Sorry.

Step 5: 

Use alphabet dies and a speech bubble die to cut black cardstock. Use a flag and a heart die to to cut to cut extra inked cardstock from Step 1. Smoosh the heart die-cut onto the Charming Pink VersaFine Clair inkpad. Trim the ends off of the flag die-cut and edge with Charming Pink VersaFine Clair Ink. Adhere the letter die-cuts and the heart to the pink strip, then adhere to the black speech bubble die-cut.

Step 6:

Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the cat onto the scrap of repositionable sticker paper. Fussy-cut the sticker paper along the bottom and place it over its counterpart as a mask. Place a strip of repositionable Scotch Tape across the image panel. Use a Sponge Dauber to apply Charming Pink VersaFine Clair Ink over the tape and the masked cat paws to the bottom of the image panel. 

Remove the tape and the mask over the cat. Use Use a Sponge Dauber to edge the image panel with Charming Pink VersaFine Clair Ink.

Step 7:

Use a Sponge Dauber to apply Baby Pink VersaFine Clair Ink to the outside .5” perimeter of  an A2 card. Heat set.

Step 8:

Cut a panel of black cardstock to 4” x 5.25”. Use Tear It! Tape to mat the image panel with the black cardstock, adhere the matted image panel to the card, and adhere the speech bubble die-cut as shown. Use the sentiment sticker to finish the card.

Finished Card

Spread a Little Kindness Card

 It's Tuesday, my day to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. It's an "Anything Goes" week for the TFS team. It's been very cold here in New Jersey with snow on the ground. The birds are all puffed up and hungry, which reminded me of the Bot-ology Spread a Little Kindness Rubber Cling Stamp Set by Andy Skinner for Creative Expressions, so I decided to make this card.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Bot-ology Spread a Little Kindness Rubber Cling Stamp Set by Andy Skinner for Creative Expressions

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Blender Brush Set by Time for Tea Designs

Fine Spray Misters by Spectrum Noir

Other Products Used:
Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock

Patterned Blue Cardstock by Club Scrap

Blue Cardstock by Club Scrap

Stormy Sky Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Copic Markers: 

Robot: T5, T4, T3, T2, T1, T0, BG96, BH93, BG90, E97, E95, E93, E19, E08, E07, YR31, Y28, Y26, Y23, Y11

Bird: As above without the BG markers

Bench: E37, E23, E21, W4, W2, W0, C3, C1, C0

Bird Seed Bag: BG34, BG32

Bird Seed: E44, E42, YR31

Sidewalk: C3, C1, C0

91% Isopropyl Alcohol

White Uni-Posca Paint Pen by Mitsubishi Pencil

A2 Polaroid Frame Die: Source Unknown

Nameplate Die: Spellbinders Paper Arts

Clear Detail Embossing Powder

Tiny Pewter Cogs: Source Unknown

Philips Head Screwtop Brads by Tim Holtz/Idea-ology for Advantus

Low-tack Tape

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Post-It Notes by 3M

Anti-Static Tool

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create an A2 card from a piece of solid blue cardstock.
2. Place a piece of white cardstock onto the base of a stamping platform. 
3. Position the the focal image from the Bot-ology Spread a Little Kindness Rubber Cling Stamp Set facedown centered horizontally on the cardstock. 
4. Press the lid of the platform onto the back of the stamp and lift. 
5. Use tape or Post-It Notes to cover the leaves on the stamp. 
6. Ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, remove the tape or Post-It Notes, and stamp.
7. Use Copic markers to color the image panel. 
8. Stamp the focal image again onto repositionable sticker paper, fussy-cut, and place the sticker paper version over its counterpart on the image panel. Be sure that the lower part of the image panel with the base of the park bench, the robot's feet, and the sidewalk are covered by either the sticker paper or Post-It Notes.
9. Brush Stormy Sky Distress ink over the masked images. 
10. Mist the image panel with a Fine Spray Mister by Spectrum Noir filled with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol to mottle the ink and blend the ink without pilling the paper.
11. Use a White Posca Paint Pen to add white spatter to the background.
12. Remove the masks from the image panel. 
13. Use a White Posca Paint Pen to add snowflakes and snowpiles over and around the images. 
14. Use an A2 Polaroid Frame die to cut blue patterned cardstock. 
15. Adhere the image panel behind the window of the frame die-cut.
16. Flip the patterned cardstock over to reveal the solid side. 
17. Pat the cardstock with a non-static tool. 
18. Use Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the sentiment included in the Bot-ology Spread a Little Kindness Rubber Cling Stamp Set. 
19. Sprinkle clear detail embossing powder onto the wet ink, dump the excess powder back into its container, and heat set the sentiment.
20. Die-cut the sentiment with a label die. 
21. Adhere the sentiment die-cut paper to the polaroid frame. 
22. Attach tiny pewter gears over the holes in the nameplate die-cut using philips head screw-top brads. 
23. Adhere the finished cardfront to the reserved A2 card.

