Fiesta!

It's Topflight Stamps Tuesday, an "Anything Goes" week, and it's Cinco de Mayo! Here's a festive card created with the llama and sombrero from theZinski Art 59 Rubber Cling Mounted Stamp Set by Elena Zinski for PaperArtsy. The llama was feeling parched in the desert and he wanted to celebrate, so I supplied him with a margarita made with the cocktail from the ENB06 Rubber Cling Mounted Stamp Set by Nicci Battilana for PaperArtsy.

Here's the card.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:
Zinski Art 59 Rubber Cling Mounted Stamp Set by Elena Zinski for PaperArtsy

ENB06 Rubber Cling Mounted Stamp Set by Nicci Battilana for PaperArtsy

Crea-Nest-Lies XXL Double Stitched Rectangle Die Set by CREAlies

Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil by Carla Creates/Vaessen Creative

Regency Bunting Die Set 44 by AALL and Create

Bold Stardust Clear Glittering Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Caribbean Sea Textured Cardstock by My Colors

Copic Markers:

Llama: BV000, E71, E70, E57, E43, E42, E41, E40, E31, E30

Sombrero: E57, E43, E42, E41, BG49, BG43, B29, B18, R46, R35

Socks: B29, B18, BG23, BG13

Saddle: B29, B18, B23, BG13, R46, R35, YG23, YG21

Sunglasses: YG25, YG23, YG21, N6, N5

Necklace: B2i, B18, R47, R35, R32

Margarita: B60, B29, B18, R47, R35, R32, BG23, BG13, BG11

Stirrer and Skulls: E41, E40, W1

Bunting: B18, BG23, R35, B29, BG49, YG23

Desert Sand, Summer Sky, Angel Pink Memento Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Beetle Black Party Mix Rub-ons by Doodlebug Designs

Bakery Twine from Ye Olde Stash

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Low-tack Tape

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create a 5" x 7" card from Caribbean Sea cardstock. Set aside.
2. Using a stamping platform, place the llama stamp from the Zinski Art 59 Rubber Cling Mounted Stamp Set facedown on a piece of white cardstock.
3. Place the sombrero stamp from the same set facedown atop his head. 
4. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the sombrero stamp and lift. Remove the llama stamp from the platform.
5. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
6. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to ink the sombrero stamp and then stamp it twice — once onto the the white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
7. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it onto its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.
8. Position the llama stamp so his head (ears mostly) are on top of the sombrero mask. 
9. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
10. Ink the llama stamp with  Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp it twice — once onto the image panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
11. Position the cocktail stamp from the ENB06 Rubber Cling Mounted Stamp Set facedown on the left of the llama. 
12. Ink the stamp with  Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp twice —once onto the image panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
13. Remove the mask from the sombrero and place it onto a piece of acetate to keep it sticky so you can re-use it later.
14. Color the images with Copic markers. 
15. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of the llama and the cocktail. 
16. Place the sticker paper versions of all three images atop their counterparts as masks. 
17. Cut the image panel with the largest die from the Crea-Nest-Lies XXL Double Stitched Rectangle Die Sets. 
18. Place the image panel die-cut onto a magnetic craft mat and secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
19. If you have the Acetate Hills Mask/Stencil Set  (I misplaced mine), place a one of the masks horizontally across the image panel level with the llama's legs and secure with tape and/or magnets.  Alternately, place a piece of acetate onto a cutting mat. Place a metal wavy ruler atop the acetate and cut along the edge of the ruler to create homemade masks. 
20. Place the Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil towards the top of the image panel. 
21. Brush or sponge Summer Sky Memento Ink over the top of the stencil onto the image panel die-cut to start to create a cloudy sky. 
22. Keeping the stencil in place, lightly brush or sponge Angel Pink over the the top of the stencil onto the image panel die-cut to add a slightly purply/pink tinge to the sky.
23. Rotate the Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil and move it downward on the image panel. 
24. Brush both colors of dye ink over the top of the stencil. 
25. Continue to rotate, flip, move the stencil, and apply ink until your cloudy sky is complete.
26. Cover the sky part of the image panel to protect it. 
27. Place another mask/stencil from the Acetate Hills Mask/Stencil Set horizontally across the image panel die-cut about 1" from the bottom. 
28. Brush or sponge Desert Sand Memento Ink over the bottom of the stencil onto the die-cut image panel to create the desert sand. 
29. Move the stencil/mask up and continue to apply Desert Sand Dye Ink over the bottom of the stencil/mask onto the image panel. 
30. Unmask all of the stamped elements. 
31. Use a Bold Stardust Clear Glittering Gelly Roll Gel Pen to add a glittery salt rim to the cocktail glass. 
32. Use a White Gelly Roll Gel Pen to add highlights to the cocktail glass and the llama's sunglasses. 
33. Use a E43 Copic marker to ground the cocktail glass and the llama on the desert.
34. Use the small dies from the Regency Bunting Die Set 44 to cut six white cardstock flags.
35. Color the flags with Copic markers. 
36. Use alphabet rub-ons to add the letters to the flags. 
37. String the sentiment bunting together with black and white baker's twine and adhere/attach the bunting to the top of the image panel die-cut.
38. Adhere the image panel die-cut to the reserved Caribbean Sea card.
39. Trim the card so that there's a 1/8" border around the image panel die-cut.

