Fall is finally here and we’re heading toward the top three end-of year holidays here in the US: Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Our Creation Station theme for October really lends itself to a Halloween project, but I don’t really do Halloween now that my kids are grown. So my interpretation of our them may be a bit different from the rest of the team. I can’t wait to see their creations, but in the meantime, let’s take a look at my Into The Night project!
When I started to think about my Into The Night project, I looked at the stamp sets I own. I have the beautiful Shepherd’s Care set (designed by my friend Cindy Fodor) that has stars in it. That was a good place to start..and then I set about to create my card. I never know if my designs are genius or a hot mess, so I’ll let you be the judge. Here’s the card.
I started by stamping the large and small stars in Lemon Lolly onto a Basic White Card Stock panel. Working quickly before the ink dried, I sprinkled on Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder and set it with the Heat Tool. I like to use that technique to give a stamped image some shine–it especially works when you stamp onto colored card stock. Then I used a Blending Brush to add Balmy Blue, Azure Afternoon, and Blueberry Bushel Inks across the panel to create my into the night sky. I used a tissue to remove the ink from the embossed stars. Then I flicked some Wink of Stella onto the panel.
Next, I stamped the village scene in Night of Navy Ink before embossing the panel using the Dotted Circles 3D Embossing Folder.
I adhered the panel to a Night of Navy Card Stock mat and then used Stampin’ Dimensionals to adhere to an Azure Afternoon Card Stock card base. I stamped the sentiment in Night of Navy Ink onto Balmy Blue Card Stock and embossed it with Clear Stampin’ Embossing Powder. And I used one of the Greetings of the Season Dies to cut it out.
Do you have a guess what my inspiration for the Into the Night card is? Does this help?
And then I got the crazy (or genius?) idea to put the tree in the foreground of the card. So I created another stamped, blended, and embossed panel–this time using Crushed Curry for the stars–and used Paper Snips to cut the tree shape out of the panel. I used the Birch Wood 3d Embossing folder to emboss the Night of Navy Card Stock panel so that the tree would have “bark.” I adhered this to a Night of Navy Card Stock card base.
I still don’t know if my Into the Night cards are a touch of genius or madness–but I had fun creating them! I encourage you to take a leap and try something new and different!
Next up is the fabulous Yvonne Spikmans van Bruggen at the Creative Teacup! And please hop on over to Instagram and see our Creation Station Design Team’s Into The Night projects there. You can start on my page (@kkstamper) to get the full list of this month’s participants.
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