31 Days of Halloween Day 30!

Greetings! It's Day 30 of the 31 Days of Halloween Challenge over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Blog, one day before Halloween, and two days before the Day of the Dead!

Here's my card created with the Day of the Dead Angel Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Products Used:

Day of the Dead Angel Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Raven Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko *

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko *

Golden Glitz Delicata Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Copic Markers:

  Face, Neck, Arms, Hands: W0, W1, E40, E81

  Eyes: YG45, YG41

  Lips: E04, R32, R30

  Hair: C7, C6, C4

  Wings: FV2, B78, FB2, BG49, BG45, BG34, BG32, YG45, YR18, YR16, YR15, YR12, Y19, Y17, Y13, Y02, Y04, Y06

  Dress: BG45, BG34, BG32, B37, B29, B24, B23, B21

  Flower Bouquet Wrapper: E37, E35, E33

  Flowers: YR18, YR16, YR15, YR12, Y19, Y17, Y13, Y06, Y04, Y02

Black MultiLiner by Copic

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura of America

Black Stardust Glitter Gel Pen by Sakura of America

Dark Red, Red Triplus Fineliner Pens by Staedtler

Black and Grey Brusho Crystal Colour Pigment Powders by Coloursoft *

Remember This Story 6x6 Stencil by 13@rts

Super Hero Rays 6x6 Stencil by Paper Rose Studio

Floral Washi Tape: Source Unknown

Low-tack Tape

Roll of Paper Towels

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create a 5.5" square card from Raven (black) cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Day of the Dead Angel.
3. Fussy-cut the Angel.
4. Use Copic markers to color her.
5. Use a black Multi-liner to edge the Angel.  
6. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to the pupils of her eyes. 
7. Use a black glitter pen to add sparkly details to the fine black lines on her wings, skirt, and the buttons of her bodice. 
8. Set the completed Day of the Dead Angel aside to create a background for her.
9. Spray a panel of Mixed Media cardstock with water. 
10. Sprinkle Black and Grey Brusho Powders over the wet background panel and allow the powders to activate. 
11. Mist the panel with more water to further spread the Brusho powders. 
12. Roll a paper towel roll over the the panel to sop up the excess water.  Thoroughly heat set the background panel. *
13. Move the background panel to the STAY-tion.
14. Place the Remember This Story 6x6 Stencil over the ink-stained background and secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
15. Brush Nocturne VersaFine Ink over the stencil onto the background panel, then heat set. 
16. Place low-tack tape over most of the rays of the Super Hero Rays 6x6 Stencil.
17. Position the stencil near the top of the background panel, and Golden Glitz Delicata Ink was sponged over the stencils onto the background panel. 
18. Trim the image panel to 5" x 5".  
19. Adhere Black and white floral washi tapeto the bottom of the panel.
20. Edge the background panel with Delicata and VersaFine Clair Inks.
21. Trim a piece of white cardstock to 5.25" square, sponge Golden Glitz Delicata Ink around the panel's outer .25" perimeter, then heat set. 
22. Use this panel to mat the background panel. 
23. Adhere the reserved Day of the Dead Angel to the background panel so that her head is within the gold stenciled rays and the bottom of her skirt is on the washi tape.
24. Adhere the card front was adhered to the reserved black 5.5" square card.

I sure hope that you've played along with our 31 Days of Halloween Challenge! 

Thanks for visiting today. Have a safe and fun Halloween. Enjoy your Day of the Dead Celebrations!

Notes:

• The Day of the Dead Angel Rubber Stamp comes in two sizes. I've used the larger of the two for my card.
• Brusho Crystal Colour Pigment Powders stain. Use a craft mat, wear old clothes and gloves.
• Adding water to paper can cause it to curl. To flatten it, place the panel between a piece of folded copier paper, place the combination onto the base of a die-cut machine, put both cutting plates. over the panel, and run through the die-cut machine a few times. Sometimes you need to add cardstock or a thin piece of packaging cardboard to the die-cut "sandwich".
• Products marked with asterisks ( * ) can be purchased at Topflight Stamps.

