Creating a Magical Card: Unveiling the Night Sky Tutorial with a Large Digital Stamp

Hello everyone. Welcome to a new blog post for a new challenge on the Penny’s Paper-Crafty challenge blog. I created this dreamy magical card for the new challenge. In this article For this challenge, we have two sponsors again.

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I got to work with the digital stamp “Harper’s Moon Melancholy Moppet“. There is something magical about this stamp, isn’t there?

This article focuses on how to get started with great digital stamps to create a beautiful handmade card. Let’s get into it.

Before we get started, we need to gather our supplies. To make this card, you will need the following:

• Colouring medium: I used my alcohol markers, but you can use any colouring medium you like.
• A blending tool. I used a blending brush, but you can use any blending tool you have.
• A stencil with stars
• White pigment ink
• Shimmer pen.
• Paper glaze.

Okay, now that we have our tools we can begin.

We begin with some attention to our sponsor Colour of Love. I got to work with their digital stamp. You can find great digital stamps here. They are coloring pages. But you can also beautifully use these large digital stamps for your homemade cards. You already have a ready-made scene that you can use on your card. Of course, if you love colouring, these digital stamps are great to make. And let me just love colouring.

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Creating the background of our enchanting card can be a challenge, especially if the design covers the entire card. It is then often difficult to get started with y ink. And these stamps are often tricky to mask.

So for this card, I had to get to work with my alcohol markers to create a night sky. For this sky, I used the following colour combination:

• Dark Denim Blue (195)
• Dark Sky (191)
• Midi Sky (190)
• Light Sky (189)

Around the moon, I use the lightest colour Light Sky. This way, you create the light around the moon. The further out I go, the darker the colour I use. Try to make the alcohol markers blend in nicely.

But what is a night sky without stars? To create a bit of magic, stars do belong. I recently bought a new stencil that has all sorts of different patterns on it. One of them is stars. I use this to create my starry sky. I use my blending brush to run my white pigment ink over the stencil. And this way, beautiful stars appear in the night sky. I like to create a bit of a dreamy effect. So after I have applied all the stars, I go over the stars with another swirling motion with my brush. The hard tone of the white then disappears a little more and the stars are smeared out a little.

Now comes the most important part of the card, the colouring. If the digital stamp is large, colouring will determine how your card will look. In this section, I will show you which color combinations I used.

• Background Sky: Light Sky (189), Midi Sky (190), Dark Sky (191), Dark Denim Blue (195), and Black (120)
• Moon: Pearl White (109), Buttercup Yellow (141), and Pale Yellow (38).
• Dress: Cardinal (244), English Red (249), and Burgundy (247).
• Scarf: Pearl White (109), and Barely Beige (29).
• Leaves: Forest Green (50), Deep Green (52), and Dark Green (51).
• Hair: Barely Beige (29), Walnut (100), Brown Grey (104), and Clay (116).

Each combination has been carefully chosen to give the card the look I want.

To make our creation a bit more interesting and magical, we are going to add some details.

• We use our white gel pen to apply white highlights to the dress. It just seems that the moon gives some shine to certain parts of the dress.
• Second, we add paper glaze on the moon. It gives the moon just like magic because when the light falls on it it gives a certain shine.
• Third, we add glitter to our pink flowers. It’s very subtle, but just enough to add some extra sparkle here.
• Finally, we use the glitter 3D drops to apply a 3D drop in the middle of the flowers.

I like it when my creations have a touch of sparkle.

It’s time for the last part, namely the text for the card. This time the text is “You are out of this world”. I found this one among all kinds of texts that I thought was appropriate and decided to use it. I would like a blue border around the text. So I cut out the text. On a piece of white paper, I coloured with my alcohol marker Dark Denim blue just big enough that my text fit on it. I stick it on top and cut it with a small border around my text. Now I have the same color border that I used for the sky.

Don’t be afraid of big digital stamps. It’s an ideal way to create a scene on your card and instantly gives you a setting to tell a story. I hope this article has given you ideas to use such digital stamps and let them shine. Be sure to let me know in the comments what you think of such large stamps and if you plan to use them.

I hereby cordially invite you to join our challenge on the Penny’s Paper-Crafty challenge blog. The theme is always Anything goes, so you can make whatever you want. Hope to see your creations there.

Happy Crafting!

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