Wanderlust - A Steampunk Card

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

Products Used:

Steampunk Grasshopper Train Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Travel Quotes Rubber Sheet by Lost Coast Designs
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Bristol Paper by Strathmore

Green and Grey Textured Cardstock

Copic Markers: G03, G05, G12, G14, G17, G19, G20, G29, G40, G43, G46, G82, G85 G94, G99, YG01, YG03, YG05, YG61, YG63, YG91, YG97, N6

Black Copic Multiliner

Pebbles and Hoodie Dye Inks by Catherine Pooler

Rain Forest VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Slimline Cloud Edger by My Favorite Things

Cogs Stencil by Jamie Rogers Crafts

Retired stencil by 13@rts

Hills stencil: Source unknown 
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 A2 card from grey textured cardstock. Set it aside.
2. Ink the Steampunk Grasshopper Train Rubber Stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp it twice — once onto Bristol Paper and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
3. Heat set the Bristol Paper version to set the ink so you can use alcohol markers to color the image.
4. Use Copic markers to color the Steampunk Grasshopper Train in shades of green. Retrospectively, I should have colored the mechanical capsule engine shape and the steam funnel in shades of olive green to match the train passenger car. Oh well.
5. Fussy-cut the sticker-paper version of the Steampunk Grasshopper Train and place it over it over its counterpart to mask the image.
6. Use a black Multiliner to extend the train tracks line horizontlaly. 
7. Place a piece of acetate on the line and the train so that it covers the top part of the image panel. 
8. Heavily Hoodie Dye Ink (mid grey) over the acetate onto the image panel.
9. Place a hills stencil over the top of the image panel. 
10. Brush the Hoodie Ink lightly over the hills stencil and the masked image to create some background hills behind the train.
11. Place a clouds stencil over the image panel. 
12. Starting at the top of the image panel, brush or sponge Pebbles Dye Ink  (light grey) over the top of the stencil and the masked image onto the image panel.
13. Rotate and/or flip the stencil, move it downwards on the image panel, and brush or sponge the same grey ink over the stencil and the masked image onto the image panel. 
14. Repeat Step 13 until the cloudy sky is just above the hills on the background.
15. Remove both stencils and brush Pebbles Ink over the Cogs stencil and the masked images onto the image panel. 
16. Randomly brush the two shades of grey ink over a discontinued stencil that contained mathematical formulae, lines, and arrows.
17. Trim the image panel to 5" x 3.75" and edge with the dark grey ink. 
18. Mat the image panel with with green textured cardstock that measures 5.25" x 4".
19. Secure the image panel onto the base of a stamping platform. 
20. Position the "Wanderlust" sentiment stamp from the Travel Quotes Rubber Sheet facedown on the top left of the card front as shown. 
21. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
22. Place a piece of acetate over the image panel. 
23. Ink the sentiment stamp with Rain Forest VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp to check that the sentiment is straight and where you want it. 
24. Remove the acetate, ink the stamp again with Rain Forest VFC Ink and stamp. You can re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression.
25. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform and heat set the image.
26. Adhere the image panel onto a greytextured A2 card.

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