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