AALL & Create Morning Glory

Hello everyone!  After a hiatus, I am so happy to be back on the Topflight Stamps Design Team!  I've got a fun card today to share with you.  I had fun playing with PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paints on some packaging I was about to discard.  The paints covered up the cardboard package nicely!  I used Taupe and Koala with a medium size dry paint brush directly onto the cardboard, and it dries fairly quickly.  The AALL & Create "Flower Press" by Tracy Evans was stamped right onto the painted surface with Versafine Onyx Black Ink.  Then I used Lavinia Snow White Chalk Paint to spatter on some spots. It was lovely as-is, but I decided to go a step further and do some paper piecing using the Craft Consortium Ink Drops "Ocean" paper pad to highlight the blossoms and a couple of leaves.  LOVE how it turned out!  Final touches were several Hunkydory Diamond Sparkle Silver Gemstones in random spots.

Supplies From Topflight Stamps:

Flower Press by Tracy Evans for AALL & Create

Craft Consortium Ink Drops - Ocean

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paint - Taupe

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paint - Koala

Hunkydory Diamond Sparkle Silver Gemstones

Lavinia Chalk Acrylic Paint - Snow White

Versafine Onyx Black Ink

Thanks for looking and God bless you!

Woodware Thistles

Hello!  It's "Anything Goes" this week at Topflight Stamps. This Woodware stamp set called Flying Birds made me think of spring, so that was my inspiration.  With a piece of green lace as my grass, I created a scene with thistles, a flying bird, some postmark images, and a sentiment.  All of these stamps are from the same set.  I stamped the thistle twice with VersaFine Onyx Black ink, to create more of a cluster.  They were colored and fussy cut and arranged in a staggered fashion.  The bird was also colored and fussy cut and added to the "sky".  Several clear sequins were the final touch.

Supplies Used From Topflight Stamps Store:

Woodware - Flying Birds

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

I'll be taking a break from design team work due to my husband's surgery.

Hope your day is blessed!

Starry Birthday

Hello!  This week at Topflight Stamps, we are sharing our star-themed creations. I've got a starry birthday card to show, which positively GLITTERS in person, thanks to Spectrum Noir Glitter Paste in Candlelight Gold and the Darkroom Door Starry Night Small Stencil.  The glitter paste is a dream to spread over a stencil, goes on easily and give such a 'wow' factor.  The background panel is navy, which is a good contrast for the gold stars.  The white panel was made with with a Crealies Stitched Rectangle, on which a sentiment from Visible Image Go To Words was stamped.  I finished it up with some gold star ribbon trim from my stash, and a few red stars.

Supplies Used From Topflight Stamps Store:

Crealies Stitched Rectangle Dies

Darkroom Door Starry Night Small Stencil

Spectrum Noir Glitter Paste Candlelight Gold

Visible Image Go To Words

Have a blessed day!

Baby Bunny

Hello!  This week at Topflight Stamps we are featuring a company from France called L'Encre et L'Image.  I picked a sweet, sweet stamp set called The Long-Eared Family.  This little bunny makes a perfect baby card. After I stamped her, colored and fussy-cut her, plus a little leafy branch, she needed a pretty place to sit.  The background white brick image is from Craft Consortium Brick Textures paper pad, and the pale plum stitched rectangle was die-cut with Crealies Stitched Rectangle dies.  A piece of lace from my stash helped give her a soft place to land.

Supplies Used From Topflight Stamps Store:

L'Encre et L'Image - The Long Eared Family

Craft Consortium - Brick Textures

Crealies Stitched Rectangle dies

Have a blessed week ahead!

Thank You For Being A Friend

Hello!  This week at Topflight Stamps, we are focusing on a wonderful brand from the Netherlands called Studio Light.  I chose a great set of sentiment stamps called Basic Wishes.  On a white tag, I stamped "thank you" and "for being a friend" with VersaFine Onyx Black ink.  You can mix and match sentiments with this set.  I lightly inked the edges with brown ink, to give a vintage look.  The Craft Consortium Vintage Emporium Paper Pad had the perfect page full of old letters and postcards to use as a backdrop.  Finishing touches from my stash:  a seam binding bow and tiny bit of lace.

