New Years Card

Here's a New Year's Card for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's December Anything Goes Challenge 204 that was created with the Silhouette Man with Cane Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Here it is!

Products Used:

Silhouette Man with Cane Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Mixed Media Paper by Strathmore

Textured Black and Blue Cardstocks by Bazzill Basics

Squeezed Lemonade, Picked Raspberry, Kitch Flamingo, Blueprint Sketch, and Lost Shadow Distress Inks by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Rays Layering Stencil by Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous

Perspective Floor Stencil by Miss Ink Stamps

Mister

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko *

Retro Numbers Die Set 92 by AALL and Create

Occasions Small Talk Stickers by Tim Holtz for idea-ology

Black Pigma Pen by Sakura

Black Chalk Pencil by Generals

Low-tack Tape

Acetate

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Place a 4.5" x 6" piece of Mixed Media Paper on a magnetic surface and secure it with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
2. Place a strip of low-tack tape horizontally across the bottom of the panel.
3. Position the Rays Stencil over the panel.
4. Use low-tack tape to hinge the top of the stencil to the top of the panel.
5. Brush Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink over the bottom of the Rays stencil onto the bottom of image panel.
6. Lift the stencil and lightly brush Squeezed Lemon Distress Ink over the panel.
7. Put the stencil back into place and brush Picked Raspberry Distress Ink over the Rays stencil.
8. Lift the stencil and lightly brush Picked Raspberry Distress Ink over the panel.
9. Put the stencil back over the image panel and brush Kitch Flamingo Distress Ink over the Rays stencil onto the panel.
10. Lift the stencil and lightly brush Kitch Flamengo Distress Ink over the panel.
11. Place the stencil back over the image panel and brush Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink over the Rays stencil onto the panel.
12. Lift the stencil and lightly brush Blueprint Sketch over the panel.
13. Remove the stencil.
14. Lightly mist the inked stenciled panel with water.
15. Remove the low-tack tape from the panel.
16. Place a piece of acetate on the bottom of the inked portion of the panel so that it's covering the top portion. Secure with magnets.
17. Brush Lost Shadow Distress Ink over the bottom of the image panel.
18. Place the stones portion of the Perspective Floor Stencil onto the grey inked area and secure with magnets.
19. Brush Lost Shadow Distress Ink over teh bottom of the image panel.
20. Remove the acetate.
21. Place the image panel onto the base of a stamping platform and secure with magnets.
22. Position the Silhouette Man with Cane Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs facedown on the image panel as shown.
23. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
24. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp.
25. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression.
26. Use the largest die from the Retro Numbers Die Set 92 to cut textured black cardstock.
27. Position the second largest die facedown on the die-cut created in Step 26 and secure it in place with low-tack tape.
28. Run the taped die/die-cut combination through the die-cut machine to create an aperture.
29. Trim the image panel to fit and adhere it behind the die-cut frame.
30. Use a black chalk pencil to add grounding and shading under the Silhouette Man.
31. Select three appropriate sentiment stickers from the Occasions Small Talk Sticker book and edge them with a black Pigma pen.
32. Adhere the three sentiment stickers to the image panel die-cut as shown.
33. Adhere the framed die-cut to a blue card that is slightly larger than the black die-cut.

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You should play along with us for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's December Anything Goes Challenge 204 for the chance to win some Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h!

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