Raven and the Moon
[Image ID] A round 80th birthday card. A silhouette of a fairy crouched on a branch, on a moonlit night. A circle with the number 80 in it sits below the branch in the bottom left corner. [description end]
This card was inspired by a tutorial that Lavinia Stamps shared on Youtube recently. I was looking for ideas for an 80th birthday card at the time and when I saw this tutorial I knew it was going to be the basis for the card. The specific tutorial I was inspired by can be found here.
I created the round card base by tracing around a large round plastic pot. I folded the card first, and positioned the plastic pot near the corner – this way I could ensure I had a straight line at the bottom as well. I had to reinforce the card base with a layer of white paper on the inside so it didn’t fall over, as the card I used for the base wasn’t quite thick enough to stay upright.
The card front itself was quite simple in terms of technique; all of the stamps were stamped in black ink, which I sometimes went over with a fineliner if there were any gaps in the stamping. The patches of the background were ink blended with two colours, a blue and a brown, whilst the round shape of the moon was done using a paper ‘mask’ made with a 1 inch circle punch. I used the same 1-inch circle punch to cut out the ‘80’ circle in the bottom left corner.
The sparkly parts used a mixture of a silver uniball glitter gel pen, and stickles glitter glue in the colour ‘starlight’. The ‘80’ was hand written.
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Stamps: Raven (the fairy) & Tree of Courage by Lavinia Stamps
Silver glitter pen: Uniball
Assorted black fineliners
Stickles Glitter Glue in the colour ‘Stardust'
Versafine Clair stamping inks: Nocturne, Acorn, & Warm Breeze
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