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Celebrate!

Greetings! It's Topflight Stamps Tuesday, an "Anything Goes" theme this week, and St. Patrick's Day. 

PSA: Topflight Stamps is running a St. Patrick's Day Flash Sale! Pop on over to indulge your wish list! There are lots of great new and old products available. But you'd better hurry! 

Here's my card!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:
Sticker Stencils 6 - Bottle Collection by Lavinia Stamps

Mini Hills Masks - Stencils by Lavinia Stamps

3 Dancing Fairies Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps

Bubbling Cauldron Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps

Mini Lucky Clover Clear Polymer Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Della Blue, Olive, Pine, Green Parrot, and Lime Punch Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil by Carla Creaties/Vaessen Creative

Grass Green, Green Oasis, and Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle

Sparkle Clear Overlay Brush Pens by Spectrum Noir

Other Products Used:

Bristol Paper by Strathmore

Rainbow Die: Source Unknown

Copic Markers: R14, YR04, Y08, G03, B06, B28, V09

5 x 7 Card Creators Die Set by Spellbinders

Nameplates Die Set by Sizzix

Gold Posca Paint Pen by Mitsubishi Pencil

Gold Stardust Glitter Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

White, Black, Grass Green, Emerald Green, and Moss Green Chalk Pencils by Generals

Anti-static Pouch

Clear Detail Embossing Powder by Stampendous

Repositionable Sticker Paper

Low-tack Tape

Shimmery Gold Epoxy Stickers by Gina Marie Designs

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Place the outside part of the Sticker Stencils 6 - Bottle Collection onto a piece of Bristol paper so that the bottle shaped aperture is in the center of the paper. 
2. Place one of the Mini Hills Masks - Stencils across the bottom of the bottle.
3. Temporarily place the cauldron stamp from the Bubbling Cauldron Clear Polymer Stamp Set so that it's sitting on the Mini Hills Mask. 
4. Use a rainbow cutting die to cut repositionable sticker paper, then place the rainbow sticker so that it's adhered to the Sticker Stencil 6 and will end in the cauldron. 
5. Remove the cauldron stamp.  
6. Brush Della Blue Elements Ink from the edges of the stencil's bottle aperture in the stencil towards the center. Concentrate the ink so that it's heaviest around the outlines of the bottle.
7. Trace the Mini Hills Masks - Stencil onto cardstock and fussy-cut along the tracing lines to create a negative area of the mask. Label the two sections so you know the top and the bottom. 
8. Place the top portion over the blue-inked area. 
9. Brush Green Parrot and Lime Punch Elements Inks over the paper mask and the Sticker Stencil to create a grassy hill.
10. Use magnets and/or low-tack tape to secure the image panel to the base of a stamping platform being sure to keep the Sticker Stencil and the rainbow mask in place.
11. Position the cauldron stamp from the Bubbling Cauldron Clear Polymer Stamp Set facedown on the hill. 
12. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the Cauldron stamp and lift.
13. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink  and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression.
14. Position the fairies from the 3 Dancing Fairies Clear Polymer Stamp Set facedown in the bottle's sky area.
15.  Press the platform's lid onto the back of the 3 Dancing Fairies stampd and lift.
16. Ink the stamps with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink  and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression.
17. Remove the rainbow mask and color the rainbow with Copic markers. 
18. Use a gold Posca Paint Pen and a gold Stardust Glitter Gelly Roll Gel pen to create the pot o'gold. 
19. Use Sparkle Clear Overlay Brush Pens to add some sparkle to the fairies' wings. 
20. Remove the Sticker Stencil and place it back on its carrier sheet.
21. Heat set the image panel. 
22. Secure the image panel onto a magnetic craft mat. 
23. Place the bottle sticker mask from the Sticker Stencil used previously over the stamped and colored bottle.
24.  Place the same Mini Hills Masks - Stencil used previously to cover the bottom of the image panel.
25. Place the Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil  Creative towards the top part of the image panel. 
26. Brush Della Blue Elements Ink over the top of the stencil onto the image panel. 
27. Rotate the stencil and move it downwards and brush Della Blue Elements Ink over the top of the stencil. 
28. Repeat Steps 26 and 27 until you have a cloudy sky.
29. Place the home-made mask (previously used on Steps 8 - 10) over the sky area of the image panel. 
30. Brush Olive Elements Ink over the stencil onto the image panel.
