Friday, January 17, 2025

Cheers!

Here's a card created for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's January's Bright and Cheerful Challenge 193 with one of the festive and fun cats from the Party Cat Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs


Products Used:
Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock
Black Metallic Cardstock by Recollections
Tuxedo Black, Angel Pink, Rosebud, Sky Blue, Danube Blue, Lilac Posies, and Dandelion Memento Inks
Copic Markers:
Cat: C4, C3, C2, C1, C0, C00, BV0000, BV000, RV93, RV91, R81, Y23, Y21, Y04,  YR31, 
Cat's Hat: B24, B23, B21
Glass: B60, BG11, BG10, BG000, BG0000
Pink Glitter Marker by Grabie
White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura of America
Kitten Smitten Pawprint Patterned Paper by Doodlebug Designs
Chloe 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Bella Blvd.
Medium Folk Heart Punch by Emagination
Cheers Die by Elizabeth Craft Design
Low-tack Tape
Acetate Packaging
91% Isopropyl Alcohol
Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery
STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Instructions:
  1. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Drinks Cat from the Party Cat Rubber Stamp Set twice – once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
  2. Use Copic markers to color the cat.
  3. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart as a mask.
  4. Place a piece of low-tack tape across the image panel so that it's covering the bottom of the panel.
  5. Smoosh the Angel Pink Memento Pad onto the acetate.
  6. Mist the wet ink with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol.
  7. Press the acetate on the image panel to transfer the ink.
  8. Repeat Steps 5 through 7 until you're happy with the amount of pink.
  9. Clean and dry the piece of acetate. 
  10. Repeat Steps 5 through 9 with Sky Blue,  Rosebud, Danube Blue, Lilac Posies, then Dandelion Memento Inks using the darker colors more sparingly.
  11. Remove the tape from the bottom of the image panel. 
  12. Cover the top of the image panel.
  13. Brush Danube Blue Memento Ink onto the bottom portion of the image panel to ground the image.
  14. Cut the image panel with one of the dies from the Tag It Yourself Die Set 27.
  15. Edge the die-cut with Danube Blue Memento Ink and set aside.
  16. Brush Sky Blue Memento Ink over a 2.125" x 6" strip of the pawprint patterned paper from the Smitten Kitten pad.
  17. Brush Sky Blue Memento Ink over a 4.25" x 6" piece of cat text patterned paper from the Chloe 6x6 Patterned Paper pad.
  18. Adhere the pawprint paper onto the right side of the inked cat text paper. 
  19. Edge the layered patterned paper panel with Blue Danube Memento Ink.
  20. Cut a panel of the pink cat head patterned paper so that it's slightly larger than the image panel.
  21. Edge the panel with Angel Pink Memento ink.
  22. Adhere the cat head print panel to the blue inked patterned paper.
  23. Use the pink glitter pen to add glitter to the stars on the cat's hat. 
  24. Trim the layered panel to 5.5" and adhere to an A2 card.
  25. Use the heart punch to punch three hearts from the pink cat head patterned paper.
  26. Edge the hearts and adhere to the left side of the card as shown.
  27. Use the "Cheers" die to cut metallic black cardstock.
  28. Adhere the sentiment die to the front of the card as shown.
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