A PURR-day Gift Card and Tag

Greetings! It's Tuesday, my day to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week the team is focusing on gift card holders, tags, or containers. Since December is only a few weeks away, I need several of these because there are family birthdays, friends' birthdays, and the winter holidays!

Here's my gift card that has a pull-out tag, made with AALL and Create's Ribboned Whisker Wonders Clear Stamp Set 1214, the Purrfect Gift Clear Stamp Set 121 (retired), the Totally Dotty Stencil 87, the Top of the Pops Die Set 45 and the Tag It Yourself Die Set 27. Brushos, PaperArtsy Infusions, and VersaFine Clair Inks were used as well.

Here's the card by itself:

Here's the card with the gift card pulled out of its hiding place.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Ribboned Whisker Wonders Clear Stamp Set 1214 by AALL and Create

Totally Dotty Stencil 87 by AALL and Create

Top of the Pops Die Set 45 by AALL and Create

Tag It Yourself Die Set 27 by AALL and Create

Ultramarine and Violet Brushos by Colourcraft

Sleight Blue and Rusty Car Infusions by PaperArtsy

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Arctic, Very Peri, Blue Belle, Medieval Blue, Fantasia, and Lilac Bloom VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Paper

Bristol Paper by Strathmore

Avalanche Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

The Purrfect Gift Clear Stamp Set 121 by AALL and Create

Gathered Twigs and Lost Shadow Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Copic Markers:
Left Cat: C6, C6, C4, C2, YG21, YG01

Middle Cat: C6, C5, C4, C3, C2, C1, YR23, YR21

Top Cat: YR27, YR23, YR21, YR20, YR14, YR12, YR02

Cats' Noses and Ears: RV3, RV91, R32, R30

Cats' Tongues: E04, R32

Presents and Ribbons: Y26, Y23, FB2, B16, B06, B04, VF2, YG45, YG41

Nameplates by Spellbinders Paper Arts

Essentials and Elements Tag Set 277 by Studio Light

Arrow Die by Elizabeth Craft Designs

Mister

Make-up Brushes

Red Liner Tape

Repositionable Sticker Paper

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the cats and presents from the Ribboned Whisker Wonders Clear Stamp Set 1214  twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
2. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.
3. Positon the lounging cat from the Ribboned Whisker Wonders Clear Stamp Set 1214 atop one of the gifts then stampe it twice with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink. 
4. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart.
5. Place a piece of tape under the gifts.
6. Brush Lost Shadow Distress Ink over the tape and masked images to color the background.
7. Reposition the tape to cover the top part of the image panel.
8. Brush Gathered Twigs Distress Ink over the tape onto the bottom of the image panel.
9. Use the plain flag die from the Top of the Pops Die Set 45 to cut the image panel. 
10. Lift the masks and color the images with Copic markers. Set aside when done.
11. Mist a piece of Bristol paper with water. Sprinkle Sleight Blue and Rusty Car Infusions onto the wet paper.
12. Mist the paper again to activate the dyes and get them to move around a bit. 
13. To get more of a blue and purple background, sprinkle Ultramarine and Violet Brushos onto the wet paper, mist the powders with water to activate them, then heat set. 
14. Repeat this process with both the Infusions and the Brushos until the background is pleasing.
15. Thoroughly heat set the paper, cut it with the second largest flag die from the Top of the Pops Die Set 45, then place it under a heavy box to flatten it completely. 
16. When flat, use Fantasia VersaFine Clair Ink to edge the flag. 
17. Mat the image panel flag with the inked flag. Set aside.
18. Start the background panel by using a make-up brush to apply Arctic, Very Peri, Blue Belle, and Medieval Blue VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko onto another piece of Bristol paper working from the heaviest application of the lighter blues to the lightest application of the dark blues. The paper was heat set. 
19. Place the background panel onto the STAY-tion, place the Totally Dotty Stencil 87 over the inked panel, and brush Fantasia and Lilac Bloom VersaFine Clair Inks over the stencil onto the background panel. 
20. Trim the inked and stenciled background panel to 4.75" x 6.75" and edge it with Fantasia VersaFine Clair Ink. Heat set the panel and set it aside to make the gift tag.
21. Brush Arctic, Very Peri, and Blue Belle VersaFine Clair Inks onto another piece of Bristol paper and heat set.
22. Use the smallest tag die from the Tag It Yourself Die Set 27 and a pocket die from the Essentials and Elements Tag Set 277 to cut the inked paper from Step 21.
23. Use the slot die from the Top of the Pops Die Set 45 to cut a slot on the top of the tag.
24. Edge the tag and the pocket with Fantasia VersaFine Clair Ink.
25. Brush Fantasia VersaFine Clair Ink onto a scrap of leftover Bristol paper, then cut the scrap with one of the fancy slot dies from the Top of the Pops Die Set 45 and the arrow die. 
26. Apply adhesive and red-liner tape to the bottom and sides of the pocket. Do NOT use adhesive on the top of the pocket!!!
27. Adhere the pocket to the tag as shown. 
28. Adhere the fancy slot die  over the slot at the top of the tag. 
29. Thread a strip of left-over blue-inked paper into the slot, fold, and adhere to itself.
30. Adhere the arrow die-cut to the strip. 
31. Place a gift card into the pocket of the tag.
32. Create a 5" x 7" card from white cardstock.
33. Brush Fantasia VersaFine Clair Ink around the outer .5" of the card. Heat set. This step ensures that your card will match the rest of the elements perfectly.
34. Adhere the stenciled and inked background panel to the card.
35. The matted flag die (Step 17) will be used upside down to create a pocket for the pocket tag.
36. Apply adhesive and red-liner tape to the bottom and sides of the matted flag die. Leave the v-shaped top adhesive free so that the tag can be slipped into it.
37. Adhere the matted flag to the background panel/card front as shown.
38. Slip the completed tag (Step 31) into the matted flag as shown.
39. Use Fantasia VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the sentiment from the Purrfect Gift Clear Stamp Set 121 onto leftover blue-inked paper. 
40. Use a nameplate die to cut the sentiment.
41. Edge the sentiment with Fantasia VersaFine Clair Ink.
42. Adhere the sentiment die-cut to the card to finish it up!

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