Happy Cat with Hearts

Here's a card for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's February Love and Hearts Challenge 206 created with the Happy Cat Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Products Used:

Happy Cat Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Thunder Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Smitten Kitten Patterned Paper by Doodlebug Designs

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Peacock Feathers, Fossilized Amber, and Black Soot Distress Inks by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Copic Markers: N6, N6, N4, N2, C0, C00, RV93, RV91, BG000, Y32

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

A6 Layers and Additional A6 Layers Die Sets by Waffle Flower Stamps and Dies

Scalloped Border Die by Stampendous

Low-tack Tape

Acetate

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create an A2 card from a piece of Thunder Textured cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Happy Cat twice — once onto a piece of white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
3. Use Copic markers to color the cat. 
4. Fussy-cut the Happy Cat stamped onto the sticker paper and place him over his counterpart on the image panel as a mask.
5. Place a piece of acetate horizontally across the image panel at his paw/tail level, covering the top part of the image panel. 
6. Brush Peacock Feathers Distress Ink over the acetate and the masked cat onto the bottom of the image panel to ground the cat.
7. Move the acetate panel so that it's sitting at the top of the inked area. 
8. Brush Fossilized Amer Distress Ink over the top of the over the acetate and the masked cat onto the top of the image panel to add a bright cheerful background behind the cat.
9. Use a rectangle die from the A6 Layers and Additional A6 Layers Die Sets to cut the image panel. 
10. Use a slightly larger rectangle die to cut polka-dot patterned paper and use it to mat the image panel die-cut. Set aside.
11. Cut a piece of striped paper to 4.25" x 5.25". 
12. Cut a piece of heart patterned paper to 4.25" x 4". 
13. Use a scalloped border die to cut striped patterned paper. 
14. Cut a thin strip of black/polka dot patterned paper. 
15. Adhere the heart patterned paper to the top of the striped paper panel. 
16. Adhere the border strip to the top edge of the layered papers. 
17. Adhere the polka dot strip to the top striped patterned paper at the bottom of the card. 
18. Trim the layered patterned paper to 4" wide and edge with black ink. 
19. Adhere the patterned paper panel to the reserved grey A2 card. 
20. Adhere the matted image panel die-cut to finish the card.

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A Valentine's Day Card

 It's Topflight Stamps Tuesday! This week's team focus is Valentine's Day. 

Here's my card created with Lavinia Stamps' Background Script with Hearts Clear Polymer Stamp, their Heart Small Clear Polymer Stamp, their Texture 2 Clear Polymer Stamp, their Heartfelt Verses Clear Polymer Stamp Set, Spun Candy, Pink Elephant, Confetti, and Emperor Red Elements Inks. I also used the Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle, Nocturne and Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko, and the Glitz Spritz Spray Set by Lindy's Gang.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Background Script with Hearts Clear Polymer Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Heart Small Clear Polymer Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Texture 2 Clear Polymer Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Heartfelt Verses Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps

Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle

Spun Candy, Pink Elephant, Confetti, and Emperor Red Elements Inks by Lavinia Stamps

Nocturne and Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Glitz Spritz Spray Set by Lindy's Gang

Fine Spray Misters by Spectrum Noir

Other Products Used:

140 lb. Mixed Media Paper by Strathmore

Ruby Slippers Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Black Metallic Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Red Berry Glitter Brush Pen by Spectrum Noir

A6 Layers Die Sets by Waffle Flower Crafts

Flag Die-namics Die Set by My Favorite Things

Small Flag Die: Source Unknown

Tiny Gear Die by Memory Box

VersaMark Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Clear Detail Embossing Powder by Stampendous

