Rocket Man - Craft Roulette #266

Hello friends!  I am trying something new.  I have been watching Craft Roulette for awhile and always play along in my head. Meaning, I see what the parameters are and then think about what kind of card I would make and submit.  Well... I am finally jumping in and this is going to be my first submission.  If you don't know what Craft Roulette is, stop by their website and take a peak.  

The short of it is; it is a weekly challenge, Mary Gunn FUNN has a guest and the two of them make a card based on particular parameters.  To get the parameters, they spin a roulette wheel and what it lands on is the parameter of a particular category.  

This weeks parameters are:

Project - A7 Card - My card is an A-7 luckily because there is a lot on it.
Colors - Floral Wreath -  I chose very bright colors
Element - Lyric(S) - Rocket Man by Elton John
Random - Cinco - I have five planets on my card

All of the dies and stencils are from Trinity Stamps.

For this card, I inked the background with Mermaid Lagoon, Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide Ink.  I started with a piece of cardstock cut to 5" x 7".  As I was inking the card I was thinking about a way I could you the Starfield Letterpress Die.  I figured that I could make it work if I cut down my background to 4.5" x 6.5" if I had a border at the bottom.  So I cut  down my inked background and foiled it using the Silver Holographic Speckles from Spellbinders. I also blended the edges with Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink to create more of an outer space sky.

I used the Crater Layers Layering Stencil & Coordinating Die Set to add a moon surface for the bottom of my card.  I used the die in the set to cut out the border from yellow cardstock and then I used the stencil with some Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide Ink to add the craters, cracks and creases.  

I cut the Astronaut using paper cardstock scrap and the Tiny Astronaut Die Set.  I always like to dust my die cut edges with a little Distress Oxide Ink.  The ink colors I used for him are, Hickory Smoke and Chipped Sapphire.  

My rocket is cut from scrap cardstock using the Blast Off Die Set.  I used Hickory Smoke, Carved Pumpkin, and Fired Brick Distress Oxide Ink to dust the edges.  

My planets are cut from the planets that are included in the Flight Deck Die Set.  Again, they were cut from scrap and I used the same colors as on the rocket and Astronaut except I added Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide Ink.

For my lettering, I used the Graham Cracker Alphabet Die Set with a fairly bright orange cardstock.

To finish my card, I glued the planets to the background and popped up the rocket and Astronaut with foam dots to give my card just a little dimension.  Once everything was put together, I glued the finished piece to a piece of black cardstock that was cut to 5" x 7".

I am over the moon crazy about this card!  I think it turned out adorbs.  I was a bit intimidated by the A-7 size, but I needed every bit of that surface area.

I have a process video on my YouTube Channel if you want more detail.  It is linked below.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have an amazing day!

Sandy