Meow-y Christmas

It's Tuesday which is my day to share a project created for Topflight Stamps! This week my teammates and I are celebrating Christmas in July. I've made a Christmas card featuring the Cats on a Wall Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft on a background created with the Winter's Snowflakes Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Hobby Art Ltd. and Arctic Mist and Periwinkle Prism Inks by Hunkydory Crafts. The speech bubble sentiment combines Heffy Doodle's Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set and the Purrfect Day Clear Stamp Set with the Music Notes Small Clear Polymer Stamps by Lavinia Stamps.

Here's the card!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Cats on a Wall Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft

Winter's Snowflakes Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Hobby Art Ltd.

Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle

Purrfect Day Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle

Music Notes Small Clear Polymer Stamps by Lavinia Stamps

Arctic Mist and Periwinkle Prism Inks by Hunkydory Crafts
Black Blending Brushes by Time for Team Design

Onyx Black VersaFine™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers
Avalanche White Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®
Obsidian Amalgam Ink by Gina K™ Designs

Copic® Markers: 

Bricks: E04, RV43, RV95, W3

Roof: N6

Cats: T0, T1, T2, T3, T5; C00, C0, C1, C2; C1, C3, C4, C5, C7

VersaMark™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Perfect Pearl Perfect Pearls™ Pigment Powder by Ranger Ink
White Posca Acrylic Paint Pen by Mitsubishi Pencil Company

Speech Bubble Die: Source unknown (oops!)

Black .1 Multi-Liner Pen by Copic®

Clear Stardust® Glitter Gel Marker by Sakura® of America

Post-It® Notes by 3M
Repositionable Label Paper by Avery®
STAY-tion™ by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink
Stamping Platform

Preface:

I decided that the Cats on a Wall would be singing cats on a chimney during a snowstorm for my card. 

Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of Avalanche cardstock to 10" x 7". Score at 5" and fold to form a 5" x 7" card. Set aside
2. Use Obsidian Amalgam ink to stamp the cats on the wallonto white cardstock and onto repositionable label paper. 
3. Fussy-cut the label paper version and place it atop its counterpart as a mask. 
4. Use magnets to secure the image panel to the STAY-tion. 
5. Place the STAY-tion ruler horizontally below the stamped image.
6. Brush the background with Arctic Mist and Periwinkle Prism Inks.
7. Remove the mask and retain.
8. Color the cats, chimney, and roof with Copic markers.* 
9. Use a White Posca paint pen to add snow to the cats, the chimney, and the roof,
10. Use VersaMark ink to randomly stamp the smaller snowflakes from the Winter's Snowflakes Clear Polymer Stamp Set, 
11. Brush Pearl Perfect Pearls onto the stamped snowflakes to add white shimmer to them.
12. Vigorously brush the excess Perfect Pearl powder off of the image panel.
13. Discover that the Perfect Pearls actually added shimmer to the entire panel, which was a happy accident, especially if you're a magpie like me and like shimmery things.*
14. Dab the white Posca Paint Pen onto a non-porous surface.
15. Use a fan brush to splatter the white paint over the image panel. 
16. Realize that you suck at using the fan brush to splatter.
17. Go to "Plan B" and dip an unused toothbrush into the white Posca Paint Puddles. 
18. Run your thumb across the toothbrush to finely spray white paint onto the image panel. 
19. Realize that the toothbrush method worked much better.
20. Judiciously add Clear Stardust Gel pen to the snow to make it sparklier.
21. Use the speech bubble die to cut a scrap of white cardstock. 
22. Use repositionable Scotch Tape on the reverse to tape the die-cut in place.
23. Use magnets to secure the die-cut panel to the base of the stamping platform.
24. Position the "Have a" from the  Purrfect Day Clear Stamp Set face-down on the die-cut. 
25. Press the lid of the platform onto the back of the stamp and lift the lid.
26. Use a Post-It Note to cover "Purrfect Day" on the sentiment.
27. Use Onyx Black VersaFine ink to ink the stamp.
28. Remove the Post-It Note and stamp.
29. Remove the stamp from the platform's lid and clean.
30. Position the "Meow-y" from the Purrfect Day Clear Stamp Set face-down on the die-cut. 
31. Press the lid of the platform onto the back of the stamp and lift the lid.
32. Use a Post-It Note to cover the other words on the sentiment.
33. Use Onyx Black VersaFine ink to ink the stamp.
34. Remove the Post-It Note and stamp.
35. Remove the stamp from the platform and clean.
36. Position the "Merry Christmas" sentiment from the Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set face-down on the die-cut.
37. Press the lid of the platform onto the back of the stamp and lift the lid.
38. Use a Post-It Note to cover "Merry".
39. Use Onyx Black VersaFine ink to ink the stamp.
40. Remove the Post-It Note and stamp.
41. Remove the stamp from the platform and clean.
42. Heat set the stamped die-cut.
43. Position the notes from the Music Notes Small Clear Polymer Stamps face-down on the sentiment.
44. Press the platform's lid onto the stamp and lift.
45. Use Arctic Mist and Periwinkle Prism Inks to ink and stamp the notes onto the sentiment die-cut.
46. Repeat inking and stamping as necessary to ensure good impressions.
47. Remove the stamps from the platform and clean.
48. Remove the scrap from the platform.
49. Remove the tape from the back of the sentiment die-cut.
50. Use Use Arctic Mist and Periwinkle Prism Inks to edge the die-cut.
51. Use a black Multi-liner to add the hyphen between "Meow" and "y".
52. Adhere the sentiment speech bubble to cover the worst of Splatter-mageddon.
53. Adhere the image panel to the reserved white card.

Notes:

• Be sure that the coloring is complete before you add the Perfect Pearls Powder. The powder will fubar your markers.
• Retrospectively, I probably should have used VersaMark and White Sparkly Detail Embossing Powder for the snowflakes, which would have allowed for touch-up of the Copic coloring and would have stood out better. Alas.
• IRL the sparkle from the Perfect Pearl Snowflakes is visible on the entire piece, not just at the top of the card. 

Thanks for visiting today!