Black Pigma Pen by Sakura

Fine Tip Niji Waterbrush by Yasutomo

Red Gemstones by Recollections

Low-tack Tape

Post-It Notes

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create an A6 card from Ruby Slippers Textured Cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use a blending brush to apply Spun Candy Elements Ink to a 9" x 6" panel of Mixed Media paper. When there's no more ink on the brush, lightly brush Pink Elephant Elements Ink around the edges towards the center of the panel, blending as you go. Finish the ink application by brushing Confetti Elements Ink overtop. 
3. Use a Fine Spray Mister to mist with water which will add mottling and spotting to the panel, then heat set. 
4. Cut the panel in half to yield two 4.5" x 6" panels.
5. Place one of the inked panels onto the base of a stamping platform and secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape. 
6. Place the Background Script with Hearts Clear Polymer Stamp facedown in the center of the panel. 
7. Ink the stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression. 
8. Remove the stamped background panel from the platform and heat set.
9. Cut the remaining 4.5" x 6" panel to yield a 2.5" x 6" panel and a 2" x 6" panel.
10. Secure the 2.5" wide panel to the base of the stamping platform. 
11. Place the Heart Small Clear Polymer Stamp facedown on the top of the panel.
12. Ink the Heart Small Clear Polymer Stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. 
13. Flip the panel 180°, ink the Heart Stamp again, and stamp. 
14. Remove the panel from the platform and heat set.
15. Secure the 2" wide panel to the base of the stamping platform. 
16. Place the Texture 2 Clear Polymer Stamp facedown on the panel.
17. Ink it with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink and stamp. 
18. Flip the panel 180°, ink the Texture 2 Stamp again, and stamp. 
19. Remove the panel and heat set. 
20. Place all four panels into a box. 
21. Lightly spray Brushed Nickel Glitz Spritz from the Glitz Spritz Spray Set onto all four panels. Heat set.
22. Smoosh the Emperor Red Elements Ink pad onto a craft mat. 
23. Use a waterbrush or small paintbrush to color the hearts on the stamped Background Script with Hearts panel. 
24. Use an A6 Rectangle Die to cut the panel, then edge it with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink. 
25. Secure the Background Script with Hearts panel die-cut to the base of a stamping platform. 
26. Place the "Happy Valentine's Day" sentiment stamp from the Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set facedown on the bottom of the panel as shown. 
27. Ink the stamp with VersaMark Ink and stamp. 
28. Ink the stamp with Emperor Red Elements Ink and stamp. 
29. Remove the die-cut from the stamping platform. 
30. Add clear detail embossing powder to the wet ink, dump the excess back into its container, and heat set.
31. Use a Flag Die to cut the 2" x 6" panel that was stamped with the Texture 2 Clear Polymer Stamp.
32. Edge the flag die-cut with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink and adhere the stamped flag to the Background Script with Hearts panel die-cut.
33. Fussy-cut both hearts and edge them with a black pen. 
34. Use a Red Berry Glitter Pen to add red to the hearts. 
35. Adhere the fussy-cut hearts to the flag die-cut as shown. 
36. Secure the leftover piece of inked Mixed Media paper onto the base of a stamping platform. 
37. Place the "With Love and Sympathy" sentiment stamp facedown onto the paper.
38. Lift the platform's lid. 
39. Cover the words "with" and "and Sympathy" with Post-It Notes. 
40. Ink the stamps with VersaMark ink, remove the Post-It Notes, and stamp the word "Love". 
41. Place the Post-It Notes back over the same words again. 
42. Ink the "Love" stamp with Emperor Red Elements Ink, and stamp. 
43. Remove the stamped piece from the stamping platform, add clear detail embossing powder to the wet ink, dump the excess back into its container, and heat set. 
44. Use a flag die to cut the sentiment, edge it with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink, and adhere it between the hearts on the cardfront as shown.
45. Use the small gear die to cut black metallic cardstock. 
46. Adhere the gears to the top of the flag then add small red rhinestones to their centers.
47. Cut a piece of black metallic cardstock with the next largest die from the A6 Rectangle Die set and use to mat the cardfront/image panel die-cut. 
48. Adhere the matted card front to the reserved red A6 card.

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Oopsy! Meowch!

Here's wintry cat card created for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's December Anything Goes Challenge 204 with Carrie's Yoga Cat 10 Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs.

