Keep Your Balance

Greetings! I'm a bit late with my project for Topflight Stamps this week. I was away on vacation and spaced it out, which is one of the many perils of getting older. But, it does beat the alternative. 

But before I get to my late card, here's a Public Service Announcement! Topflight Stamps is having a Labor Day Sale so you should definitely stock up!

Anyway, I created for a friend with Katzelkraft's Cat Detective Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp and the Waterwall Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp. I also used the hazard strip stamp and the "Balance" sentiment from the France Papillon 01 Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set by PaperArtsy. I also used the Brick Textures 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium.

Here it is!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Cat Detective Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp by Katzelkraft

Waterwall Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp by Katzelkraft

France Papillon 01 Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set by PaperArtsy

Brick Textures 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Morning Mist and Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

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

Grey, Yellow, and Brick Red Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Copic Markers:
 Cat Fur: C5, C4, C3, C2, C1, C0

 Cat Eyes: Y35, YR31

 Trenchcoat and Hat: YG95, YG93, YG91, N6, N4

 Tie: N6, N2

 Shirt: <B91, B91

VersaMarker by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

VersaMark Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Crimson Red VersaFine Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Anti-static Pouch

Low-tack Tape

Clear Detail Embossing Powder by Stampendous

Black Chalk Pencil by General's Pencil Company

Rectangle Die by Spellbinders

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create an A6 card from Brick Red cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Cat Detective Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp onto white cardstock. 
3. Fussy-cut the Cat Detective, color him with Copic markers, edge him with a black marker, and set him aside.
4. Choose one of the brick patterned papers from the Brick Textures 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad.
5. Pat the patterned paper with an anti-static pouch.
6. Place the patterned paper onto the base of a stamping platform and secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
7. Place the  the Waterwall Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp facedown onto the patterned paper. 
8. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, lift, and ink the stamp with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink. Stamp.
9. Re-ink with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp again. 
10. Remove the patterned paper panel from the platform.
11. Add clear detail embossing powder to the wet ink, pour the excess powder back into the container, and heat set the powder. 
12. Select a piece of grey cardstock that will match the brick patterned paper. 
13. Trim the cardstock to 6" wide by 1½". 
14. Use a black chalk pencil to add sidewalk cracks and a black chalk edge to the top edge. 
15. Use an embossing ink pen to draw puddles onto the sidewalk. 
16. Add clear detail embossing powder, pour the excess powder back into the container, and heat set the powder. 
17. Adhere the embossed "sidewalk" to the bottom of the 6" x 6" patterned paper as shown. 
18. Trim the background panel to 4¼" x 6" and edge with a black marker.
19. Place the colored, fussy-cut Cat Detective onto the background panel and use the black chalk pencil to trace around him. 
20. Remove the Cat Detective to keep him safe.
21. Use the black chalk pencil to extend the traced lines to the inside and outside of the traced lines. Smudge the pencil with a tissue. 
22. Adhere the Cat Detective to the background panel.
23. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink  to stamp the Hazard/Caution Border Stamp from the France Papillon 01 Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set onto yellow cardstock. 
24. Trim the cardstock and edge with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink. 
25. Use Crimson Red VersaFine Ink to stamp the "Keep Your Balance" sentiment from the France Papillon 01 Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set onto a scrap of grey cardstock. 
26. Use a rectangle die to cut the sentiment,then edge with the die-cut with Crimson Red VersaFine Ink.
27. Adhere the stamped yellow Hazard/Caution border as shown .
28. Adhere the sentiment die-cut atop the Hazard/Caution border as shown.
29. Adhere the card front to a brick red A6 card.

Thanks for visiting today!