Thursday, March 25, 2021

Topflight Stamps 4th Bday Blog Hop

It's Topflight Stamps' 4th birthday!  They are celebrating with a fun blog hop, and they invited me to hop too - how fun is that?! If you're not familiar with Topflight Stamps, I hope you'll check out their site - they carry hard-to-find and beautiful products from all over the world, bringing them to one place so we can buy them soooo easily. 

They're heroes.




Today, I hope you'll enjoy the hop! Everyone has made a beautiful project or two with a birthday theme to celebrate. If you're already hopping, you should have arrived here from Jennie Atkinson's blog. If not, you might want to start at the Topflight Stamps blog to take it from the top!

I have 2 cards to share, because I got excited about the choices! 


I thought a "Make a Wish" theme would be fun for a birthday celebration, so I went down a rabbit hole of dandelion stamps - there are some gorgeous sets as well as a few of my favorite Lavinia fairies to choose from!  I began by layering in the dandelion images from this gorgeous Hobby Art set in pale hybrid inks, building up a moody background. I sponged and watercolored from the bottom edge to ground the scene, then added more stamping in darker colors to build up the foreground. I tore a piece of junk mail to create a mask for the ground and brushed grey ink along the bottom.


The darker stamping is done with Versafine Clair ink in grey. On the centers of the dandelions I dotted with a paint pen and then with acrylic paint for a little brighter effect. If you were holding the card, you'd see where I made a little glitter trail where she's blowing - it's very sweet and sparkly and hard to photograph! 


I added a little curve to the banner - and I love that tiny little seed floating above the 'i' in wish! Beautiful stamp set.


While I was looking at Lavinia stamps, my jaw dropppppped at the sight of this gorgeous moth stamp, so I had to have it too - I'm recently obsessed with moths, especially these beautiful and rare lunas, and the detail on this stamp is just fabulous. This is a slimline card too (3.5" x 8.5") so you can see it's a really large image as well!

I stamped the moth in Versafine Clair ink and embossed with clear powder, then misted the panel with water and did a broad watercolor wash. To add texture to the painted area, I laid a piece of bubble wrap over the paper for a few minutes... normally I'd let it dry overnight but I didn't have that much time! It still added some neat texture to the background. (If you'd like to see a tutorial with more ideas for that technique, I have a really fun one HERE.)


I added a little shadowing with a Copic marker and some colored pencils to pop the moth a little. The sentiment is from a block of birthday sentiments made by Darkroom Door, another favorite company! 


Topflight Products I used:


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NOW for the fun stuff!! Of course, it wouldn’t be a birthday celebration without prizes

Smiley from Millan.Net

Topflight Stamps is giving one lucky winner a $100 Gift Certificate to the store. But wait, there is more, each stop on the hop (even mine!!) 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!

If you can't wait to shop, go nowwww - the entire store is 20% off!


From here you'll be hopping on to Kathi Rerek's blog - thank you for visiting me today!

Thanks for stopping by!





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52 comments:

  1. TWO gorgeous cards!! (although the dandelion one is my fav 'big heart here') Thank you so much for participating in the Hop Dina. =)

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  2. Hi Dina, Thank you for sharing. 🌻

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  3. The background you created on the Lavinia card is amazing and the whole scene is magical. That moth and the detail is so beautiful.

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  4. Two for the price of one!, love Lavinia stamps, I can understand your attraction to the moth, quite a stunning card!

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  5. Both are great cards! I especially love the colors on the moth card. From Laura P, in case it shows up as unknown

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  6. Absolutely stunning!! I thought the moth was a die cut layered onto the card - the dimension you created is beautiful!!

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  7. You hit it out of the park with these! I love the dandelion card. The moth is awesome.

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  8. Both cards are lovely but that Luna moth is gorgeous!! I'm sure it'll find its way to my wishlist (along with most of TopFlight!)!!

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  9. Both cards are so lovely! What a fun idea to use the bubble wrap for some texture.

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  10. Your projects are amazing.

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  11. Gorgeous cards! I love that beautiful, bold moth.

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  12. Love your moth card. The back ground turned out beautiful!

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  13. Two beautiful cards. Thanks for giving me ideas!

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  14. I love the cards, and the Lavinia stamps. I'm glad I found you along this blog hop!

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  15. Haha! I go into the rabbit hole many times, maybe I’ll see ya there sometime?! Love the cards! The moth is stunning! Love the bubble wrap technique, I need to try that. Thanks!

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  16. Love the muted colors of the first card. Both are equally beautiful though

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  17. Thanks for the tip on how to use my junk mail. Who knew?

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  18. I love the idea of adding texture into the watercolor wash! Really creative and beautiful, as are both of your cards. I'm happy to see you join the hop and appreciate the encouraging verse at your blog footer. Hugs, Autumn

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  19. What a beautiful Lavinia image and I love that you went down the dandelion rabbit hole! This card has such an atmospheric quality and the soft colors really enhance the scene! Lovely!

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  20. Great tips!! Thanks! Awesome looking cards.

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  21. Love love love both of these cards. But the first is so ethereal. Just so softly done. Just gorgeous.

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  22. LOVE the idea of the "Make a wish" card...and especially love the glitter trail! Clever! That moth is pretty special...thanks for sharing both of your cards! Happy Birthday to Top Flight!!!

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  23. Gorgeous cards! I love the fairy and dandelions, and your moth card is so beautiful! Awesome colors!

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  24. Both cards are really beautiful and very different from one another. That moth is absolutely gorgeous and is going onto my wish list!

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  25. I love the complexity of the simplicity.

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  26. bubble wrap is always fun loved your application of it.

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  27. pretty butterfly and I love the texture that gives to the background!

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  28. I love the bubble wrap technique; I will have to try it. Love, love, love the slimline moth card.

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  29. Lots of wonderful techniques and two super cards.

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  30. Two cards is twice as nice! The Luna moth is my fav....I love the effects you got with the bubble stuff and colors.

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  31. Beautiful cards and that moth stamp is gorgeous!

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  32. Gorgeous cards Dina, I especially love the moth card.

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  33. aren't those stamps awesome - love your cards!

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  34. Your cards are so lovely! Thank you for sharing.

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  35. What a great idea--we all have bubble wrap these days. LOVE the look

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  36. This is so pretty!! love your background!!

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  37. love your super cards, Dina:)

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  38. I adore Lavinia stamps, and you have created two stunning cards with them as focal points. Your multilayered moody background is incredible-such depth.

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  39. Dina! Thanks for your idea with the bubblewrap! I had used it once - but I simply put ink on the wrap and then stamped the wrap onto my background. Now, I can try it your way! Thanks!

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  40. Your cards are gorgeous. Love the idea of using bubble wrap for texture!

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  41. Great shares. I like the moth and it's background.

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  42. Wow!! You made an amazing cards, Dina! Thank you for sharing 😊

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  43. Beautiful! I love the bubble wrap texture.

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  44. 2 Beautiful and stunning cards!!! Gorgeous!

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  45. Great idea with the Bubblewrap! Always so nice when you get new ideas to use! The cards are so lovely!

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  46. I love your bubble wrap technique and the beautiful moth!! Thanks for sharing.

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  47. Wonderful cards and very different from each other. I like having one, large image as the focal point.

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  48. Dandelion Fairy and butterfly awesomeness..... Happy Birthday TopFlight Stamps!!!!

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  49. Gorgeous card Dina and I love the luna month and your beautiful background! So pretty!

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