By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Evenin' All.

 

I've made this card today for the Claritystamp challenge

 "It's All About The Words"

 

 

I have used:

Clarity paper

 Treescape Stencil

 Silver Shoon verse stamp

 small Birch Leaves stamp
Black Memento

Versamark

Silver Embossing Powder

 

First cut the paper down to the same size as the stencil.

Cut a circle out of a post-it note for the moon and place it top right.

Load up a speed-ball brayer with black memento ink and colour the top half of the paper
 (I had to reload several times).

 Flick small amounts of water at the paper and then blot to get the 'stars'.

Remove your moon mask.

  Dab Versamark ink all over the stencil, lay it face down over your paper

and then run it through an ebosser to transfer the ink.

Sprinkle with silver embossing powder and heat

 



 

As you can tell I was a bit slow doing this so the result is a bit patchy!

I coloured in some of the missing bits with a Versamark pen and added more embossing powder.

 

 

That's better.

 

But then I thought "I wonder what it would look like with gilding flake instead?"  

So I started again...

 

 

I replaced the Versamark with Flitterglu,

and silver embossing powder with silver flakes,

et voila...

 

 

Aarggh. It's more patchy than before, and there's gilding flake EVERYWHERE.

Back to Plan A I think.

 

I cut down a smaller piece of Clarity paper (5x8.5cm),

stamped the verse on with black memento ink and then

stamped around the edge with the small birch leaves

 (alternating first and second generation ink)

 

After a bit of trimming and mounting on black/white card...

 

 

 It's looking nothing like I imagined it when I started, but kind of liking the distressed look.

 

 

 I finished off with a Sizzix leaf cut from silver paper.

It was much too bright and shiny, so I went over it with sandpaper and now it looks the part.

 

Well, it's tea time again, so that's all for now.

 My better half is kindly cooking us pizza.

Nom nom.