Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Purrfect Valentine's Day Card with Crafty Individuals Stamps

It's Tuesday which is my day to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week my teammates and I are showcasing Crafty Individuals' wonderful stamps. Not surprisingly, I've made another Valentine's Day card. In this card, one of the cats got a special dinner for his partner. The card was created with the one cat from the Trilby Cat Unmounted Stamp, one cat from the Burglar Cat Unmounted Stamp, and one of the fish and plants from the Morning Commute Unmounted Stamp. I also combined sentiments from Heffy Doodle's Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set and the Purrfect Day Clear Stamp Set.

Here's the card.


Other Products Used:
Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers
Pale Yellow Cardstock by Bazzill Basics
Kiwi Double Dot Patterned Paper by BoBunny Press
Tuxedo Black and Bamboo Leaves Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts
Copic Markers:
Big Cat: B45, B95, BV25, BV34, Y11, Y23, Y25, YG03, YG25, N5, N6, N7
Small Cat: RV52, RV63, RV95, B21, B23, YG21, YG23, YG25, YG45
Fish: Y11, Y23, Y26, Y35, FY1, YR16, YG21, YG23, YG25, YG45, RV52, RV3, B45, N5, N6, N7
Fish Tank Water: BG45, BG53, BG57
Copic Air Brush System
Black Multiliner Pen by Copic
Embossable Window Plastic by Judikins
White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura of America
White UniPosca Paint Pen by Mitsubishi Pencil
5x7 Scalloped Rectangle Honey Cuts Die Set by Honey Bee Stamps
Circle Nestabilities Die by Spellbinders Paper Arts
"Uh-Oh" and "Yum" Wood Stamps by justjohanna/odd bird planet
Speech Bubble Die-namics Dies by My Favorite Things
Sparkly Washi Tape: Source unknown
Stamping Platform
Removable Scotch Tape by 3M
Post-It Notes by 3M

Instructions:
  1. Cut a piece of pale yellow cardstock to 7" x 10". Score at 5" and fold to form an A7 card. Set aside.
  2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento ink to stamp the small cat from the Trilby Cat Unmounted Stamp, the rounder cat from the Burglar Cat Unmounted Stamp, and one of the fish from the Morning Commute Unmounted Stamp onto white cardstock.
  3. Fussy-cut both cats and the fish with the fish losing his sailor's hat in the process. 
  4. Use Copic markers to color all three images. Edge with a black pen.
  5. Use a circle Nestabilities die to cut embossable window plastic and white cardstock. 
  6. Lop the tops off both circles to make them look like a fishbowl. 
  7. Use Removable Scotch tape to mask the top of the embossable window plastic circle.
  8. Use the Copic Airbrush System with BG45, BG53, and BG57 to add a clear aqua tint the plastic circle. Heat set.
  9. Use a white paint pen to add a highlight to the plastic circle. Set aside to dry.
  10. Use Bamboo Leaves Memento ink to repeatedly stamp one of the plant stamps from the Morning Commute Unmounted Stamp along the base of the decapitated white paper circle.  
  11. Use Copic markers were used to color the plants and to add dimension and shading to the "glass" bowl. Sadly, I went too dark which I didn't realize until the card was together.*
  12. Adhere  to the colored cardstock circle. 
  13. Use White gel pen to add bubbles on the plants and above the fish's mouth.
  14. Use a stamping platform and Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp "Valentine's Day" from  the Classic Sentiment Clear Stamp Set and "Have a Purrfect" from the Purrfect Day Clear Stamp Set onto a scrap of pale yellow cardstock.
  15. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the other two sentiments onto pale yellow cardstock. Try to keep the sentiments nice and straight. "Do as I say, not as I do."
  16. Use Speech bubble dies to cut the sentiments.
  17. Use the largest scalloped rectangle die from the 5x7 Scalloped Rectangle Honey Cuts Die Set to cut Double-dot patterned paper, which will be used as the background for the images.
  18. Use a YG21 marker to edge the scallops so that the nasty white interior is not showing. Ick.
  19. Adhere the paper circle to the die-cut.
  20. Adhere the colored fussy-cut fish to the paper circle and add the "uh-oh" sentiment speech bubble.
  21. Place the airbrushed plastic circle over the paper circle. 
  22. Place sparkly washi tape slightly above the stitch line, covering part of the plastic circle.
  23. Use tape and staples to adhere the plastic circle. 
  24. Adhere both colored fussy-cut cats using regular adhesive and 3-D Foam Pads taking care to cover the staples and the tape.
  25. Adhere the image panel to the reserved A7 card.
  26. Adhere the other sentiment speech bubbles as shown to finish the card.
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