Products Used:

Carrie's Yoga Cat 10 Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Battleship Grey Heavystock by My Colors

Glitzy Glitter Cardstock by DCWV

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko *

Copic Markers: N6, N5, N4, N3, N2, N1, YR31, YR23, BG11, BG000, BG0000, B41, <B41

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

Della Blue Elements Ink by Lavinia Stamps *

Milled Lavender Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Pearlescent Ice Blue and Moonlight White Brilliance Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko 

New Canvas Palette Ink by Stewart Superior

White Shimmer and Silvery Shimmer Delicata Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Snowflakes Stencil by Lavinia Stamps *

abc Thilits Die Set by Tim Holtz for Sizzix

Upper Case Serif Die by Impression Obsession

A6 Layers Die Set by Waffle Flower

Speech Bubble Die: Source Unknown

White Posca Paint Pen

Repositionable Sticker Paper

Low-tack Tape

2" Sookwang Tape

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studio

Acetate

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create an A6 card from Battleship Grey Heavystock by My Colors. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Carrie's Yoga Cat 10 twice — once onto a white cardstock panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper.
3. Use Copic markers to color the cat. 
4. Add a Copic marker outline around the cat with B41, <B41, BG11, BG000, and BG0000. 
5. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to the cat's pupils.
6. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of the cat and place it atop its counterpart on the image panel as a mask.
7.  Place a piece of acetate horizontally across the image panel so that the top edge of the acetate lies just above his hind legs. Secure with low-tack tape and/or magnets.
8. Brush Della Blue Elements Dye Ink over the acetate and the masked cat to start a background. 
9. The sky was a bit too light and blue so I brushed Milled Lavender Distress Ink over the blue ink.
10. Remove, clean, and dry the acetate panel. 
11. Position the panel again so that its bottom edge is sitting on the ink line and the acetate itself is covering the top of the image panel.
12. Use a sponge dauber to heavily apply Pearlescent Ice Blue Brilliance Ink over the edge of the acetate and the masked cat. Continue to apply the ink until the bottom of the image panel is covered. Use a soft cloth to wipe off the excess ink. 
13. Use another sponge dauber to apply Moonlight White Brilliance Ink over the the Ice Blue Ink. Remove the acetate and heat set the panel.
14. Place a snowflake stencil over the image panel and secure with low-tack tape and/or magnets.
15. Sponge New Canvas Palette Ink over the stencil onto the image panel. 
16. Keeping the stencil in place, sponge White Shimmer Delicata Ink to add some shimmer to the snowflakes.
17. Remove the stencil and heat set the image panel.
18. Remove the mask from the cat. a
19. Use a white Posca Paint Pen to add "snow" to the cat and to add additional dotty snowflakes to the background.
20. Use alphabet dies to cut grey cardstock to form the the sentiments. 
21. Use a speech bubble die to cut silver glitter cardstock.
22. Adhere the "OOPSY" sentiment to the top left of the image panel. 
23. Adhere the word "Meowch" to the speech bubble. 
24. Adhere the speech bubble to the image panel.
25. Use the largest die from the  A6 Frame Die Set to cut Battleship Grey cardstock. 
26. Adhere the frame over the image panel. 
27. Adhere the framed image panel to the reserved grey A6 card.
28. Use Silvery Shimmer Delicata Ink to edge the card. Heat set.

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Festive Fun Challenge - A Merry & Bright Gnome Card

 Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share a card created for  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's November Festive Fun Challenge 203 with three of the adorable gnomes from the Mini Gnomes 2 Rubber Stamp Sheet!

Here it is!

Products Used:

Mini Gnomes 2 Rubber Stamp Sheet by Lost Coast Designs

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Red Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics 

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Christmas idea-ology Paper Stash by Tim Holtz for Advantus

Lost Shadow and Old Paper Distress Inks by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Pebble Dye Ink by Catherine Pooler Designs

Copic Markers:
Noses: BV000, E50, E21, E11, R01, R00

Beards, Mustaches, and Hair: T2, T1, T0; W2, W1, W0

Hats, Gloves, Sleeves, Shoes, Pants: R56, R46, R35

Toy Sack, Lenses, Shoes, and Antlers: YG97, YG67, YG63, YG61

Glasses Frames, Guitar Body, and Guitar Headstock: E79, E77, E74, E71, E49

Floor: E74, E71, W2

Fret Board: N5

Outline: T2, T1

Grunge Music Stencil by Studio Light Designs

Christmas Banner Die Set by Waffle Flower

Tiny Bow Die by Stampendous

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Repositionable Scotch Tape by 3M

