WTF* - A Craft Emotions Card

Greetings! It's Tuesday, my day to share a project created for Topflight Stamps! This week my teammates and I are showcasing wonderful products by Craft Emotions! I hope you enjoyed this long holiday weekend, which marks the unofficial beginning of summer!

The warm weather and holiday weekend inspired this sea-themed card using the Oceans 10  and Oceans 11 Clear Polymer Stamp Sets by Carla Creaties for Craft Emotions.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Oceans 10 Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Carla Creaties for Craft Emotions

Oceans 11 Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Carla Creaties for Craft Emotions

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Mermaid, Blue Atoll, Blue Lagoon, Pine, Lime Punch, Olive, Confetti, Violet Chalk, Sundance, Russet Orange, and Paprika Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Gel Press

4" Brayer by Speedball

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Kraft Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

140 Lb. Mixed Media Paper by Strathmore

Gel Press

Copic Markers:

 Seahorse: RV62, RV63, RV91, B63, B66, B69

 Angel Fish: RV52,RV63, RV91, RV93, Y15, Y17, Y19, E0, R32, R35

 Eyes: C00, BG0000, BG000

 Conch Type Shell: B60, B63, B66, RV52

 Scallops: Y15, Y19

 Starfish: E50, E51

 Sand Dollar: W00, W0

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura of America

White UniPosca Paint Pen 

Speech Bubble: Source Unknown

Shell Dies: Seashell Punch Die by Marianne Designs and other unknown sources

Crab Punch by the Punch Bunch

91% Isopropyl Alcohol

Low-tack Tape

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of kraft 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 wonderful sea horse and the angel fish from the Oceans 10 Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Carla Creatieonto white cardstock. 
3. Fussy-cut both images, color them with Copic markers, and edge with a black pen.
4. Using the 4" Brayer l, Mermaid, Blue Atoll, Blue Lagoon Elements Inks were applied to a Gel Press.
5. Mixed media cardstock was smoothed onto the Gel Press to transfer the ink. This process was repeated a few times until I was happy with the blending and color saturation.
6. Move the inked mixed media background panel to a stamping platform.
7. Place the plain waves stamp from the Oceans 11 Clear Polymer Stamp Set facedown on the base of background panel.
8. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, lift, ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink, and stamp. 
9. Clean and dry the stamp.
10. Reposition the stamp so that it's facedown and slightly above the first impression.
11. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, lift, ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink, and stamp. 
12. Remove the stamp.
13. Place the ocean top waves stamp from the Oceans 11 Clear Polymer Stamp Set facedown slightly above the middle impression, but slightly below the top of the image panel.
14. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, lift, ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink, and stamp. 
15. Use a wet paint brush to remove some of the ink from above the top waves to create a sky area. 
16. Tear kraft cardstock, layer, and adhere to the bottom of the background panel. 
17. Trim the background panel to 4.75" x 6.75".
18. Edge the background panel with black ink.
19. Use a variety of seashell and coral dies to cut white cardstock.
20. Sponge Pine, Lime Punch, and Olive Elements Inks onto each type of the sea plant die-cuts.
21. Mist the die-cuts with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol to blend the inks and saturate the die-cuts. Let dry.
22. Sponge Confetti, Violet Chalk, Sundance, Russet Orange, and Paprika Elements Inks onto each type of coral die-cut. 
23. Mist the die-cuts with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol and allowed to dry.  
24. Use the crab punch to punch white cardstock, sponge the crabs with Paprika Elements Ink, mist the crabs with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol, and allow to dry. 
25. When dry, use a blue Copic marker to color the crabs' claws.
26. Use a white paint pen to add dots for the crabs' eyes. Let dry.
27. Use a black detail pen was used to add pupils.
28. Color the seashells, sand dollar, and starfish with Copic markers.
29. Adhere the sea plants, seahorse, angel fish, coral, shells, and crabs were adhered to the image panel as shown.
30. Use a speech bubble cutting die to cut white cardstock.
31. Place the white cardstock onto the base of a stamping platform. 
32. Use temporarary adhesive to adhere the speech bubble die-cut in the aperture of white cardstock.
33. Position the "WTF" sentiment from the Oceans 10 Clear Polymer Stamp Set facedown on the speech bubble. 
34. Lift the platform's lid and place low-tack tape over the birthday sentence.  
35. Ink the taped stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink, remove the tape, and stamp the sentiment onto the speech bubble die-cut.
36. Adhere the image panel to the reserved 5" x 7" kraft card. 
37. Adhere the sentiment speech bubble to finish the card.