Hello! Oh my goodness these little Astro-Gnomes are so very adventurous. Today I have a gate fold card featuring the new release from Trinity Stamps. Have I mentioned that I love Gnomes in general but I love coloring and creating with the Gnomes Trinity Stamps make. Love, love, love them.
I had set out to make an arch card using the Arch Shaped Card Die Set, but my die cutting machine wasn't big enough to hand the die that cuts the actual arch card. Yikes! Well I am not one to give up easily. I cut a piece of cardstock 5.0" x 11" and scored it at 4.75". I folded it in half, taped an arch shape just off the edge at the fold and ran it through my die cut machine. Ta! Da!
I placed the card, opened up, in my paper trimmer and trimmed off 2.375" from the bottom to the fold. I used my scissors to trim top of the arch off to create the gate fold.
Next I cut two pieces of white cardstock 2.5" x 5.0". I placed the border die from the Crater Layers Stencil and Die set along the top them and ran it through my die cut machine. I will ink one of them with Mustard Seed Distress Oxide Ink and use the stencil with Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide Ink to add the craters and crevasses.
I want the moon surface to carry through to the inside of the card, so to ink that, I needed to cut a mask using the same border die from a piece of scrap cardstock. I will use a piece of low tack tap to hold the mask in place and then I will ink the inside of the card the same way I just inked the front moon piece.
Next, I masked off the bottom and proceeded to ink blend my nighttime sky. I used Tumbled Glass, Broken China and Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide to blend the sky. Once I had it blended, I spritzed it with the water and blotted it with paper towel.
I applied the moon surface to the front gate of the card and trimmed off the excess using my ruler and rotary cutter. I applied my images starting with the rocket ship. The ink from my coloring had bled through to the back of my images, so I cut out the shapes of the images using blank white cardstock to cover the backs and then trimmed the second moon piece that I cut to the right size and adhered it over the pieces that covered the rocket and the Gnome's balloons.
I heat embossed the sentiment on the inside panel using black embossing powder.
The images are from the Astronomical Gnomes and You're Stellar stamp sets. They are colored with Copic markers in the following colors;
Y13,
Y15,Y17
V01,
V04, V06, V09
C0,
C2, C4, C6
YR65,
YR68, R17
RV21,
RV14, RV29
BG11,
BG13, BG45
G03,
G09, FBG2, BG05, BG02 - Earth Balloon
I adhered my flying Gnome and then added a few stars that were cut from silver glittered cardstock. I used the die from the Crater Layer Stencil Dies.
In order to "beef up" the back panel and cover the ink that had gotten on it, I cut another arch shape and glued it to the back.
This is such a fun card! I love everything about it!
Thank you for stopping by today. I have made a YouTube Video if you would like to see the process of making this card. I will post a link at the bottom of this post.
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