Supplies Used From Topflight Stamps Store:

Studio Light - Basic Wishes

Craft Consortium - Vintage Emporium

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

Have a beautiful day! ~ Colleen

The Holly & The Ivy

Hello!  This week at Topflight Stamps, we are focusing on Anything Goes!  I have a Christmas card to share, to add to my stash.  Using Crealies Stitched Rectangle dies, I created a frame for the PaperArtsy - Alison Bomber - Mini 96 stamp.  As I stamped the Mini 96 with VersaFine Onyx Black ink, I had the old Christmas carol "The Holly and The Ivy" playing in my head (Bing Crosby in particular).  So lovely! 

After mounting the song lyrics on the red frame, I stamped some holly leaves and berries from Visible Image Christmas Robin on a scrap of white cardstock. I colored them and fussy cut them, and added to one corner of the lyrics, along with some die cut greenery from my stash.

Supplies Used From Topflight Stamps Store:

PaperArtsy - Alison Bomber - Mini 96

Visible Image - Christmas Robin

Crealies Stitched Rectangle Dies

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

Thanks so much for joining me today!

Vintage Radish Seed Packet

Hello!  This week at Topflight Stamps it's Anything Goes and I have got RADISHES for you!!  This vintage vegetable set by PaperArtsy Scrapcosy 02 has beautiful illustrations of cabbage, radishes, pumpkin and red onion.  There are two labels as well, which I used on my card.  I use VersaFine Onyx Black Ink to stamp with because it is a deep black and gives great coverage, keeping the small details crisp.  I stamped the radish on a piece of patterned paper from Creative Expressions Nature's Compendium, since it has an aged look already.  On a separate piece of the same patterned paper, I stamped the two labels from the set, fussy-cut those, and added gold marker around the edges.  Underneath the round label, I added a piece of netting and then an actual vintage button on top.

Supplies Used From Topflight Stamps Store:

PaperArtsy Scrapcosy 02

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

Creative Expressions Nature's Compendium

Thanks for taking a peek!  Hope your day is beautiful!

Parisian Garden Viola

Happy Monday!  Colleen here with you to share a floral card for the Topflight Stamps "Anything Goes" week.  I instantly loved this Woodware Viola background stamp when I saw it in the Topflight Stamps shop!  It's so full of detail that it didn't need much else to dress it up.  After stamping it with Versafine Onyx Black Ink on vanilla cardstock, I used purple ink pads and a foam dauber to color in each violet blossom, and green for the leaves.  Then I used a brown ink and foam dauber to "age" the outer edges of the panel.  I mounted this on a purple card base, added strips of a sheer lace to each side, and pearls on the flowers.  Voila!  

Supplies Used From Topflight Stamps Store:

Woodware Viola

Versafine Onyx Black Ink

Hope your week is full of beauty and blessings!

Mixed Media Butterflies

Hello!  This week at Topflight Stamps we are focusing on Mixed Media.  For my card, I lightly spritzed water on a piece of watercolor paper. Then on a silicone mat, I smushed some Lavinia Graphite Dye Ink and also spritzed it lightly with water.  I placed the watercolor paper onto the ink and picked it up, dabbed it in a different place, lifted it, etc.  Once dry, I laid the Lavinia Laurel stencil over it and added grit paste.  When that dried, I used my fingertip to smooth on some gold paste.  On some white cardstock, I stamped a butterfly twice from the AALL & Create Delicate Wings set, fussy cut and layered on to the base. It looked a little bare at that point, so I opened the Creative Expressions French Fabric Tags stamp set and stamped two little tags.  After sponging both of them with a light brown ink, they were added as a layer in front of the butterflies. Finally, a few purple punched flowers dotted with Hunkydory Pearls topped it off.

Supplies Used From Topflight Stamps Store:

AALL & Create Delicate Wings

Lavinia Laurel Stencil

Lavinia Graphite Dye Ink

Hunkydory Pearls

Have a blessed day!