Thursday, March 25, 2021

Topflight Stamps 4th Birthday Blog Hop!

It's Topflight Stamps 4th 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 Cornelia Wenokor's blog. If not, no worries, catch the details below. I also have a video so you can follow along with me. You can see it below or link to it here. 
 
 
I am not a card maker but I managed this mixed media explosion of color & I kinda love it! Yes basically an art journal page for a card but it counts! I also had so much fun making this & may have gotten carried away. I kinda like when that happens. 
 

Here is the logo for our birthday hop. I hope you play along cause you can win prizes! Don't forget the awesome sale too! 
 
I did make a wee video for you to play along with me. I hope you pull out some of your supplies too. This card can easily be changed up to be a tag, an art journal page or a piece to put in your junk journal. 
 

So fun to use multiple products on this card. Don't you love playing with all the things? 
 
 
I do go over all the techniques in my video but here is a quick rundown for you. The magic of Art By Marlene's collage paper is the base to this kraft card stock card. I used a large craft scraper called stencil pal to apply the glue. It's a new way for me but I kinda like it. All the supplies & links to product are below. 
 

Stamp your focal image in archival ink. This cute cupcake stamp is PaperArtsy by Jofy. Perfect for any celebration. Using the new Lavinia Ink pads or a die based ink put some on your palette with a small spritz of water. Take a water brush & simply water color the image. Mixing these ink colors also gives you a larger palette as you can see in my video. For the frosting only the lines were colored.
 

Once the image was completely dry adding some chunky emboss for the frosting seemed logical. Crystal Glaze emboss by Andy Skinner has all sorts of mixed chunky goodness. Different blues, greens & copper it is very dynamic. Use a paint brush & embossing ink put on your palette. Try & avoid the lines of the frosting image but you can always use a paint marker to add them back in as I did. 
 

Both my focal image & the card Using washi tape is always the right answer. When adhering my paper crooked the bottom of the paper was torn so adding a strip of washi was a quick fix! 
 
 
Next up let's add some stamping. After the image was adhered down with double sided tape, multiple stamp "celebrate" quotes were made to give me some options. Darkroom Door Labels & Christmas sentiment stamp were perfect. My quote was easy to find using Art By Marlene's sticky quotes. Now we are getting somewhere.
 

Time to add some background stamping! Sometimes I do this at the beginning of making my background but today it was done after the card was almost complete. To keep the images from being to dark they were stamped once on card stock & then stamped on my background using lighter pressure. Bonus is left over collage fodder. A few different stamps by Seth Apter worked well. 


That is it! My card is complete & ready to be sent. I actually think I will put it in my Photo Journal with pictures on the inside of the card, from this years family birthdays. Thanks so much for joining me today. Read below for the prize info, the supply list & the link list. I hope you get a chance to get inky! 

Supply List
Of course, it wouldn’t be a birthday celebration without prizes! Topflight Stamps is giving one lucky winner a $100 Gift Certificate to the store. But wait, there is more, each stop on the hop has an additional $25 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 29th. Winners will be announced on the Topflight Stamps blog on March 31st. Good Luck!
 
***this contest is closed my winner of $25 is #15- Deb Bacon
 
Follow along here and if you get lost you can always go to the Topflight Stamp Blog. 

55 comments:

  1. I love your explosion card Karen! =)

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  2. Hi Karen, Thank you for sharing 🌻🎂.

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  3. I love mixed media and all the different elements going on. Love your card!!

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  4. Love all the component parts of your card, they come together so well.
    Always looking for new inspiration.

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  5. Great mixed media card that anyone would be thrilled to receive! From Laura P, in case it shows up as unknown

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  6. I adore this card! And I think your idea of using it as a keeping spot for all the birthday celebrations is a GREAT idea :)

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  7. What a beautiful card! I love the colors!

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  8. LOVE your mixed media card!! The step by step instructions were great. Will be following your blog (and adding items to my wishlist!)