Have a happy and safe Halloween. If you celebrate the Day of the Dead, enjoy your friends, family, and memories.

Thanks for visiting today! 

Cat Themed Tab Tag Album -

I'm back with the promised sequel to my cat themed tag album, which I started last week in honor of International Cat Day. Last week I had completed the construction of the mini-album, painted the pages, and created the cover. This week I added additional colors, paint splatters, and stamping to the pages. 

The pages were created using the Essentials by Marlene Tab Tags by Studio Light with AALL and Create's  Tall Cats Clear Stamp Set #465, Cat Lover Clear Stamp Set #256,  Felines Clear Stamp Set #408,  the Caterday Clear Stamp Set #477,  Have a Seat Clear Stamp Set #461, Lil' Love Clear Stamp Set #481, Reverse Dots Clear Stamp #313, Numbers Clear Stamp Set by 13@rts, Cats Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Hobby Art, and Washi Tape #2 by Autour de Mwa for AALL and Create.

Here are pages 2 and 3

Pages 4 and 5

Pages 6 and 7

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Essentials by Marlene Tab Tags by Studio Light

Tall Cats Clear Stamp Set #465 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Cat Lover Clear Stamp Set #256 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Felines Clear Stamp Set #408 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Caterday Clear Stamp Set #477 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Have a Seat Clear Stamp Set #461 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Lil' Love Clear Stamp Set #481 by Janet Klein for AALL and Create

Reverse Dots Clear Stamp #313 by Autour de Moi for AALL and Create

Washi Tape #2 by Autour de Mwa for AALL and Create

Numbers Clear Stamp Set by 13@rts

Cats Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Hobby Art

Haystack, Banana, Pool, Southern Skies, Spring, Green Patina, and Prawn Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint by PaperArtsy

Onyx Black VersaFine™ Ink by Tsukineko®

PSA: If I were you, I'd pop right over to Topflight Stamps as there is a plethora of new products including the new AALL & Create stencils and stamps!

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Tuxedo Black Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Blue Belle VersaFine Clair™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Manganese Blue, Forget-Me-Not, and Rose Madder Archival™ Ink by Ranger Ink

Black Soot and Peeled Paint Distress® Archival™ Ink by Tim Holtz® for Ranger Ink

Copic® Markers:

  Girls' Skin: BV000, E50, E21, E11, E000, R20

  Girls' Lips: E04, R21, R22

  Girl's Hair (p.3) T0, T1, YR30, YR31

  Girl's Eyes (p.3) B21, B23

  Dress (p.3) : YG41, YG45

  Collar and Tights (p.3): BV000, R30

  Girl's Dress (p.4):  BG53, BG57, G20, G40

  Girl's Hair (p.4): E74, E77, E79

  Girl's Eyes (p.4): G20, G21

  Cats: C00, C0, C1, C2, C3, C4, B21, B32, YG21, 23. B32; YR0000, YR000, YR30, YR31

  Couch and Chair: B24, B26, B28, B39, E74, E78

  Cats: YR0000, YR000, YR00, YR30, YR31, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7

Heart Washi Tape by Little B

Speech Bubble Die Cut: not sure. Oopsy.

Instructions:

1. Use Southern Skies and Prawn Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint to add splatters and splashes to all of the pages. Heat Set. 
2. Use Manganese Blue, Forget-Me-Not, Rose Madder, Peeled Paint, and Black Soot Distress ink to stamp the hearts, dots, numbers, paw prints, fish bones, and cat words. Heat set because why not?
3. Use Onyx Black VersaFine Ink or Blue Belle VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the sentiments directly onto the pages. Heat Set.
4. I messed up the impression on (page 7), but fixed it by stamping the sentiment onto a reserved scrap of painted paper, heat set it, then cut it out with a speech bubble cutting die.
5. Use Tuxedo Black Memento ink to stamp all the cats and furniture. 
6. Fussy-cut all the images, color them with Copic markers, and edge them with a dark marker.
7. Decide on the arrangement of the figures.
8. Add Washi Tape #2 and thin red heart Washi tape where you will want to place the images.
9. Adhere the images over the combined Washi tape as shown.
10. Use Black Soot Distress Archival ink to edge all of the pages.

