Starry night
Hi crafters. It’s starry night at Simon says Stamp Monday challenge. I saw the challenge and then saw these foam moons and stars in a secondhand shop.
They had sticker backs. I thought this might be great for the challenge. I started by painting them with gesso. Then I put bronze acrylic paint on them. While the paint was wet, I sprinkled them with embossing powders in black, silver, platinum and gold glitter.
I was also wanting to use this piece of paper which had brayer marks in black and gold as well as stencil impressions. I added old paper and hickory smoke stains to the paler bits.
When I heated the stars, I stuck them to scrap paper with repositionable glue dots. The powders melted, the paint bubbled, the foam started distorting and threatening to melt – great fun! After that I added silver foil to the star edges with flitter glue. Then the edges on the top surface looked dull from glue etc, so I added silver glitter to neutralise any remaining stickiness. The glitter, however looked a bit dull, so I added more paint then more silver embossing powder with embossing ink.
I added a Kaisercraft stencil in silver acrylic paint to the paper, then baulked and put black glitter on it, then later rubbed most of the glitter off.
I had trouble with a sentiment. I didn’t want what I had so I looked at star quotes, then printed this out with my inkjet printer on card that had old paper and hickory smoke stains rubbed across it. I cut the words out and rubbed brushed pewter, tarnished brass and black soot stains around the edges. I then put them on pieces of silver card to make them stand out better.
I put the tortured stars and word strips on with foam tape. I rubbed black soot distress ink and tarnished brass stain around the card edges. I was going for black with metallics. There is ultra- shiny with a lot of matt too (makes it hard to photograph).
I am entering this card in the Simon says Stamp Monday challenge: Starry night .
One Comment
Sandra
Fabulous project, love the transformed foam stars, they have so much texture now. Thank you so much for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Hugs, Sandra