A Journey...

Greetings! Here's a card created for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's September "Black and White and One Color" Challenge.

Products Used:

Steampunk Balloon Guys Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Travel Quotes Rubber Sheet by Lost Coast Designs

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Della Blue Elements Premium Dye Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Copic Markers: C6, C4, C3, C2, C1, C0, C00, N7, N5, N3, N1, N0

Cloud Edger Stencil by A Colorful Life Designs

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Grey Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Low-Tack Tape

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Acetate

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create an A6 card from grey textured cardstock. Set aside.
2. Ink the Steampunk Balloon Guys Rubber Stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp it twice — once onto white Copic-friendly cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
3. Use Copic markers to color the airship and the Steampunk Balloon in shades of grey. 
4. Fussy-cut the sticker-paper version and place it over it over its counterpart to mask the image. 
5. Place a clouds stencil over the image panel. 
6. Starting at the top of the image panel, brush or Della Blue Elements Ink over the top of the stencil and the masked image onto the image panel. 
7. Rotate and/or flip the stencil, move it downwards on the image panel, and brush or sponge the same blue ink over the stencil and the masked image onto the image panel.
8. Continue this process (steps 6 and 7)  until you have a cloudy blue sky. 
9. Trim the image panel to 4.75" x 6". 
10. Edge it with the Della Blue Ink used for stenciling.
11. Secure the image panel onto the base of a stamping platform. 
12. Position the sentiment stamp from the Travel Quotes Rubber Sheet facedown under the Steampunk Balloon. 
13. Press the stamping platform's lid onto the back of the sentiment stamp and lift.
14. Place a piece of acetate over the image panel. 
15. Ink the sentiment stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp to check that the sentiment is straight and where you want it. 
16. Remove the acetate, ink the stamp again with Nocturne VFC Ink and stamp.
17.  You can re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression.
18. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform and heat set the image.
19. Adhere the image panel onto the reserved grey A6 card.

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