Thanks for visiting today!

Happy Thanksgiving (From the Three of Us)

It's Tuesday, which means it's time to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. My cats have been seriously cute lately and Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching. Since celebrations will be curtailed, it will only be the three of us and the two cats, who (oddly) don't eat people food. Anyway, the cats and holidays inspired me to create a cat-themed Thanksgiving card using the Kooky Cats Cling Rubber Stamp Set and the Little Kooky Cat Rubber Cling Stamp by Kate Crane for Carabelle Studios.

Here's the card:

Topflight Products Used:

Kooky Cats Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Carabelle Studios

Little Kooky Cat Rubber Cling Stamp by Carabelle Studios

Profusion Stencil #84 by AALL and Create

Remember This Story Stencil by 13 @rts

Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle

Blending Brushes by Time for Tea Designs

Onyx Black VersaFine™ Ink by Tsukineko®

PSA: There are lots of fantastic new products at Topflight Stamps, so you should definitely click on over there after reading my instructions! BTW, if you'd like to get 12% off your order at Topflight Stamps use THIS LINK!

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Grey Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Tuxedo Black and London Fog Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Pale Ochre Archival™ Ink by Ranger Ink

Copic® Markers: C00, C), C1 C2, C3, C4, C5, R81, R83, B53, BG57, BG78, YG23, YG25, YR 15, YR18, Y32, Y35

Kitten Smitten 6x6 and 12x12 Patterned Papers by Doodlebug Designs Inc.™

Glaze® 3D Glossy Gel Pen by Sakura® of America

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Industries
Stamping Platform
Removable ID Labels by Avery®

Instructions:

1. Use magnets to secure a piece of white cardstock onto the stamping platform.
2. Position both Kooky Cats stamps face down on the white cardstock, leaving room between them for the Little Kooky Cat.
3. Press the lid of the stamping platform onto the stamps, lift, ink the stamps, and stamp. Repeat if necessary for a clear impressions.
4. Place a piece of Removable Label paper onto the platform (over the image panel), re-ink the stamps, and stamp.
5. Fussy-cut the label version masks and place over their counterparts on the image panel.
6. Remove the stamps from the stamping platform and clean.
7. Position the Small Kooky Cat stamps face down on the white cardstock between the two masked large Kooky Cats.
8. Press the lid of the stamping platform onto the stamp, lift, ink the stamps, and stamp. Repeat if necessary for a clear impression.
9. Place a piece of Removable Label paper onto the platform (over the image panel), re-ink the stamp, and stamp.
10. Fussy-cut the label version mask and place over the small Kooky Cat. Now all three images should be masked.
11. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform and secure it to the STAY-tion with magnets.
12. Place the magnetic ruler across the cats' paws.
13. Brush Pale Ochre Archival ink over the masked cats.
14. Use the magnets to secure the Profusion stencil over the top part of the image. 
15. Brush Pale Ochre Archival ink over the stencil and the image panel. 
16. Remove the Profusion stencil and clean.
17. Shift the ruler so that it's covering the top part of the coffee cup/parrot image.
18. Brush London Fog Memento ink over the bottom of the image panel.
19. Use magnets to secure the Remember This Story Stencil over the bottom part of the image panel.
20. Repeat Step #18.
21. Quickly realize that you have neglected to cover the top part of the image panel and got some words stenciled in grey onto the yellow background.
22. Decide that perfection is overrated. Stencil some words here and there along the top portion of the card.
23. Realize that you had inadvertently stenciled over the edge of the stencil and now have a horizontal line across the image panel.
24. Decide that you're having a tough day, to embrace imperfection, and brush some horizontal and vertical lines randomly here and there.
25. Remove all the masks and color the images with Copic markers, using the plaid patterned paper as color inspiration.
26. Add several layers of Clear Glaze Pen over the glasses and frames on the Little Kooky Cat.
27. Add clear Wink of Stella Glitter pen to the wings on the cat on the right.
28. Trim the image panel and edge with grey ink.
29. Trim the patterned paper to 4.75" x 6.75" and adhere to a grey 5x7 card.
30. Secure a piece of cat-paw patterned paper to the stamping platform with magnets. 
31. Position the sentiment face down onto the patterned paper. 
32. Press the platform's lid onto the stamp, lift the stamp, ink with Onyx Black VersaFine ink, and stamp the image. Repeat the inking and stamping steps if needed to get a good impression.
33. Use a die to cut the sentiment.
34. Edge the sentiment die-cut with grey ink and adhere to the image panel to finish the card.