31. Brush Pine, Green Parrot, and Lime Punch Elements Inks to fill in the grassy area of the image panel. 
32. Tear a piece of scrap cardstock, place it onto the grassy area, then brush Olive Elements Ink over the torn cardstock to create shading and detail.
33. Use a white chalk pencil to add highlights to the bottle and to the cauldron. 
34. Use green chalk pencils to add shading to the grassy areas. 
35. Set the image panel aside.
36. Cut a piece of Bristol paper to 5.25" x 8.25". 
37. Center a rectangular cutting die from the 5" x 7" Card Creator Die Set facedown on the paper, secure with low-tack tape, and run the combination through your die-cut machine to create a frame.
38. Brush Pine, Green Parrot, and Lime Punch Elements Inks over the frame and heat set. 
39. Randomly stamp the Mini Lucky Clover Clear Polymer Stamp onto the frame using Grass Green, then Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Inks. 
40. Add second generation stamping with both greens to fill the frame. 
41. Edge the interior and exterior of the frame with Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Ink and heat set the frame. 
42. Splatter gold acrylic paint from a Gold Posca Paint Pen over the frame.
43. Adhere the frame over the image panel.
44. Brush a small scrap of Bristol paper with Green Parrot and Lime Punch Elements Inks. Heat set. 
45. Pounce an anti-static pouch onto the piece of cardstock. 
46. Place the inked scrap of Bristol paper onto the base of a stamping platform and secure it with magnets. 
47. Place the "Celebrate" stamp from the Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set facedown on the inked scrap.
48. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the sentiment stamp and lift.
49. Ink the sentiment with Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Ink. 
50. Pour clear detail embossing powder onto the wet ink, pour the excess powder back into its container, and heat set. 
51. Use a cutting die to cut the sentiment. 
52. Ink another piece of Bristol paper with Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Ink, heat set it, cut with the matching cutting die, and use it to mat the sentiment die-cut.
53. Adhere the complete sentiment nameplate to the bottom as shown.
54. Create a 5.5" x 8.5" card from white cardstock. 
55. Sponge Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Ink around the outer .5" of the card. Heat set.
56. Adhere the framed image panel to the card. 
57. Add gold epoxy stickers to the nameplate to finish the card.

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Meerry Christmas

It's Topflight Stamps Tuesday! Before I get to today's post, I'd like to remind you that there's a CYBER MONDAY SALE at Topflight Stamps that ends tonight at 11:59 EST.

This week's theme is Anything Goes. Apparently I've been feeling the holiday spirit so I've created yet another holiday card this time using stamps from companies that are no longer in business. Thankfully, products from Hobby Art, Craft Emotions,  Katzelkraft, and others are still in stock at Topflight Stamps and it's the perfect time to get them for yourself or as a gift. 

Here it is!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:
Meerkat Madness Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Hobby Art

Hedgy 4 Clear Stamp Set* by Craft Emotions

Funny Accessories Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set* by Katzelkraft

A Christmas Gingham 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad by Creative Expressions

Sun and Cloud Stencil by Carla Creates

Della Blue and Emperor Red Elements Ink by Lavinia Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Lava Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Copic Markers: E89, E77, E74, E71, E70, E49, E39, E37, E33, E31, E30, Y11, R27, R17,  B60, B000, RV000, C1, C0, C00

Outlines: B41, T2, T1

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

Fishtail Flag Stax Die-Namics Die Set by My Favorite Things

Merry Christmas Sentiment Die by All Occasion Dies
Layered Poinsettia Shapeabilities Die Set by Spellbinders

Toffee Crunch and Desert Sand Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Golden Glitz Delicata Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsuineko

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Low-tack Tape

Removable Scotch Tape by 3M

Gold Enamel Dots by Gina Marie Designs

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Note: I used the Hedgy 4 Clear Stamp Set* by Craft Emotions, but it's no longer in stock. The  Funny Accessories Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set* by Katzelkraft has a Santa Hat that would work, plus it's got a lot of wonderful and fun stamps (other hats, a stack of gifts, a scooter, etc.) so you should get it while it's on sale and still available!

