Steampunk Strut

Greetings! It's Topflight Stamps Tuesday on my blog! This week the team is showcasing Indigo Blu's wonderful and eclectic cling rubber stamps.

Here's my card created with the Lady Fortesque Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp by Indigo Blu, Flowers and Gears Clear Stamp Set 195 by Bipasha BK for AALL and Create, Tag It Yourself Die Set 27 by AALL and Create, Words of Steam Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps, and the Ink Drops - Midnight 6x6 Paper Pad by Craft Consortium.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Lady Fortesque Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp by Indigo Blu

Flowers and Gears Clear Stamp Set 195 by Bipasha BK for AALL and Create

Tag It Yourself Die Set 27 by AALL and Create

Words of Steam Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps

Ink Drops - Midnight 6x6 Paper Pad by Craft Consortium

Graphite and Russet Orange Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Blue Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Engine Room 6x6 Pataterned Paper Pad by Funky Fossil Designs

Copic Markers:

 Skin: BV0000, E50, E21, E11, E00, E000

 Cheeks: R20

 Lips: E04, RV42

 Hair: YR31, YR23, YR21, YR20

 Boots, Belt, Gauntlets, Pouch: E39, E27, E23, E21

 Outfit: B45, B41

Metallic Gold Gel Pen by Pentel

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

Lightning Black Brilliance Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Blue Jean Simply Sweet Rub-ons by Doodlebug

Sentiment Flag Dies: Source Unknown

Low-tack Tape

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create a 5" x 7" card from blue cardstock.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the woman from the Lady Fortesque Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set onto white cardstock. 
3. Use Copic markers to color Lady Fortesque. 
4. Use a metallic gold pen to add sheen to her earrings, her choker, and the dangling thing on her right side.
5. Place a piece of low-tack tape across the image panel below Lady Fortesque 's feet.
6. Place the second largest die from the Tag It Yourself Die Set 27 cutting-side down with Lady Fortesque centered in the die. 
7. Secure the die to the image panel with low-tack tape, then run the sandwich through a die-cut machine. 
8. Flip the die and panel so that the back of the panel shows.
9. Use low-tack tape to secure the tag die-cut to the panel. 
10. Flip the combination back over so that the image is facing upwards.
11.  Gently brush Graphite, then Russet Orange Elements Inks over the back of the die onto the image panel die-cut. 
12. Remove the low-tack tape below Lady Fortesque 's feet and place the tape onto the horizon line to cover the bottom of the image panel.
13. Brush  Graphite, then Russet Orange Elements Inks more heavily over the tape and the back of the die, onto the bottom of the image panel die-cut. 
14. Remove the cutting die and clean it with hand sanitizer. 
15. Set the image panel die-cut aside.
16. Cut a piece of patterned paper from the Ink Drops - Midnight 6x6 Paper Pad by Craft Consortium to 5" wide and adhere it to the top of a 5" x 6 ¾" of thin white cardstock. 
17. Use Y26 and Y23 Copic markers to alter the color of some of the veins of the patterned paper.
18. Trim a piece of patterned paper to 1 ½" x 5" and lightly brush it with Graphite and Russet Orange Elements Inks. 
19. Use Graphite Elements Ink to edge the strip of patterned paper.
20. Place the white cardstock/patterned paper panel onto the base of a stamping platform and secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
21. Position the long flowerless gears stamps from the Flowers and Gears Clear Stamp Set 195 facedown along the left side of the patterned paper panel. 
22. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, lift, ink the stamp with Lightning Black Brilliance Ink, and stamp.
23. Clean and dry the gears stamp, then position the stamp facedown along the right edge of the patterned paper panel. 
24. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, lift, ink the stamp with Lightning Black Brilliance Ink, and stamp.
25. Remove and clean the stamp.
26. Position the two smaller gear stamps from the Flowers and Gears Clear Stamp Set 195 facedown along the center top and center bottom of the patterned paper panel.
27. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the two gears stamps, lift, ink the stamps with Lightning Black Brilliance Ink, and stamp.
28. Clean and dry the stamp.
29. Remove the patterned paper/white panel from the stamping platform.
30. Heat set the Brilliance ink, then adhere the brushed panel over the patterned paper onto the bottom of the white cardstock panel.
31. Trim the patterned paper covered panel to 4 ¾" wide. 
32. Use Lightning Black Brilliance Ink to edge the stamped patterned paper panel.
33. Heat set.
34. Sponge or brush Graphite and Russet Orange Elements Inks onto a scrap of white cardstock. 
35. Place the inked cardstock onto the base of the stamping platform. Secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
36. Position the word "Steampunk" from the Words of Steam Clear Polymer Stamp Set facedown on the inked panel.
37. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, lift, ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink, and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression.
38. Use a flags die to cut the sentiment, then use it again to cut another flag from the  Graphite and Russet Orange Elements Inked panel.
39. Trim the flags off of either end of the "Steampunk" sentiment, then edge the die-cut with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink. 
40. Use Blue Jean Simply Sweet Rub-ons to add the word "strut" to the other flag, cut off the the flag edges, and edge with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink.
41. Adhere the image panel die-cut to the stamped patterned paper background panel. 
42. Adhere the sentiment die-cuts as shown. 
43. Adhere the card front to the reserved 5" x 7" blue card.

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