Thank You Card

Greetings! It's Tuesday, my day to share a project made for Topflight Stamps! This week the team is showcasing products by L'Encre et L'Image, a French company that makes wonderful and whimsical stamps, great stencils, and other fab products.

Here's a Thank You card created with the A Stroll in the Garden Clear Stamp Set. 

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

A Stroll in the Garden Clear Stamp Set by L'Encre et L'Image

Quirky Post Die Set DI-87 by AALL and Create

Uplifting Sentiment Stickers 6 by Lavinia Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

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

Concord Grape and Pink Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

White Heavystock Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Copic Markers: YG01, YG03, YG05, YG11, YG13, YG17, YG25, YG41, YG45, YG61, YG63, YG67, B01, B02, <B21, B23, B63, B66, RV91, RV10, RV52, Y11, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, E23, BV04, BV25, BV34, G20, G21, G24, T0, T1, T2, BG90, BG93

Waterbrush filled with Copic Colorless Blender

White Prismacolor Pencil by Newell Rubbermaid

Purple Stardust Glitter Gel Pen by Sakura

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Repositionable Scotch Tape by 3M

Low-tack Tape

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Make an A6 card from white cardstock. Set it aside.
2. Place a piece of 6.5" x 4.5" piece of Classic Crest cardstock onto a stamping platform secured with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
3. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the big planter from A Stroll in the Garden Clear Stamp Set twice — once in the center of the white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
4. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel as a mask. 
5. Position the the watering can/house/planter stamp from A Stroll in the Garden Clear Stamp Set facedown on the left of the planter. 
6. Press the lid of the platform onto the back of the stamp, lift the lid, ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, and stamp.
7. Clean and dry the watering can/house/planter stamp.
8. Position the watering can/house/planter stamp facedown on the right of the planter. 
9. Press the lid of the platform onto the back of the stamp, lift the lid, ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, and stamp.
10. Use the second largest die from the Quirky Post Die Set DI-87 by AALL and Create to cut the image panel.
11. Remove the mask from the image panel die-cut.
12. Place a piece of Repositionable Scotch Tape horizontally across the bottom part of the image panel die-cut.
13. Use a waterbrush filled with Copic Colorless Blender Solution to wet the area to the left of the watering can.  Immediately color the area with a <B21 Copic marker to create a blue sky behind the planters. 
14. Continue wetting small areas with the waterbrush and immediately coloring with the <B21 marker until the top part of the image panel is mostly colored. You'll note that I left the periphery of the image panel die-cut uncolored.
15. Add drips, drops, and splatters of Colorless Blender to add interest to the blue sky area.
16. Remove the Repositionable Scotch Tape and use a glue pick-up to make sure the area is free of sticky residue.
17. Color the planters, flowers, leaves, grass, and paths with Copic markers.
18. Use a white colored pencil to add highlights to the planters and watering cans.
19. Use a purple Stardust Glitter pen to add glittery centers to the pink flowers.
20. Cut grape cardstock with the the largest die from the Quirky Post Die Set DI-87 
21. Trim pink cardstock to the same size and use it to mat the grape die-cut. 
22. Adhere the matted background Quirky Post die-cut to the reserved white A6 card.
23. Adhere the image panel to the card. 
24. Add the "Thank You" sentiment sticker from the Uplifting Sentiment Stickers 6 to finish the card. 

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