Be Mine

Here's a Valentine for next year, something pink and frilly, complete with feathery trim!  The trim comes from Webster's Pages, and has some shimmer to it.  The darker pink heart die cuts are from My Creative Time "Prim Hearts".  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink "Daily Designs Sentiments."

Have a blessed day!

Thanks for your visit!

Christmas Holly

Hello!  We've got "Anything Goes" this week at Topflight Stamps, and I'm sharing a Christmas card to put away for later this year!  I started with a pretty marble-ish piece of paper from Craft Consortium Ink Drops Ocean Paper pad, because it reminds me of a frozen pond.  I splattered it with Lavinia Snow White Chalk Paint and set aside to dry.  With a Crealies Rectangle die, I cut a piece of white paper and stamped a sentiment from Creative Expressions "Tis The Season" stamp set with Versafine Clair Nocturne Black ink.  I dragged the edges of the rectangle with WOW! Clear Ultra Slow Drying embossing ink pad, then sprinkled on WOW! Pure Platinum embossing powder and hit it with a heat tool.  I also used some of the platinum embossing powder in random spots on the sentiment panel, and used the heat tool from underneath the paper so it wouldn't blow around.  On a scrap piece of cardstock, I stamped two holly clusters from Visible Image "Christmas Robin" with Memento Tuxedo ink.  Then I colored, fussy cut, and glued them to the sentiment panel.  

Supplies from Topflight Stamps:

Craft Consortium Ink Drops - Ocean Paper Pad

Creative Expressions Tis' The Season stamp set

Visible Image Christmas Robin stamp set

VersaFine Clair Nocturne Ink

Wow! Pure Platinum Embossing Powder

Crealies Double Stitch Rectangle Dies

Lavinia Acrylic Paint Chalk - Snow White

WOW! Clear Ultra Slow Drying Embossing Ink Pad

Tsukineko Memento Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black

Pansy and Lace

This birthday card couldn't be simpler to make.  The lacy doily paper does a lot of the work.  The puffy pansy sticker is a single focal point, with a subtle peach lace strip underneath.  That is a vintage piece from my 101 year old aunt's sewing room, after she passed away I received a bag full of laces she had.  Thank you, Aunt Florence!  The little sentiment tag is lavender, to coordinate with the hint of lavender in the pansy.

Make the most of this day!

God bless you!

Single Sparkly Tree

Another Christmas card to share:  this went to my mom this past Christmas.  She likes a modern aesthetic, so I think this comes clos.  The background of the olive green card base was embossed with Sizzix "Winter Foliage" 3D embossing folder.  Love the detail of it.  The green glitter tree was a gift tag on one of our gifts years ago, topped with a gold glitter punched star.  The iridescent white glitter "snow" is a diecut using Papertrey Ink "In The Meadow" die set.  

Have a WONDERFUL day, and make the most of it!

Vintage Christmas Home

Love making Christmas cards all year round so I have enough when the next holiday comes around!  This traditionally-colored card was pretty simple, thanks to the focal point:  a die cut from a friend of a vintage house in the country during winter.  I topped it with a sentiment and matching punch from Stampin' Up! "Winter Post".  I used red Liquid Pearls on the sentiment's berries, plus on the berries of the vintage scene.  The red cardstock backdrop was embossed with Tim Holtz "Tapestry" embossing folder.

Hope you have a blessed day!

Autumn Leaves Birthday

I have an autumnal birthday card to share today.  The chocolate cardstock was run through a Big Shot with the Tim Holtz "Acorns" Embossing Folder.  Then I used Simon Hurley Lunar Paste in Gold Rush with my finger to shine up the raised areas of the leaves and acorns.  So pretty in real life.  The paper leaves were made with both coffee filters and sleeves from Starbucks coffee cups, with the Tim Holtz Bigz die "Tattered Leaves."  I used various Distress Sprays to get some color onto two of the leaves.  The final, simple touch is a sentiment from Papertrey Ink "Birthday Basics" and a twine bow.

Thanks for taking a peek!  

Hope your day is wonderful!

Butterfly Birthday

Hello!  I made a birthday card featuring a butterfly collage-type stamp atop a scalloped tag die cut (die set from Temu).  There's a strip of faux vintage tickets used as a border under the butterfly, but it's not too noticeable because I loaded it up with punched flowers in Night of Navy (Stampin' Up!).  I used Nuvo Drops in a gold color in the center of each flower.  The sentiment tag:  Papertrey Ink's "Tiny Tags" die and stamp set.

 

Thanks for coming by!  Hope you have a terrific day!

