Topflight Stamps Hop - Happy 5th Birthday!
It's Topflight Stamps' 5th 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 with us and see all the beautiful talent from this group of amazing designers - I love being invited to hop along! If you're not familiar with Topflight Stamps, they have the most amazing collection of hard-to-get products from outside the US all in one convenient online shop!
If you're already hopping you should have arrived here from Kathi Rerek's blog. If you came to my blog because you're a follower and you want to view the full hop, click on over to the Topflight Stamps Blog for the full list!
I combined several sets to make this fairy scene, and fully enjoyed the process of layering brushed inks and stamped images. I started by stamping the characters lightly to orient my scene, then masked the ground to focus on the background first. Once I had all the background foliage in, I brushed in the ground and restamped the characters in black. Next I framed in the scene with black grass and branches, and added in highlights with a white Posca pen.
I loved adding all the details, but what really makes this scene is the warm yellow glow from the lantern! Mostly Versafine Clair there.
I couldn't stop with one card - I had to have this 80's-loving lemur stamp... I mean... do you have one? He's amazing.
Coloring is done with layered watercolors, and I added more fur details and shadows with colored pencils. I watercolored through a stencil to create the background. I'll link all the Topflight products below!
Find it at Topflight Stamps!
Studio Light - A6 - Just Lou - Aviation 10 (disc.)
But wait! There's more!
It wouldn’t be a birthday celebration without prizes! Topflight Stamps is giving one lucky winner a $50 Gift Certificate to the store. In addition, 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 April 3rd - more comments = more chances to win! Winners will be announced on the Topflight Stamps blog on April 7th. Good Luck!
There's also a sale to celebrate the big day - 20% off, no code necessary! (Please note - Topflight is only able to ship to the US and Canada at this time.)
the Topflight blog
Kathi Rerek
Dina Kowal <<<<<<< you're here!
Esther Asbury
Annette Allen
Jennie Atkinson
Rachel Kleinman
Connie Mercer
Charmaine Canham
Lisa Hoel
Jenny Marples
Cornelia Wenokor
Rachel Greig
Ericka Strange
Karen Bearse
Melina Dahl
Autumn Clark
Maria Willis
Angela Myhre
Kathi Rerek
Dina Kowal <<<<<<< you're here!
Esther Asbury
Annette Allen
Jennie Atkinson
Rachel Kleinman
Connie Mercer
Charmaine Canham
Lisa Hoel
Jenny Marples
Cornelia Wenokor
Rachel Greig
Ericka Strange
Karen Bearse
Melina Dahl
Autumn Clark
Maria Willis
Angela Myhre
When you shop through the affiliate links used here, the company sends a small commission my way at no cost to you as thanks for the referral.
It's a lovely way to partner with these companies that mean so much to our creative community. Everybody wins!
It's a lovely way to partner with these companies that mean so much to our creative community. Everybody wins!
Hi Dina, really great goob on your cards, I like the lemur the most thank you
ReplyDeleteboth cards are great but I especially love the Lavinia one
ReplyDeleteI love both your cards, your details are amazing!
ReplyDeleteWow! Those are both incredible! Wow 😍
ReplyDeleteSuper cute cards!
ReplyDeleteSuch neat cards! Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeletelove the images on your cards - jsut darling
ReplyDeleteI just love that dog with the headset. Too cute!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous cards. Your coloring and color choices are awesome.
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are great but I love the Aviation dog? with thd darkroom door sentiment. So detailed!
ReplyDeleteI'm correcting myself; guess this cute guy is a lemur!
ReplyDeleteLove the Lemur card. I think my kids would love the 1980's era cards.
ReplyDeleteLove the mixed media feel the cards have. Beautiful work!
ReplyDeleteTwo awesome cards! I love the way you created these scenes!
ReplyDeleteYour fairy card is magical!
ReplyDeleteLove these cards. The fairies are awesome and I love the details of the background. The lemur are hilarious! Great job.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed both cards, but I have a special place for anything fairy, so that one was especially wonderful. Great, magical colors.
ReplyDeleteLove the fairies! Beautiful details and colors on your scene! The lemur card is so fun... great coloring! Love the cards you created!
ReplyDeleteCute cards. I love the colors on both!
ReplyDeleteLove the background you created to make your fairies stand out. And your Lemur listening to the birthday song....
ReplyDeleteGreat card and great job on adding the fur detail on the lemur.
ReplyDeleteYou created a delightful fairy scene with that glowing background and little fairies. Was unaware of the Lemur stamp. Cute depiction of him rockin out. Great cards!!
ReplyDeleteDina, your cards are adorable...Great work!!
ReplyDeleteWow - your fairy card is just stunning!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a FUN scene you've created with these sweet images. Thanks for the awesome inspiration.
ReplyDeleteMagical and fun cards.
ReplyDeleteLovely cards! I love how magical your first card is!!!
ReplyDeleteboth cards are fab Dina! =)
ReplyDeletelove the color choices.. they are awesome cards
ReplyDeletethese cards are so much fun.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards and that lemur is so awesome!!!
ReplyDeleteWOW - Just beautiful! I love the colors in your background!
ReplyDeleteTwo lovely cards, the texture on the first background is fab, thanks for the inspiration.
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