Smile! It's Good to be Queen

Greetings! Here's a card created for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Challenge 195 - I Am Woman with the Crown Mona Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs. 

Products Used:

Crown Mona Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Heavyweight Gold Metallic Cardstock: Source Unknown 

Grey Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Copic Markers: 

 Skin: BV000, BV0000, RV93, RV91, E50, E21, E11, E000, R000

 Cheeks: R20

 Lips: R01, R00

 Hair: E39, E35

 Eyes: N5, E71, E70

 Hood and Dress: BG78, BG75, BG72

 Crown: E95, E93, E77, E71, E70, E47, E44, E43, E42, E41, C2

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

Blue Raspberry, Sage, Glacier, and Cashmere Dye Inks by Catherine Pooler Designs

Brick Textures 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium *

Acetate Hills Masks Set by Lavinia Stamps *

Black and Gold Uni-Posca Acrylic Paint Pens by Mitsubishi Pencil

Looking Glass Fine Art Frame Die by Hero Arts

Upper and Lower Case Alphabet Dies by All Occasions

Queen Die (part of a Drama Queen Set): Source Unknown

Metallic idea-ology Stickers by Tim Holtz for Advantus

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Low-tack Tape

Baby Wipes

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Pls. Note: Products marked with asterisks ( * ) can be purchased at Topflight Stamps!

Instructions:

1. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Crown Mona twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
2. Use Copic markers to color Crown Mona on the image panel. 
3. Use N5 Copic marker to deepen the black of her pupils.
4. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to her eyes.
5. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of Crown Mona and place hert over her counterpart on the image panel.
6. Move the image panel to a magnetic surface and secure it with magnets. 
7. Place a hill landscape stencil over the masked image and the panel. Secure with magnets.
8. Brush Blue Raspberry ink horizontally across the stencil. 
9. Remove the stencil and use a small brush to apply Sage ink below the sky to form hills. 
10. Brush Glacier ink below the hills area to create a body of water. 
11. Use Sage and Cashmere inks to to fill in the rest of the area behind Crown Mona. 
12. Remove Crown Mona's mask.
13. Cut metallic gold cardstock with the Looking Glass Fine Art Frame Die. 
14. Drip some black Posca Acrylic paint onto a baby wipe. 
15. Use the baby wipe to apply the black paint, let it set for a second or two, then use a clean area of the baby wipe to remove the black paint from the surface of the die-cut. The black paint will have settled into the etched design.
16. Place the frame over Crown Mona to frame her. 
17. Adhere framed Crown Mona to a 4" x 5.25" piece of brick patterned paper. 
18. Use a Gold Posca Paint Pen to edge and add a gold border to the patterned paper. 
19. Let the paint dry, then adhere the patterned paper to a grey A2 card.
20. Use alphabet dies and a word die to cut gold metallic cardstock. 
21. Adhere the sentiment to the card front as shown. 
22. Add the "Smile" metalllic sentiment sticker to finish the card.

You still have time to play along with our I Am Woman Challenge 195 and get the chance to win Lost Coast Ca$h.