A Floral Best Wishes Card

Here's a card created for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge 210 with the Lily Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Black Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Copic Markers:

Skin: BV0000, E50, E21, E11, E11, E00, E000, R20, R11, R02, R00

Hair: E77, E74

Headpiece/Clothing: B69, B66, B63, RV93, RV91, RV63, RV55, RV52

Flowers: RV93, RV91, RV63, RV55, RV52, RV10

Foliage: YG67, YG45

Background: B21, <B21, N6, N5

Floral-Graph-Rainbow Petite Prints by Doodlebug Designs

Best Wishes Sentiment Die by Elizabeth Craft Designs

Glittery Epoxy Stickers by Gina Marie Designs

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create an A2 card from Black Textured cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Lily  by Lost Coast Designs onto a panel of white cardstock.
3. Color the image panel with Copic Markers, trim it, then it edge with a black marker.
4. Adhere the image panel to a patterned paper panel that measures 4" x 5.25".
5. Edge the patterned paper panel with a black marker.
6.  Adhere the card front to the reserved black A2 card.
7. Use a sentiment die to cut black cardstock.
8. Adhere the sentiment under the image panel as shown.
9. Add matching glittery epoxy stickers to finish the card.

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There's still a lot of June to go so why not participate in the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge 210  for a chance to win Lo$t Coa$t Ca$h?

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Thinking of you

Hello again. I'm back with my second card created for Funky Fossil Designs with the Modernist Medley Collection. This time I used the In Repose Stencil with inks and embossing powder. I wanted the figure to look like a sculpture at the ocean's edge. 

Here it is!

Funky Fossil Products Used:
In Repose Stencil 

Sentimental Sticker Stack

Other Products Used:

Bristol Paper

Patterned Cardstock by Club Scrap

Hills Acetate Masks by Lavinia Stamps

Sharpie Marker by Sanford

Thin acetate

Della Blue Elements Ink by Lavinia Stamps

Desert Sand Memento Dye Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Sand Castle Dye Ink by Catherine Pooler Designs

New Canvas Palette Hybrid Ink by Stewart Superior

Oasis Green VersaMagic Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Anti-static Pouch

Clear Detail Embossing Powder by Stampendous

Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers, and Uncharted Mariner Distress Inks by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

VersaMarker by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Die by Elizabeth Craft Designs

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

Low-tack Tape

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard and Glassboard Magnets by Glassboard Studio

Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of Bristol Paper to 6" x 8.5" and secure it to the STAY-tion with low-tack tape and/or magnets.
2. Use a Sharpie to trace the flattest mask from the Hills Acetate Masks by Lavinia Stamps onto a piece of thin acetate.
3. Fussy-cut on the traced line and label the top and bottom of new acetate masks. 
4. Place the bottom mask horizontally across the Bristol Paper panel and secure the mask with with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
5. Sponge or brush Della Blue Elements Ink over the top of the mask and across the top of the panel to create a blue sky.
6. Place the top mask so that it's covering the sky and touching the top of the bottom mask. Secure the mask with magnets and or low-tack tape.
7. Remove the other mask.
8. Sponge or brush Sand Castle Dye Ink over the mask onto the panel.
9. Sponge or brush Desert Sand Memento Ink below the the darker tan ink.
10. Tear a piece of scrap cardstock and place it horizontally across the panel.
11. Sponge or brush Sand Castle Dye Ink over the mask onto the panel.
12. Sponge or brush Desert Sand Memento Ink below the the darker tan ink.
13. Move the torn cardstock downwards and shift its position.
14. Sponge or brush Sand Castle Dye Ink over the mask onto the panel.
15. Sponge or brush Desert Sand Memento Ink below the the darker tan ink.
16. Repeat Steps 13 through 15 until the the beach is complete.
17. One at a time, brush the Distress Inks horizontally over the bottom of the image panel to create the ocean.
18. Heat set the panel thoroughly.
19. Pounce the anti-static pouch all over the inked panel.
20. Place the In Repose Stencil over the inked panel and secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
21. Carefully sponge New Canvas Palette Ink over the stencil onto the inked panel.
22. Wipe the stencil and the image panel. 
23. Allow the New Canvas Palette Ink to set and dry a bit.
24. Sponge another layer of New Canvas Palette Ink over the stencil onto the inked panel.
25. Wipe the stencil and the image panel.
26. Sponge Oasis Green VersaMagic Ink over the stencil onto the inked panel.
27. Let the ink dry for a bit, then add another layer of ink.
28. Carefully remove the tape, magnets, and stencil from the inked panel.
29. Pour clear detail embossing powder onto the wet ink, dump the excess powder back into the container, use a paint brush to remove any stray embossing powder, then heat set.
30. Use a VersaMarker to go over the embossed image.
31. Repeat Steps 29 and 30 to build up layers of embossing.
32. Use a white Gelly Roll Gel Pen to add dots, dashes, and wavy lines to the "ocean" area. 
33. Use a small blending brush to add Sand Castle Dye Ink to create shadows under the figure.
34. Trim the bottom part of the image panel leaving only a bit of sea foam and sea.
35. Use Della Blue Elements Ink and Salty Ocean Distress Ink to edge the panel.
36. Trim a patterned cardstock card so that it's .25" larger than the image panel.
37. Adhere the image panel to the card.
38. Sponge Della Blue Elements Ink onto the "Thinking of You" sentiment sticker from the Sentimental Sticker Stack.
39. Use a die to cut the patterned cardstock and use this die-cut to mat the sentiment sticker.
40. Add the sentiment sticker/die-cut to finish the card.

