Happy Birthday Human for Leonie

Hello again peeps.

For those of you lucky enough to get Leonie's stamps last night, here's another card idea for you.
My starting point was this border stamp - it looks to me like a row of little aliens :D 

I've made a big version of the alien with circles of card. The largest one was coloured with Ripe Persimmon Distress Ink and Spiced Marmalade.  I drew the antenna onto black card and cut it out.

For the eye I inked the edge of the smaller white circle with Squeezed Lemonade DI, glued a small black circle on and covered the whole thing in glossy accents. I went off and had my lunch while it was drying, to avoid sticking my thumb in it or something.

For the sky I stamped and embossed some stars onto the top half of a piece of white card with clear embossing powder. I then went over it with a blending tool and Twisted Citron & Peeled Paint DIs

For the foreground of my alien planet I dragged some Dusty Concord DI over the inside of Sheena's 8x8 Pebbles embossing folder and ran it through my Ebosser with some more white card.

To complete the scene I added a moon which was embossed with Sheena's snow folder (I've used the debossed side). I also added some more stars with a white pen.

I drew and cut the spaceship by hand out of silver mirri card, complete with windows for the little aliens to look out of. The mirri was a bit too shiny for me so I sponged Black Metallic Marker (from Letraset) over the top and I loved the way it turned out.

 The alien's legs/tentacles were cut from black card using my Die'Sire icicle die and I attached the whole thing to my card with a spring (well, why wouldn't you :D  )

 For the sentiment I've cut up letters from a stamped greeting but you could also do these on your computer. I finished the scene off with some purple plants which were stamped with one of the paisley designs

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers #57 - E is for Embossing
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge #126: anything goes with a twist ...Make it Male
Creative Moments #91  Always Anything Goes w/optional twist "Make it Funny"
The East Wind Challenge #53 ~ Make it 3D
Penny Black and More  Birthdays
Country View Crafts' Challenge Spring (used spring to attach topper)
Retarte  #75 - Anything Goes
Love to Scrap  #76 Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create  #172 Anything goes with optional twist:  use recycled materials 
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends  #302 Anything Goes

See you again soon,
Katrina x