Strange Bird Time Warp Polaroid

It's Tuesday which means it's time to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. I had so much fun participating in the AALL and Create's Polaroid Pops Challenge last week that I decided to make another Polaroid card, this time for the Day 4 - Birds theme. Since we have until the end of March to complete all the challenges, I'm going to keep playing and sharing my results with you. 

Just so that you know, Topflight Stamps is well stocked with AALL and Create's products, including Janet Klein's wonderful stamps!

This week's Polaroid was created with one of the fabulous birds from the Strange Birds Clear Stamp Set 464. The bird is perched on the tree from the Salvadore Clear Stamp Set 488. The sentiment is a combination of a sentiment from the Strange Birds set and the sentiment from the Time Warp Clear Stamp Set 472.

Here it is -- #polaroidpopschallengeday4

Topflight Stamp Products Used: 

Strange Birds Clear Stamp Set 464 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Salvadore Clear Stamp Set 488 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Time Warp Clear Stamp Set 472 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Profusion Stencil 84 by AALL and Create

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Tuxedo Black Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Tumbled Glass, Blueprint Sketch, Kitch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry, and Twisted Citron Distress® Inks by Tim Holtz® for Ranger Ink

Copic® Markers: 

   Bird: B23, B24, RV52, RV63, RV91

   Bird's Beak and Foot: Y35, Y38

   Tree: E44, E47, E49 

   Clock, Y21, Y23, Y26,Y28

   Grass: YG23, YG25, YG45

Speech Bubble Die: Source Unknown

Repositionable Labels by Avery®

Stamping Platform

STAY-tion™ by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Removable Scotch Tape® by 3M

Instructions:

1. Use magnets to secure a panel of white cardstock to the base of the stamping platform.
2. Choose one of the five adorable birds from the Strange Birds Clear Stamp Set 464 and place it facedown onto the cardstock.
3. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, then lift the lid.
4. Ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp the bird onto white cardstock and onto removable label paper.
5. Fussy-cut the label paper bird image and adhere it over its counterpart on the image panel to mask it.
6. Remove and clean the stamp.
7. Position the tree and the clock stamp from the Salvadore Clear Stamp Set 488 facedown on the image panel so that the bird appears to perch on the branch to the right of the clock. 
8. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, then lift the lid.
9. Ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp the tree/clock onto the image panel and onto removable label paper.
10. Fussy-cut the label paper tree/clock image and adhere it over its counterpart on the image panel to mask it.
11. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform and place it onto the STAY-tion.
12. Position the Profusion Stencil 84 over the image panel and secure with magnets.
13. Place a ruler horizontally across bottom of the image panel secured with magnets.*  
14. Brush Tumbled Glass, Blueprint Sketch, Kitch Flamingo, and Picked Raspberry Distress inks* over the stencil onto the image panel until you're happy with the blending and coverage.
15. Remove and clean the stencil.
16. Shift the ruler to cover the top part of the image and re-secure it with magnets. 
17. Brush Twisted Citron over the ruler onto the base of the image panel.
18. Remove the image panel from the STAY-tion.
19. Remove the masks from the images and color them using Copic markers.
20. Add some grassy details and shadows to the base of the image using Copic markers.
21. Trim the image panel to 3" square and adhere to a white 3.5" x 4" white "Polaroid" card.
22. Secure white cardstock to the stamping platform with magnets.
23. Position the sentiment with "Time Warp" facedown on the cardstock.
24. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, then lift the lid.
25. Use Repositionable Scotch Tape or a Post-It Note to cover all the words except "Warp". 
26. Ink the stamp, remove the tape, and stamp the word.
27. Clean the stamp.
28. Position the sentiment so that the word "Time" is to the left of "Warp".
29. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, then lift the lid.
30. Use Repositionable Scotch Tape or a Post-It Note to cover all the words except "Time". 
31. Ink the stamp, remove the tape, and stamp the word.
32. Clean the stamp.
33. Position the "Strange Bird" sentiment facedown so that the the words "Strange Bird" are lined up atop the the "Time Warp" sentiment.
34. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, then lift the lid.
35. Use Repositionable Scotch Tape or a Post-It Note to cover "I'm sort of a".
36. Ink the stamp, remove the tape, and stamp Strange Bird.
37. Remove the paper from the platform and thoroughly clean the sentiment stamps to rid them of any residue.
38. Use a speech bubble die to cut the sentiment, then trim if necessary.
39. Adhere the speech bubble die-cut to card.

Notes:

• I chose to use the tree/clock stamp as a perch for my bird because I feel like I'm living in a time warp due to the pandemic and my usual odd sense of time.
• I used Distress inks so that I could touch up the grass with Copic markers. Not all dye inks work well with Copics. Alas.
• I use a clear ruler so that I can position it more accurately. Plus since it's plastic, it's easy to clean. I kind of destroyed the rulers that came with my STAY-tions because I used my beloved Purell® to clean them. Oops.

Thanks for visiting today!