Starry Night Challenge

Papertrey Ink is doing their Stamp-a-faire on painting masters, and I made this card for their Starry Night challenge.

I started with a piece of watercolour paper and inked it with a variety of colours (black, dark blue, medium blue, red, purple, and pink) using some make-up sponges.  I spritzed the paper with some glitter and water, then added some more ink with a paint brush.

I dried the paper with my heat gun then used black ink to paint on the horizon line.  I stamped some foreground greenery with stamps from the Daydreamer set, then did some not very good pine trees in the distance with a mix of a paint brush and the edge of a sponge.

I covered the black inked areas and then used some wet acrylic paint to spray on stars (I forgot to wash the black ink off my paintbrush so my first batch of 'stars' are a mix of black and silver) in silver and white.

The sentiment is from the Up, Up and Away set, stamped on black cardstock and heat embossed with glow in the dark embossing powder.  I decided to add some glow in the dark stars, and so dabbed the panel with my embossing pen before applying and heat setting the embossing powder.

I mounted the panel on black cardstock, and used a strip of foam tape to attach the sentiment.

 Here's the card in the dark (enhanced so you can see the effects better).

Starry Sky card

I've started making 'best wishes' cards for my co-workers, for when I'm laid off.  This card is for a manager who loves astronomy and camping.

I started out by stamping the fire.  I masked it with an edge to edge post-it note (stamped and fussy cut out).  I then inked in the ground (using beige, brown and black ink and a sponge).  Then I stamped some trees.  I masked around the sky to make the moon, and around the fire to make the yellow glow.   I masked the ground, the moon and the fire/glow and started brayering two shades of blue and some black.  I punched the stars, careful to avoid punching the moon.  Lastly I stamped, coloured, cut and pop-dotted the raccoon.  Oh, and to make the stars yellow I inked some yellow and orange on the inside top of the card (with a mask so the ink stops just below where the stars land.