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Steampunk Valentine's Day Card

  Greetings! I have wonderful news! I'm chuffed an d ever-so-excited that Funky Fossil Designs has asked me to join their Design Team. They have amazing stamps, stencils, dies, paper, mdf, and mixed media. You should most pop over to their website and take a look around. I will be posting projects weekly using their fabulous products.

Here's my first card, which is for Valentine's Day and was created with the Steampunk Aquatica and Steampunk Sea-Fari Clear Stamp Sets that were designed by the wonderful Belinda Basson!

Products Used:

Steampunk Aquatica Clear Stamp Set by Belinda Basson for  Funky Fossil Designs

Steampunk Sea-Fari Clear Stamp Set by Belinda Basson for  Funky Fossil Designs

Tuxedo Black Memento and Desert Sand Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Broken China, Salvaged Patina, and Peeled Paint Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Red and Black Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Copic Markers:
Octopus: Y28, Y26, Y23, Y21, Y11, N6, N6, N4, T3, T1

Octopus' Top Hat: N6, N5, N4, R56, R35, R24

Hearts: C4, C3, C2, C1, C0

Plants (which could also be coral): YG67, YG63, G85

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Low–tack Tape

Anti-Static Tool

Detail Clear Embossing Powder by Stampendous

Glassboard by Glassboard Studio

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create a 5" x 7" card from black cardstock. Set aside.
2. Secure a 5.25 x 7.25" piece of white cardstock on a stamping platform.
3. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Octopus from the Steampunk Aquatica Clear Stamp Set twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
4. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel.
5. Position the three hearts from the Steampunk Sea-Fari Clear Stamp Set so that they're facedown on the Octopus' tentacles.
6. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the hearts onto the image panel and again onto small pieces of repositionable sticker paper. 
7. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of the hearts and place them over their counterparts as masks. 
8. Use a wavy ruler and a craft knife to cut a strip of low-tack tape. 
9. Place the low-tack tape horizontally about 1" from the base of the image panel.
10. Brush Broken China and Salvaged Patina Distress Inks horizontally across the tape and the masked images until the background is covered.
11. Forget to mist with 91% alcohol, meant to mottle the background.
12. Lift the repositionable tape and place the other half of the tape so that it's covering the top of the image panel.
13. Sponge Desert Sand Memento Ink over the tape onto the bottom of the image panel. 
14. Place the image panel back onto the stamping platform.
15. Place the Sea Plant Stamp from the Steampunk Sea-Fari Clear Stamp Set facedown on the bottom part of the image panel.
16. Use Peeled Paint Distress Ink to stamp the plant.
17. Clean and dry the stamp.
18. Repeat Steps 15 - 17 so that there are three Sea Plants on the bottom of the image panel.
19. Remove and retain the Octopus mask and heart masks.
20. Color the images, including the sea plants with Copic markers.
21. Use a T1 marker to add shadows to the sandy sea bottom.
22. Trim the image panel to 4.625" x 6.625".
23. Place the retained masks back over their counterparts on the image panel.
24. Place the image panel back onto the stamping platform.
25. Place the school of fish stamp from the Steampunk Aquatica Clear Stamp Set facedown on the top right of the image panel.
26. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp.
27. Clean and dry the stamp.
28. Repeat Steps 25-27 seven times. Be sure to overstamp the masked images and the borders. 
29. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform and heat set the image.
30. Use an anti-static tool to pounce powder all over the image panel.
31. Place the image panel back onto the stamping platform.
32. Position the sentiment facedown on the image panel as shown.
33. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary to attain a good impression.
34. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform.
35. Sprinkle clear detail embossing powder of the sentiment.
36. Dump the excess powder back into its container.
37. Heat set the sentiment.
38. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to edge the image panel.
39. Cut a piece of red cardstock to 4.75" x 6.75 and use to mat the image panel.
40. Adhere the matted image panel to the reserved black card to finish it!

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Chills and Thrills for a Bright and Cheerful Challenge!

Here's my first card for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's January's Bright and Cheerful Challenge 193. 

I got the flu as a Christmas present, so I started 2025 feeling dizzy and blah. Apparently, I got confused and missed the "cheerful" part of the challenge, but I did nail the bright and dizzy elements. 