Low-tack Tape

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studio

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create an A2 card from red textured cardstock. Set aside.
2. Using a stamping platform and Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, stamp the gnomes onto a white cardstock panel and onto repositionable sticker paper. 
3. Place the image panel onto a magnetic surface.
4. Fussy-cut the sticker paper versions of the gnomes and place them over their counterparts on the image panel as masks.
5. Place a strip of removable Scotch Tape horizontally across the image panel.
6. Brush  Lost Shadow Distress Ink over the tape and the masked images to add color to the background.
7. Brush Old Paper Distress Ink over the Lost Shadow Ink to alter the color.
8. Place the Grunge Music Stencil over the top of the image panel and secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
9. Brush Pebble dye ink over the Grunge Music Stencil, the tape, and the masked gnomes to add visual and thematic interest to the background.
10. Remove the removable tape
11. Place a piece of acetate onto the horizon line covering the top part of the image panel to protect it. Secure the acetate with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
12. Brush Pebble Ink over the acetate to ground the gnomes. 
13. Remove the acetate and the masks from the gnomes.
14. Color the gnomes with Copic markers. I was not happy with the color of the ground, so I used Copic markers over the dye ink to change the color and to add shadows.
15. Trim the image panel  and edge it with a grey Copic marker. 
16. Cut a piece of red cardstock .25" larger than the image panel and use it to mat it.
17. Trim a piece of patterned paper from the Christmas Stash to 5.25" x 4", edge it with a grey marker, and adhere it to the reserved red A2 card.
18. Cut red cardstock with one of the dies from the Christmas Banner Die Set,
19. Adhered the banner to the card as shown. 
20. Color a scrap of white cardstock with YG67, YG63, and YG61 Copic markers.
21.  Cut the colored scrap twice with a tiny bow cutting die. 
22. Adhere the green bows to finish the card.

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Believe in Magic

It's Topflight Stamps Tuesday. This week the team is focusing on Mixed Media. I've used rubber stamps, dye ink, pigment ink, Starburst Sprays, Copic Markers, heat embossing, acrylic paint markers, re-inkers, and cutting dies to make a Halloween card. 

Here's my card created with the KC13 Cling Rubber Stamp Sett by Kate Crane for PaperArtsy, Screamin' Banchee Black and Witch's Potion Purple from the Haunted Halloween Starburst Spray Set by Lindy's Stamp Gang.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

KC13 Cling Rubber Stamp Sett by Kate Crane for PaperArtsy

Haunted Halloween Starburst Spray Set by Lindy's Stamp Gang

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Bristol Paper by Strathmore

Raven Black Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Copic Markers:

Skin: BV000, BV0000, E50, E21, E11, E00, E000, R20

Hair: E29, E27, E18, E17, E07

Dress's Sleeves, Bows, and Collar: RV93, RV91, RV63

Olo Markers:

Dress and Hairband: V2.8, V2.7, V2.6, V2.4

Purple, Pink, and Green Stardust Glitter Gel Pens by Sakura

Black Pigma Pen by Sakura

Anti-static Pouch

VersaMagic Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Fine Gold Embossing Powder by Stampendous

Gold and White Uni-Posca Acrylic Paint Marker by Mitsubishi Pencil

Moonlight White Brilliance Re-inker by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Grass Border Die: Source Unknown

