Walk Your Path Outdoors Encouragement Card

Greetings! It's Topflight Stamps Tuesday on my blog! This week's theme is "Outdoors". I recently received the new Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set by Stamperia, which combines two of my favorite subjects — Steampunk and Gnomes. The stamp set is perfect for the theme and the Steampunk elements by Lavinia Stamps add a fun whimsical touch to the scene.

Here's my card created with Stamperia's Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set, plus the Clock Set 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp Set, the Compass Small Clear Acrylic Stamp, and the Textures 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp by Textures 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp. I also used the Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil by Carla Creates for Vaessen Creative, Della Blue, Lime Punch, and Pine Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps, and sentiment stickers from the Uplifting Stickers Set 6.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set by Stamperia

Clock Set 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps

Compass Small Clear Acrylic Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Textures 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Della Blue, Lime Punch, and Pine Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil by Carla Creates for Vaessen Creative

Uplifting Stickers Set 6 by Lavinia Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

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

Textured Blue Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

White Heavy Weight Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Copic Markers: 

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

 Cheeks: R22

 Beard: C3, C2, C1, C0

 Clothing: B97, B93; YG95, YG93

 Hat, Gears, and Goggles:  R24, R22, T3, T1, Y28, Y26, BG72, BG70

 Boots and Backpack: E77, E74, E71, N6, N4

 Sun: Y115, Y13, Y11

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

Fossilized Amber Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Sentiment Dies by Spellbinders

Hilly Border Dies: Source Unknown

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Low-tack Tape

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create a 7" x 5" card from heavy white cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the walking gnome from the Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set onto white cardstock.
3. Fussy-cut the image, color with Copic markers, edge with a dark marker, and set him aside.
4. Use Fossilized Amber Distress Ink to stamp the clock with the roman numerals from the Clock Set 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp Set twice — once onto a piece of white cardstock cut to 6 ¾"  x 4 ¾" and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
5. Use yellow Copic markers to color the Clock image to become the sun. 
6. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel as mask. This Clock image will become the sun in our scene.
7. Place the cardstock panel onto the STAY-tion and secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
8. Place the Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil towards the top of the image panel. Brush or sponge Della Blue Elements Ink over the top of the stencil onto the masked image panel to start to create a cloudy blue sky. 
9. Move the stencil downwards, rotate it, and brush or sponge Della Blue Elements Ink onto the image panel. Continue this process until the panel is complete. Edge the panel with Della Blue Elements Ink.
10. Cut another piece of white cardstock to 6 ¾" wide. 
11. Brush or sponge  Lime Punch  Elements Ink onto the white cardstock to color it. 
12. Use hilly border dies to cut the inked paper so that you end up with four green hilly die-cuts. 
13. Use Pine Elements Ink to randomly stamp the grid pattern from the Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set onto the largest and smallest hill die-cuts.*
14. Use Pine Elements Ink to stamp the Compass Small  twice — once onto the mid-sized hill die-cut and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
15. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart.
16. Use Pine Elements Ink to randomly stamp the Textures 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp  onto the masked mid-sized hill die-cut.
17. Remove the Compass mask. 
18. Layer and adhere the hill die-cuts onto the bottom part of the cloudy sky background panel as shown. 
19. Trim ⅛" off the width and height of the scenic background, edge the hill area with Pine Elements Ink and the sky area with Della Blue Elements Ink, then mat it with a piece of  6 ¾"  x 4 ¾" blue cardstock. 
20. Adhere the layered and matted scenic background onto the reserved white 7" x 5" card.
21. Use a sentiment strip die to cut blue cardstock three times. 
22. Adhere white sentiment stickers from the Uplifting Stickers Set 6 by Lavinia Stamps onto the blue die-cuts.
23. Adhere the fussy-cut gnome onto the scene as shown. 
24. Adhere the sentiment sticker/die-cuts to finish the card.

Notes:

• Clear stamps will stick to the palm of your hand for enough time to ink, stamp, re-ink, and stamp again multiple times. You don't achieve a perfect impression, which helps to create texture and visual interest.
• I probably should have done an extra set of border die-cuts so that the compass stamp could have been placed on a different hill and not almost directly below the sun. Alas.

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