Sending Heartfelt Wishes...

It's Topflight Stamps Tuesday! It's an "Anything Goes" week so I decided to create a summery birthday card with the Good Things Take Time Clear Stamp Set TE60 and the Flower Power Clear Stamp Set TE37 — both by Tracy Evans Boutique, Leaf Green and Ultramarine Brusho Crystal Colors by Colourcraft, and the Crea-Nest-Lies XXL Double Stitched Rectangle Die Set by CREAlies.

Here it is!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Good Things Take Time Clear Stamp Set TE60 by Tracy Evans Boutique

Flower Power Clear Stamp Set TE37 by Tracy Evans Boutique

Leaf Green and Ultramarine Brusho Crystal Colors by Colourcraft

Crea-Nest-Lies XXL Double Stitched Rectangle Die Set by CREAlies

Melon Soda VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:

Bristol Paper by Strathmore

Metallic Black Cardstock by Recollections

Avalanche White Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Dandelion Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts

Copic Markers: YG45, YG25, YG17, YG1, YG03, YG01, R59, R56, YR18, YR16, YR12, Y35, Y19, Y13

Dark Peony, Deep Red, and Green Zig Clearn Color Real Brush Markers by Kuretake

Black Spica Glitter Pen by Copic Marker

Mixing Palette

Pipette

Paint brushes

91% Isopropyl Alcohol

Cotton

Q-Tips

Low-tack Tape

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Notes:

• I wanted the flower stems to be green so I decided to use the 'no lines' coloring technique. 
• I was inspired by my neighbors red/orange lilies. 
• My colors got a bit over-saturated, but I was mostly pleased with the result.
• A spray of water didn't change the streakiness/saturation of the Brusho background, so I decided to try 91% Isopropyl Alcohol. Spraying didn't work, but I happened to have a wad of cotton (from a gift) on my craft table, so I saturated the cotton and tried that. It worked wonderfully well to blend and mottle the background and also brought out some of the colors of the Brusho powders.  

Instructions:

1. Create an A6 card from white textured cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use magnets and/or low-tack tape to secure a 4.5" x 6" panel of Bristol Paper onto the base of a stamping platform.
3. Place the lilies stamp from the Good Things Take Time Clear Stamp Set TE60 facedown in the center of the panel. 
4. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
5. Ink the lilies stamp with Dandelion Memento Ink and stamp. 
6. Use Copic markers to color the flowers and the stems. 
7. Re-ink and stamp again to attain a good impression.
8. Remove the image panel from the platform and heat set.
9. Sprinkle a small amount of Leaf Green and Ultramarine Brusho Crystal Colors into wells of a mixing palette. 
10. Use a pipette to add water to the Crystal Colors to dilute them. 
11. A wet paint brush was used to dampen the paper around the stems, then the liquid Leaf Green Crystal Color was brushed onto the botton of the image panel on a slant. 
12. The wet paint brush was used to dampen the paper around the flowers and stems on the top part of the image panel. 
13. Ultramarine Brusho Crystal Color was painted onto the image panel. 
14. The colors were looking a bit streaky, so a wad of cotton was wet with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol, then pounced onto the background avoiding the Copic colored images. 
15. A cotton swab was dipped into the alcohol and pounced onto the areas closest to the images. The alcohol mottled the background and brought out some of the other colors in the crystals. Fun! 
16. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers were used to add detail to the lawn and to the flowers. 
17. I decided to pounce the alcohol-saturated cotton onto the image panel again which softened some of watercolors.
18. The image panel was throroughly heat set, then cut with the third largest die from the Crea-Nest-Lies XXL Double Stitched Rectangle Die Set.
19. Use magnets and/or low-tack tape to secure the image panel die-cut to the base of a stamping platform.
20. Position the "Sending Heartfelt Wishes..."sentiment stamp from the Flower Power Clear Stamp Set TE37 facedown on the top left of the image panel die-cut. 
21. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
22. Ink the sentiment stamp with Melon Soda VersaFine Clair Ink was used to ink the sentiment and stamp.
23. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression.
24. Remove the image panel die-cut from the stamping platform and heat set.
25. Use a Black Spica glitter pen to outline the stamens of the flowers and add a slight dimensional touch.
26. Mat the image panel die-cut with black metallic cardstock that was trimmed to be 1/8" larger than the die-cut.
27. Adhere the matted image panel to the reserved white textured A6 card.

Thanks for visiting today!