Happy New Year!

Hi there! I'm back with a another project for Topflight Stamps. This week the team is focusing on Katzelkraft's wonderful stamps and I've made a New Year's card with their Pensive Cat, Dreamer Sentiments, and Holiday Quotes Unmounted Red Rubber Stamps.

Here's my card!

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Pensive Cat Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp by Katzelkraft

Dreamer Sentiments Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft

Holiday Quotes Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set by Katzelkraft

Seasonal Words Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Lavinia Stamps

Ornate Stencil by Lavinia Stamps

Wood Textures 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Craft Consortium

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

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

Navy Cardstock by Bazzilll Basics

Summer Sky Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Lost Shadow, Speckled Egg, and Tattered Rose Distress Inks by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Copic Markers: BV29, BV25, BV23, BV20, N7, N6, N5, N4, N3, B52, BG11, BG01, BG000

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura of America

Speech Bubble Page Border Die: Source Unknown 

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Post It Notes by 3M

Stamping Platforms

Instructions:

1. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Pensive Cat Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp twice — once onto the image panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
2. Clean the Pensive Cat Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp.
3. Color the Pensive Cat with Copic markers. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to his eyes. 
4. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of the Pensive Cat and place him over his counterpart on the image panel.
5. Brush Lost Shadow Distress ink over the masked Pensive Cat to add a background behind the cat. 
6. Place the Ornate Stencil over the image panel. Brush Summer Sky Memento Ink, Speckled Egg Distress Ink, and Tattered Rose Distress Ink over the stencil to add a pattern to the background.
7. Place the image panel back onto the stamping platform.
8. Position the Pensive Cat Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp facedown on the bottom half of a piece of wood patterned paper from the Wood Textures 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad.
9. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
10. Cover the cat part of the stamp with Post It Notes, use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to ink the cat's elbows and the line below him, remove the Post-It Note, and stamp onto the patterned paper.
11. Fussy-cut along the line below him and around his elbows. Use a N5 Copic marker to edge the top of the patterned paper.
12. Use Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the "Dreamer" sentiment from the Dreamer Sentiments Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set onto the wood patterned paper. 
13. Brush Lost Shadow, Speckled Ink, and Tattered Rose Distress Inks over a small piece of white cardstock. 
14. Use a speech bubble border die to cut the cardstock on a diagonal so that there's a right angle on the top right edge of the bubble border die-cut.
15. Use Summer Sky Memento Ink to to stamp the words "Joy" and "Peace" from the Seasonal Words Clear Polymer Stamp Set onto the thought bubble die-cut.
16. Use Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the "Happy New Year" sentiment stamps from the Holiday Quotes Unmounted Red Rubber Stamp Set onto the thought bubble border die-cut.
17. Remove the mask covering the Pensive Cat Stamp on the image panel. 
18. Adhere the thought bubble sentiment border die-cut to the upper right hand side of the image panel.
19. Adhere the stamped wood patterned paper to the lower left hand side of the image panel. 
20. Use an N5 marker to add a shadow below the Pensive Cat's elbows
21. Trim the combined panel to 4.75" x 6.75",  edge with Twilight VersaFine Clair Ink, and adhere to a navy 5" x 7" card.

Thanks for visiting today!