Pearlescent White PanPastel 

Cat Die: Source Unknown

A6 Layer Dies by Waffle Flower Crafts

White Chalk Pencil by General's Pencils

Low-tack tape

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of black cardstock to create a 5" x 7" card. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ino stamp the standing Magic Woman from the KC13 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Kate Crane onto white cardstock. 
3. Fussy-cut the image and color it with Copic markers.
4. Use a Pink Stardust Glitter Gel Pen to a touch of sparkle to her hair and her dress. 
5. Use a Gold Uni-Posca Paint Marker to color the star on her dress and the one on her head band. 
6. Edge the fussy-cut colored image with a black pen and set her aside.
7. Spray a 5" x 8" piece of Bristol Paper or other heavy-weight, water-friendly paper with the Witch's Potion Purple from the Haunted Halloween Starburst Spray Se and heat set. This color is a shimmery purple/teal blue and is absolutely lovely. However, my Magic Woman got lost on the background panel. 
8. Spray with the background panel Screamin' Banchee Black from the Haunted Halloween Starburst Spray Set and heat set the panel. This darkened the panel and added navy blue to the mix, which worked much better for my purposes.
9. Smush Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Ink onto a strip of Bristol Paper and heat set,.
10. Use a grassy border die to cut the inked cardstock.
11. Glue the green-inked grassy border to the bottom of the background panel.
12. Trim the background panel to 4.75" x 6.75" and and edge it with a black pen.
13. Adhere the background panel was to the reserved 5" x 7" black card.
14. Pounce the background panel and the leftover strip of background paper with an anti-static pouch.
15. Place the background panel onto a stamping platform and secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape 
16. Place the moon with the hanging star from the KC13 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Kate Crane face-down onto the top left of the image panel.
17. Press the lid of the platform onto the moon stamp, lift the lid, and ink the moon stamp with VersaMagic ink.
18. Pour gold detail embossing powder onto the wet ink, dump the excess powder back into the container, and heat set the moon/star.
19. Place the leftover strip of sprayed background paper onto the the stamping platform. 
20. Place the "believe in magic" sentiment facedown on the strip. 
21. Press the lid of the platform onto the sentiment stamp, lift the lid, and ink the sentiment with VersaMagic ink.
22. Pour gold detail embossing powder onto the wet ink, dump the excess powder back into the container, and heat set the sentiment.
23. Die-cut with a small rectangle die from the A6 Layers Die Set then edge it with a black pen. 
24. Use a slightly larger rectangle die from the same die set to cut black cardstock then use the black die-cut to mat the sentiment.
25. Use a White Uni-Posca Paint Pen to color the moon. Unfortunately, the background bled through.
26. I tried to add White Pearlescent PanPastel to the moon to fix it. That didn't work either. 
27. As a last ditch attempt, I painted the moon with Moonlight White Brilliance ink, which also didn't work. Oh well. 
28. Use Pink and Green Stardust Glitter Gel Pens to add sparkle to the star and the leaves. 
29. Cut the smooth side of black cardstock with a cat die.
30. Use a white chalk pencil to detail the cat. 
31. Use a Green Stardust Glitter Pen to add an glittery eye to the cat.
32. Adhere the Witch Woman and the cat under the blades of grass as shown. 
33. Adhere he sentiment die-cut to finish the card.

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Christmas Card for Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Challenge 199

Greetings! We're celebrating Christmas in July over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity. 

Here's a card for their Christmas in July challenge 199, created with one of the Santa Gnomes from the Mini Gnomes 2 Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs. I was debating whether to place the gnome in front of a house or on top of a chimney. Obviously the chimney scenario won. Then the scene took on a life of its own.

Products Used:

Mini Gnomes 2 Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

White Speckled Navy Cardstock

Green Cardstock

Chinese Red Cardstock by My Colors

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Slate, Cashmere, and Sand Castle Dye Inks by Catherine Pooler Designs

Fired Brick Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Copic Markers: 

 Santa's Beard and Mustache: C3, C2, C1, C0, C00

 Santa's Nose: E01, R30, R00

 Santa's Hat and Sleeves: R39, R37, R27, R25

 Santa's Boots and Gloves: N7, N5, N3

 Santa Hat Trim and Pom-pom: C1, C0, C00, RV000, B60, B000, BV000, Y000, G000

 Window Panes: Y23, Y11

 Door: B16, B05 

Sandstone Photo-Twin Zig Marker by Kuretake

Clear Stardust Glitter Gel Pen by Sakura

Black Pigma Pen by Sakura

Metallic Gold Gel Pen by Pentel

Chipboard House by Maya Road

Postage Collage Winter View Elements Die Set by Waffle Flower Stamps and Dies

Door and Window Die by Impression Obsession

Border Dies by Stampendous

Christmas Icing Rub-On Set by QuicKutz (from ~2005)