Painted Woodware Violas

Hello!  This week at Topflight Stamps, our theme is the company Woodware.  I chose to use their Viola stamp set, one of my faves!   On a piece of recycled store-bought greeting card, cut to fit my card base, I painted a background that would nicely highlight the Violas.  I used PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Koala paint to cover the evidence LOL and made a fresh, clean place to stamp the Viola.  Once that was dry, I used Lindy's Stamp Gang Pixie Dust Spray randomly on the panel.  And once that was dry, then stamped Viola in VersaFine Onyx Black ink on top.  On a separate piece of paper, I painted PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Wisteria and let it dry, then stamped Viola there too so I could trim and paper-piece onto my card.  I added a butterfly from AALL & Create Delicate Wings (fussy-cut and layered on), some gems from my stash, and inked the edges of the panel with Lavinia Graphite Dye Ink.

Supplies From Topflight Stamps:

Woodware Viola

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paint - Koala

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paint - Wisteria

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

AALL & Create Delicate Wings

Lavinia Dye Ink - Graphite

Lindy's Stamp Gang Pixie Dust

Thanks for joining me today! God bless you!

Neighborhood Homes

I try to keep a stash of New Home cards ready for delivery to the shop when they need more (Arts Plus Gallery in Collingswood), and this was a recent make.  The background layer was stamped with The Greetery's "Seed Catalog", topped with a beautiful piece of copper metallic cardstock that was dry embossed (Stampin' Up!, but not sure of the name).  The final pieces to add were some cute little houses (Stampin' Up! "Holiday Home"), stamped simply in black and edges gently inked with Antique Linen Distress Ink.  The sentiment is a digital, from The Graphics Fairy.

Hope you have a blessed day!

Birdcage Neutrals

I loooove a neutral color theme, and take delight in making a card with it.  On a scrap of kraft cardstock, I stamped Stampin' Up! "Elements of Style" toile flower in background, also in a kraft color.  Then the Hampton Arts "Bird Cages" was stamped on top of it, in black.  The grungy paper layer behind it is a digital image from I think My Porch Prints.  The two little labels added were stamped from Tim Holtz "Curator" and Globeland "Vintage Numbers" (a brand I find on Amazon; good prices, good quality). 

Thanks for taking a peek, and have a wonderful day!

Good Times

Hi!  Popping in to share a "thinking of you" card made with Chapter One Papers "Damask Rose" from Etsy.  I scaled the page, which is 8.5" x 11", down to a 3.5" x 5" so it would fit neatly on this card.  Though it's hard to tell in a photo, the light blue paper behind it is baby blue metallic cardstock, which was run through the Big Shot with a Sizzix / Eileen Hull embossing folder called "Table Cloth".  The sentiment stamp is from Papertrey Ink, and the "good times" stamp is from a generic set from Temu.

Have a terrific day!

Christmas Robin

Good morning!  This card feels very appropriate for today.  We had at least a foot of snow between yesterday and today, and it's still snowing!  It's very beautiful, but I do feel badly that my husband has to do the shoveling.  Good thing he is strong.

For this Christmas card, the color scheme inspiration came from the gorgeous vintage robin post card image, from The Graphics Fairy.  The background die cut is Papertrey Ink's "In The Woods" in Blushing Bride cardstock (Stampin' Up!) and the branches were topped with iridescent glitter glue.  The same glitter glue is also on the bird image.  The sentiment is Stampin' Up!'s "Winter Post" oldie but goodie stamp set.

 

Stay warm, and thanks for taking a peek today!

God bless you!

Flower Press Art Collection

Hello!  This is an Anything Goes week at Topflight Stamps, and I am sharing a neutral colored card featuring Flower Press by AALL & Create again!  On January 22nd, I used this same pretty stamp in a paper-pieced fashion.  For today's card, I went with a sort of clean and simple look.  On a piece of packaging I was hanging on to, I stamped the image with Versafine Onyx Black ink.  I inked the edges of the panel with Lavinia Truffle Dye Ink, a rich brown.  The panel was glued onto a kraft background card base.  My little ephemera piece is a nest image from PaperArtsy Apple Blossom Edition by Alison Bomber, stamped in the Versafine Onyx Black, trimmed, and touched up around the edges with the Lavinia Truffle Ink.  I used dimensional tape to adhere it onto the card, and underlined it with some floral embroidery trim from my stash.

Supplies from Topflight Stamps:

AALL & Create - Flower Press by Tracy Evans

Lavinia Dye Ink - Truffle

PaperArtsy - Apple Blossom Edition by Alison Bomber

Versafine Ink - Onyx Black

Thanks for joining me, God bless you!