Wishing You Peace

After an event-filled September and October, I'm finally back to creating with a card made for Topflight Stamps' Winter/Christmas Challenge with the Star Well Clear Polymer Stamp, the Three Dancing Fairies Clear Polymer Stamp Set, the Mini Pipin Clear Polymer Stamp, the Mini Holly Clear Polymer Stamp, and a sentiment from the Christmas Greetings Clear Polymer Stamp Set — all by Lavinia Stamps.

Here it is!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Star Well Clear Polymer Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Three Dancing Fairies Clear Polymer Stamp Set  by Lavinia Stamps

Mini Pipin Clear Polymer Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Mini Holly Clear Polymer Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Christmas Greetings Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps

Acetate Hills Stencil/Mask Set by Lavinia Stamps

Della Blue Elements Premium Dye Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Fallen Leaves, Green Oasis, Spruce, and Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Bold Stardust Glittering Gelly Roll Gel Ink Pens by Sakura

Clear Gloss Wow! Embossing Powder

Other Products Used:

Bristol Paper by Strathmore

White Smooth Heavy Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Copic Markers: 

Wishing Well Stone Base: T3, T2, T1, T0, BG90 (and RG0 Olo Marker)

Wishing Well Roof/Supports: E53, E51, E50, E49, E47, E29, E27, Ew25, E23, E21, E04, E02, W3, W2, W1

Pail: E53, E51, E21, E04

Rope: E84, E81, Y28, Y26, Y23

Lost Shadow Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger. Ink

Silver Metallic Sunburst Gel Pen by Pentel

Red and White Posca Paint Marker by Mitsubishi Pencil Company

Clear Gloss Dimensional Glaze Gel Pen by Sakura

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

White Chalk Pencil by General's Pencil Company

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Low-tack Tape

Anti-static Pouch

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Star Well Clear Polymer Stamp twice — once onto a 4.25" x 5.5" panel of Bristol paper and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
2. Heat set the image stamped onto the Bristol paper panel.
3. Color the well with alcohol markers. 
4. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart as a mask.
5. Place the flattest mask from the Acetate Hills Stencil/Mask Sethorizontally across the image panel at the base of the Star Well so that it's covering the bottom of the image panel. 
6. Lightly brush Della Blue Elements Premium Dye Ink over the acrylic mask and the masked Star Well. 
7. Remove the Acetate Hills Mask.
8. Place the image panel onto the base of a stamping platform and secure it with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
9. Position the Mini Pipin Clear Polymer Stamp facedown to the left towards the bottom of the image panel. 
10. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
11. Ink the stamp with Fallen Leaves VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink the stamp and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression.
12. Position the Three Dancing Fairies Clear Polymer Stamps above the Star Well as shown. 
13. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamps and lift.
14. Ink the stamps with Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp.Re-ink the stamps and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression.
15. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform.
16. Heat set the image panel. 
17. Use a white chalk pencil to add some shading to the Three Dancing Fairies and Mini Pipin. 
18. Use the Bold Stardust Glittering Gelly Roll Gel Ink Pens to add glitter to the Three Dancing Fairies' wings.
19. Use Lost Shadow Distress Ink to add shadow below Mini Pipin and the Star Well and to add some shadow to random areas of the snowy ground. 
20. Remove the mask from the Star Well.
21. Use a White Posca Paint Marker to add dots of "snow" to the Star Well's roof, the top of the stone base, along the "ground", coming from the Fairies' hands, and randomly around the images. 
22. Let the paint dry, then add dots of Bold Stardust Glittering Gelly Roll Gel Ink to the snowy areas. 
23. Trim the image panel to 4" x 5.25". 
24. Use Green Oasis and Spruce VersaFine Clair Inks to stamp the Mini Holly Clear Polymer Stamp along the top and sides of the image panel. 
25. Use both inks to edge the image panel. 
26. Heat set the image panel. 
27. Use a White Gelly Roll Gel Pen to add additional snowy dots to the entire image panel.
28. Use a Red Posca Paint Marker to color the Mini Holly's berries. 
29. When the paint is dry, use a White Gelly Roll Gel Pen to add highlights to the red holly berries. 
30. Let the gel pen ink dry.
31. Use a Clear Glaze Dimensional Gel Pen to add dimension and shine to the holly berries. Let the gel ink dry, then continue to build layers of dimension and shine to the berries.
32. Place the image panel back onto the base of a stamping platform and secure it with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
33. Pat an anti-static pouch over the bottom area of the image panel. 
34. Position the "Wishing You Peace" sentiment stamp from the Christmas Greetings Clear Polymer Stamp Set facedown as shown. 
35. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the sentiment stamp and lift.
36. Ink the stamp with Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. 
37. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform.
38. Sprinkle Clear Gloss Wow! Embossing Powder onto the wet ink, dump the excess powder back into the container, and heat set the powder.
39. Create an A2 card from heavy white cardstock. 
40. Sponge or brush the outside .5" edges of the card with Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Ink. 
41. Edge the card with Spruce VersaFine Clair Ink. These two steps will create a card that perfectly matches the holly border of the image panel.
42. Heat set the inked areas of the white card.
43. Finish the card by adhering the image panel to the green edged A2 card.

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