Northern Lights with Kelly

Hello Crafters!

Do you remember on my last post I was talking about a card I had created but couldn't get to photograph well? I decided to share it anyway. Crafting is a wonderful community filled with inspiration at every turn even in the cards we don't love. Here's hoping that one of you finds some inspiration in this one.

I started by laying down the mountain border die and using it to mark how far down my sky needed to go on my card base.

After I had the area marked off, I began laying down color with my Copic markers using flat wide strokes. I prefer to start on the bottom and work my way up. I blended the green into a teal and then a tiffany blue. I moved up and added some more blue then finally pink and violet. While all of those colors really lit the sky up I need to add some dark back in. I picked some navy blues and set to work adding the night portion of the sky.

Copics can be difficult to blend when the colors have a large gap of color depth between the lighter and darker color. Keep adding color until your happy with it. As long as your working on thick quality cardstock it will take a lot of ink before you need to be concerned about the surface of your paper.

Since I had made my sky so bright I knew I needed to back light my mountains. I used distress inks to add color leaving the lightest edge on the mountain tops. I blended the bottom all the way out to black. In order to blend the middle sections without getting the edges I folded my round mini foam blenders in half and held them in my hand.

The sentiment was heat embossed after the distress ink was dry. Super important, make sure your distress ink is dry. Eeep, the mess that happens when you don't wait :/

I used the new dies that match the That is All stamp set to die cut the "amazing" after I stamped it on white. I finished it off with a few clear sequins.

If you're confused by any of the instructions just hold tight. The video will be up next week on the Wplus9 YouTube channel.

Thanks so much for stopping in!

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of all of the supplies (or equivalents) used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase. Please note: this list does contain some affiliate links.

Mountain Border Die That Is All That Is All Die White Cardstock Black Dye Ink Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White 660425 *ZIG Wink of Stella GLITTER CLEAR Brush Tip Marker 025320 *Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL Applicator Foam IBT23616 *Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING FOAM REFILLS Applicator Tool Refill IBT23623 Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS IBT40965 Ranger MINI ROUND FOAM REFILLS for Mini Round Ink Blending Tools IBT40972 3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent WHITE FUN FOAM 12 Pack 118711 9 x 12 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad BLACK SOOT Ranger TIM19541 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad CHIPPED SAPPHIRE Ranger TIM27119 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad BLUEPRINT SKETCH Ranger TIM43195 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad SALTY OCEAN Ranger Summer TIM35015 *Pretty Pink Posh 6MM SPARKLING CLEAR Cupped Sequins *Pretty Pink Posh 4MM SPARKLING CLEAR Cupped Sequins Inkadinkado EMBOSSING MAGIC Powder Bag 05847 Simon Says Stamp EMBOSSING POWDER WHITE Fine Detail WhiteEP2 Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Watermark VM-001 Copic Sketch Marker BG45 NILE BLUE Copic Sketch Marker BG11 MOON WHITE Copic Sketch MARKER b39 PRUSSIAN BLUE Copic Sketch MARKER B37 ANTWERP BLUE Copic Sketch MARKER b23 PHTHALO BLUE Copic Sketch MARKER b04 TAHITIAN BLUE Copic Sketch Marker B02 ROBIN'S EGG BLUE Copic Sketch Marker B00 FROST BLUE Copic Sketch Marker YG03 YELLOW GREEN *Copic Sketch Marker YG01 GREEN BICE Bright Yellow-Green Copic Sketch Marker V04 LILAC Purple Pastel Copic Sketch Marker V01 HEATH Violet Purple Copic Sketch Marker V000 PALE HEATH Copic Sketch Marker RV04 SHOCK PINK Bright Bold *Copic Sketch Marker RV02 SUGARED ALMOND PINK Light Bright Copic Sketch Marker RV00 WATER LILY Pink

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