Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! First off, let me remind you that Topflight Stamps birthday sale ends at midnight tonight, March 31st. Second, if you have not done the 7th Birthday Blog Hop, you'd better hurry and finish so that you have the chance to win a great prize. Start on Topflight Stamps' Blog and/or Topflight Stamps Instagram (@topflightstamps )! 

So since the hop was on Tuesday, my normal day to post for Topflight Stamps, I decided to create a second card for Topflight Stamps this week. 

Here's my Easter card!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Versi Trolley Clear Stamp Set 1059 by Autour de Mwa for AALL and Create

Let's Play Shop Clear Stamp Set 1044 by Autour de Mwa for AALL and Create

Sugar Delights Clear Stamp Set 1045 by Autour de Mwa for AALL and Create

Fresh Air Clear Stamp Set 1048 by Autour de Mwa for AALL and Create

Frayed Frames Die Set 26 by AALL and Create

Mini Hills Masks/Stencil Set by Lavinia Stamps

Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Hefty Doodle
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko
Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

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

Grey and Raven Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn,  Rustic Wilderness, and Pumice Stone Distress Inks by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Copic Markers:

Trolley: E21, E23, E25, E29, E37, W0, W1, W2, W3, W4, W6, BG53, BG57, R32, R35

Shrubs/Grass: YG13, YG17, YG25, YG45, YG63, YG67

Butterflies: YR15, YR18

Birds: B32, B34

Eggs: Y04, Y078, Y35, Y38, YR15, YR16, YR18, BG53, BG57, B02, B04, B21, B23, B32, B34, R32, R35, R39, V12, V15, V17, YG41, YG45

Easter Bunny: C00, C0, C1, C2, C3, R81

Stones: T1, T3, T5

Black Detail Embossing Powder by Stampendous

Nameplate Die by Sizzix

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Low Tack Tape

Post-It Notes by 3M

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of 12" x 12" cardstock to 7" x 10". Score at 5" and fold to form an A7 card. Set aside.
2. Secure a piece of white cardstock to the base of a stamping platform.
3. Using Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, stamo the trolley from the Versi Trolley Clear Stamp Set 1059 twice —once onto white cardstock and a second time onto repositionable sticker paper.
4. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of the trolley and placed it over its counterpart on the image panel. 
5. Position the Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs stamp from the Versi Trolley Clear Stamp Set 1059 facedown on the top of the trolley's base.
6. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp. 
7. Lift the lid and ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp once onto a onto the image panel and once onto sticker paper. 
8. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform.
9. Place low-tack on the image panel horizontally below the trolley's wheels.  
10. Place one of the acetate masks from the Mini Hills Masks/Stencil Set across the image panel so that the top of the hill is above the trolley, eggs, and bunny.
11. Brush Tumbled Glass Distress ink over the hill mask and the masked images to create the sky. 
12. Trace the mask onto a piece of cardstock and  fussy-cut along the traced lines to make a homemade mask to cover the blue sky. 
13. Place the acetate mask right below the homemade mask. 
14. Brush Mowed Lawn Distress Ink over the top of the acetate mask. 
15. Move the acetate mask down the image panel and brush Mowed Lawn Distress Ink over the top again. 
16. Repeat the process in Step 14 until the hill is mostly complete
17. Brush Twisted Citron Distress Ink over the darker green ink to fill in the grassy hill.
18. Remove the homemade mask.
19. Place the acetate mask from the Mini Hills Masks/Stencil Set over the top-most hill.
20. Secure the image panel to the base of the stamping platform.
21. Place one of the foliage portions from the large tree stamp from the Let's Play Shop Clear Stamp Set 1044 facedown so that it sits on the crest of the hill on the left side of the image panel. If necessary, use Post-It Notes to protect the image panel.
22. Press the lid of the platform onto the back of the stamp and lift.
23. Ink the stamp with Rustic Wilderness Distress Ink and stamp.
24. Clean the stamp.
25. Move the tree stamp so that another foliage portion sits facedown on the right of the stamped foliage. 
26. Press the lid of the platform onto the back of the stamp and lift.
27. Ink the stamp with Rustic Wilderness Distress Ink and stamp.
28. Clean the stamp.
29. Position the tree stamp facedown so that another foliage portion is the behind the trolley, the eggs, and part of the bunny
30. Press the lid of the platform onto the back of the stamp and lift.
31. Ink the stamp with Rustic Wilderness Distress Ink and stamp.
32. Clean the stamp.
33.  Move the tree stamp so that another piece of the foliage is facedown on the crest of the hill on the right of the image panel.
34. Press the lid of the platform onto the back of the stamp and lift.
35. Ink the stamp with Rustic Wilderness Distress Ink and stamp.
36. Clean the stamp.
37. Remove and clean the acetate mask.
38. Position small grass tuft stamp from the Let's Play Shop Clear Stamp Set and the larger tufts of grass stamp from Longer grass tufts from the Sugar Delights Clear Stamp Set 1045 facedown on the image panel.
39. Press the lid of the platform onto the back of the stamps and lift.
40. Ink the grass stamps with Mowed Lawn Distress Ink and stamp.
41. Clean the stamp.
42. Move the stamps and repeat Steps 38 through 40. 
43. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink  to stamp the birds and butterflies from the Fresh Air Clear Stamp Set 1048 by Autour de Mwa onto the sky.
44. Remove the low-tack tape used to ground the trolley.
45. Place a ruler horizontally over the grassy area, then brush Pumice Stone Distress Ink over the ruler onto the image panel to create a roadway. 
46. Remove the ruler.
47. Place the rocky stamps from the Versi Trolley Clear Stamp Set 1059 facedown under the wheels, between the grass and the road. 
48. Press the lid of the platform onto the back of the stamps and lift.
49. Ink the stamp with Pumice Stone Distress Ink and stamp.
50. Lift all the masks and color all images with Copic markers.
51. Cut a  4.75" x 6.75" piece of grey cardstock with the largest die from the Frayed Frames Die Set 26 to create a window to frame the scene on the image panel. 
52. Adhere the image panel behind the aperture on the card front.
53. Cut ravem cardstock with one of the borders included in the Frayed Frames Die Set 26 then adhere it to a thin strip of grey cardstock.
54. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the "Happy Easter" sentiment from the Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set onto grey cardstock. 
55. Pour black detail embossing powder onto the stamped sentiment, dump off the excess, and the sentiment was heat set. 
56. Use a nameplate cutting die to cut the sentiment. 
57. Edge the grey card front, the border strip and the sentiment die-cut with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink.
58. Adhere the border across the bottom part of the grey card front. 
59. Adhere the sentiment die-cut to the center of the border.
60. Adhere the card front was to the reserved 5" x 7" grey card. 
61. Add two black gemstones to the sentiment die-cut to finish the card.

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