Today I will be featuring another one layered wonder using MFT's Space Explorer stamp set, I was super happy when I got the stamp set in the mail on Friday. I've been wanting the set since it came out two releases ago. I had a couple ideas in mind and was sketching out one on a scratch paper, but that one didn't work out too well (I want to come back to that one in the future because I like the idea, just need to tweek it). Then I decided to do another one layered card because the one I did last week was so much fun to make. I started by picking the images I wanted to use and laid it out on the card panel. The idea for this card is that the astronaut boy is "running" after a balloon to take home with him for a birthday. At first I thought I would not have enough images on my card and was afraid I wasn't going to use enough card space; with what I wanted to do with ink blending it would be extremely difficult to add any other images later, but I kept with images I had laid out. I used my MISTI to stamp the images with Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink because I wanted to Copic color them and wanted a very dark stamped outline, which is a benefit of using the MISTI. I then created masks for each of my images as well as the shape of my moon. Once I masked everything, I used Distress Inks (Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Salty Ocean, and Chipped Sapphire) to ink blend my sky.
Now comes the fun part, I used some water to splatter on the sky to create the distress look, then I took some white acrylic paint, watered it down to splatter all over. The white paint really brings everything to life. Well the white paint also brought my floors to life as well. :P I was using a box to cover the splatter, but I guess I was having a bit too much fun.
I then took my heat gun to dry the sky background, so that I could it off to work on the Moon. I used a similar technique in distressing, but wanted the edge where the moon meets the sky to be defined. I used Pumice Stone for most of the moon and then went back in on the edges with Hickory Smoke to define edge. Once I was done distressing I used some water to splatter. When I unmasked everything, I thought there was something missing from the moon, so i used my Copic markers to draw in some rocks. I hope you like the card I created.
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