Staring into the night sky

I was very excited to see that Sue from Addicted to CAS's design team has stepped up whilst Kylie takes a break and ensured that one of my favourite challenge sites is "business as usual". So I had to join in with their first challenge for 2024 but I've been stewing over in my head lots of different ideas on how to do a SKY Clean and Simple. I've been making a lot of cutie cards lately so I just didn't want to do a circle and use my cloud stencil to make some blue or pink clouds inside it and have a cute animal inserted somewhere.

Now one of the coolest things about being on the DT for AAA Cards is I get to check out more blogs and one of the lovely blogs I visited today was sharing a fab card for a new challenge blog to me called Power of Positivity, I'm sure we all agree we need more of that in our lives so I will enter my card into their challenge as well, as I feel like my sentiment is positively uplifting.

Anyhow I settled on a rectangle instead of a circle and then ink blended a night sky with my distress oxides and then added a wee critter from my Lavinia stamps staring at the moon. I'm really happy with my night sky, moon but wished I'd stamped Pipin using my Misti, he stamped beautifully as a practice run on white scraps but I ended up stamping him 3 times and I got it pretty close but interestingly Lavinia stamps are not really clear photopolymer they're quite hazy. So I learnt my lesson and stamped the tree branch using my MISTI and stamped it 2x. 

I masked the moon with some masking magic when creating the scene but added some scattered straw around the mask after adding just above the grass. When I finished creating the night sky I removed the masking magic and used the base for the moon by stamping it off twice and then the 3rd impression to add a hint of colour (Antique Linen), I then stamped the crater stamp directly with the Antique Linen ink and rapt how it turned out.

Distress oxides used to make my scene:

Grass: Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness, Black Soot
Night Sky: Scattered Straw, Dried Marigold, Wilted Violet, Villainous Potion, Black Soot
Moon: Antique Linen

The other images have been stamped using Versafine Clair Twilight ink

Supply List:

Stamps: Mini Pipin (LAV), Moments in Time (ALT), Mini Moon (ALT)

Other: Grass stencil (LF), Just Stitched Rectangles (LF), A2 Layer dies (WF), masking magic (GK), dark green pencil, white gel pen

Challenge: Addicted to CAS #250, Power of Positivity #119

EDITED 8/2/24: My lovely night sky and contemplative bunny was chosen in the Top 3 at Addicted to CAS. Again this was a first for me, being chosen as a winner at this site,  so very exciting news.

✿Karen✿