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  9. I love this. This could also be made into a journal page.

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  10. This is a nice bright happy card.

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  11. Beautiful! I love that cupcake stamp and the embossed frosting.

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  12. What a fun card! I am just getting into mixed media so this was fun to watch!

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  13. Cool card! I have that cupcake stamp too- thanks for the ideas!

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  14. I love it when art forms collide! What a fun process, and a great card that showcases a neat sampling of many products and skills. Happy birthday to Topflight!

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  15. I enjoyed your "mixed media" approach to card making, and have subscribed to your blog! Looking forward to learning some new techniques!

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  16. Such a happy card. Great idea to use the scrapper with glue. Thanks for sharing.

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  17. Love it!! I always admire people that can do this. I always feel I need to be perfect and then it doesn’t look right, needs to be just random. Good job!

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  18. You definitely hit all the spots with this fun mixed media card. Nothing better then being able to drag out all the fun supplies and getting lost for a couple hours. Thanks for sharing.

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  19. Great creation. New term for me "collage fodder". Love that.

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  20. What a fun and creative mixed media make Karen! I'm delighted to be on the TFS DT with you and always enjoy seeing your creativity on display. Hugs, Autumn

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  21. AMAZING! I love the mixed media explosion background paired with the sentiment strips and the image block! All of the components are perfectly paired!

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  22. VERY cool~love the mixed media look!!

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  23. Oh my, how fun was that to create! Love the free form design!

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  24. Thank you for sharing. I don't usually do mixed media but anyone would love to receive this card so I might give it a try.

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  25. Wow! Love these colorful backgrounds, and each card so different! A lot of new ideas! Thank you for sharing! Love this card!!!

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  26. Love your fun mixed media card! The cupcake stamp is awesome! Love the colors and textures!

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  27. So many wonderful details and elements in your wonderful card/journal page! Off to go watch the video in a bit.

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  28. Love your mixed media card so bright and cheery

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  29. As a former card maker turned art journaler, this card speaks to my heart. Love this! How fun!

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  30. mixed media explosions are the best kind of fun

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  31. I love all the layers and details on your card. Great flow!

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  32. A great explosion! Wonderful card Karen x

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  33. Great card! from Fonda R. using my wife's computer

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  34. Best video in a long time... just love how your card turned out

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  35. Wowza! An explosion of color, design elements and the card just screams JOY! BRAVO

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  36. Beautiful card! Love the background so much!

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  37. Fabulous mixed media - love it all!

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  38. WOW, you put the images and colors together so expertly. What a great look.

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  39. What a fun card! So bright ! I love the compliment of the black stitching

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  40. beautiful work - thanks for sharing

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  41. I love the chunky embossing powder on the icing and the washi
    Tape fix/embellishment! The video process was great to watch.

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  42. Hee-hee - Thanks for the ideas to make corrections when something hasn't worked out exactly as you had planned! And...I do have washi tape!

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  43. Karen, such a super cool card, I just love it! Thanks for sharing

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  44. Such a super cool card Karen, I love it!

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  45. Beautiful card! Love the chunky glaze on the cupcake

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  46. I love the colors and mixed media!

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  47. I really enjoy the addition of the mixed media. It's a style I'd like to add more of to my cards.

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  48. Really cool card!! Thank you for sharing! ❤️

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  49. Wow!! LOVE your explosion of colors and the cute cupcake!! This is gorgeous!!!!

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  50. So cool—thanks for the video!

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  51. I have to say it was fun watching you place things on your card and then move them around indecisively. I do that.all the time! I really like your card, especially the cupcake and words stamp and the way you “watercolored” them. Thanks for sharing and taking the time to create a video too.

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  52. Fund color and fun card, Karen. Your style of journaling gets the creative juices flowing. We are only limited by our supplies.

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  53. Love your collage of Birthday fun, especially the cupcake! Happy 4th TopFlight!

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  54. I love the collage you created and all the wonderful colors! Great job!

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