Balance — Like a Flamingo

It's Tuesday so it's time to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. It's an "Anything Goes" theme this week. I decided to use the flamingo from the Two Tropical Birds Unmounted Rubber Stamp Set by Crafty Individuals with the Palm Fronds Stencil by Craft Emotions to make a card. Both companies have gone out of business, but Topflight Stamps still has lots of their products still in stock! I also used the Frayed Frames Die Set 26 by AALL and Create and a sentiment from the Flamazing Clear Stamp Set 617 by Janet Klein for  AALL and Create.

Here it is!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:
Two Tropical Birds Unmounted Rubber Stamp Set by Crafty Individuals

Palm Fronds Stencil by Craft Emotions

Flamazing Clear Stamp Set 617 by Janet Klein for  AALL and Create

Frayed Frames Die Set 26 by AALL and Create

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Verdant, Grass Green, Green Oasis, and Rain Forest VersaFine Clair Inks

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

Fine Spray Mister by Spectrum Noir

Please Note: Both Crafty Individuals and Craft Emotions  have gone out of business, but Topflight Stamps still has lots of their products still in stock as well as other companies like Carabelle, Darkroom Door, and Heffy Doodle.

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

White Heavyweight Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Copic Markers: R85, R83, R81, R43, R32, R30, R22, R21, R20, R11, R02, R01, R00, RV13, RV11, B41, <B41, BG11, BG00, N4, N3, N2

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

Small Rectangle Die by Spellbinders

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Low-tack Tape

91% Isopropyl Alcohol

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studio

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create a 5" x 7" card from white cardstock and set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the flamingo from the Two Tropical Birds Unmounted Rubber Stamp Set twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
3. Color the flamingo with Copic markers. Use a B41 Copic marker to outline the flamingo. 
4. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of the flamingo and place it over its counterpart on the image panel. 
5. Place a piece of low-tack tape horizontally towards the bottom of the image panel. 
6. Brush or sponge Della Blue Elements Ink over the tape and the masked flamingo to add a blue background. 
7. Use a Fine Spray Mister filled with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol to mist image panel. The alcohol will add splotches and mottling to the background.
8.  Remove the repositionable mask from the flamingo. 
9. Move the tape so that it sits on the bottom of horizon line on the light blue ink. 
10. Brush or sponge Blue Lagoon Elements Ink over the bottom of the tape, the flamingo's shins and feet to cover the bottom part of the image panel. 
11. Brush or sponge Mermaid Elements Ink over the same area. 
12. Use a white gel pen to add ripples and white highlights to the water then set the. image panel aside while you work on the background panel.
13. Place a piece of 5.5" x 8.5" white cardstock onto a magnetic surface secured with low-tack tape and/or magnets. 
14. Sponge or brush Verdant VersaFine Clair Ink onto the white cardstock to start the background panel. 
15. Sponge or brush Grass Green VersaFine Clair Ink overtop blending as you go. Heat set. 
16. Cut 1" from the inked panel and place onto a stamping platform, secured with magnets and/or low-tack tape. 
17. Place the "Balance" sentiment from the Flamazing Clear Stamp Set 617  facedown on the inked strip of cardstock. 
18. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
19. Ink the stamp with Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. 
20. Remove the panel from the stamping platform.
21. Heat set the panel. 
22. Cut the sentiment strip with a thin long rectangle die.
23. Edge the sentiment die-cut with  Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Ink.
24. Place the Palm Fronds Stencil over the background panel (Steps #13-15) and secure with low-tack tape and/or magnets. 
25. Sponge or brush Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Ink over the stencil onto the background panel. 
26. Randomly sponge or brush Rain Forest VersaFine Clair Ink over the stencil onto the background panel to deepen the green. 
27. Remove the stencil. 
28. Trim the background panel and edge with Rain Forest VersaFine Clair Ink. 
29. Heat set the panel.
30. Center the second largest die from the Frayed Frames Die Set 26 on the background panel and secure with low-tack tape. 
31. Run the die and panel through your machine to cut a window in the background.
32. Adhere the image panel behind the opening in the background panel.
33. Adhere the sentiment die-cut to the top of the background panel as shown.
34. Take the reserved white 5" x 7" card from Step 1. 
35. Sponge the outer .5" perimeter of the cards with Green Oasis and Rain Forest VersaFine Clair Inks. 
36. Adhere the cardfront to the card.

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