Wine For You!

It's Tuesday, which means that it's time to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week my teammates and I are showcasing Visible Image's wonderful stamps and stencils. My husband and I are big Winos Wine Afficionados. We love wine, have been part of a wine tasting group, and have vacationed several times in the wine country in California. So when I saw Visible Image's new 99% Chance of Wine Clear Polymer Stamp Set, I had to get it!

Since it's holiday time,  I'm hopeful that we will be able to attend several holiday parties, which means that we'll be bringing wine as a gift and more wine to share! I decided that I should try to make a wine gift thingy using my new 99% Chance of Wine Clear Polymer Stamp Set.

Here's the front of it.

Here's a close-up of the front.

Here's the back of it.

Here's a close-up of the back.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

 99% Chance of Wine Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Visible Image

Ripples Stencil by Visible Image

Roundabout Sentiments by Heffy Doodle

Spring Meadow Prism Ink by Hunkydory Crafts

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Dark Red Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Tuxedo Black Memento® Ink by Tsukineko®

Obsidian Amalgam Ink by Gina K® Designs

Chianti Versa Fine Clair™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Copic® Markers: G16, G29, E41, E42, BG0001, Y11, Y23, G05, G07, N4, N5, N6: R56, R59, BG000, G00

White Uni POSCA Acrylic Paint Pen by Mitsubishi Pencil Company

Dark Grey Chalk Pencil by General's

Nestabilities® Circles Die Set by Spellbinders

Labels and Tags Crea-Nest-Lies XXL #6 Die Set by CREA-lies

1/8" Circle PaperShaper® Punch by EK Success®

STAY-tion™ by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Stamping Platform

Repositionable Label Paper by Avery®

Ribbon

Instructions and Notes:

1. Use magnets to secure white cardstock to the base of the stamping platform.
2. Position the wine bottle face-down onto the image panel.
3. Press the platform's lid into the back of the stamp and lift.
4. Use Tuxedo Black Memento ink to ink the stamp and stamp the wine bottle onto the image panel and onto repositionable label paper.
5. Fussy-cut the label paper version and place over its counterpart on the image panel.
6. Position the wine glass stamp face-down to the right of the wine bottle.
7. Press the platform's lid into the back of the stamp and lift.
8. Use Tuxedo Black Memento ink to ink the stamp and stamp the wine bottle onto the image panel and onto repositionable label paper.
9. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform. 
10. Use magnets to secure the image panel onto the STAY-tion.
11. Place the STAY-tion's ruler horizontally over the base of the wine bottle and the wine glass.
12. Brush Spring Meadow Prism Ink over the image panel to add a light green background.
13. Use magnets to secure the Ripples Stencil over the masked images on the image panel.
14. Brush Spring Meadow Prism Ink over the stencil onto the image panel.
15. Remove the stencil. 
16. Reposition the ruler so that it's covering the top part of the image panel.
17. Brush Spring Meadow Prism Ink over the base of the stamped, masked images and the panel.
18. Use a die from the Labels and Tags Crea-Nest-Lies XXL #6 Die Set to cut the image panel.
19. Set the image panel aside.
20. Cut red cardstock to create two 3" x 10" panels.
21. Score both pieces at 7/8", 2 5/8", and 3 5/8". See template below.
22. Pinch the cardstock at the score lines and fold.
23. Use a 1.5" circle die to cut the cardstock as shown below. 
24. Use magnets to secure one of the red cardstock panels to the base of the stamping platform. 
25. Position "Just for you" from the Roundabout Sentiments face-down on the top of the panel. 
26. Press the platform's lid into the back of the stamp and lift.
27. Ink the stamp with Obsidian Amalgam ink and stamp. Repeat if necessary to obtain a good impression since you are stamping on textured cardstock.
28. Remove and clean the stamp.
29. Position "Wine" from the featured stamp set face-down on the bottom of the panel. 
30. Press the platform's lid into the back of the stamp and lift.
31. Ink the stamp with Obsidian Amalgam ink and stamp. Repeat if necessary to obtain a good impression.
32. Remove the front panel from the stamping platform and adhere the image panel die-cut.
33. Use magnets to secure the other red cardstock panel to the base of the stamping platform. 
34. Position the wine glass face-down towards the right bottom of the panel.
35. Press the platform's lid into the back of the stamp and lift.
36. Ink the stamp with Obsidian Amalgam ink and stamp. Repeat if necessary to obtain a good impression.
37. Thoroughly clean the wine glass stamp and position it facedown towards the top left of the panel as shown. 
38. Press the platform's lid into the back of the stamp and lift.
39. Ink the stamp with Obsidian Amalgam ink and stamp. Repeat if necessary to obtain a good impression.
40. Remove and clean the stamp.
41. Position the wine splash stamps face-down as desired on the wine glasses.
42. Press the platform's lid into the back of the stamps and lift.
43. Ink the stamps with Chianti VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Repeat if necessary to obtain a good impression.
44. Remove the stamps and clean.
45. Position the word "Wine" and one of the sentiments face-down as shown.
46. Press the platform's lid into the back of the stamp and lift.
47. Ink the stamp with Obsidian Amalgam ink and stamp. Repeat if necessary to obtain a good impression.
48. Repeat Steps #45 - 47 using a different sentiment.
49. Clean the stamps.
50. Remove the panel from the platform.
51. Use Chianti VersaFine Clair to stamp the splats as desired.
52. Use strong tape or liquid adhesive to adhere the two panels so that the circle apertures overlap each other.
53. Slide the wine gift jacket thingy over the neck of a wine bottle.
54. Discover that it's a bit floppy, so slide it back off, and punch holes on each side of both panels.
55. Thread ribbon through the holes.
56. Slide the wine gift jacket thingy back over the neck of the wine bottle.
57. Tie the ribbons to finish.

Notes:

• I kept this one pretty straight forward as I really suck at math and it took forever and a day to figure out the template since it involved all this mathy stuff, though I complicated things initially because I thought I needed circumferenes and radii and all that crap I learned in high school. (Cue Paul Simon's Kodachrome).
• I figure I'll be making more of these and gussying 'em up some as I get better at it. 
• I thought you all might want the template, so it follows.

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