It's National Farm Animals Day and I'm celebrating with a card created for Topflight Stamps. I decided to create a card with Katzelkraft's whimsically wonderful Farm Animals Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set. Now I could have used the pig, cow, sheep, chicken, rooster, or bunny, but I decided to use the donkey for snarky reasons.
I paired the donkey with one of the humorous sayings from the Whatchamacallit Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set also by Katzelkraft, used a grass stamp from Hobby Art Ltd.'s Bah Humbug Clear Polymer Stamp Set and the bell from their Get Your Goat Clear Polymer Stamp Set. The patterned kraft paper was created with the Abstract 12 Red Rubber Cling Stamp by Darkroom Door.
Here's the card.
Topflight Stamps Products Used:
Lime Punch, Pine, Della Blue, and Paprika Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps
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Other Products Used:
Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers
Desert Storm Smooth Cardstock from the Environment® Papers Collection by Neenah PapersTuxedo Black Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko®
Great Outdoors Stencil by Polkadoodles
Copic® Markers: E04, E70, E71, E74, E77, YR12, YR14, YR30, YR31, RV43, Y21, Y23,Y26, Y28
Flag Dies: Source Unknown
White Gelly Roll® Gel Pen by Sakura® of America
Red Thread
Needle
Stabby Tool
Repositionable Labels by Avery®
STAY-tion™ by Wendy Vecchi For Ranger Ink
Stamping Platform
Instructions:
- Trim a piece of Desert Storm cardstock to 10" x 7". Score at 5" and fold to form a 5" x 7" card. Set aside.
- Use Tuxedo Black Memento in to stamp the donkey from the Farm Animals Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set onto white cardstock and onto repositionable label paper.
- Fussy-cut the label paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.
- Use magnets to secure the image panel to the STAY-tion.
- Tear a wide scrap of cardstock in two and use magnets to secure one piece horizontally over the image panel covering the bottom portion.
- Brush or sponge Della Blue Elements Ink over the cloud portion of a stencil onto the image panel to create a cloudy sky behind the donkey.*
- Re-position the scrap of cardstock to cover the sky portion of the image panel and secure with magnets.
- Move the other piece of torn cardstock below the horizon line with the torn portion facing towards the top of the image panel.
- Lightly brush Pine Elements Ink horizontally over the torn edge onto the image panel to create a grassy pasture.*
- Move the scrap down towards the base of the image panel and brush Pine Elements Ink again brushed over the torn edge onto the image panel.
- Repeat Steps 7 - 9 until there are several horizontal green grassy lines across the base of the image panel.
- Brush Lime Punch Elements Ink onto the grass to fill in any white space and to blend with the darker green.
- Use Pine Elements Ink with the grass stamp from the Bah Humbug Clear Polymer Stamp Set. to randomly stamp wisps of grass onto the green background.
- Brush Pine Elements Ink under the stamped grass to ground it and create some shadow.
- Lift the mask from the donkey and retain for another use.
- Color the donkey with Copic markers.
- Use the white gel pen to add catchlights to the pupils of his eyes.
- Use Tuxedo Black Memento ink to stamp the bell from the Get Your Goat Clear Polymer Stamp Set onto a scrap of white cardstock.
- Color the bell with Copic markers, fussy-cut it, and edge it with a black pen.
- Use a stabby tool to pierce the bell hanger and to add a hole to the right side of the donkey's neck on the image panel.
- Thread red thread through the hole on the image panel, across the donkey's neck, and through the hole in the bell hanger. Secure the thread on the reverse of the image panel.
- Edge the image panel with Pine and Della Blue Elements Inks using Blenders by Lavinia Stamps.** Set aside.
- Cut a piece of Desert Storm cardstock to 4.75" x 6.75".
- Use magnets to secure the cardstock to the base of a stamping platform.
- Place the Abstract 12 Red Rubber Cling Stamp face-down on the left side of the Desert Storm cardstock.
- Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
- Ink the stamp with Paprika Elements Ink and stamp.*
- Lift the platform's lid keeping the stamp in place.
- Flip the Desert Storm cardstock 180° and secure with magnets.
- Ink the stamp again with Paprika Elements Ink and stamp.
- Remove the panel from the platform and edge it with Paprika Elements Ink using another Blender.
- Adhere the edged and stamped kraft panel to the reserved card.
- Use magnets to secure a leftover scrap of the Desert Storm cardstock to the base of a stamping platform.
- Position the sentiment (I had inadvertently cut it) in one line facedown on the cardstock scrap.
- Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
- Ink the stamp with Paprika Elements Ink and stamp.
- Use a flag die to cut the sentiment, then edge the die-cut with Paprika Elements Ink using another Blender.
- Adhere the image panel to the card.
- Adhere the sentiment die-cut as shown to finish the card.
Notes:
- I've grown to really love Elements Inks! They are very juicy, highly pigmented dye ink pads, so it's important to remove some excess ink from the applicator onto the STAY-tion or onto scrap paper. Their juiciness makes them great for stamping detailed images and for stamping onto textured cardstock. Additionally, they're great for using to watercolor images.
- Lavinia's Blenders are great for edging and sponging. Their egg shape is very ergonomic and affords great control. Plus you can use them for more than one color at a time. They can be washed with liquid soap, just be sure to squeeze them until excess water runs clear. Let them dry completely before using again.
- The pandemic has made it difficult to see family and friends. Usually this is a sad thing. Sometimes it's a good thing. Hence the snark behind this card which I have released from my brain to prevent mayhem.
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