Meet Miss Dee Chocolatier and Miss Dee Barista!

It's not Tuesday which is my regular day to share projects created for Topflight Stamps. I recently decided that I needed to make a mini-album* featuring Miss Dee, a wonderfully wry and witty character, created by Janet Klein. AALL and Create has produced several fabulous clear polymer stamp sets featuring Miss Dee. 

Here are my first two pages created with Miss Dee Barista Clear Stamp Set 760 and Miss Dee Chocolatier Clear Stamp  Set 763. BTW, both pages are the same size. I guess I got confused when I was editing the photos).

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Miss Dee Chocolatier Clear Stamp 763 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Miss Dee Barista Clear Stamp Set 760 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Acetate Hill Masks by Lavinia Stamps

Della Blue, Graphite, Pine, and Olive Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Concrete Fresco Finish Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy*

Onyx Black VersaFine™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Bristol Paper by Strathmore®

Tuxedo Black Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Black Soot Distress® Ink by Tim Holtz® for Ranger Ink

Copic® Markers:

Skin: BV0000, BV000, E50, E21, E11, E000, E00, R20

Chocolatier: YG00, YG41, YG45, Y000, Y11, B23, B41, B45, B60, N5, N7, E74, E77

Barista: BG70, BG72, BG75, E70, E71, E74, E77, E79, E89, R30, R32, R35, R39, B97, B99, C00, C1, C2, C4

Houses: E40, E41, E42, E43, E70, E71, E74, E93, R30, R35,RV43 BG70, BG72, BG75, YG41, YG 45, B21

Clouds: B60, C00, C0, RV0000, BV0000

Black Multiliner Small Brush Pen by Copic®

Concrete Fresco Finish Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy*

Thought Bubble Dies: Source Unknown

Black and Grey Chalk Pencils by General's®

Removable Scotch® Tape by 3M

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Stamp Miss Dee Chocolatier and Miss Dee Barista in Tuxedo Black Memento ink.
2. Stamp the chocolate shop and the cafe five times each.
3. Fussy-cut all the images. 
4. Note that on the Miss Dee Barista page, I cut off the top part of the Chocolatier buildings. Similarly, I trimmed the top part of the Coffee Shop buildings on the Miss Dee Chocolatier page. 
5. Color all of the images were colored with Copic markers and edge with a black multiliner pen.
6. Set aside the two Miss Dees and all the buildings while creating the background pages.
7. Select one of the masks from the Acetate Hill Masks by Lavinia Stamps to use. I chose the rolling hills mask.
8. Use magnets to secure a 6" piece of Bristol paper to the STAY-tion.
9. Place a plastic ruler or the STAY-tion ruler horizontally across the base of the panel. 
10. Place the rolling hills mask over the paper and secure with magnets.
11. Brush Della Blue and Graphite Elements Inks over the mask to create the sky. 
12. Repeat this process to create a second page.
13. Trace the mask onto a piece of cardstock and fussy-cut. 
14. Place this cardstock mask over the sky portion and secure with magnets. 
15. Move the rolling hills mask down and slightly offset.
16. Brush Pine Elements Ink downward over the cardstock mask and upwards over the rolling hills mask. 
17. Wipe off the rolling hills mask, flip it, and move it downwards. 
18. Brush Pine and Olive Elements Inks were brushed over the rolling hills mask again.**
19. Repeat Steps #14 through #18 with the second background page.
20. Put away the masks and remove the ruler.
21. Use Removable Scotch Tape to cover the base of the hills. 
22. Use Concrete Fresco Finish Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy to paint the bottom part of both background panels to look somewhat like pavement. Chalky paint works really well for this.
23. Remove the tape from both panels.
24. Cover the top part of the background panels.
25. Apply black and grey chalk pencils along the top part of the painted background to add dimension to the pavement. 
26. Trim both panels to 5 5/8" square.
27. Edge the panels with Black Soot Distress ink.
28. Mat both panels with 5.75" squares of black cardstock.*
29. Cut white cardstock with thought cloud dies.
30. Color the thought cloud die-cuts with Copic markers. 
31. Use magnets to secure the thought cloud die-cuts to the base of stamping platform.
32. Place each sentiment facedown onto a thought cloud die-cut.
33. Press the lid of the stamping platform onto the back of the stamps and lift.
34. Ink the sentiments with Onyx Black VersaFine Ink and stamp the sentiments.
35. Adhere the buildings to both pages as shown.
36. Adhere Miss Dee Barista and Miss Dee Chocolatier to the pages as shown.
37. Adhere the thought bubbles to the pages as shown.

Notes:

• Well, I did it again. I was going to use a 6x6 Disc-bound Journal for this and measured from the binding holes, not realizing that the discs would add to the measurement. Of course, I realized this after gluing everything down securely on both pages. So, I will be making a special sized journal with my Bind-it-all once I figure out how large to cut the covers and the inner pages and then can mount these journal pages accordingly. 
• I went way too heavy with the Olive Elements ink. Alas.
• Miss Dee reminds me of myself in some ways. Like me, she lacks a filter and can be snarky. Like me, her boobs sag, her hair is thinning, and she's bug-eyed. Unlike me, she's really thin.

Thanks for visiting today!