Notes:

• I tried to use the VersaMagic Ink by itself over the stencil, but the horizon and sand detail lines showed through the ink.
• I was very happy that the New Canvas Palette Ink worked in conjunction with the VersaMagic Ink to create enough opacity so that the background did not peek through the ink.
• To create the waves, whitecaps, and movement in the ocean, draw horizontal lines, dots, and squiggles with the white Gelly Roll Gel Pen, then use your finger to smear the wet ink.
• I was very happy that the Gelly Roll White ink showed up on the embossed surface.

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Cheeky Chatty Cups Be Alert Card

Greetings! Saturday is my day to share a project for Funky Fossil Designs. When I first saw the Cheeky Chatty Cups Clear Stamp Set, I knew that as a coffee addict, I had to have it. Then when I was watching a video release for the Artitude Collection, I saw the Brush It Off Clear Stamp Set, and the idea for this card sprung into my mind, but not because I ever mistakenly imbibed my paint water. However, now I don't use coffee mugs for paint water. 

Funky Fossil Products Used:

Cheeky Chatty Cups Clear Stamp Set by Zinski

Brush It Off Clear Stamp Set by Olga Heldwein

Comic Book Pop 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad

Feeling Groovy 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad

Halftone Stencil

Specimen Slides Die Set 

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Pimento (Red) Canvas Cardstock by My Colors

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Blue Raspberry and Dress Blues Dye Ink by Catherine Pooler Designs

Black Soot Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Copic Markers: 

 Cups: B29, B24, B23, B21, B18, B16, B14, B12, BV17, BV13, RV93, RV91, RV32, RV29, R39, Y26, Y15, Y02, YR15, N5, N4, N2, B78, C10