Instructions:

1. Create a 5" x 7" card from Lava cardstock and set it aside.
2. Place a piece of white cardstock onto the base of a stamping platform, secured with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
3. Position a Santa Hat so that it's facedown and centered towards the top of a panel of white cardstock. 
4. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the Santa hat stamp and lift.
5. Ink the Santa Hat with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and stamp the Santa Hat twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
6. Fussy-cut the sticker paper and position it atop its counterpart as a mask.
7. Position one of the meerkat stamps from the Meerkat Madness Clear Polymer Stamp Set facedown on the image panel so that top of his head is on the mask.
8. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the Santa hat stamp and lift.
9. Ink the Meerkat stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento Inkt and stamp twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
10. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and set it aside. 
11. Carefully remove the Santa Hat mask and set it aside.
12. Use Copic markers to color the Meerkat and his Santa Hat. 
13. Use a B41, T2, and T1 Copic markers to outline both images. 
14. Place both masks over their counterparts on the image panel. 
15. Use a long fishtail flag die to cut the image panel and a larger one to cut Lava cardstock.
16. Place the image panel die-cut onto a magnetic surface and secure with magnets.
17. Place a piece of removable Scotch Tape horizontally across the the Meerkat's feet and tail. 
18. Position the Sun and Cloud Stencil towards the top of the image panel die-cut. 
19. Brush or sponge Della Blue Elements Ink over the top of the stencil onto the image panel die-cut. 
20. Rotate the stencil and move it downwards. 
21. Brush or sponge Della Blue Elements Ink over the top of the stencil onto the image panel die-cut. 
22. Repeat Steps 20 and 21 until you're happy with the cloudy background.
23. Move the Scotch Tape so that the bottom of the tape is sitting on the horizon line. 
24. Brush Toffee Crunch Memento Ink over the tape and the masked Meerkat's feet and tail. 
25. Brush a Desert Sand Memento Ink to fill in the rest of the bottom of the image panel die-cut. 
26. Trim the flags off of the bottom of the image panel die-cut and the red (Lava) cardstock die-cut. 
27. Use the red cardstock die-cut to mat the image panel. 
28. Edge it with Golden Glitz Delicata ink.
29. Trim one of the plaid papers from the A Christmas Gingham 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad to 4.75" x 6.75" to create the background panel. 
30. Use Emperor Red Elements Ink to edge the patterned paper, then edge it again with Golden Glitz Delicata Ink.
31. Use the "Merry "Christmas" cutting die to cut Lava cardstock twice. 
32. Adhere "Christmas" to the top of the background panel. 
33. Cut "Me" from one of the two "Merry" die-cuts and adhere it to the top of the background panel. 
34. Cut "erry" from the other "Merry" die-cut and adhere it to the background panel to finish the word "Meerry". 
35. Adhere the background panel to a 5" x 7" red card.
36. Adhere the matted image panel to the right side of the background panel as shown.
37. Use a poinsettia die-cut set to cut Lava cardstock. 
38. Edge all the die-cuts with gold shimmery ink, then assemble the three three-layered poinsettias.
39. Add gold enamel dots to the center of each poinsettia.
40. Adhere the three poinsettias to the left side of the background panel to finish the card.

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Walk Your Path Outdoors Encouragement Card

Greetings! It's Topflight Stamps Tuesday on my blog! This week's theme is "Outdoors". I recently received the new Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set by Stamperia, which combines two of my favorite subjects — Steampunk and Gnomes. The stamp set is perfect for the theme and the Steampunk elements by Lavinia Stamps add a fun whimsical touch to the scene.

