Outside the Porthole

What in the stars is floating around out there in space?  It is one of my favorite gnomes all geared up in his space suit.  I guess you never know what you will see out of the Porthole Circle Card Add On Die Set  by Trinity Stamps.

If you have been following my blog, you will know that I just love the Trinity Stamps gnomes.  I use them a lot in my cardmaking.  I am just crazy about this card and will probably hang on to it for a little bit.  

To make this beautiful background, I stamped my gnome and planets on a piece of cardstock and then masked them.  Next, I used the Crater Layers Stencil to lay in my moon surface.  I used Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide Ink for the base of the moon and then used Carved Pumpkin and Mustard Seet Distress Oxide Inks for the crater layers.  Before I continued on to ink blend the sky, I wanted to add my foiled stars background.  To do this, I masked off the moon area and then used the Starfield Letter Press Plate with Citron Foil to add the stars.  It is hard to see in the photo, but the letterpress plate did leave slight indentations, but the masking prevented the stars to be foiled where I didn't want them.  For the sky I used Salty Ocean, Prize Ribbon, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink.  

The stamp sets that I used are:

• Out Of This World Stamp Set
• Another Orbit Stamp Set
• Astronomical Gnomes Stamp Set 

I used Copic markers in the following colors:

• B02, B04 - turquoise
• V04, V15, V17 - purple
• Y06, Y08, Y18 - yellow
• Y06, Y38, YR15 - orange
• YG13, YG15, YG25 - green
• RV21, RV04, RV06 - pink
• E00, E01, E11 - skin
• N0, N1, N3, N5 - space suit
• C1, C3 - beard

To build the actual card, I cut a piece of black cardstock to 5.5" x 8.5" scored at 4.25".  I placed another piece of white cardstock cut to 5.25" x 4.0" on top of the black cardstock that would make the front of the card.  To make the inner porthole opening, I used a die from the Clean Cut Layers - Circles Set A  to cut a circle that corresponded to the inside opening of the Porthole Circle Card Add On Die Set.  I used several different colors of a matte metallic cardstock to cut out the different layers of the porthole and added a few Silver Sparkle Stars to add a little glitz.

For the sentiment on the bottom of the card, I used a sentiment from the Astronomical Gnomes Stamp Set.

I am crazy about this porthole and I am sure I will be sharing more cards with it in the future.  

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have been inspired to make a card of your own!

Sandy