 Brushes: C3, C2, C1, C0, T5, T3, E47, E44 E39, E37, E35

Black Copic Multi-liner

Tag Die by Elizabeth Crafts

Circle Die by Sizzix

Blue and Red Simply Sweet Rub-ons by Doodlebug Designs

Halloween idea-ology Rub-ons by Tim Holtz for Advantus

Lilac Rhinestones by Kaisercraft

Sticker Masking Paper that I'm not using again

Low-tack Tape

Repositionable Scotch Tape by 3M

Post-It Notes by 3M

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studio

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Make a 5" x 7" card from Pimento cardstock. Set aside.
2. Place a piece of white cardstock onto the base of a stamping platform secured with low-tack tape and/or magnets.
3. Position two of the coffee cups from the Cheeky Chatty Cups Clear Stamp Set facedown on the image panel.
4. Press the lid onto the back of the stamps and lift.
5. Use low-tack tape to cover the top part of the coffee cup on the left.
6. Ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.
7. Remove the tape and stamp the Cheeky Chatty Cups twice — once onto the image panel and once onto sticker masking paper.
8. Fussy-cut the sticker paper versions and place them over their counterparts on the image panel as masks.
9. Remove the stamps from the stamping platform.
10. Place a Post-It note over the Cheeky Chatty Cup and the bottom of the image panel.
11. Position the fan brush from the Brush It Off Clear Stamp Set facedown in the center of the cup.
12. Press the lid onto the back of the stamp, lift, ink with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, and stamp twice — once onto the image panel and once onto sticker paper. 
13. Repeat Steps 11 and 12 with the each of the other brushes from the Brush It Off Clear Stamp Set.
14. Fussy-cut all of the paint brushes and place them over their counterparts on the image panel.
15. Place the image panel onto the STAY-tion and secure with magnets.
16. Place a strip of repositionable Scotch Tape horizontally over the base of the Cheeky Chatty Cups so that the bottom part of the image panel is covered.
17. Sponge or brush Blue Raspberry Dye Ink over the masked Cheeky Chatty Cups onto the image panel to create a background behind the cups.*
18. Use magnets to secure the Halftone Stencil over the image panel.
19. Randomly sponge or brush Dress Blues Dye Ink over the stencil onto the image panel. This is when I discovered that the black ink on the masking sticker paper I used transferred onto the image panel. I'm tossing that masking paper!
20. Randomly sponge or brush Black Soot Distress Ink over the stencil onto the image panel to try to camouflage the worst of the nasty ink transfer. 
21. Remove the stencil.
22. Reposition the tape so that it's sitting on the bottom of the blue ink and is partially covering the top part of the image panel.
23. Lightly sponge Black Soot Distress Ink over the tape onto the bottom part of the image panel.
24. Remove the tape and the sub-par masks from the images.
25. Use Copic markers to color the Cheeky Chatty Cups and the Brush It Off Paint Brushes.
26. Use a black Copic Multi-liner to draw the back part of the paint water coffee cup.
27. Trim the image panel, edge with a black marker, and set it aside.
28. Cut a piece of white paper to 6" x 6.75" to create the background layer.
29. Cut a piece of the floral patterned paper from the Feeling Groovy 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad in half.
30. Edge both pieces with a B78 Copic marker.
31. Cut a 2" strip of yellow polka-dot patterned paper from the Comic Book Pop 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad and edge with a Y02 Copic marker.
32. Adhere the yellow polka-dot patterned paper to the center of the white paper from Step 27.
33. Adhere the two 6" x 3" floral patterned paper to the top and bottom of the white paper (from Step 27) so that it's covering the polka dot paper.
34. Trim the combined patterned paper background panel to 4.75" wide" and adhere it to the reserved red 5" x 7" card.
35. Use the nameplate dies from the Specimen Slides Die Set to cut the leftover Pimento cardstock and the yellow polka-dot patterned paper.
36. Use red and blue Simply Sweet Rub-Ons to add the "Be Alert" to the yellow polka-dot nameplate die-cut. 
37. Adhere the red window nameplate over the sentiment, then edge with a black marker.
38. Use the circle tag and circle dies to cut leftover Pimento cardstock and the yellow polka-dot patterned paper.
39. Add the skull/crossbones and the "caution" idea-ology Halloween Rub-Ons to the yellow polka-dot circle, then adhere the circle to the red tag.
40. Adhere the "be alert" sentiment nameplate and the circle tag to the card as shown.
41. Add Lilac rhinestones to complete the card.

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Love Anchors The Soul

Greetings! Saturday is my day to share a project for Funky Fossil Designs. Here's a very large card created with the Vintage Ink Collection by Belinda Basson. It's a retro tattoo themed collection with fabulous imagery which I just love. I've used the Hello Sailor Clear Stamp Set, the Vintage Ink 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad, and the three-piece Rope Frame Die Set. 

By the way, the Vintage Ink Core Collection, which is comprised of Forever True Clear Stamp Set, Hello Sailor Clear Stamp Set is on sale right now, and so is the Rope Frame Die Set!

Here it is!

Funky Fossil Products Used:

Hello Sailor Clear Stamp Set

Vintage Ink 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad

Rope Frame Die Set

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Black Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Brown/Mustard Yellow Cardstock from the Chocolate Box Core'dinations Pad

Patterned Vellum: Source Unknown

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Azure StazOn Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Uncharted Mariner, Squeezed Lemonade, Fossilized Amber, Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo, and Tea Dye Distress Inks by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Copic Markers:

 Skin: BV000, BV0000, E50, E21, E11, E00, E000, R20 (cheeks)