Here's my card created with Stamperia's Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set, plus the Clock Set 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp Set, the Compass Small Clear Acrylic Stamp, and the Textures 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp by Textures 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp. I also used the Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil by Carla Creates for Vaessen Creative, Della Blue, Lime Punch, and Pine Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps, and sentiment stickers from the Uplifting Stickers Set 6.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set by Stamperia

Clock Set 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps

Compass Small Clear Acrylic Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Textures 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Della Blue, Lime Punch, and Pine Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil by Carla Creates for Vaessen Creative

Uplifting Stickers Set 6 by Lavinia Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:
Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Textured Blue Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

White Heavy Weight Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Copic Markers: 

 Skin: BV0000, E50, E21, E11, E00, E000

 Cheeks: R22

 Beard: C3, C2, C1, C0

 Clothing: B97, B93; YG95, YG93

 Hat, Gears, and Goggles:  R24, R22, T3, T1, Y28, Y26, BG72, BG70

 Boots and Backpack: E77, E74, E71, N6, N4

 Sun: Y115, Y13, Y11

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

Fossilized Amber Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Sentiment Dies by Spellbinders

Hilly Border Dies: Source Unknown

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Low-tack Tape

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create a 7" x 5" card from heavy white cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the walking gnome from the Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set onto white cardstock.
3. Fussy-cut the image, color with Copic markers, edge with a dark marker, and set him aside.
4. Use Fossilized Amber Distress Ink to stamp the clock with the roman numerals from the Clock Set 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp Set twice — once onto a piece of white cardstock cut to 6 ¾"  x 4 ¾" and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
5. Use yellow Copic markers to color the Clock image to become the sun. 
6. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel as mask. This Clock image will become the sun in our scene.
7. Place the cardstock panel onto the STAY-tion and secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
8. Place the Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil towards the top of the image panel. Brush or sponge Della Blue Elements Ink over the top of the stencil onto the masked image panel to start to create a cloudy blue sky. 
9. Move the stencil downwards, rotate it, and brush or sponge Della Blue Elements Ink onto the image panel. Continue this process until the panel is complete. Edge the panel with Della Blue Elements Ink.
10. Cut another piece of white cardstock to 6 ¾" wide. 
11. Brush or sponge  Lime Punch  Elements Ink onto the white cardstock to color it. 
12. Use hilly border dies to cut the inked paper so that you end up with four green hilly die-cuts. 
13. Use Pine Elements Ink to randomly stamp the grid pattern from the Gnome Hidden Grove A5 Clear Stamp Set onto the largest and smallest hill die-cuts.*
14. Use Pine Elements Ink to stamp the Compass Small  twice — once onto the mid-sized hill die-cut and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
15. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart.
16. Use Pine Elements Ink to randomly stamp the Textures 1 Clear Acrylic Stamp  onto the masked mid-sized hill die-cut.
17. Remove the Compass mask. 
18. Layer and adhere the hill die-cuts onto the bottom part of the cloudy sky background panel as shown. 
19. Trim ⅛" off the width and height of the scenic background, edge the hill area with Pine Elements Ink and the sky area with Della Blue Elements Ink, then mat it with a piece of  6 ¾"  x 4 ¾" blue cardstock. 
20. Adhere the layered and matted scenic background onto the reserved white 7" x 5" card.
21. Use a sentiment strip die to cut blue cardstock three times. 
22. Adhere white sentiment stickers from the Uplifting Stickers Set 6 by Lavinia Stamps onto the blue die-cuts.
23. Adhere the fussy-cut gnome onto the scene as shown. 
24. Adhere the sentiment sticker/die-cuts to finish the card.

Notes:

• Clear stamps will stick to the palm of your hand for enough time to ink, stamp, re-ink, and stamp again multiple times. You don't achieve a perfect impression, which helps to create texture and visual interest.
• I probably should have done an extra set of border die-cuts so that the compass stamp could have been placed on a different hill and not almost directly below the sun. Alas.

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Good Friends...

Greetings! It's Tuesday so it's time to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. It's an "Anything Goes" theme this week so I made a friendship card with the Cat and Mouse SOLO177  Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp by Katzelkraft, Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil by Carla Creates for Vaessen Creative, CREA-Nest-Lies XXL Double Stitched Rectangles Die Set by CREAlies, AALL and Create's Sharp Tongues Ephemera Die-cuts 4, Laugh Lines Ephermera Die-Cuts 47, and Della Blue Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps.

PSA: Before I get to my card, I'd like to let you know that whereas Katzelkraft has closed, Topflight Stamps has a lot of their stamps in stock!

