Happy New Year!

 It's Tuesday, which means it's time to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. I don't know about you, but I'm very excited to see 2020 in hindsight. The idea for this card came to me all of a sudden. It's such an obvious idea that I don't know if I've seen this idea before, but if I did, thank you to whoever created the card. I hope I put my own spin on it though. 

Here's my card.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Robots 1 Unmounted Red Rubber Set by Katzelkraft

Garbage Can Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp by Katzelkraft

Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle
Distressed Brick 6x6 Stencil by Paper Rose
Onyx Black VersaFine™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Canary Yellow Prism Ink by Hunkydory Crafts

Red Chili Prism Ink by Hunkydory Crafts

Fire Coral Ink by Hunkydory Crafts

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers

White Speckled Navy Cardstock: Source Unknown

Grey, Teal-ish, and White Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Tuxedo Black Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Fired Brick, Rusty Hinge, and Black Soot Distress® Inks by Tim Holtz® for Ranger Ink

Black Prismacolor Premier® Colored Pencil

Citrus Cleaner

Yellow, Orange, and Black Multi Pastel® Chalk Pencil by General's®

Copic® Markers:

   Robot: T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T7, T8, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, B000, BG10, BG72, BG75, C0, C1, YR15, YR18, Y13, Y19

   Garbage Bin: C0, C1, C2, C3, C4, C6

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

Flame Dies: Source unknown (oops)

Alphanumeric Thinlits™ Tim Holtz® Alterations by Sizzix®

Stamping Platform
STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Instructions:

1. Use Tuxedo Black Memento ink to stamp the Garbage Can and one of the robots from Robots 1 Unmounted Red Rubber Set onto white cardstock. 
2. Fussy-cut the robot and the trash bin. 
3. Fussy-cut the the lid from the trash bin to create an open receptacle.
4. Color the images with Copic markers and edge with dark marker. 
5. Apply several layers of clear Glaze pento the light bulbs, the goggle's visor, and the rivets on the robot. 
6. Set aside the trash bin and robot while the background is being created.
7. Place the  Distressed Brick 6x6 Stencil over grey cardstock and secure with magnets to the STAY-tion.
8. Brush Fired Brick Distress Inks over the stencil onto the grey cardstock. 
9. Brush Rusty Hinge Distress Ink over the grey cardstock.
10. Lift the stencil and remove the panel from the STAY-tion. Or not.
11. Use black pencil to loosely outline the bricks and to add detail to the mortar, then blend with a stump dipped into Citrus cleaner.
12. Use black chalk pencil to add more detail to the mortar and to dirty the bricks some more.
13. Use the black chalk pencil to add the sidewalk to the base of the image panel. 
14. Adhere a strip of plain grey cardstock to the top of the brick to finish the wall.
15. Use Onyx Black VersaFine Ink to stamp the same robot onto the stenciled brick.
16. Use the yellow and orange Chalk pencils around the robot's lightbulbs on the stenciled brick.
17. Adhere the brick wall to navy cardstock, trim to 4.75" x 6.75", and edge with Black Soot Distress ink.
18. Use the Alphanumeric dies to cut teal-ish cardstock and lightly brush them with Black Soot Distress ink.
19. Brush white cardstock with Canary Yellow, Red Chili, and Fire Coral Prism Inks then cut with four different flame dies. Lightly brush Black Soot Distress ink over the flames.
20. Adhere the numbers behind the top of the trash bin.
21. Adhere the flames behind the numbers on the top of the trash can,
22. Adhere the flaming trash bin to the image panel. 
23. Adhere the robot was adhered over the his counterpart on the brick background.
24. Use Onyx Black VersaFine ink to stamp "Happy New Year" from my beloved Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set
25. Cut the sentiment with a flag cutting die and adhere the sentiment as shown.
26. Adhere the image panel to a white card.

Thanks for visiting today!

Whoooo Loves Ya?

Here's a Steampunky Valentine's Day card using Wise Owl, from the Wise Owl rubber stamp set, one of the stamp sets from the Mech-Animals stamp collection. It also uses Steampunk Heart, but not the wings, from the Large Steampunk Heart with Wings set, which is part of the the New Montage II set. Both the Wise Owl and the Steampunk Heart sets are by Carmen Medlin Designs and are available at I Brake for Stamps.

The Wise Owl and the Steampunk Heart were stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink (ImagineCrafts), colored with Copic markers, fussy-cut, and edged with a black marker. Wise Owl's beak, talons, armor grommets, and compass were coated with several layers of Clear Gelly Glaze pen (Sakura) as were the screws on the Steampunk Heart.

Blue cardstock took a ride inside the Clockworks embossing folder (Cuttlebug/ProvoCraft). The raised bits were brushed with Pewter and Renaissance Treasure Gold (PaperArtsy), then buffed with a cloth to give a lustrous metallic shine.

Bronze and silver metallic cardstock were die-cut with the Gearhead Thinlits Alterations (Sizzix) dies, the Steampunk Corner die (La-La Land), the Mini Gears die (Memory Box), the Nuts and Bolts Punch die (Marianne Designs), and one of the corners from the Corners 1 die set (Elizabeth Craft Designs). The corner die-cut from the Gearheads set was adhered to the lower left hand corner of the embossed gilded card front, additional gears, plus the Steampunk Corner die-cut were adhered over the gears, and the Steampunk Heart was adhered with two addition gear die-cuts to hold it. Wise Owl was perched upon the Steampunk Heart, the card front was adhered to a matching blue card, and I called it done.

I contemplated adding "Whoooo Loves Ya?" as a sentiment, but decided against it since my husband is away from home for Valentine's Day. However, he is a very smart man and my Valentine's Day flowers arrived on Monday!

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Thanks for visiting today!

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
• SanDee and amelie's Steampunk Challenges: "New Stash/Forgotten Stash" -- I haven't used Treasure Gold in forever, then watched it demoed at CHA and had an "aha" moment.
• Allsorts Challenges: Hearts and/or Flowers