It's Topflight Stamps Tuesday! This week's spotlight is on AALL and Create's wonderful products. I used the new-to-me Deliver Joy Clear Stamp Set 1376 by Janet Klein with the Building Silhouettes Die 58 — both by AALL and Create to create this 6" square card.
Topflight Stamps Products Used:
Other Products Used:
Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers
Watercolor Paper by Strathmore
Textured Black Cardstock by Bazzill Basics
Alcohol Markers:
Copic Markers:
Skin: BV0000, E50, E21, E11, E000, R20
Hair: E77, E74
Eyes: B66, B63, B60
Emblem on Mailbox: Y28, Y26, Y23, Y21, Y11, T3, T1
Boots: N7, N6, N4
Olo Markers:
Beret and Coat: BG2.7, BG2.6, BG2.3
Gift: BV2.6, BV2.4, BV2.3
Flowers/Lips: R5.7, R5.5, R5.3
Mailbox: OR1.0, R1.7, R0.6, R0.5, R0.4
White Prismacolor Pencil by Sanford/Newell
Post-It Notes by 3M
Low-tack Tape
Fired Brick, Lost Shadow, Antique Linen, Black Soot Distress Inks by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink
Black, Grey, and Lavender Chalk Pencils by General's
Haze Blue and Aquamarine Zig Clean Colors Real Brush Markers by Kuretake
Washi Tape: Source Unknown
Sookwang Double Sided Tape
STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink
Glassboard by Glassboard Studios
Stamping Platform
Instructions:
- Create a 6" x 6" card from black textured cardstock. Set aside.
- Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the girl and the postbox from the Deliver Joy Clear Stamp Set 1376 onto white cardstock.
- Fussy-cut the images and color them with alcohol markers
- Use a black pen to edge them. Set both images aside.
- Use the Building Silhouettes Die 58 to cut watercolor paper, which I used because I wanted the buildings to have texture from the start! Be sure to retain all of the windows and doors that popped out after die-cutting.
- Place low-tack tape or Post-It Notes under the roofs of the Building Silhouettes die-cut.
- Brush or sponge Fired Brick Distress Ink over the tape onto the roofs. You'll notice that I also used tape to cover the chimneys and chimney pots. Remove and discard the tape.
- Place low-tack tape or Post-It Notes to cover the newly inked roofs.
- Brush or sponge Lost Shadow Distress Ink over the tape onto the buildings.
- Brush or sponge Antique Linen Distress Ink onto over the tape onto the building.
- Brush or sponge Black Soot Distress Ink over the tape, along the edges, and below the windows. Also used it to add black ink smudges to age the Building Silhouettes die-cut.
- Remove the tape from the Building Silhouettes die-cut.
- Use a black chalk pencil to create tiles on the roofs.
- Use grey and lavender chalk pencils to add shading and shadows to the roof.
- Apply double-sided tape to the window openings on the reverse of the Building Silhouettes die-cut.
- Place the reserved cut-outs into their openings, then use watercolors to color them.
- Select a piece of patterned paper from the Ombre 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad . This will become the background layer.
- Adhere the Building Silhouettes die-cut to the patterned paper background.
- Adhere narrow Washi Tape to the base of the card front.
- Adhere the fussy-cut, colored girl and the postbox as shown.
- Use magnets and/or low-tack tape to secure the card front to the base of a stamping platform.
- Position the "Warm Wishes..." sentiment stamp from the Deliver Joy Clear Stamp Set 1376 facedown onto the Building Silhouettes die-cut as shown.
- Press the platform's lid onto the stamp and lift.
- Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp.
- Position the "Par Avion" sentiment stamp from the Deliver Joy Clear Stamp Set 1376 facedown on the upper right side between the buildings.
- Press the platform's lid onto the stamp and lift.
- Ink the "Par Avion" stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp.
- Position the "Deliver Joy" sentiment from the Deliver Joy set and position it facedown on the top left.
- Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
- Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp.
- Realize that it's a little crooked and hit yourself in the head. Hard. Repeat as needed.
- Trim the panel to 5.75" square and edge with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink.
- Adhere the card front to the reserved black 6" x 6" square card.
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