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You will need
● white 17x12.5cm card blank
● white & maroon cardstock
● Best of British A4 stamp set
& stencil with Creative Stamping
issue 84
● IndigoBlu Fly High & Dinkie
Aloysius stamp sets
● Peacock Feathers & Worn
Lipstick Ranger Tim Holtz
Distress Oxide Ink
● Peacock Feathers Ranger
Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink
● Antique Linen & Tea Dye Ranger
Tim Holtz Distress Ink
● Onyx Black VersaFine inkpad
● gold embossing powder
● ink-blending tool
● heat tool
● masking tape
● 3D foam pads
● circle dies
● manual die-cutting machine
Simply make
1 Stamp the bear on white
cardstock twice using Onyx
Black ink. Quickly gold heat-
emboss the crown on one of
the images. Die-cut the other
into a circle, colour in and blend
Worn Lipstick ink around the
edge. Cut out the gold crown
and af x over the bear’s head.
2 Stamp the sentiment from the
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Queen for a day
You will need
● white 12.5x17cm card blank
● white & maroon cardstock
● mixed-media cardstock
● Best of British A4 stamp set &
stencil with Creative Stamping
issue 84A4 stamp set in Onyx Black
and gold heat-emboss, then
die-cut into a circle and blend
ink around the edge as in
Step 1.
3 Tape the stencil to white
cardstock and blend
Worn Lipstick ink from the
outside edges in. Keeping
the stencil in position, stamp
cogs from the Fly High set● Onyx Black VersaFine inkpad
● ink-blending tool
● masking tape
● water spritzer
● water brush
● distressing tool
● 3D foam padsSimply make
1 Tape the stencil over a piece
of mixed-media cardstock and
ink through the ag, starting
dark on the outside and going
lighter in the centre. Spritz
with water and blot dry with
kitchen paper to lift some of
the colour.
2 Stamp small planes plus the
phrase ‘Fly High’ repeatedly
across the panel in the
portrait position. Use rst- and
second-generation stamping
an the aged look.
3 Trim around the panel and
use a distressing tool to
break up the bres around
the edge, then brush with
Chipped Sapphire ink. Use
3D foam pads to af x to whitethrough the stencil to make a
pattern. Once complete, trim
the image.
4 Use Mermaid Lagoon ink
to stamp ‘Happy Birthday’
across the ag then layer
onto maroon cardstock,
trimming a narrow border.
Use 3D foam pads to layer
onto a white rectangle.
5 Blend Mermaid LagoonDistress Oxide Ink around the
edge of white cardstock cut
to t the card blank. Stamp
the crown and sentiment from
the A4 set randomly around
to create a tone-on-tone
background then af x to
the card blank.
6 Add the inked ag with the
bear and sentiment toppers
using 3D foam pads to nish.● IndigoBlu Fly High stamp set
● Faded Jeans & Chipped
Sapphire Ranger Tim Holtz
Distress Oxide Ink
● Antique Linen & Pumice Stone
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Inkcardstock, then trim a narrow
border. Adhere to a larger
maroon rectangle and af x to
the card blank.
4 Colour cardstock with Antique
Linen ink then stamp the
plane from the A4 set and add
shadow using Pumice Stone
ink, using a waterbrush to
apply the ink as watercolour.
Cut out and af x to the card
front using 3D foam pads.
5 Colour cardstock with Antique
Linen ink and stamp the
sentiment in black. Matt and
layer in the same way as the
panel and af x to the card
front to nish.IndigoBlu stamps
are available from
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