Happy New Year - A Miss Dee Calendar

Greetings! It's Tuesday so it's time to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week the team is focusing on New Year/New Beginnings, so I've made a 2025 calendar wall hanging with the Fortuneteller Dee Clear Stamp Set 1211 by Janet Klein, the Mosaic Stencil 54, and the Skycrossed Paradise Die Set 34 –– all by AALL and Create.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Fortuneteller Dee Clear Stamp Set 1211 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Mosaic Stencil 54 by AALL and Create

Skycrossed Paradise Die Set 34 by AALL and Create

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Golden Meadow, Morning Mist, Grass Green, and Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Gelly Roll Bold Line Stardust Clear Glittering Ink Pen by Sakura

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

Black Metallic Cardstock by Recolletions

Black Tie Metallic Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Origins Patterned Paper by Basic Grey (old and hoarded)

Copic Markers:

Skin: BV000, BV0000, E50, E21, E11, E00, R20 (cheeks)

Hair: BV29, BV25, BV23, N6, N5, N4

Eyes: B91, B52

Eye Shadow: YG45, YG41

Earrings: Y28, Y26, Y23

Blouse/Apron: B91, B52

Belt: E39, E35, E33, R46

Skirt: YG67, YG63, YG45, YG41

Shoes: R46, R35

Booth: B95, B91, W3, W1, E25, E04, N6, N4, YG67,  YG45, YG41

Tablecloth: BV17, BV13, YG63, YG41, Y28, Y26, R46

Crystal Ball Base:  E37, E25

Crystal Ball: BG11, BG10, B41, C00

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura of America

Corner Rounder Punch by Creative Memories

Number Dies by Top Dog Dies

Happy New Year Die: Source Unknown

Black Chalk Pencil by General's 

Mini Tear Off Calendar

Low-tack Tape

Sookwang Tape

Stamping Positioner

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Fortuneteller Dee, the fortune teller booth, and the alternate sign from the Fortuneteller Dee Clear Stamp Set 1211 onto white cardstock. 
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and a stamping platform to stamp the crystal ball stamp from the set twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
3. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart as a mask.
4. Position the table facedown on the image under the base of the crystal ball.
5. Lift the platform's lid, ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, and stamp.
6. Fussy-cut all of the images, color them with Copic markers, and edge them with black markers. 
7. Adhere the alternate sign over the existing sign. 
8. Use Gelly Roll Bold Line Stardust Clear Glittering Ink Pen to add some glitter gel ink to the crystal ball, then quickly use a CG00 marker to spread the glitter over the ball. Scribble the marker's nib onto scrap paper to remove the glitter.
9. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to the ball.
10. Use the largest die from the Skycrossed Paradise Die Set 34 to cut metallic cardstock. 
11. Trim a piece of white cardstock so that it was a bit bigger than rounded rectangle die that is part of the Skycrossed Paradise Die Set 34. 
12. Use a corner rounder punch to round the corners of the background panel.
13. Place low-tack tape along the base of the white cardstock. 
14. Brush Golden Meadow VersaFine Clair Inkover the tape to cover the background panel. I was fairly heavy handed with the ink, so I heat set it. 
15. Place the Mosaic Stencil 54 over the background, then brush Golden Meadow VersaFine Clair Ink over the stencil onto the inked cardstock to create a tone-on-tone look. 
16. Remove the stencil and clean.
17. Heat set the panel.
18. Remove the horizontal strip of low-tack tape and cover the top portion of the panel.
19. Brush Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink over the bottom portion of the background panel. 
20. Thoroughly heat set the background panel.
21. Place the Fortuneteller Booth where you'd like it. Use a black chalk pencil to draw a rough outline around the booth, remove the booth, and use a cotton swab to blend the chalk.
22. Adhere the Fortuneteller booth. 
23. Place Fortuneteller Dee and the table where you'd like them and use the black chalk pencil to outline and ground them. 
24. Use the cotton bud to soften and blend out the black chalk.
25. Adhere Fortuneteller Dee and the table/crystal ball.
26. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to edge the image panel, then adhere it to the black metallic die-cut. 
27. Use a "Happy New Year" die and number dies to cut  black metallic cardstock.
28. Adhere the "Happy New Year" sentiment die-cuts to the image panel as shown.
29. Adhere the matted image panel to patterned paper.
30. Adhere the calendar to metallic black paper cut to 3.25" x 2.5".
31. Adhere the number dies and the matted mini-calendar to the patterned paper panel.
32. Edge the patterned paper panel with Grass Green VersaFine Clair Ink. 
33. Adhere the calendar to Black Tie textured metallic cardstock to finish the piece.

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