Happy Purrthday!!

It's Tuesday which means it's my day to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week my teammates and I are showcasing stamps by Darkroom Door.  I really, really wanted to use the Television Eclectic Red Rubber Cling Stamp and kept debating what to do with it. Practicality won the day as I needed a birthday card for my Godfather, who is turning 94 soon. Like me, he's a cat lover and also loves yellow.

Here's the card. 

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Television Eclectic Red Rubber Cling Stamp by Darkroom Door

Fun Flowers Background Red Rubber Cling Stamp  by Darkroom Door

Abstract 12 Red Rubber Cling Stamp  by Darkroom Door

Moody Kittens Clear Stamp Set by AALL and Create

A Purrfect Day Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle

Sundance Elements Ink by Lavinia Stamps

Graphite Elements Ink Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Onyx Black VersaFine™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Premier Ink Blending Tool by Hunkydory Crafts

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Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Grey and Yellow Cardstock

140 Lb. Mixed Media Paper by Strathmore®

Tuxedo Black Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Copic® Markers: 

   Cats: C0, C1, C2, C3, C4, C6, C7

   Wood Parts of TV: E23, E25, E27, E29, E49

   Screen of TV: T0, T1, T2, T3, T4, T5 then B53 over the entire screen area

   Metallic Parts of TV: BG90, BG93, BG95, BG99, T1, T3

Fancy Tag Die by Spellbinders®

Stamping Platform

Stamp-a-Ma-Jig™ by Inkadinkado

STAY-tion™ by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Post-It Notes® by 3M

Whiskery Brush Thingy that looks like a shaving brush. I have quite a few of these. ?

Gemstones: Recollections?

Instructions:

1. Use Tuxedo Black Memento ink to stamp the Television Eclectic Red Rubber Cling Stamp three times onto Neenah cardstock and once onto a Post-It Note. 
2. Fussy-cut the Post-It Note version around the perimeter of the tv. Cut into the mask and cut out the tv screen. 
3. Secure the image panel to the base of the stamping platform with magnets.
4. Mask the first tv using the Post-It Note mask from step #2.
5. Position the first of the kitties facedown onto a masked television set so that its face is in the screen. 
6. Press the lid of the platform into the back of the stamp, left the lid, ink with Memento ink, and stamp.
7. Remove the mask from the first television set and place it on the second one. Repeat Steps #5 and #6 until each cat is stamped onto the screen of each television set.
8. Remove the image panel and fussy-cut the television sets.
9. Color the cats and the television sets with Copic markers, , edge them with a dark marker, and set aside. I elected to make my televisions into black and white TVs in keeping with their vintage appearance and the age of the card recipient. Oh the things he must've seen in his 94 years! 
10. Use black archival ink to stamp the Abstract 12 Red Rubber Cling Stamp by Darkroom Door onto Mixed Media Cardstock cut to 9" x 4.5". This will become the background piece of the card.
11. Use a manual stamp positioner to add additional length to the border. I'll admit that I botched this a few times, but I finally got it right-ish. 
12. Use magnets to secure the background to the STAY-tion. 
13. Place the ruler horizontally across the top of the stamped area.
14. Use the shaving whiskery brush thingy to apply Graphite Elements Ink to the bottom of the background panel, then heat set.
15. Move the ruler to cover the bottom part of the background. 
16. Use a second shaving whiskery brush thingy to apply Sundance Elements Ink onto the top part of the background, lightly spray with water, and heat set. 
17. Use Sundance Elements Ink to ink the Fun Flowers Background Red Rubber Cling Stamp by Darkroom Door, randomly stamp on the top portion, then heat set. 
18. Trim the background panel to 8.5" x 3.5" then edge with the two colors of Elements ink used previously.
19. Use Onyx Black VersaFine Ink to stamp the sentiment from the A Purrfect Day Clear Stamp Set onto a scrap of the leftover yellow-brushed cardstock, heat set, then die-cut.
20. Adhere the background panel to grey cardstock cut .25" larger.  
21. Adhere the matted background panel to a yellow card.
22. Adhere the three television sets and the sentiment die-cut .
23. Add grey gemstones from the stash were used to finish the card.

Thanks for visiting today!