 Hair: E71, E47, E44

 Nails: R21, R02

 Tattoo: R45, R35, YG45, B29

 Hat/Jersey: E42, E41, E40

 Tie: B97, B37, B34, B32

 Undershirt: B23, B21

 Ship: W2, W1, E81, E77, E74, E71

 Rope: E84, E81, Y28,  Y26

 Anchor and Knife: T7, T5, T4, T3, T2, Y28, Y26, Y23

 Roses: R46, R39, R37, R35, R27, R24

 Leaves: YG67, YG45, YG41

 Thorns and Stems: YG95, YG67, R35

 Sea: B95, B52

 Sunset: Y02, Y00, R81

Flag Die by Elizabeth Craft Designs

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Low-Tack Tape

Sookwang Tape

Tape-runner Type of adhesive

Stipple Brush

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create an 5.5" x 8.5" card from black cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Sailor image from the Hello Sailor Clear Stamp Set twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
3. Use Copic markers to color the image on the cardstock.
4. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.
5. Place the center die from the Rope Frame Die Set facedown over the image panel and secure with low-tack tape. Run this combo through your die-cut machine.
6. Place the image panel die-cut onto a STAY-tion and secure with magnets.
7. Place a piece of low-tack tape horizontally across the image panel where the sun's rays stop and the roses begin.
8. Brush Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink over the tape and the masked image onto the die-cut.
9. Remove the low-tack tape from the image panel. Replace it horizontally so that it's covering the top part of the image panel.
10. Brush Uncharted Mariner Distress Ink over the tape and the masked image onto the bottom part of the image panel die-cut.
11. Edge the image panel die-cut with a black marker.
12. Use the Solid Rope Frame Die from the Rope Frame Die Set to cut mustard yellow Core'dinations Cardstock. 
13. Use a sanding block to rough up the surface and the edges. 
14. Use the Rope Frame Die to cut another piece of the mustard yellow Core'dinations Cardstock. Be sure to retain all the pieces that pop out of the die.
15. Randomly sponge and edge both yellow die-cuts with Fossilized Amber, Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo, and Tea Dye Distress Inks to add a touch of grunge to both die-cuts.
16. Use a tape-runner type of adhesive around outside .5" of the solid frame die-cut.
17. Adhere the open rope frame atop the solid rope frame.
18. Place all the bits of inlay on a sticky mat and use a stipple brush to add splats and splotches of Distress ink to them.
19. Inlay all the bits into their counterparts on the combined Rope Frame Die. It's fiddly, but worth it.
20. Heavily edge the entire rope frame die-cut with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.
21. Adhere the image panel die-cut to the center of the Rope Frame.
22. Realize that it's not straight. Be bummed out. Shrug it off. 
23. Cut two .5" strips of blue polka dot paper from the Vintage Ink 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad. Trim them to 6" wide.
24. Adhere them to a piece of cardstock cut to 6" x 8.5".
25. Trim the floral patterned paper from the Vintage Ink 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad to 6" wide. Edge both the top and bottom with a black pen.
26. Adhere the floral patterned paper between the polka dot paper.
27. Adhere the image panel die-cut to the layered patterned paper.
28. Trim the layered paper to 5.5" wide which will cut off part of the rope frame. Alas. Alack. Poor planning on my part. Be more bummed out. Shrug it off again.
29. Use a black marker to edge the 5.5" x 8.5" panel.
30. Adhere it to the reserved black card.
31. Back a piece of vellum with Sookwang or any other strong two-sided tape.
32. Secure the vellum to the base of a stamping platform with tape, magnets, etc.
33. Using a stamping platform and Azure StazOn Ink, stamp the "Love Anchors the Soul" sentiment from the Hello Sailor Clear Stamp Set. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary to attain a good impression.
34. Use a flag die to cut the sentiment.
35. Trim the sentiment flag die-cut a tad.
36. Remove the backing of the tape and adhere the sentiment as shown to finish the card.

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Chills and Thrills for a Bright and Cheerful Challenge!

Here's my first card for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's January's Bright and Cheerful Challenge 193. 

I got the flu as a Christmas present, so I started 2025 feeling dizzy and blah. Apparently, I got confused and missed the "cheerful" part of the challenge, but I did nail the bright and dizzy elements. 

