Topflight Stamps 7th Birthday Blog Hop - with Prizes!

Monday, March 25, 2024

It's Topflight Stamps 7th 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 beautiful talent from this group of amazing designers! There is a master list of Hop stops on the Topflight Stamps blog! If you came here from Colleen's blog, then you are on the right track. 

We are also Hopping on Instagram! You can start at the Topflight Stamps account @topflightstamps. And check out the bottom of my post for information on prizes as well as a 20% off sale!

For my card today, I was in a rainbow mood and created a quick and easy card, perfect for birthdays and other celebratory reasons as well. 

To get started, I took the celebrate word from the Birthday Wishes set from Visible Image and I stamped it repeatedly using rainbow colors using my Misti. I stamped and moved the paper down in my Misti.

After this stamping was done, I took one of the smaller sentiments in the same Birthday Wishes set and stamped it in my favorite Versafine Claire Nocturne ink. I trimmed this panel down, added it to a black layer which was then added to a white A2 notecard.
Some black enamel dots finish off the card.
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 April 1st. Winners will be announced on the Topflight Stamps blog on Monday, April 3rd. U.S.A winners only due to shipping issues. Good Luck!
Your next stop along the hop is Sara.

I hope you have a wonderful day. Thanks for your visit and crafty hugs! ~ Alanna

A fun Emboss Resist Technique

Monday, March 25, 2024

I am on the Topflight Stamps blog today with this fun card featuring a great emboss resist technique. Click here to see how it all came together. Believe it or not, my focal panel started out as white card stock. :)
I hope you have a wonderful day. Thanks for your visit and crafty hugs! ~ Alanna 


Spellbinders BetterPress Registration

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Hi friends. I have another card to share with you featuring the beautiful Blooming Garden press plate from Spellbinders. If you missed either of my first two posts using this set, click here and here.

This card is very clean and simple and all I did was ink up the press plates using black, red, and yellow inks. I mounted the pressed panel onto a piece of black card stock and then everything was added to a white A2 notecard. How great would a set of these be to give as a gift? 

I hope you have a wonderful day. Thanks for your visit and crafty hugs! ~ Alanna
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Celebrate with Spellbinders

Monday, March 11, 2024

Hello friends. I am excited to share this quick and easy card with you that features the brand-new Celebrate Flowers Registration press plate from Spellbinders, designed by Yana Smakula. 

To get started, I took the Celebrate Flowers press plate and inked it up with the Tropic Blue Pearlescent Ink from Spectrum Noir and the black BetterPress ink using the guide that is included in the set to get the perfect placement for the florals. 

After this was done, I die cut the panel using one of the Stylish Oval dies.

I took a piece of patterned paper from my stash and added it to a white A2 notecard. I then added my focal panel with foam tape and finished off the card with some heart gems.

I hope you have a wonderful day. Thanks for your visit and crafty hugs! ~ Alanna
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Spellbinders BetterPress Inspiration

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Hi friends. I'm back today with a card featuring the beautiful Sealed Florals BetterPress plate from Spellbinders. To get started, I took a piece of their Porcelain cotton card panels and lightly blended on some blue and pink inks. I then pressed on the floral image from the Sealed Florals set using the BetterPress black ink which is part of the Regal Tones ink set. The sentiment is from a different press plate set, the A Little Message Sentiments press plate and die set.

I die cut this panel using one of the dies from the Labels Eight set. I then took the Circle Illusions 3D embossing folder and ran it through my Platinum 6 machine with white card stock. I trimmed it down to just smaller than A2 size and added it to a white A2 notecard. 

I added on my focal panel with some thin foam tape and some silver gems finish off this card.


I hope you have a wonderful day. Thanks for your visit and crafty hugs! ~ Alanna 
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Having fun with Dinkles

Friday, March 1, 2024

Hello friends. I have a fun card to share with you today using some Dinkles Ink Powders from Lavinia. If you've never heard of these, they are very pigmented powders that react with water. 

To get started, I took a piece of watercolor card stock and added some Blueberry and Blue Dragon Dinkles powders on top of it. You just need a little bit. I then spritzed the panel with lots of water. I did this a couple of times, making sure to dry my panel in between. 

Once the panel was dry and I was happy with it, I die cut it using the Twinkle Swirl die from Whimsy Stamps. I then die cut the same die from some grey card stock. I added the colorful background to an A2 notecard and then inlaid the center portions of the grey piece in. I then took the Hello Word and Shadow die set and die cut both layers from the same grey card stock and added it on top of everything and that completes this fun card.
I hope you have a wonderful day. Thanks for your visit and crafty hugs! ~ Alanna 
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Spellbinders Press & Place Registration

Monday, February 26, 2024

Hello friends. So, Spellbinders came out with a collection of two press plates, in their Press & Place Registration collection. These plates are brilliant because with the template that is provided, you can create a colorful background like this with multiple colors. The template assures that you line up each of the press plates in just the right spot. If you missed my first card using this set, click here

For this card, I am using the Blooming Garden press plate. I inked it up with several colors and then die cut the panel using a die from the Essential Arches die set. I then took a piece of patterned paper from Lawn Fawn and added it to a white A2 notecard. I added the focal image with foam tape and added in some gold gems to finish off the card. 



I hope you have a wonderful day. Thanks for your visit and crafty hugs! ~ Alanna 
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