Lake Scene Card

It's Tuesday, my day to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week is an Anything Goes theme on the TFS blog and since it's been quite hot here, I decided to make a serene nature scene featuring Katzelkraft Stamps' Heron at the Lake KTZ320 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp together with one of the great quotes from the Eclectica Nature Edition EAB21 Cling Mounted Stamp Set by Alison Bomber for PaperArtsy.

Here's my card!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Heron at the Lake KTZ320 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp by Katzelkraft Stamps 

Eclectica Nature Edition EAB21 Cling Mounted Stamp Set by Alison Bomber for PaperArtsy

Della Blue, Blue Lagoon, and Blue Atoll Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Fine Spray Misters by Spectrum Noir

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Bristol Paper by Strathmore

Red Pepper and Avalanche White Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Cloud Stencil by Lexington Austria

Copic Markers: B41, B45, N0, N2, N4, N6, Y21, Y26, RV93

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers: Oat, Oatmeal, Lt. Brown, Deep Brown, Geranium Red

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura of America

Black Fineliner Pen by Copic

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of Avalanche White Textured cardstock to 8.5" x 5.5". Score at 4.25" and fold to form an A2 card. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the heron from the Heron at the Lake KTZ320 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set twice — once towards the bottom of a Bristol Paper panel and once onto thinner Copic-friendly cardstock.
3. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink  to stamp the scene stamp (dock, sailboat, waterfowl, boathouse/dock) from the Heron at the Lake KTZ320 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set twice — once onto the Bristol Paper image panel and once repositionable sticker paper. Fussy-cut the dock, the sailboat, and the boathouse/dock and place them over their counterparts as masks.
4. Sponge Della Blue Elements Ink over a cloud stencil to create the sky. 
5. Smoosh the Blue Lagoon Elements Inkpad by Lavinia Stamps onto a craft mat. 
6. Use a water-filled Fine Spray Mister by Spectrum Noir to mist the smooshed ink. 
7. Use a paint brush to apply the diluted Blue Lagoon ink horizontally across the image panel. including over the heron's legs and feet.
8. Clean the craft mat and heat set the image panel. 
9. Repeat Steps 5 - 7 with the Blue Atoll  Elements Inkpad. Heat set the panel.
10. Remove the masks and use watercolor markers to color the docks, the boat house, and the sailboat. 
11. Fussy-cut the body and beak of the heron that was stamped onto thin cardstock in Step 2. 
12. Use Copic markers to color the heron. 
13. Edge the fussy-cut colored heron with a dark marker. 
14. Adhere the colored fussy-cut heron over the body and beak of the heron on the image panel.
15. Use finepoint black pens to correct the image and to go over the small waterfowl and the sailboat's rigging in the scene. 
16. Use a white gelly roll gel pen to add whitecaps to the lake.
17. Place the image panel onto a stamping platform. 
18. Position one of the sentiments from the Eclectica Nature Edition EAB21 Cling Mounted Stamp Set by Alison Bomber  facedown across the cloudy sky portion of the scene. on the image panel. 
19. Place the lid of the stamping platform onto the back of the stamp. 
20. Lift the lid and ink the sentiment stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink, and stamp.
21. Heat set.
22. Mat the image panel with red cardstock cut .to 4" x 5.25.  
23. Adhere the matted image panel onto the reserved white textured A2 card.

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