Here's my card created with the Alfred Hitchcock Standing Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda with the Perspective Floor Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Products Used:

Alfred Hitchcock Standing Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda

Perspective Floor Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Bristol Paper by Strathmore

Raven Black Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Scraps of red, white, and silver metallic cardstock

Cheerful, Summertime, Aqua Mist, Purple Delight, and Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Flesh Colour, Shadow Pink, Lilac, Vermillion, Light Grey, Warm Grey 6, Warm Grey 5, Warm Grey 4 Zig Clear Color Real Brush Pens by Kuretake

Stipple Brush

Time Tunnel Stencil by Visible Image

Planner Filmstrip Die Set by Elizabeth Craft Designs 

At the Movies Die-namics Die Set by My Favorite Things Designs

Telephone Dies by QuicKutz

Upper Case Thinlits Die Set by Tim Holtz for Sizzix

Misc. Circle Dies

Bird Dies: Source Unknown

Low-tack Tape

Stamping Platorm

Instructions:

1. Create a 5.5" square card from black (Raven) cardstock.
2. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp Alfred Hitchcock onto Bristol paper. Heat set.
3. Fussy-cut Alfred, color him with Zig Real Brush Markers, and edge him with a dark marker. Set him aside to stew.
4. Brush Cheerful VersaFine Clair ink over a sheet of Bristol cardstock.
5. Use a stipple brush to randomly pounce Summertime and Aqua Mist VersaFine Clair Inks over the background panel.
6. Heat set and trim to to 5.5" square.
7. Place the Time Tunnel Stencil over the inked background panel and secure with low-tack tape or magnets. 
8. Sponge Purple Delight VersaFine Clair over the Time Tunnel Stencil onto the speckled yellow background panel, remove the stencil, then heat set.
9. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink  to stamp the  Perspective Floor Rubber Stamp onto the leftover piece of yellow speckled cardstock, then heat set.
10. Cut black cardstock with the film strip cutting die, birds cutting dies, a film camera cutting die, and a rotary phone cutting die. 
11. Cut white cardstock with the rotary phone dial. 
12. Cut silver cardstock with circle dies and the film camera dies.
13. Cut red cardstock with an "M" cutting die.
14. Adhere the Perspective Floor element to the bottom left of the background panel. 
15. Adhere the film strip die-cut along the right edge of the background panel
16. Adhere the bird die-cuts to one of the apertures of the film strip.
17. Assemble the movie camera and adhere in the center film strip aperture.
18. Assemble and adhere the telephone die-cut. Adhere the red "M" to the phone's dial.
19. Adhere the fussy-cut, colored, and edged Alfred Hitchcock to the background as shown. 
20. Trim the image panel to 5.25" square and edge with Purple Delight VersaFine Clair Ink. 
21. Adhere the card front to the 5.5" black card.
22. Adhere the Idea-ology sentiment sticker to finish the card.

I hope that you take the opportunity to enter the Bright and Cheerful Challenge for a chance to win Lost Coast Cash!

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Trick OR Treat?

Greetings! I'm back to share another Mixed Media project created for Topflight Stamps since that's our focus this week! I've used stamps by Carabelle Studio with Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArts, alcohol markers, modeling paste, a stencil, and die-cuts on this slightly deranged card.

Here it is!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Poe's Ravens Rubber Cling Stamp Set by Carabelle Studio

Witches' Kit Rubber Cling Stamp Set by Carabelle Studio
Twilight, Stone. Buff, Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy
Bricks Textures 6x6 Paper Pad by Craft Consortium Ltd.
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko
Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Essential Metalllic Colorista Markers by Spectrum Noir

Other Products Used:
Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers
140 lb. Mixed Media Paper by Strathmore

Vellum by Strathmore

Yellow and Black Cardstock by Bazzill Basics
Copic Markers: BV29, BV25, BV23, N7, N6, N5, N4, N3, N2, E04, R17, BG93, T7, T5, C4, C3, C1, R17, R05, R02, R01, R000, YG23,  YG01, FYG2, FV2

