Happy 3rd Birthday Topflight Stamps!! Let's Hop!

Welcome Topflight Hoppers!! It's Topflight Stamps 3rd birthday and to celebrate, I’ve teamed up with some great designers to showcase birthday cards using the unique products available at Topflight Stamps. Please hop along with us and see all the beautiful talent from this group of amazing designers! You should have arrived here from the Topflight Stamps blog. If not, no worries, catch the details below.

I made a fun mixed media robot birthday card for my project! Scroll past all the Hop info to find the background tutorial. Be sure to leave a comment to be eligible for my blog prize and the grand prize.

I was having so much fun I made a matching ATC too using the same techniques:

Follow along here and if you get lost you can always start at the Topflight Stamp Blog. 

Topflight Stamps
Lisa Hoel
Jennie Atkinson <<<<<NEXT
Cornelia Wenokor
Jenny Colacicco 
Karen Bearse
Dina Kowal
Kathi Rerek
Connie Mercer
Toni Maddox
Lindsay Weirich
Ericka Strange
Jenny Marples
Autumn Clark
Rachel Greig 

GIVEAWAY DETAILS

Of course, it wouldn’t be a birthday celebration without prizes!  Topflight Stamps is giving one lucky winner a $50 Gift Certificate to the store. But wait, there is more, each stop on the hop has an additional $15 Gift Certificate up for grabs for some lucky commenter.  For a chance to win, make sure to visit every stop on the hop and leave a comment by March 28th. Winners will be announced on the Topflight Stamps blog on March 31st.  Good Luck! Check out the sale at the store too!! 25% off your whole order!

Here is the tutorial for the background and a supply list:

Step 1 - I used a piece of heavy manila folder for my substrate. I base coated it with Stone and Mahogany Fresco Paint.

Step 2 - I wanted to give Andy Skinner's Cosmic Shimmer Resist Paste a try. (see his video about it here if you like) It works well! Once my first layer of paint was nice and dry, I used a stencil and blending brush to apply the paste.

Step 3 – Once the paste was applied, I painted over it with another layer of paint and then let that layer dry.

Step 4 - I used a damp baby wipe to remove the paint that was on top of the resist paste:

Cool beans!

Step 5 –  After applying texture paste through another stencil, I sprinkled the wet paste with Patina Oxide embossing powder and let it dry. One slight annoyance, the resist paste was still a bit tacky and grabbed some of the embossing powder. Once the texture paste was dry, I just used a dry paint brush to remove some of the extra powder. When I made the ATC background, the painted base sat around overnight before I did the embossing powder step and I had no trouble with excess powder sticking. (fyi)

Texture Paste added.

Sprinkled with embossing powder.

Step 6 - After melting the embossing powder, I gave the whole card front a wash of thinned out Paynes Grey acrylic paint. It unified the background and pooled around the raised areas which made them pop out more. The robot was stamped, watercolored, fussy cut and then attached to a Wobbler so it really pops off the card and moves around.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the Hop!! Comment below for a chance to win!

Supplies used:

Topflight Stamps Products:
Visible Image - Robot Data
Paper Rose - Cog Frame Border Die Set
Stamperia stencil - Microchip
Visible Image Stencil - Short Circuit
Prism Embossing Ink
Versafine Ink - Onyx Black
Seth Apter embossing powder - Patina Oxide
Cosmic Shimmer Resist Paste
Wobblers
Ink Blenders
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paint - Stone, Mahogany, Dusty Teal, French Roast
ATC greyboard blanks

watercolors
Tim Holtz Mini Fasteners
Tim Holtz Distress Mica Spray - Tarnished Brass
Ranger Texture Paste - Opaque Matte

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