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Peace with So Many Stars

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For this post, I have created a card for the CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #338.

I am trying to streamline my blogging practices and particularly how I participate in card challenges. It gets really mind blowing to create a new path for every single challenge I participate in. I have decided that I will now focus on a single stamp set, bundle or suite per week. So that means I come up with 10 different designs for one stamp set in a week. In my mind far less daunting than plowing an entirely new path for each card. Now I’m plowing one path with a few cul-de-sacs! Waiting to see how that plan goes – this is only card 2 of potentially 10 or more! My birthday is on Wednesday, so I maybe tied up with that at various points of the day. My daughter, had a swim meet this weekend (year round swimmers typically have meets that span over 2 or 3 consecutive days and usually start on Friday or Saturday through to Sunday), then my son had a basketball game last night, so I find myself behind the 8-ball already with this new plan! Gotta start somewhere.

At any rate, off we go with how this card came to be. I love the So Many Starts bundle which includes a photopolymer stamp set and a set of Stitched Star dies. I was so excited to get this Stitched star dies mostly, and I couldn’t wait to use them. Well this is the week…..

For this card, I started by creating my watercolor focal panel. I washed the bottom portion of the watercolor paper with watered down Night of Navy, trying to create a night time sky. I then stamped various star images with the Golden Glitz Deliciata Metallic Pigment ink pad. I needed one star to be the larger than the rest to mimic the oval shape on the sketch. I then stamped with the same ink a line of various sized stars off to one side and then a line of tiny background stars off to the other side. I was going for somewhat of a shooting star effect. The sentiment “Peace” is stamped on the watercolor paper with the Golden Glitz metallic pigment ink used on the stars. I cut the watercolor panel to 4″ x 5-1/8″. The metallic ink on the normal Whisper White Cardstock really sparkles and looks very metallic, I have found that on Watercolor paper, as the ink dries and soaks into the paper, it looses its luster a bit. In hind sight, I probably should have used the Stamparatus so I could re-stamp until I achieved the affect I was after. That said, I do still like how it turned out, its just not as sparkly!

While waiting for the panel to dry completely, I began pulling everything else together. For the card base I went with a half sheet of Night of Navy card stock cut to 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″ scored at 4-1/4″ to create a standard side folding card. Moving on to the diecutting, I cut a large star out of Gold Glimmer Cardstock to fit inside the already stamped large star, and attached it with dimensionals. I am using the stamped stars as a halo to the die cut stars. Followed by various smaller stars to fit in the other smaller stamped stars that are attached with liquid adhesive. I really like how the halo effect worked out, it offers dimension, shadow or the halo effect. I left the tiny wash of stars alone. Once everything was dry, I matted the water color panel with more Gold Glimmer Cardstock. I then attached some craft foam to the back of the panel to give it some elevation off the card and then attached all of that to the card with Tear-n-Tape.

Not to forget the inside, I stamped the multiple tiny star image along the bottom a couple of times with the Golden Glitz Metallic Delicata ink, then with liquid adhesive attached a few more stars cut from the Gold Glimmer Cardstock.

Thanks again for stopping by and spending a bit of your time with me. I hope you enjoyed learning about this Suite in the 2019 Holiday Catalog. Hopefully you were even inspired a bit. Below are pictured links to all the items in this suite and the othr coordinating sets, click the link of the item to be taken to the online store where you can learn more about each item. I will return soon with something new. Until then keep crafting, exploring and creating. See you soon.

Product List

So Many Stars Bundle (En) [153016] $57.50	So Many Stars Photopolymer Stamp Set (En) [150496] $26.00	Stitched Stars Dies [150653] $38.00	Night Of Navy 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock [100867] $8.75
Gold Glimmer Paper [146958] $5.00	Golden Glitz Delicata Metallic Ink Pad [150711] $11.00	Golden Glitz Delicata Metallic Ink Refill [150712] $9.00	Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper [149612] $9.00
Night Of Navy Classic Stampin’ Pad [147110] $7.50	Night Of Navy Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill [103033] $3.75	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $4.00	Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] $4.00

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