Black Multiliner Pen by Copic

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura of America

Cool Grey 5, Cool Grey 3 Zig Clear Color Real Brush Pens by Kuretake

30% Cool Grey Prismacolor Colored Pencil

Media Modeling Paste by DecoArt

Door Die by Elizabeth Craft Designs

Floor Perspective Stencil by Miss Ink Stamps

Alphabet Dies by All Occasions Dies
Palette Knife

Low-tack Tape

Silver Metallic Half Globe Embellishments by Recollections

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp both ravens from the Poe's Ravens Rubber Cling Stamp Set and the eyeball from the Witches' Kit Rubber Cling Stamp Set  onto white cardstock.  Carabelle went out of business last year, but some stamp sets are still available at Topflight Stamps!
2. Fussy-cut the ravens and the eyeball, color with Copic markers, and edge with a black marker. 
3. Use a gold marker from the Essential Metalllic Colorista Markers Set to outline the raven's monocle and highlight his chain. 
4. Use a white Gelly Roll Gel pen to add highlights to the ravens' eyes.
5. Set the colored ravens and the eyeball aside. The ravens will just have some fun playing with their monocle, mask, and the eyeball.
6. Use a door cutting die to cut mixed media cardstock. 
7. Use low-tack tape to cover the door frame. 
8. Paint the door with Twilight Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint. Let dry.
9. Remove the tape and use colored pencils to add some shading to the door. 
10. Flip the door die-cut, place a piece of vellum over the windows, then adhere yellow cardstock over the vellum. Set the door aside. You can put the door over the ravens. Maybe it's time for them to nap.
11. Cut a piece of mixed media cardstock to 5.5" wide. 
12. Use Stone and Buff Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints to paint the cardstock.
13. Use low-tack tape to adhere the painted mixed media cardstock to the back of the Floor Perspectives stencil.
14. Add a dollop of modeling paste to a craft mat. 
15. Add a few drops of Stone Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint to the modeling paste and mix well with a palette knife. 
16. Spread the paint-tinted modeling paste over the stencil onto the painted cardstock. 
17. Remove the stencil and the tape. Let air dry for a bit, then use a heat gun at a distance to heat set it. You can let the heat bubble the paste if you like, it'll just add additional texture.
18. Create a 5.5" x 8.5" card from white cardstock. 
19. Adhere the stenciled dimensional floor to the bottom of the card. 
20. Cut a piece of brick patterned paper from the Bricks Textures 6x6 Paper Pad to 5.5" and adhere to the card as shown. 
21. Trim whatever white space is left at the top of the card. 
22. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to edge the card. 
23. Adhere the ravens and the eyeball to the front of the card. 
24. Adhere a silver metallic flat backed half globe to the door to become a doorknob.
25. Use alphabet dies to cut black cardstock and adhere to spell out the sentiment.

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Dream & Believe

Here's my second card created for August's Children's Challenge at  Lost Coast Designs. I chose to use the Silhouette Lady with Umbrella Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Stamps because Mary Poppins is a heroine to a lot of children!

Reminder: Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda run monthly challenges which you can find on their blog. If you participate, you can win Lost Coast Cash!!!

Here's my card!

Products Used:

Silhouette Lady with Umbrella Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Stamps
Cloud Edger Stencil by A Colorful Life Designs

Pearlescent Sky Blue Brilliance ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Angel Pink Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Raven and Avalance Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Bristol Paper by Strathmore

Dream & Believe Word Dies by Elizabeth Craft Designs

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Make a 5" x 7" card from Avalanche (white) cardstock. Reserve.
2. Cut a piece of Bristol Paper.
3. Place the Cloud Edger Stencil onto the Bristol Paper towards the top of the panel.
4. Brush Pearlescent Sky Blue Brilliance ink over the stencil onto the image panel to start to create the cloudy sky background.
5. Rotate or flip the stencil while moving it down the background panel.
6. Brush Pearlescent Sky Blue Brilliance ink over the stencil onto the background.
7. Repeat Steps #3 - #5 until the background is filled with clouds.
8. Clean and dry the stencil.
9. Heat set the background panel.
10. Reposition the stencil over some of the clouds and brush Angel Pink Memento Ink over the stencil and the blue sky to add hints of pink to the sky.
11. Heat Set the background panel.
12. Place the background panel onto the base of a stamping platform, secured with magnets.
13. Position the Silhouette Lady with Umbrella Rubber Stamp  facedown as desired on the background panel.
14. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
15. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink and stamp.
16. Re-ink and stamp again if necessary to attain a good impression.
17. Remove the panel from the stamping platform and heat set.
18. Cut Raven cardstock with the sentiment word dies.
19. Adhere the sentiment dies to the image panel.
20. Trim the image panel to 4.625" x 6.625", edge with Pearlescent Blue Brilliance ink, and heat set.
21. Mat the image panel with black cardstock, cut to 4.75" x 6.75".
22. Adhere the matted image panel to the reserved 5" x 7" white card.

