I love galaxy backgrounds. My good friend Suzy has the most gorgeous galaxy backgrounds on her Instagram sosuzypodcast. I know that there are different ways to create them with ink blending or watercolor. The best method for me is pattern paper. A few months ago I went to The Paper Forest in Washington, Illinois. While I was there I found this galaxy paper. It is by Reminisce. I put this awesome paper in a drawer and just put off using it.
I took each sheet of 12 x 12 and trimmed it down to 4 x 5.5. I wanted to get as many backgrounds as I could with each page. This card has Mama Elephant Space Bears. I did mix the planets and rockets from the different stamp sets I own. I only made a couple with the sentiment stamped on the paper. I had to move the sentiment around so that it could be read.
For this card the astronauts are from Taylored Expressions Space Cadets. I kept the coloring simple. For the sentiment, I used the Mama Elephant stamp set. It had these small borders and I stamped them to form the bottom. The bottom was not completely covered by the pattern paper and it was a great way to hide that.
These two are some of my favorites. It uses the Lawn Fawn Out of this World stamp set. I used some Little Things by Lucy jewels. I just placed them over some of the stars in the pattern.
For all of my astronaut cards, I used glossy accents for the helmets and rocket window. I also used my clear Wink of Stella to add shimmer to the planets.
I decided to add a twist to the paper and brought out my Concord & 9th Unicorn Awesomeness stamp. I remembered my friend Chris Dayton made a card for my little petunia. I went to her room and brought it to my craft room. Chris had listed the numbers for the Copic markers she used .
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So many gorgeous galaxy cards!! Great that you found galaxy paper to make all the backgrounds and those critters are so funny!! The unicorn is fab but those cats are hilarious!
Great cards you made with the galaxy paper.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much. They were fun to make.
DeleteLove those galaxy backgrounds! Awesome cards!
ReplyDeleteLOVE the animals with space suits on!! My grandson would love that.
ReplyDeleteI had kids in mind for these cards but I have enough to send to adults too. Thanks for spending time with me.
DeleteSo many gorgeous galaxy cards!! Great that you found galaxy paper to make all the backgrounds and those critters are so funny!! The unicorn is fab but those cats are hilarious!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely Gorgeous!
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