Sweet Friend Card

It's Tuesday which means it's time to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week my TFS teammates and I are showcasing Creative Expressions' wonderful projects. 

Here's my card!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Friendship Watering Can Clear Stamp Set by Creative Expressions

A Gingham Christmas 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad Creative Expressions

Dusky Rose and Slate Grey Prism Inks by Hunkydory Crafts

Clear Matte Embossing Powder  by Wow

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:
Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Avalanche Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Copic Markers: RV63, RV69, RV91, R56, G20, G21, G234, N0, N1, N2, N3

White and Silver Uni-Posca Paint Pens by Mitsubishi Pencil Company

Silver Gel Pen by Pentel

Black Pastel Pencil by General's

VersaMark Ink Pad by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Scalloped Frame Die Set by Gina Marie Designs

Scalloped Border Die-namics Die by My Favorite Things

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of Avalanche White Textured cardstock to 10" x 7". Score at 5" and fold to form a 5" x 7" card. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento ink to stamp the watering can from the Friendship Watering Can Clear Stamp Set twice, once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
3. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it atop its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.
4. Place a ruler horizontally across the image panel along the bottom of the masked watering can. 
5. Brush Dusky Rose Prism Ink  over the top of the ruler over the masked image onto the image panel to create a colored background. 
6. Reposition the ruler to cover the top part of the image. 
7. Brush Slate Grey Prism Ink w over the ruler onto the bottom of the image panel. 
8. Remove and retain the mask
9. Use Copic markers to color the image. Resist the urge to make the metallic pitcher rusty. 
10. Use a silver gel pen to color the staples on the heart.
11. Use a black chalk pencil to add shadows beneath the pitcher.
12. Use Tuxedo Black Memento ink to stamp the heart from the watering can onto a scrap of plaid paper from A Gingham Christmas 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad.
13. Fussy-cut the heart.
14. Use RV91 to deepen the color of the heart 
15. Use the silver gel pen to color the staples on the heart. 
16. Edge the heart with a black marker.
17. Press the fussy-cut, colored heart onto a VersaMark pad.
18. Add Clear Matte Embossing Powder, dump off the excess, and heat set. 
19. Repeat Steps #16 and #17.
20. Adhere the embossed heart over its counterpart on the image panel.
21. Splatter the image panel with silver and white paint pens to add visual interest.
22. Cut Avalanche White textured cardstock with a scalloped frame and a scalloped border die.
23. Adhere the scalloped frame die-cut over the image panel to frame it.
24. Use magnets to secure the white bordered die-cut to the base of the stamping platform.
25. Position the "For You" and "Sweet Friend" from the Friendship Watering Can Clear Stamp Set facedown on the border die-cut.
26. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamps and lift.
27. Ink the stamps with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp.
28. Re-ink and re-stamp the sentiments as needed.
29. Trim pink plaid paper from A Gingham Christmas 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad  to 4.75" x 6.75".
30. Edge the paper with the RV69 marker and adhere it to the reserved white 5" x 7" card.
31. Adhere the framed image panel and the border die sentiment to the front of the card.

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