It's Tuesday, my day to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week my teammates and I are showcasing Katzelkraft's wonderful stamps AND celebrating New Year's. This week my teammates and I are showcasing Katzelkraft's wonderful stamps AND celebrating New Year's. I've made a rather large New Year's shaker calendar card with Katzelkraft's Snakes KTZ315 and the Holiday Quotes KTZ207 Unmounted Stamps Sets.
Here's the card!
Here's a close-up of the shaker element!
Topflight Stamps Products Used:
Other Products Used:
Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Paper
Black Cardstock by Bazzill Basics
140 lb. Mixed Media Paper by Strathmore
Pink Champagne Ink by Catherine Pooler Designs
Curved Tip Kraft Scissors by Fiskar's
Finger-tip Detail Craft Knife by Fiskar's
Copic Markers: B00, B02, B04, B18, BG32, BG34, BG49, BG57, 04, Y16, Y38, R000, R02, R12, R14, C00, C0
Ancient Alphabet/Numbers Chipboard by Basic Grey
Grass Green and Bice Green Chalk Pencils by General's
Cloud Dies: Source Unknown
Black Foam Tape: Source Unknown
3mm Gold, Silver, and Mixed Colors Star Sequins by Kat Scrappiness
Other Star Sequins: Source Unknown
2024 Calendar: Etsy
Clear Acetate from packaging
Low-tack Tape
STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink
Stamping Platform
Instructions:
- Score a piece of 8.5" x 11" black cardstock at 5.5" and fold to form a 5.5" x 8.5" card. Set aside.
- Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the curled up snake and the slithering snake from the Snakes KTZ315 Unmounted Stamp Set onto white cardstock.
- Use a kraft knife and scissors to fussy-cut both snakes.
- Color the snakes with Copic markers and edge them with a black marker.
- Set aside the slithering snake.
- Trace the slithering snake onto a scrap of white cardstock.
- Fussy-cut the traced snake and paint the cardstock with Banana Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint.
- Adhere clear acetate to the back of the curled up snake covering the center aperture.
- Place black foam tape around the aperture to create a well.
- Add sequins to the well.
- Use the painted cardstock to seal the well, then set aside the curled up snake shaker element.*
- Paint the ancient chipboard numbers with China, Lawn,and Bora Bora Fresco Finish Acrylic Paints and set aside. **
- Place low-tack tape horizontally across a piece of 8.25" x 5.25" mixed media cardstock.
- Sponge Della Blue and Blue Atoll Elements Inks over the tape onto the top part of the cardstock to create a sky.
- Remove the tape then sponge Pine and Lime Punch Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps across the bottom part of the panel to create a grassy background.
- Use chalk pencils to add shading to the grass.
- Stamp the slithering snake towards the bottom left of the background panel.
- Use different sized clouds dies to cut white cardstock.
- Add detail with Copic markers.
- Adhere the clouds to the top of the image panel.
- Adhere the painted numbers, shaker snake, the slithering snake, and the calendar to the image panel.
- Use Warm Breeze, Blue Belle, and Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Inks to stamp the "Happy New Year" sentiment from the Holiday Quotes KTZ207 Unmounted Stamp Set and heat set.
- Cut the sentiments apart, trim them, then adhere them to the image panel as shown.
- Add star sequins to embellish the sentiment.
- Adhere the image panel to the reserved 5.5" x 8.5" black card.
Notes:
- I find that a Finger-tip Detail Craft Knife used with a glass craft mat works really well for cutting out finely details, such as the interior of the curled up snake.
- Retrospectively, I think that I should have planned the background earlier then used a piece of cardstock sponged with Della Blue and Blue Atoll Elements Inks to seal the shaker's well. I'm not thrilled with the yellow. Alas.
- Fresco Finish Acrylic Paints are wonderful for painting chipboard because their opacity and chalk finish work to cover the grey without gesso!
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