Here's the card!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Cat and Mouse SOLO177 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp by Katzelkraft

Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil by Carla Creates for Vaessen Creative 

Sharp Tongues Ephemera Die-cuts 4 by AALL and Create

Laugh Lines Ephemera Die-Cuts 47 by AALL and Create

Della Blue Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:
Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

White Heavyweight Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Grey Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Copic Markers:

 Mouse: E44, E33, E31, E30, W1, W0, R02, R01, R00, R000, RV91, YR 31, YR23

 Cat: C5, C4, C3, C2, C1, C), RV91, R000, G40, G20,  YG00

 Grass: YG17, YG13, YG05, YG03

Repositionable Sticker Paper

Low-tack Tape

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create an A6 card from heavy white cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Inkto stamp the Cat and Mouse SOLO177 Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
3. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it over its counterpart on the image panel.
4. Place low-tack tape following the grass line. 
5. Cover both sides of the sun and moon apertures on the Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stenciwith low-tack tape. 
6. Place the Sun and Clouds 6x6 Stencil towards the top of the image panel.
7. Sponge or brush Della Blue Elements Ink over the top of the stencil onto the image panel. 
8. Rotate the stencil and move it downwards. 
9. Sponge or brush the ink over the stencil again. 
10. Repeat this process until the cloudy sky fills the panel up to the grass line.
11. Remove the stencil, the masks over the Cat and Mouse, and the low-tack tape.
12. Use Copic markers to color the mouse, cat, and the grass.
13. Use the third largest die from the CREA-Nest-Lies XXL Double Stitched Rectangles Die Set to cut the image panel. 
14. Edge the top (sky) portion of the image panel die-cut with Della Blue Elements Ink. Use a green marker to edge the grass part of the image panel die-cut.
15. Use the second largest die from the  CREA-Nest-Lies XXL Double Stitched Rectangles Die Set to cut grey textured cardstock and use to mat the image panel die-cut. 
16. Adhere the matted image panel onto the reserved white A6 card.
17. Choose sentiments from the Sharp Tongues Ephemera Die-cuts 4 and Laugh Lines Ephermera Die-Cuts 47 and edge them with Della Blue Elements Ink which will cover the brown laser-burnt edges.
18. Adhere the sentiment die-cuts to finish the card.

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Are You Kidding Me? -- Bat Boy and Friends

 Greetings! It's the last day of May and I'm squeaking in with my third card for May's Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Are You Kidding Me? Challenge 197 created with Bat Boy (my name for him) from Lost Coast Designs' new Cartoon Kids Rubber Stamp Set.

Products Used:

Cartoon Kids Rubber Stamp Set by  Lost Coast Designs

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Raven Black Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Blue Lagoon,  Dark Denim, and Graphite Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps
Nocturne VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Copic Markers: BV17, BV13, BV11, BV04, BV02, BV01, BV00, RV55, RV52, B21, <B21

Black Stardust Glitter Pen by Sakura

Black Pigma Pen by Sakura

Sun and Cloud Stencil by Carla Creates for Vaessen Creative

Bats Dinky Stencil by That's Crafty

Texture Sprinkle Dots by Memory Box

Small Talk idea-ology Stickers by Tim Holtz for Advantus

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Low-tack tape

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create a 3.5" x 5" card from Raven cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Bat Boy onto white cardstock. 
3. Fussy-cut him, color him with Copic markers, then edge him with a black marker. 
4. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to his eyes. Set him aside.
5. Place a panel of white cardstock onto the STAY-tion.
6. Use low-tack tape to cover the sun and the clouds in the center of the Sun and Cloud Stencil.
7. Place the Sun and Cloud Stencil towards the top of the panel.
8. Sponge or brush Blue Lagoon,  Dark Denim, and Graphite Elements Ink over the top of the stencil onto the white cardstock.
9. Rotate the stencil and move it downwards.
10. Brush the same inks over the top of the stencil onto the cardstock panel.
11. Repeat Steps 8 and 9 until the panel has become a cloudy night sky background panel..
12. Cover the larger bats on the top of the Dinky Bats stencil with low-tack tape.
13. Position the bottom part of the Dinky Bats stencil onto the top right of the cloudy sky background panel. 
14. Sponge Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink over the stencil onto the background panel.
15. Clean and dry the stencil.
16. Move the Dinky Bat stencil down to the left side of the background panel. 
17. Sponge Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink over the stencil onto the background panel.
18. Clean and dry the stencil.
19. Move the Dinky Bat stencil down and to the right side of the background panel. 
20. Sponge Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink over the stencil onto the background panel.
21. You should now have three sets of bats who are Bat Boy's friends.
22. Sponge black ink over a dot patterned stencil to add flight trails to the sky. 
23. Use a black glitter pen to add glittery accents to the dots.
24. Adhere Bat Boy as shown.
25. Edge the background panel with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and adhere to the reserved black card. 
26. Adhere the Small Talk Sticker to finish the card.

You still have a bit of time to join May's Are You Kidding Me? Challenge 197 for a chance to win Lost Coast Ca$h!