Here's my card!
Topflight Stamps Products Used:
Haystack, Yellow Submarine, Zesty Zing, Peach Nectar, Tango, Lawn, Sage, Guacamole, and Chartreuse Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsyOther Products Used:
Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers
Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers
140 lb. Mixed Media Paper by Strathmore®
Classic Green and Raven Cardstocks by Bazzill Basics® Paper
Obsidian Amalgam Ink by Gina K™ Designs
Fadeout Detail Hybrid Ink by Ink on 3
Emerald Archival™ Ink by Ranger Ink
Grey and Black Fineliner Pens by Copic
Copic® Markers:
Skull: E40, E41, E42, YG23, YG25, YG45, Y04, Y11, Y17, YR04, YR18
Skull: E40, E41, E42, YG23, YG25, YG45, Y04, Y11, Y17, YR04, YR18
Jacket: N4, Ng, N6, N7, N8
Shirt/Cravat/Hat: BV20, BV23, BV25, N3, N4, N5, N6, N7, N8
Goggles: BV23, BV25, N3, N5, Y11, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, BG72, BG75
Gold, Silver, and Black Uni-Posca Paint Pens by Mitsubishi Pencil Company
Glaze® 3 D Glossy Gel Pen by Sakura® of America
White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura® of America
Banner Die by Lawn Fawn
Tiny Gears Die by Memory Box
Birch Tree Die: Source Unknown
Celebrate Die: Source Unknown
Black Dimensional Foam Squares by Scrapbook Adhesives® by 3LStamping Platform
Notes:
- The background was previously painted with several colors of Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy. When making painted backgrounds, I always make a bunch of them since one never knows when one will
fubarmess up a project beyond redemption. - I selected the words on the left panel because they described the Day of the Dead very well.
- I tried using VersaFine Clair for the first try of step #34, but the ink smeared between impressions before I got a chance to heat set it. So I used a back-up panel to my back-up panel and went with Archival ink. I'm not thrilled, but it didn't smear horribly.
Instructions:
- Cut a piece of green cardstock to 10" x 7", score at 5", and fold to form a 5" x 7" card. Set aside.
- Use Obsidian Almagam ink to stamp the the Sugar Skull from the Small Elements #2 Clear Stamp Set by That's Crafty! onto white cardstock
- Fussy-cut it, color with Copic markers, and edged with a black pen. Set aside.
- Use magnets to secure a white cardstock panel to the base of the stamping platform.
- Position the gentleman from the Steampunk Alchemist Clear Stamp Set by Olga Heldwein for AALL and Create facedown on white cardstock.
- Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift the lid.
- Cover the gentleman's head and beard with a piece of scrap paper, ink the stamp with a Fade-out Detail Hybrid ink, and stamp it onto white cardstock.
- Extend the lines of the gentleman's shirt collar and jacket with a grey Copic Fineliner pen.
- Fussy-cut the gentleman's outfit.
- Use Copic markers to color the gentleman's outfit and use a dark marker to edge it.
- Add several layers of Clear Glaze pen to his buttons to add dimension and shine.
- Use Obsidian Almagam ink to stamp the top hat from the Steampunk Alchemist Clear Stamp Set and the Steampunk Hat from the Time Warp Clear Stamp Set by Janet Klein for AALL and Create onto white cardstock.
- Fussy-cut the top hat and the goggles from the Steampunk hat, color them, with Copic markers, and edged with a dark marker.
- Add several layers of Clear Glaze pen to the goggle lenses to add dimension and shine to them.
- Set aside the clothing and hat for now.
- Use Verdant, Green Oasis, and Summertime VersaFine Clair Inks to stamp he clock from the ATC Coins Set #6 by That's Crafty! onto a piece of the previously painted background paper then heat-set.
- Adhere the gentleman's suit to the base of the clock stamped panel.
- Use a birch tree die to cut white cardstock and color with Copic markers.
- Add some horizontal lines and edge with a black pen. This will substitute as neckbones.
- Adhere the colored birch tree die-cut under the neckline of the shirt.
- Adhere the sugar skull on top of the "neckbones".
- Adhere the goggles to the top hat.
- Adhere the be-goggled (new word) top hat on top of the sugar skull.
- Trim this panel and edged with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink at the bottom where the layers will be rather thick.
- Cut the remaining piece of painted background paper into two pieces.
- Use magnets to secure one of the pieces of painted background paper to the base of the stamping platform.
- Place the lock and the key from the Small Elements #2 Clear Stamp Set by That's Crafty! face-down on the painted cardstock.
- Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, lift the lid, ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink, stamp, and heat set.
- Use a gold Posca paint pen to paint the key and the lock.
- Use a silver Posca paint pen to paint the rivets on the lock's escutcheon.
- Set the panel aside for the moment.
- Use magnets to secure the other piece of painted background paper to the base of the stamping platform.
- Select and arrange the words from the Lots of Words Clear Stamp Set by That's Crafty! face-down on the painted background paper.
- Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, lift the lid, ink the stamp with either Archival ink or with Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Ink. If you go with the second option be sure that your panel is really secured to the platform's base and that you heat set it immediately!
- Edge all three panels with Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Ink and heat set.
- Adhere all three panels to a piece of black cardstock cut to 4.75" x 6.75".
- Adhere the black cardstock to the reserved green 5" x 7" card.
- Use a "Celebrate" word die to cut the a small strip of the painted background paper.
- Use a banner die to cut green cardstock.
- Adhere the word die-cut to the green banner die-cut.
- Adhere the banner to the card as shown using dimensional foam adhesives on the center of the banner and glue on the outside parts of the banner.
- Use the Tiny Gears die to cut white cardstock.
- Use the Gold Posca paint pen to paint the smallest cog.
- Adhere the cog to the gentleman's lapel to finish the card.
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Uour card looks fantastic
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