You're Stellar!

 

Greetings!!!  Today I have a card with a trio of Martians looking for a stellar friend and apparently they looked every where!

This past fall, I became aware of the Copic Airbrush System and I have been playing around with it on a few different cards.  It  is perfect for backgrounds if I am looking for a particular color that can't be found in my stamp pad collection and makes it easy to blend several colors.  I used this system for the coloring on the background and the moon surface and I love the blues and purples in the sky.

I am starting with a piece of white cardstock cut to 6" x 6".  For the moon, I used the Crater Stencil Layers and sprayed Y08 for the main color and then sprayed Y35 for the craters and crevasses. 

In order to mask off the moon, I used the die from the Crater Stencil Layers set to cut out the outline of the moon from some scrap paper and tacked it down.  I wanted to include the meteor from the stencil in my background, so once I determined where I wanted to place it, I tacked it down to my surface.  I also used some temporary tape to cover up the other openings in the stencil so I wouldn't get ink where I didn't want it.

The meteor base color is Y07 and then I added some shading using RV19.  On a piece of Post It Note, I used the stencil to spray another meteor that I could cut out and use as a mask.  

Once I had the meteor masked, I sprayed the background first with V05, then V09 and finished up with B69.  

Next, I peeled off the mask over the meteor and go back in with my marker to cover any areas that are still white and did not get sprayed.  I will remove the lower mask covering up my moon and then cut my background to 4.0" x 5.25" using a die.  To help me line up where I want to cut my background, I used a scrap stamped image,

Since everything is so vivid in color, I decided to carry that through to the sentiment.  I air brushed a piece of white cardstock with YG06.  I heat embossed and die cut the sentiment from the You're Stellar stamp and die set.  

All the images were 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
• B000, B01, B02

I glued the sentiment directly to the background but did pop up the flying saucers with thin foam squares.  

To finish up my card, I used added some stars cut from silver glittered cardstock.  I used the die that also comes with the Crater Layers Stencil and Die set.  As you might be able to tell, this is a very versatile set.  

There is a link at the bottom of this post to a video I have posted on YouTube to show the process of creating this card in greater detail.  I hope you'll stop by my channel and give me a thumbs up.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope your day is "stellar"!

Sandy

Astronomical Gnomes Swish & Pop Card

Hello!  What could be better than a card with flying saucers?  Well...an interactive one of course.  Today I have a card that I created using the new Trinity Stamps You're Stellar Stamp and coordinating Die set.  The interactive element was created using Lawn Fawn's Swish and Pop die set.  

For this card, I needed to make a planet for the one flying saucer to come out from behind.  To make the planet, I inked a piece of white cardstock with Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide Ink.  To give the planet a little more interest, I used the Honey Bee Waves Stencil with Ripe Persimmon Ink.  Once my ink dried, I cut the circle using the Clean Cut Layers - Circles Set A to cut out my planet.

To make the moon surface that my little friend stands on, I cut a piece of white cardstock 2.5" x 6".  I used the border die from the Crater Layers Stencil & Die to cut out my moon surface.  Once I had that cut out, I inked it with Mustard Seed Distress Oxide Ink.  Once the ink was dry, I used the stencil to ink on the craters and crevasses using Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide Ink.  I had to move the stencil a few times in order to cover the piece with craters.  

For the sky, I inked white cardstock with Salty Ocean, Prize Ribbon and Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide Ink.  Once I had it blended the way I liked it, I spritzed it will a little water and blotted it with a paper towel.  I also watered down and spattered white acrylic paint on cardstock.  Once that was dry, I cut it to 4.25" x 5.5".  

I used the Swish and Pop die set to build the interactive mechanism.  I have a link at the bottom of this post to my YouTube Video showing exactly how I built it. 

To make the front part of my card, I used the A-2 Clean Cut Layers Rectangle Set A dies to cut out a frame from black glitter cardstock.  I glued the moon surface piece and the planet to the glitter frame.  

With the moving arms on the background and the front part of my card built, I played around with the way the arm moved from behind the "planet" and the placement of the flying sauce on the acetate arm.  I placed foam dots to help limit the movement of the arm to get the best visual effect.  

With the mechanism in perfect placement, I used the die set to cut out a notch in the front card to help the card recipient know what to do. 

I place foam tape around the outside of the frame piece and some other support piece to hold up the moon surface making sure that none of the foam impeded the movement of the mechanism.  It takes a bit of fiddling but it is worth it.  

All the images are colored with Copic markers in the following colors:

• B0000, B000, B01, BO2
• BG13, BG15, BG49
• Y08, Y19
• YR02, YR09, R17
• YG07, YG13
• C3, C5, C7

Once my pieces were stamped, colored and cut out, I adhered them to my card.  

This card can be a little bit tricky but having the flying saucer pop out from behind the planet is worth the fiddling.  It would be a really fun card to give to a Sci-Fi fan don't you think?  

Don't forget to watch my YouTube video for a more detailed process to make this card.  The link is below.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you have an astronomical day!

Sandy