Astronomical Gnomes Slider Card

Greetings Earthlings!  I am jumping back into the latest Trinity Stamps release.  This was also my first time using Trinity Stamps Blending Buddies.  Oh my gosh! What a game changer!!! I love these brushes.  They not only give you ink control, but they are very comfortable to use, so there is no hand fatigue.  Love! Love ! Love!

For the background on this card, I used white cardstock with Prize Ribbon, Peacock Feathers, Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Ink.  Once my ink was dry, I used the Starfield Letterpress Die along with Tangerine Glimmer Foil from Spellbinders to apply my sparkly stars.  

I also used the Crater Layers Layering Stencil and Die to ink my moon surface.  I used Lost Shadow, Hickory Smoker and Black Soot Distress Oxide to make my moon layer.

I always save the extra foil from my background foiling and use them along with a solid foil plate from Fresh Pink.  I had a lot of silver foil left over from another card project using the Starfield Letterpress, so I used some of that foil and pressed it on black cardstock for my rocket ship.

I cut my rocket ship from it using the Blast Off Die Set.  I will definitely save the scraps for another project.  In fact, I cut the window and tip of the ship from some scrap I had left over from another foiling project.  To finish my rocket, I used black cardstock and added a few highlights using a while gel pen.

I seem to have a slight addiction to the Emergency Card Die #3 - Double Slider but for this card, I just have single slide.  I wanted the Gnome with the rocket balloon from the Astronomical Gnomes Stamp Set to float up next to the rocket ship so I needed to make sure that I lined up the sliding mechanism with the right edge of the card.  I also used that placement to cut out the notch at the top in the right spot.  I have linked my YouTube video at the bottom of this post so that you can follow along with the assembly and placement of the mechanism.  

Once I had my mechanism in place, I built up the rest of the card with double sided adhesive foam tape.  This was the first time I had used 1mm foam tape on the front of the mechanism and it worked great, so I only had to build up the rest of the card using 2mm tape.  This make a much slimmer card as opposed to the 4mm one I had made in the past.  

I stamped my Gnome from the Astronomical Gnome Stamp Set and my planets and sun were stamped from the Out Of This World Stamp Set.  They were cut out with their coordination dies and were colored with Copic markers in the following colors:

BG10, BG15, BG49

Y19, YR16

Y00, Y02, Y13, Y19 - Yellows

E00, E02 - Skin

B000, B00, B02, B04 - Blues

V12, V15, V17

C0, C1, C3, C4

I highlighted the images with a white gel pen and then adhered them to the card.  

I used the sentiment that was included with the Astronomical Gnomes Stamp Set.  I heat embossed it with white embossing powder and then cut them out with the coordinating die.

I love the bright colors on this card and the foiled rocket ship!  How about you!

Thank you so much for stopping by, if you get a chance to check out my YouTube Video, I would be grateful for a "thumbs up".  I hope you have a stellar day!

Sandy