Thanks for visiting today!

Toucan Tag

It's Tuesday, which means that it's my day to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. Today I received a package from Topflight Stamps containing irresistible new stamps by AALL and Create and other goodies. Usually, I admire the stamps and such for a while and let ideas percolate. However, this time I had the overwhelming urge to create a project immediately using the fabulous toucan stamp from AALL and Create's Navigate Home (#323) Clear Stamp Set by Bipasha, which has four awesome collage-style stamps.

BTW, if you'd like to get 12% off your order at Topflight Stamps use THIS LINK.

Here's the tag that I created, which as I look at it, might need a sentiment or something on the upper right. I'll think about it.

I did a quick Google search to check on the coloration of toucans and was a bit surprised to see that there were so many different types. The one above, which is a Toco toucan and has a red/orange flash on its belly plus blue eyes and talons. Sadly, the eyes and talons aren't showing us so well above. :(

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Navigate Home (#323) Clear Stamp Set by Bipasha by AALL and Create

Map 6x6 Stencil by 13@RTS

The Great Outdoors 6x6 Stencil by Polkadoodles

Creative Collection Pack™ by Neenah

Periwinkle,  Pink Jellybean, and Canary Yellow Prism Inks by Hunkydory Crafts

Other Products Used:

Tuxedo Black Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko

Black Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Copic™ Markers: 

  Toucan: Y000, Y15, R16, YR18, R14, B02, B04, B16 N6, N7, N8

  Ship's Wheel: E21, E23, E25, E44,E47

  Rope: Y26

Removable ID Labels by Avery®

Duo Corner Punch by Tonic Studios®

STAY-tion™ by Wendy  Vecchi/Ranger Industries

Hole Punch by Fiskar's®

Instructions:

1. Using Memento Ink, stamp the toucan image onto white metallic cardstock and onto a Removable ID Label.
2. Fussy-cut the ship's wheel and toucan masks, then adhere the masks onto their counterparts on the image panel.
3. Secure the image panel to the STAY-tion with magnets.
4. Sponge Periwinkle Prism ink over the cloud portion of the Great Outdoors stencil sliding the stencil down as you sponge the blue ink, leaving white clouds around the masked images.
5. Randomly sponge Jellybean Pink and Canary Yellow ink as desired onto the cloudy sky. 'll note that dye ink sponged onto white metallic cardstock yields a lovely shimmery result.
6. Lift the Great Outdoors stencil and put aside.
7. Use magnets to secure the Map stencil over the image panel.
8. Sponge Periwinkle Ink over the map stencil. 
9. Lift the map stencil and set it aside.
10. Remove the image panel from the STAY-tion.
11. Lift the masks and color the image with Copic markers.
12. Trim the image to a long rectangle and use the tag corner slot of the Tonic punch to create the tag.
13. Trim black cardstock slightly larger than image panel and use the tag corner slot to create a tag tag.
14. Adhere the image panel to the black cardstock.
15. Find the center point of the tag top, punch a hole, and thread some jute through the holes to finish the tag.

Thanks for visiting today.