 Remember that you have until the end of the month to participate in the challenge! I hope to see you there! 

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Hugs and Kisses

Greetings! Here's my weekly project for Topflight Stamps. While I was away on vacation, the lovely Ericka filled in for me on Tuesday. This week my teammates and I are focusing on Katzelkraft's wonderful stamps. When I saw the Snakes KTZ315 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set, I immediately thought "HISS!", which meant it would work wonderfully with all my Katzelkraft cat stamps. I decided to use a smaller cat from the Cats on Books KTZ295 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set for this card.

Here's my card!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Snakes KTZ315 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft

Cats on Books KTZ295 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft

More Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle

Ink Drops - Candy 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium

Della Blue, Confetti, and Graphite Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Raven Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Copic Markers:
Snake; Y11, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, RV62, RV93

Snake's Eyes: YG0000, YG00, YG01, YG05

Cat: BV20, BV23, T0, T1, T3, T5

Cat's Eyes: Y11, Y21, Y23, Y26, FY1

Grass: YG03, YG05, YG07, YG09, YG11, YG93

Border Die-namics Dies by My Favorite Things

Ribbon Slide Dieby Elizabeth Craft Designs

Tiny Rectangle Paper Shaper Punch by EK Success

Repositionable Sticker Paper

Post-It Notes

Low-Tack Tape

91% Isopropyl Alcohol

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Stamping Platforms

Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of Raven (black) cardstock to 5.5" x 8.5". Score at 4.25" and fold to form an A2 card. Set aside.
2. Using a stamping platform, position the upside-down cat from the Cats on Books KTZ295 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set facedown on the right side of an image panel.
3. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
4. Place a Post-It Note over the book pile, ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, remove the Post-It Note and stamp him onto the image panel.
5. Ink the cat stamp again and stamp onto repositionable sticker paper.
6. Fussy-cut the sticker paper cat and place over its counterpart on the image panel.
7. Position the knotted snake from the Snakes KTZ315 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set facedown to the left of the masked cat.
8. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the Snake stamp and lift.
9. Ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp twice — once onto the image panel andonce onto repositionable sticker paper.
10. Fussy-cut the sticker paper snake and place over his counterpart on the image panel.
11. Place the image panel onto the STAY-tion.
12. Use low-tack tape to cover the bottom of the image panel.
13. Brush Della Blue and Confetti Elements Inks over the tape and the masked images to create a sky. 
14. Spray 91% Isopropyl Alcohol over the inked sky to blend and mottle the background.
15. Lift the masks.
16. Use Copic markers to color he snake, cat, and grass
17. Trim the image panel, edge it with Graphite Elements Ink, and adhere to black cardstock cut .25" larger than the image panel.
18. Place the inked cardstock left over from trimming the image panel onto a stamping platform.
19. Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the "hugs and kisses" from sentiment More Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set .
20. Stamp an extra "hugs" onto plain white cardstock. 
21. Use the tiny rectangle punch to cut the "h" from "hugs".
22. Trim the width of the rectangle and use a yellow Copic to edge the rectangle.
23. Use the Ribbon Slide Die to cut the sentiment panel. 
24. Edge the die-cut with Graphite Elements Ink.
25. Adhere the "h" rectangle over the "k" in "kisses" to change it to "hisses".
26. Select patterned paper from the Ink Drops - Candy 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad, trim it to 5.25" x 4",  and edge it with Graphite Elements Ink. 
27. Adhere the image panel to the patterned paper card front as shown.
28. Use the stitched border dies to cut the same patterned paper and black cardstock. 
29. Adhere the black border die-cut to the top of the patterned paper card front.
30. Edge the patterned paper border with Graphite Elements Ink and thread it through the ribbon slide sentiment die-cut.
31. Adhere the patterned paper border/ribbon slide sentiment die-cut onto the black border. 
32. Adhere the cardfront to an A2 black card.

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Steampunk Skull "Thoughts" Notebook

I love Steampunk and I love skulls, so when I saw Stampendous!' new Steampunk Skull rubber stamp, I knew that I wanted to create something a bit more permanent than a card with it.

Here's my decorated spiral notebook.

