Altenew | July 2018 Inspiration Challenge

Hello, friends!

This month I’m hosting the Altenew July 2018 Inspiration Challenge inviting our readers to play with one of my favorite color schemes of blues and gray.

I took this picture of The Cathedral of St. Patrick through Rockefeller Center’s Atlas statue in NYC on my way to work (I work in that area).

Recently, I made a card for the Altenew blog using the To the Moon Stamp Set and, while I was making it, I remembered how much I loved this set but for some reason forgot about it. I really wanted to play with it again soon. So I decided to use this set for my card, especially since a round object would replicate the shape of the world Atlas is carrying on its shoulders.

I started making the card by stamping the moon onto a Solar White Cardstock using the Silver Stone and Industrial Diamond Dye Inks. I skipped stamping the very bottom most solid layer of the moon. After stamping, I die-cut the moon using a circle die from the Halftone Circles Nesting Die Set.

Next, I stamped several magnolias using the Build-A-Flower: Magnolia Stamp Set and Sea Breeze, Turquoise, Tide Blue, and Starlight Dye Inks. I made some flowers darker and some lighter using lighter and darker triplets of the above mentioned blue inks.

After that, they were die-cut using the matching die from the Build-A-Flower Set. Then I cut apart all the flowers (originally, they were as a branch of two flowers).

I made a panel out of a Woodgrain White Paper and colored it with the Starlight Dye Ink, using a direct-to-paper technique (in other words – I swiped the ink pad onto the panel until it is colored completely). After that, I foam mounted the panel onto a white card base.

Next, I glued the moon and flowers onto the panel.

I stamped the word You onto the moon using Jet Black Dye Ink and adhered the rest of the sentiment, which was white embossed onto a Jet Black Cardstock strip, below it.

Lastly, I added several white crystals to accentuate the card.

Cannot wait to see what you make for this month’s Inspiration Challenge!

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