Happy World Card Making Day!

 

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Happy World Card Making Day! I spent my WCMD morning attending Ishani's (@quill_ish) AECP Workshop. I had a fun time creating virtually with other creators. 

Ishani's card used circles. I was going to use my MFT circle dies but decided on using the Altenew Halftone Stars die set. It does not have enough dies to create all the stars needed in one die cut machine passing so I had to die cut a couple more stars. Not to forget that I have to blend more panels. I used Hero Arts inks for the blending.

I splattered white paint on my first blended panel but not on the next blended panels since I am short on time. 

After die cutting the stars, I paired two stars rotating it so that no same colors are next to each other. I temporarily taped this on the back.

Instead of the leaf Ishani used as centerpiece for her circles, I used the smallest star in the die set. I had to ink it with a bit of another color since most of the small stars were die cut yellow. 

Instead of a brown cardstock for shadowing, I die cut the shadow in black cardstock.

Initially, I added texture to the white background panel but this takes the attention away from the blended stars. I stuck with keeping it plain just like with Ishani's card.

I arranged the stars over the white cardstock panel. I adhered the stars to the white panel which was cut at 3 3/4" x 5". I adhered the stars overhanging the edges of the white cardstock panel.

Ishani die cut her sentiment on gold mirror cardstock. I used the color purple for my sentiment instead. I rubbed the purple dye ink on a white cardstock. I heat set this to dry before die cutting it with the Altenew Happy die, which is retired, by the way. I layered this with another sentiment die cut for a little bit of dimension. 

Before adhering the sentiment die cut to the panel, I stamped the word holidays on the white panel using the same purple ink. 

I matted this panel with a gold mirror cardstock, just like in Ishani's card. I adhered this to a side folding A2 note card. I snipped off the excess stars that are hanging over the edges of the note card.

I decided to make a holiday card using non-traditional colors. As much as I like fall colors, I rarely give fall card. Might as well start early with my Christmas cards. 

I hope you like today's card. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

I shared this card at

Simon Says Stamp Blog #14