Here's my card created with the Alfred Hitchcock Standing Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda with the Perspective Floor Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Products Used:

Alfred Hitchcock Standing Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda

Perspective Floor Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Bristol Paper by Strathmore

Raven Black Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Scraps of red, white, and silver metallic cardstock

Cheerful, Summertime, Aqua Mist, Purple Delight, and Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Flesh Colour, Shadow Pink, Lilac, Vermillion, Light Grey, Warm Grey 6, Warm Grey 5, Warm Grey 4 Zig Clear Color Real Brush Pens by Kuretake

Stipple Brush

Time Tunnel Stencil by Visible Image

Planner Filmstrip Die Set by Elizabeth Craft Designs 

At the Movies Die-namics Die Set by My Favorite Things Designs

Telephone Dies by QuicKutz

Upper Case Thinlits Die Set by Tim Holtz for Sizzix

Misc. Circle Dies

Bird Dies: Source Unknown

Low-tack Tape

Stamping Platorm

Instructions:

1. Create a 5.5" square card from black (Raven) cardstock.
2. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp Alfred Hitchcock onto Bristol paper. Heat set.
3. Fussy-cut Alfred, color him with Zig Real Brush Markers, and edge him with a dark marker. Set him aside to stew.
4. Brush Cheerful VersaFine Clair ink over a sheet of Bristol cardstock.
5. Use a stipple brush to randomly pounce Summertime and Aqua Mist VersaFine Clair Inks over the background panel.
6. Heat set and trim to to 5.5" square.
7. Place the Time Tunnel Stencil over the inked background panel and secure with low-tack tape or magnets. 
8. Sponge Purple Delight VersaFine Clair over the Time Tunnel Stencil onto the speckled yellow background panel, remove the stencil, then heat set.
9. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink  to stamp the  Perspective Floor Rubber Stamp onto the leftover piece of yellow speckled cardstock, then heat set.
10. Cut black cardstock with the film strip cutting die, birds cutting dies, a film camera cutting die, and a rotary phone cutting die. 
11. Cut white cardstock with the rotary phone dial. 
12. Cut silver cardstock with circle dies and the film camera dies.
13. Cut red cardstock with an "M" cutting die.
14. Adhere the Perspective Floor element to the bottom left of the background panel. 
15. Adhere the film strip die-cut along the right edge of the background panel
16. Adhere the bird die-cuts to one of the apertures of the film strip.
17. Assemble the movie camera and adhere in the center film strip aperture.
18. Assemble and adhere the telephone die-cut. Adhere the red "M" to the phone's dial.
19. Adhere the fussy-cut, colored, and edged Alfred Hitchcock to the background as shown. 
20. Trim the image panel to 5.25" square and edge with Purple Delight VersaFine Clair Ink. 
21. Adhere the card front to the 5.5" black card.
22. Adhere the Idea-ology sentiment sticker to finish the card.

I hope that you take the opportunity to enter the Bright and Cheerful Challenge for a chance to win Lost Coast Cash!

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Greetings! It's Tuesday, my day to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week the team is getting ready for Valentine's Day. Here's my card created with Fox Mail Solo Red Rubber Unmounted Stamp by Katzelkraft, the heart vine from the Eclectica Darcy O1 Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set by PaperArtsy, and the Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Fox Mail Solo Red Rubber Unmounted Stamp by Katzelkraft

Eclectica Darcy O1 Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set by PaperArtsy

Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Red Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Lost Shadow Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Copic Markers:
Fox: E49, E29, E17, E15, E13, E11, E000

Mailbox: BV23, BV20, R59, R56, R37, R35, E04, W6, W5, W3, Y28, Y26, Y23, Y11

Envelopes: B60, C2

Ground: C3, C2

Black Multiliner Pens by Copic

Clouds Stencil by My Favorite Things

Anti-static Pounch

Black Detail Embossing Powder by Stampendous

Low-tack Tape

Repositionable Sticker Paper

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create an A6 card from deep red cardstock and set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Fox Mail Solo Red Rubber Unmounted Stamp twice –– once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
3. Color the fox and the postbox with Copic markers. 
4. Extend the bottom of the image by adding dots with Copic-friendly black pens and Copic markers. 
5. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of the image and place it over its counterpart as a mask.
6. Brush Lost Shadow Distress Ink (which is Copic-friendly) over the Clouds Stencil to add a cloudy grey sky behind the fox. 
7. Trim the image panel to 4.25" x 6.25" and edge with Lost Shadow Distress Ink.
8. Place the image panel onto a stamping platform.
9. Position the the heart vine from the Eclectica Darcy O1 Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set facedown across the top of the image panel.
10. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko to stamp the heart vine
11. Color the hearts with Copic markers.
12. Pat the image panel with an anti-static pouch.
13. Secure the image panel back on the stamping platform.
14. Position the "Happy Valentine's Day" sentiment from the Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set facedown on the lower left side of the image panel as shown.
15. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the sentiment. 
16. Immediately remove the image panel from the stamping platform, though VersaFine Clair Ink does have an extended 'wet' time. 
17. Add detail black embossing powder over the sentiment, dump the excess back into the container, and heat set the powder. 
18. Adhere the image panel to the reserved red A6 card.

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