Encouragement Card

Greetings! Saturday is my day to share a Funky Fossil Designs project. I've created a slimline Encouragement card with the wonderful Off the Top of My Head Clear Stamp Set, the Borderline A5 Clear Stamp Set  the  Mixed Media Compendium 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad, and the Feeling Groovy 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad.

Here it is!

Funky Fossil Designs Products Used:

Off the Top of My Head Clear Stamp Set

Borderline A5 Clear Stamp Set 

Mixed Media Compendium 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad

Feeling Groovy 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad

Glamorous VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Navy Linen Textured Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Obsidian Black Amalgam Ink by Gina K Designs

Twilight, Glamorous, and Summertime VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Copic Markers:

 Skin: BV000, BV0000, E50, E21, E11, E000

 Cheeks: R20

 Lips: E04, RV42

 Hair: N7, N6, N3

 Eyes: B45, B41, R01, C00

 Hat and Contents: BV34, BV13, BV11, RV66, RV63, RV66, RV29, RV25, B99, B97, B95, B91, B45, B41, &38, Y35, Y21, Y19, Y13, Y11, Y02, YR68, YR65, YR61, R85, R83, R46, E84, E43, e41, E31, E30

 Touch-ups: N5, N4

 Spotty Background: C0, C00, B60, <B41, B000, G000, G0000, YR000, RV000, <R81

Corner Paper Shaper Punch by EK Success 

Sparkly Blue Enamel Dots by Gina Marie Designs

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

Low-tack Tape

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create a slimline card from navy cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Obsidian Black Amalgam Ink to stamp the hatted girl from the Off the Top of My Head Clear Stamp Set onto white cardstock.
3. Color the girl and with Copic markers.
4. Trim the image panel and use a corner punch to cut the corners.
5. Use Copic markers to add dots of various sizes around the image to fill the panel. 
6. Set the panel aside.
7. Cut a piece of patterned paper from the Mixed Media Compendium 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad to 3.25" wide to create the background panel.
8. Secure the patterned paper background panel to the base of stamping platform with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
9. Position one of the borders from the Borderline A5 Clear Stamp Set facedown vertically along the right side of the patterned paper.
10. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the border stamp and lift.
11. Ink the stamp with Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary to attain a good impression.
12. Flip the patterned paper 180°.
13. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the border stamp and lift.
14. Ink the border stamp with Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary to attain a good impression.
15. Cut a piece of floral patterned paper from the Mixed Media Compendium 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad to 3.25" x 2.5".
16. Secure the floral patterned paper to the base of the stamping platform with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
17. Select the upside down "C"  border from the Borderline A5 Clear Stamp Set facedown and position it vertically along the right side of the floral patterned paper.
18. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the border stamp and lift.
19. Ink the border stamp with Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary to attain a good impression.
20. Flip the floral patterned paper 180°.
21. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the border stamp and lift.
22. Ink the border stamp with Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary to attain a good impression.
23. Heat set the stamped borders on both pieces of patterned paper.
24. Cut a piece of scrap cardstock to 3.25" x 8.25".
25. Tear the 3.25" x 8" piece of stamped patterned paper horizontally so that the top piece is 3.25" x 2.75" and the bottom piece is 3.25" x 5.5".
26. Adhere the stamped floral patterned paper to the scrap panel (Step 23) approximately 5.25" from the bottom of the panel.
27. Adhere the 3.25" x 5.5" piece of stamped patterned paper to the scrap panel so that the bottoms are flush and the torn top is over the floral patterned paper.
28. Adhere the 3.25" x 2.75" piece of stamped patterned paper to the top of the scrap panel so that the tops are flush and the torn edge is covering the floral patterned paper.
29. Use Copic markers to alter the colors of the patterned paper if so desired. I added light blue and lavender in places on both the top and bottom panels.
30. Secure the patterned paper background panel to the base of a stamping platform with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
31. Place the "We all have a story to tell" sentiment from the Off the Top of My Head Clear Stamp Set facedown towards the top of the stamped patterned paper background panel.
32. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the border stamp and lift.
33. Ink the sentiment stamp with Summertime VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary to attain a good impression.
34. Remove the stamp from the stamping platform.
35. Position the "Off the Top of My Head" sentiment  from the Off the Top of My Head Clear Stamp Set facedown below the other sentiment.
36. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the border stamp and lift.
37. Ink the sentiment stamp with Glamorous VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary to attain a good impression.
38. Remove the stamp.
39. Position the "Imagination will take you everywhere" sentiment from the same set towards the bottom of the background panel. Get it straighter than I did. 
40. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the border stamp and lift.
41. Ink the sentiment stamp with Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary to attain a good impression.
42. Remove the background panel from the stamping platform.
43. Edge the panel with Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink and heat set the panel thoroughly.
44. Adhere the image panel to the background.
45. Adhere the background to the reserved navy slimine card.
46. Add the enamel dots to the corners to finish the card.

Notes:

• Retrospectively, I should have heat embossed all three sentiments to make them stand out more. Live and learn. Or not. 

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