Masking Magic Strips by Gina K Designs

Repositionable Scotch Tape 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 Chinese Red cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Santa Gnome with Gift Sack onto white cardstock.
3. Use Copic markers to color the gnome.
4. Fussy-cut the gnomee, edge him with the black pen to get rid of those unsightly white edges, and set him aside.
5. Trace the chipboard house onto white cardstock and fussy-cut it.
6. Place a piece of Repositionable Scotch tape horizontally under the roof and another piece covering the chimney.
7. Sponge Slate Dye Ink over the roof.
8. Move the tape so that it's covering the roof and sponge Cashmere Dye Ink over the house.
9. Remove the tape over the chimney and place another piece of tape to protect the roof.
10. Place a piece of the ¼" strip of Masking Magic over the top of the chimney.
11. Sponge Fired Brick Distress Ink over the chimney.
12. Remove the Masking Magic strip and use Repositionable Tape to protect the Chimney.
13. Sponge Sand Castle Dye Ink over the top of the chimney.
14. Use a Grey Copic Fineliner to draw bricks on the chimney.
15. Use the Sandstone Photo-twin marker to draw siding on the house.
16. Use the window/door die to cut white cardstock.
17. Cut off the arched part of the door so that it fits the house.
18. Place Repositionable Scotch Tape behind the frame of the windows and the door.
19. Use Copic markers to color the window-panes, the door, and the door panels.
20. Inlay the colored rectangles to the windows and the door as shown.
21. Mat the door with white cardstock to create a doorframe.
22. Adhere the windows and the door and outline with the Photo-twin marker to add shadows,
23. Use border dies to cut white cardstock.
24. Use a Clear Stardust Glitter Gel Pen to add snowy accents to the top of each of the borders.
25. Use the fir tree die to cut two shades of green cardstock.
26. Adhere one of the borders to a piece of white-speckled navy cardstock.
27. Adhere fir tree die-cuts to the navy cardstock.
28. Adhere the house to the blue cardstock.
29. Adhere the other two borders to the blue cardstock.
30. Trim the blue cardstock panel to 4¾" x 6¾" and edge with the black marker.
31. Adhere the rest of the fir trees to the card front as shown.
32. Adhere the fussy-cut and colored Santa Gnome with Gift Sack so that he's standing on the chimney.
33. Cut a speech bubble from white cardstock.
34. Add the "naughty or nice?" sentiment Rub-On to the speech bubble.
35. Add snowflake Rub-Ons to the background and over the house. I might have gone definitely went overboard with this step.
36. Adhere the card front to the reserved red 5" x 7" card and call it done.

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Best Fishes

Greetings! It's Tuesday so it's time to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week we're showcasing PaperArtsy's wonderful products. Since it's been very hot, I've been wanting to go to the beach, but creating a slimline card beach scene with PaperArtsy's Kate Crane (KC006) Rubber Cling Stamp Set, the Kate Crane Mini 007 (KCM007) Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp, and the Kate Crane Mini 008 (KCM008) Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set is as close as I can get at the moment. The background was created with Mattint and Fresco Finish Acrylic Matte Glaze.

Here it is!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Kate Crane (KC006) Rubber Cling Stamp Set by PaperArtsy

Kate Crane Mini 007 (KCM007) Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set by PaperArtsy

Kate Crane Mini 008 (KCM008) Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set by PaperArtsy

Dragonfly Mattint

Greenstone Mattint

River Deep Mattint

Fresco Finish Acrylic Matte Glaze

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Bristol Paper by Strathmore

Copic Markers: 

 Fish: BV25, BV13, BV11, BV01, BV00, BV000, BV0000, Y28, Y26, Y23,Y21,Y11, Y02, Y000, YR12, YR02, G14, G12, R83, R81 R14, V06, V04, B01, V000, B28, B24, B02, B00, YG45, YG41, YG25, YG23, YG21, YG2`, Yg03, YG01, N4, N3, N2, N1, N0