Stampendous!® Products Used:

Steampunk Skull Rubber Stamp

Cling Clock Collage 6x6 Rubber Stamp

Cling Crackle 6x6 Rubber Stamp

Aged Silver, Bronze and Teal Frantage Embossing Enamels

VersaMark™ Ink by Tsukineko®

VersaMarker™ Pen by Tsukineko®

Tuxedo Black Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Mixed Media White Paper

Splotches and Diamond Plate sides of the Quest Texture Cube* -- You can still find this stamp online.

Other Products Used:

Spiral Notebook from Staples.

Copic® Markers:

   Skull (bone) W1, E40, E41, E42, E43

   Skullcap (metal) C0, C1, C2, C4

   Brass Bits: Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

   Light bulb: Y08, Y35, FY1

   Tubes: BG72, BG75, BG78

Cosmic Copper and Starlite Black Brilliance Ink Pads by Tsukineko®

Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Black Media® Gesso by DecoArt®

Chain Die by Elizabeth Crafts

Frame Chain Die by The Scrap Man

Roxy Mini and Roxy Mini Shadow Dies by QuicKutz

Turquoise Stardust® Glitter Gel Pen by Sakura

Black Dimensional Foam Squares by Scrapbook Adhesives® by 3L

Instructions:

1. Use Tuxedo Black Memento ink to stamp the Steampunk Skull.
2. Fussy-cut and edge with a dark marker.
3. Color with Copic markers. 
4. Add a dot of Turquoise Glitter Gel pen to one of the teeth. Set aside.
5. Spread the metal spiral binding of the notebook apart and pull out the front and back covers.
6. Use Black Media Gesso to paint both sides of both covers. Set aside to dry. Then blast with the heat gun to make sure the gesso is totally dry. If it blisters a bit, it's cool. It'll just add to the texture.
7. Place the Clock Collage stamp rubber side up on your work surface. Ink the stamp with the Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair ink and press the front cover onto the stamp. Carefully smooth your hands over the cover to get a good impression. 
8. Remove the cover from the stamp, flip over, sprinkle on Teal Frantage Embossing Enamel, dump the excess, and heat set. 
9. Ink the diamond plate part of the Quest Texture stamp with VersaMark ink and stamp the clear areas of the notebook.
10. Sprinkle Aged Silver and/or Bronze Embossing Powder onto the wet ink, dump the excess, and heat set.
11. Repeat step 10 as needed to completely the coverage. 
12. Use a VersaMarker to add dots and dashes to any open areas of the cover and heat emboss with any of the three colors of embossing enamel.
13. Use Roxy Mini and Roxy Mini Shadow to cut black cardstock for the title.
14. Repeat step #13 three times, then glue three levels of each letter together to make it dimensional. Let them dry.
15. When the letters are dry, press each Roxy Mini letter onto the VersaMark pad, put the letter into the Aged Bronze Frantage Embossing Enamel Jar, shake off the excess, and heat set.
16. Press each Roxy Mini Shadow letter onto the VersaMark pad, put the letter into the Aged Silver Frantage Embossing Enamel Jar, shake off the excess, and heat set.
17. Use glue to adhere each Bronze-embossed Roxy Mini Letter to each Silver-embossed Roxy Mini Shadow letter. Let dry.
18. When dry, use strong glue or heavy duty gel medium to adhere the title letters as shown.
19. Using the Frame Chain Circle die, cut black cardstock three times, then use glue to adhere to create a dimensional Frame Chain Circle. Let dry.
20. Using the Chain die, cut black cardstock three times, then use glue to adhere the layers together. Let dry.
21. When both the Frame Chain Circle and Chain die-cuts are dry, press them into a VersaMark pad, then sprinkle with the Aged Brass Frantage embossing enamel. Dump off the excess and heat set.
22. Use foam adhesive squares and glue to adhere the Steampunk Skull to the Frame Chain Circle, then adhere to the front of the notebook as shown.
23. Use glue to adhere to chain to bottom of the notebook as shown. Let dry, preferably overnight.
24. Place the Cling Crackle 6x6 Stamp face up on your work surface. ink the stamp with the Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair ink and press the back cover onto the stamp. Carefully smooth your hands over the cover to get a good impression. 
25. Remove the cover from the stamp, flip over, sprinkle on Teal Frantage Embossing Enamel, dump the excess, and heat set. 
26. Repeat Steps 9-12 to complete the back cover.
27. Replace the covers to the notebook and close the spiral binding.

The Frantage Embossing Enamels added such great texture and shine. I really wish you could see it up close!

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