Adventure!

It's Tuesday which is my day to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week is an "Anything Goes" week and I've decided to go quasi-Steampunk with a slimline card featuring the "I Saw a Ship" Clear Photopolymer Stamp Set by Pink Ink Designs. This is a really cool stamp set with a gorgeous hot air balloon and a basket, sailing ship, house, or cake that you can suspend beneath it. The set also includes two sentiments and three banners. 

Here's my card.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

"I Saw a Ship" Clear Photopolymer Stamp Set by Pink Ink Designs

Cityscape Reflections Rubber Cling Stamp by Andy Skinner for Creative Expressions

Lots of Words Clear Stamp Set by That's Crafty

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Grey Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper

Tuxedo Black, Summer Sky, and London Fog Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts

Copic Markers: C00, C0, C2, C4. E23, E25, E27, YR12, YR16, YR18, YR20, YR21,  YR31, RV00, RV52, RV55, RV69, RV91, RV93, RV95, YG01,, YG21, YG23, YG25, YG45, YG63, G07, G16, G28, V01, Y00, Y06,Y11, Y21, Y26

Banner Die Set: Source Unknown

Repositionable Label Paper

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of grey cardstock to 8" x 9", score at 4", and fold to form a slimline card.* Set aside.
2. Cut a piece of Neenah cardstock to 4" wide and secure to the base of a stamping platform.
3. Position the ship stamp from the "I Saw a Ship" Clear Photopolymer Stamp Set with Copic-friendly ink towards the bottom the panel .
4. Ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and stamp twice, once onto the image panel and once onto repositionable label paper. 
5. Fussy-cut the label paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.
6. Position the hot air balloon stamp from the set facedown above the ship, ink the stamp with Tuxedo Memento ink, and stamp twice -- once onto the image panel and once onto repositionable label paper.**
7. Fussy-cut the label paper version and place it over its counterpart as a mask.
8. Brush Summer Sky Memento ink horizontally over the masked images to create a cloudy sky.
9. Lift the masks and retain.
10. Color the image with Copic markers. 
11. Trim the image panel to 3.75" wide.
12. Edge the image panel with Summer Sky Memento ink.
13. Position the Cityscape Reflections Rubber Cling Stamp so that the bottom edge (with the city's reflection) is along the barrier near the hinge of the stamping platform.
14. Place the image panel a bit more than .5" from the hinge edge of the platform and a bit more than .25" from the bottom edge of the platform. Secure with magnets.
15. Ink the stamp with London Fog Memento Ink and stamp.
16. Color the image with C0 and C00 Copic markers.
17. Use a banner die to cut white cardstock. 
18. Brush the die-cut with Summer Sky Memento ink. 
19. Use magnets to secure the die-cut to the base of the stamping platform.
20. Position the word"Adventure" facedown in the center of the die-cut.
21. Ink the stamp with London Fog Memento Ink and stamp.
22. Fold the die-cut.
23. Adhere the image panel to the reserved grey slimline card.
24. Adhere the folded banner at the top of the card.

Notes:

• Slimline cards can be a variety of sizes. I like to use #10 envelopes for my cards, so that 4" x 9" cards fit really well.
• My hot air balloon is not centered properly over the ship. Perfection is overrated.

I shall enter this card into the following challenge(s):

• Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers: S is for Steampunk -- sadly my card is not snarky.

• Country View May Challenge: Vehicles