Lavinia Halloween Card

 Greetings! Here's a Halloween card created for this week's Topflight Stamps "Anything Goes" Challenge with products by Lavinia Stamps.

Topflight Products Used:

Zemira Clear Polymer Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Whimsy Hats Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps

Hocus and Pocus Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps

Brodwin and Maylin Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps

Raventhorn Clear Polymer Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Mini Silver Leaves Polymer Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Sacred Spells Clear Polymer Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Acetate Circles Mask Set by Lavinia Stamps

Dark Denim, Della Blue, Violet Chalk, Pine, and Merlot Elements Premium Dye Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Twilight and Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used

140 lb. Mixed Media Cardstock by Strathmore

Colored Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Violet and Persian Blue Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens by Kuretake

White Pearlescent PanPastels by Golden Paints

Grey and Black Chalk Pencils by General's

Low-tack tape

Paintbrushes

Acetate Sheet

Post-It Notes

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Notes:

• When using clear stamps, I often use the acetate stamp index to work out placement. Using a stamping platform helps immeasurbly. That's what I did with this card. I knew that I wanted to use the Zemira Clear Polymer Stamp with the Whimsy Hats Clear Polymer Stamp Set.
• When stamping solid silhouette images, sometimes the impression has some gaps. Smoosh a Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink onto a piece of acetate, then use paintbrushes to apply the ink to the image and cover those unsightly gaps.

Instructions:

1. Place a panel of Mixed Media paper onto a magnetic craft mat.
2. Place low-tack tape horizontally along the bottom edge of the panel. 
3. Place the smallest acetate circle mask from the  Acetate Circles Mask Set  on the upper right as shown. Secure it with a magnet.
4.  Brush Dark Denim Elements Premium Dye Ink  over the Circles Mask and the tape around the outer edges of the panel.
5. Brush Della Blue Elements Premium Dye Ink over inked sides, blending as you go. 
6. Brush Violet Chalk Elements Premium Dye Ink over top to add some purple tones to the panel. 
7. Remove the tape and the Acetate Circles Mask. Cover the top portion of the image panel with a piece of acetate. Brush Pine Elements Premium Dye Ink over the acetate onto the bottom part of the image panel. 
8. Remove the acetate covering the top of the image panel.
9. Use magnets and/or low-tack tape to secure the image panel onto the base of a stamping platform. 
10. Position the acetate stamp index from the Zemira Clear Polymer Stamp over the image panel and secure it in place with magnets.
11. Position the acetate stamp index from the witch hat from the Whimsy Hats Clear Polymer Stamp Set so that it's sitting on  Zemira's head.
12. Place the witch hat stamp onto the witch hat index sheet. 
13. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the witch hat stamp.
14. Remove both index sheets.
15. Ink the witch hat stamp with Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. 
16. Ink the hat again with  Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks and stamp.
17. Stamp the witch hat from the Whimsy Hats Clear Polymer Stamp Set onto the top part of a Post-It Note (with the sticky part on the back. 
18. Fussy-cut the bottom of the witch hat and position the Post-It Note so that it's acting as a mask.
19. Place the acetate index from the Zemira Clear Polymer Stamp so that her head is on the Post-It Note and the her dress is on the "grassy" area. 
20. Place the Zemira Clear Polymer Stamp  onto the acetate index sheet. 
21. Press the platform's lid  onto the back of the Zemira Clear Polymer Stamp.
22. Remove the acetate from atop the image panel.
23. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression
24. Position the flying owl from the Brodwin and Maylin Clear Polymer Stamp Set so that it's slightly above Zemira's hand. 
25. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the owl stamp and lift.
26. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp.
27. Position the left facing cat from the Hocus and Pocus Clear Polymer Stamp Set facedown on the image panel, so that he's standing on the "grass". 
28. Press the platform's lid onto the bacInk the stamp and lift.
29. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. 
30. Remove the image panel from the stamp platform and heat set.
31. Place the image panel back onto the stamping platform, secured with magnets and/or low-tack tape
32. Position the Sacred Spells Clear Polymer Stamp facedown on the upper right of the image panel.
33. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the sentiment verse stamp and lift.
34. Ink the stamp with Violet Chalk Elements Premium Dye Ink and stamp.
35. Clean and dry the stamp. 
36. Reposition the Sacred Spells Clear Polymer Stamp so that it's facedown along the right hand edge.
37. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
38. Ink the stamp with Violet Chalk Elements Premium Dye Ink, wipe off a bit of the ink where it's overlapping the image panel, and stamp. 
39. Clean and dry the stamp. 
40. Reposition the Sacred Spells Clear Polymer Stamp so that it's facedown along the left edge above the "grassy" area. 
41. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
42. Ink the stamp with Violet Chalk Elements Premium Dye In and stamp. 
43. Heat set the panel again to prevent smearing.
44. Brush the "moon" with yellow, then PanPastel Pearlescent chalk. 
45. Blow off the excess.
46. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to ink the Raventhorn Clear Polymer Stamp  and stamp it along the outside edges of the panel, rotating the stamp as you go. 
47. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the Mini Silver Leaves Polymer Stamp in open areas. 
48. Trim the image panel and edge with  Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink. 
49. Heat set the image panel.
50. Brush below the witch and the cat images with Merlot Elements Premium Dye Ink to ground them, which also adds a nice shadowed look.
51. Use watercolor pens to color Zemira's hair and the details on her dress.
52. Adhere the image panel onto violet cardstock cut 1/8" larger than the image panel. 
53. Adhere the matted image panel onto blue cardstock cut to 4.75" x 6.75". 
54. Adhere the double-matted image panel onto a black 5" x 7" card.

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