Topflight Stamps 9th Birthday Blog Hop

It's Topflight Stamps 9th birthday and to celebrate, I’ve teamed up with some great designers to showcase celebratory projects using the unique products available at Topflight Stamps. Please hop along with us and see all the inspiring talent from this group of amazing designers! There is a master list of Hop stops on the Topflight Stamps blog! We are also Hopping on Instagram! You can start at the Topflight Stamps account @topflightstamps .

Did we mention there will be prizes?

GIVEAWAY DETAILS

Of course, it wouldn’t be a birthday celebration without prizes! Topflight Stamps is giving four lucky winners $50 Gift Certificates to the store. Two winners will be chosen from commenters on the blog hop and two will be chosen from commenters on the IG hop. For a chance to win, make sure to visit the stops on the hop and leave a comment by March 31st. Winners will be announced on the Topflight Stamps blog on Thursday, April 2nd. U.S.A winners only due to shipping issues. Good Luck!

Topflight Stamps

Kathi Rerek

Dina Kowal

Esther Asbury

Annette Allen

Lisa Hoel

Connie Mercer

Gwen Lafleur

Colleen Dietrich - you are here!!

Ericka Strange

Autumn Clark

Alanna Moses

My birthday card features lots of dazzling shine.  I made an inky background on a piece of watercolor cardstock using Lindy's Stamp Gang Moon Shadow Mist Gossamer Gold spray.  Love how it gives both a walnut color AND a shimmery gold too.  I stamped some hydrangeas and leaves from Hobby Art Stamps Hydrangea with VersaFine Onyx Black ink in random spots on the panel.  Then I stenciled some pretty glitter through the PaperArtsy PS323 Sara Naumann numbers/letters stamp in a few places.  On a scrap of white cardstock, I used the Crealies Double Stitched Rectangle and die cut a piece for my sentiment (from the Hydrangea stamp set too).  The rectangle was cut in half and edges were inked.  The final touch was a snippet of crochet lace.  

Supplies From Topflight Stamps:

Hobby Art Stamps - Hydrangea

PaperArtsy - PS323 - Sara Naumann

Spectrum Noir Glitter Paste

Lindy's Stamp Gang - Moon Shadow Mist - Gossamer Gold

Crealies Double Stitched Rectangle Dies

VersaFine Onyx Black ink

Thanks for joining us on our hop!!  Good luck!

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

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!

Snowy Cottage

Hello!  Today I am sharing a snowy card with goodies from Topflight Stamps.  It's still cold where I live, and there is snow on the ground, and that inspired this wintry scene.

The cute little house is Crafty Individuals "Little Cottage In The Snow".  I stamped it with Versafine Onyx Black on patterned paper, then trimmed it out.  With a Crealies Stitched Rectangle die, I created a mat out of gold cardstock and mounted the cottage image on there.  The mat beneath that is a panel of white brick patterned paper from Craft Consortium Brick Textures paper pad.

I stamped little snowflakes from Studio Light - Vintage Winter Elements - Vintage Christmas stamp set on patterned paper and fussy-cut those out to add around the framed cottage.  Using a toothpick, I added dots of "snow" with Lavinia Snow White Chalk Paint all over the scene.

Last touch was a sentiment, which is from Creative Expressions Joyful Wishes, stamped twice.

 Supplies used from Topflight Stamps Store:

Crafty Individuals Little Cottage In The Snow

Studio Light - Vintage Winter Elements - Vintage Christmas 

Creative Expressions Joyful Wishes

Craft Consortium Brick Textures

Lavinia Chalk Paint - Snow White

Crealies Double Stitched Rectangle Dies

Versafine Onyx Black Ink

Thanks so much for joining me today!