It's Topflight Stamps Tuesday! This week's TFS team focus is SPRING! Spring brings blooming flowers, trees, and nesting birds sporting their breeding plumage!
Here's my card created with the Lighted Florals Clear Stamp Set 709 by AALL and Create, the Crea-Nest-Lies XXL Double Stitched Rectangle Die Set by CREAlies, and the Glitz Spray Set (Cactus Gold) by Lindy's Gang.
Topflight Stamps Products Used:
Glitz Spray Set (Cactus Gold) by Lindy's Gang
Other Products Used:
Bristol Paper by Strathmore
Bristol Paper by Strathmore
Black Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics
Copic Markers:
Bird: B69, B66, B6, B45, B34, B32, B21, <B21, E77, E74, E71, E04, RV42, R30
Bird: B69, B66, B6, B45, B34, B32, B21, <B21, E77, E74, E71, E04, RV42, R30
Flowr: RV95, RV93, RV91, RV63, RV52, RV10, Y26, Y23, Y21, Y11, Y02, Y000
Leaves: YG53, YG45, YG25, YG23, YG21
Butterfly: B69, B63, N6, RV52
Berries: BV17, BV04, BV02
White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura
Tumbled Glass Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink
Removable Sticker Paper by Avery
Low-tack Tape
STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink
Glassboard by Glassboard Studios
Stamping Platform
Instructions:
- Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Bird with Flower image from the Lighted Florals Clear Stamp Set 709 twice — once onto Bristol Paper and again onto repositionable sticker paper.
- Heat set the Bristol Paper version then color it with Copic markers. Use a white gel pen to add catchlights to the bird's eye and to add some highlights to the berries.
- Fussy-cut the sticker paper stamped image and adhere it over its counterpart as a mask.
- Brush or sponge Tumbled Glass Distress Ink over the masked image to create a blue sky background.
- Use a a water-filled Fine Spray Mister to mist the image panel with water to add some drops and speckles to the background.
- Heat set the image panel and set it aside.
- Cut a piece of black textured cardstock with the largest die from the Crea-Nest-Lies XXL Double Stitched Rectangle Die Set.
- Position the third largest die facedown on the rectangle die-cut and secure it with low-tack tape.
- Run this sandwich through your die-cut machine to cut out the center portion, creating a frame.
- Use the gold marker from the Colorista Essential Metallic Marker Set to edge the outside of the frame.
- Place the frame into a box and spray the frame with Cactus Gold from the Glitz Spray Set. Heat set the frame.
- Adhere the frame over the reserved image panel.
- Cut a piece of black cardstock to 7" x 10", score it at 5", and fold it to create a card.
- Adhere the framed image panel so that it's 1/8" from the top and left side of the card.
- Trim the right edge to even things out.
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