 Fishhead-man's Skin: BV000, E50, E21, E11, E00, E000, 

 Fishhead-man' Hair: E49, E47, E44

 Fishhead-man's Cheeks: R81, R20

 Fishhead-man's Clothing: N7, N6, Y26, Y23, Y21, Y11, Y04, Y02, B02, B00, V06, V04, 

 Fishhead-man's Eyes: B63

 Fishhead-man's Fish: R39, R25, YR04, Y04, G14, B16, B06, B24, V04, V06, N4, BV13

Black Pigma Marker by Sakura

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

Slimline Layers Die Set by Waffle Flower Crafts

Watering Can Archival Ink by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Purple and Grey Textured Cardstocks by Bazzill Basics

"best fishes" Sentiment Stamp by justjohanna/Odd Bird Planet (closed)

Ink Jet Vellum by Strathmore

Jet Black StazOn Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Comic Speech Bubble Die Set by Whimsy Stamps

2" Sookwang Double-sided Tape

Paint Brushes

Make-up Sponges

Low-tack Tape

Craft Mat

Glassboard by Glassboard Studios

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create a slimline card from grey cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the fishhead-man from the Kate Crane (KC006) Rubber Cling Stamp Seonto Copic-friendly paper. 
3. Fussy-cut the image, color with Copic markers, and edge with a black marker. Set aside.
4. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and a stamping platform to stamp the big fish from the Kate Crane Mini 008 (KCM008) Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp and the five fish from the Kate Crane Mini 007 (KCM007) Cling Mounted Rubber Stam onto an 8½" x 3½" panel of Bristol Paper. True confession time, I cut my Kate Crane Mini 007 (KCM007) Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp to separate the fish from one another.
5. Use Copic markers to color all the fish on the panel of Bristol Paper. 
6. Use a paint brush to apply Fresco Finish Acrylic Matte Glaze over the Copic-colored fish to seal them. *
7. Shake the Dragonfly, Greenstone, and River Deep Mattints well, add a dime-sized amount of each color Mattint to the craft mat, then use make-up sponges to apply the Mattints horizontally over the fish until the panel is tinted to your liking. Let dry. Warning: Be sure to have a relatively dust-free, cat-fur free crafting area. *
8. Use the second largest die from the Slimline Layers Die Set to cut the stamped background panel. 
9. Edge the image panel die-cut with Watering Can Archival Ink. 
10. Use the largest die to cut greyish/purple cardstock and use that die-cut to mat the image panel die-cut. 
11. Adhere the matted image panel to the reserved grey slimline card.
12. Adhere the stamped, colored, and fussy-cut fishhead-man as shown.
13. Cut a strip of ink jet vellum and back with two-sided tape. 
14. Use Black StazOn ink to stamp the "best fishes" sentiment onto vellum and let dry.
15. Use a speech bubble die to cut the sentiment.
16. Trim the top of the speech buttle die-cut, then adhere as shown to finish the card.

Notes:

• I tested the Fresco Finish Acrylic Matte Glaze to see if it would smear, smudge, bleed, or otherwise mess up images that were stamped with Memento onto Bristol Paper and colored with Copic markers. The only problem that I encountered was with the dreaded red Copics and images where the Copics hadn't sunk into the paper and had left that gummy surface. Those images smeared and smudged. 
• I plan further experiments with the Fresco Finish Acrylic Matte Glaze on Copic-colored images to see whether I can use translucent Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints to create backgrounds. I probably will try the Matte Glazed Copic-colored images with my other acrylic paints as well. I'll keep you posted. 
• I was able to apply Mattints over the Matte Glazed Copic-colored images which left a slight tint over them, which was what I wanted. 
• The Mattints warped the Bristol Paper slightly, so it might be best to tape the edges down prior to applying them.
• Additionally, since Mattints can be used to adhere things, dust/dirt from my craft area and cat fur migrated onto my project. I was able to remove, some-not all of it. Alas.
• Retrospectively, I wish I had used plain white cardstock for the sentiment/speech bubble and had moved the Fish-head man so that he was "standing' on the bottom of the mat.