Little Nymph at Night

Just experimenting with some digital backgrounds...

This looks way better in person, honest!
(Does that happen to you with photos of your projects?)

Another black background card.
Again, with an image from a Day for Daisies...

A little window into a night-time world:

I wasn't 100% happy with the sky. In hindsight, I would have printed the background differently than I did for this, so I've added a snippet of sky as an afterthought, in case you'd like to try it instead of messing about with painting the background like I did in the steps listed below. :o)

1... the image: Little Nymph from ADFD
2... details on the weird process of this card
3... free digital image: Castle from The Graphics Fairy

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A Day for Daisies digital image:

Little Nymph

(I added an extra leaf to the very end of the branch)

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(some of the stuff
done to make this card)

To make the Little Nymph on a branch:



Step 1} Heat-emboss the little nymph image on Paris Bleedproof from the printer. Print and emboss extra bits: I printed extra butterfly wings so they'd be 3d, and some extra leaves as well.

Step 2} Colour her in with Copic markers & Cut her out.

Step 3} Paint over the colouring with sheer pearlescent paint.

To make the night-time castle landscape and the night sky:



Step 1} print the darkened Castle Landscape from the Graphics Fairy twice.
I printed it at 36% to get an A2 sized card

1A} Use one printing to cut the castle out of and crop it to fit your card. Add a strip of black lace on cardstock.

Make the sky Background:



1B} Use one printing to make the night sky.

-Print it & distress it to obscure the castle
-Smudge the castle with watery brown paint wash (blend the printer ink with some brown paint & water)

Step 2} Add pressure embossing & distressing to it:

2A} Trim the printed and distressed sky
2B} Pressure emboss it with a Cuttlebug embossing folder & machine
2C} sand it a little to expose some of the white core of the light cream cardstock that it was printed on.
2D} Squish the cuttlebug embossing (so it isn't quite as raised anymore) by running it through the Cuttlebug again, but this time outside of the folder. (Please see this post, if you'd like more details on squishing pressure embossing).



Step 3} Pierce holes to stitch on beads for stars in the sky & add white paint and glitter pen around the beads to make the stars glow.

adhere it to a standard-sized A2 card (4-1/4 x 5-1/2 when folded)

Step 4} Add a quote inside the card



(The text is printed from a word document on an inkjet printer &
embossed with clear embossing powder on Borden & Riley
#234 Paris Bleedproof 108lb paper for pens):


(Love the texture that embossing from the printer gives! Which is why I never shut up about it. ;o) More blah-blah about how to digitally emboss with an ink jet printer in this older post.)

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Castle landscape from the
Graphics Fairy

The castle image is a free image
from Karen, the Graphics Fairy here
(she is so generous!)

I cropped it, flipped it & turned it dark:

And it's here on Flickr as a (PNG file)

Here's a larger piece of sky

It will print (from the PDF) to be approximately:
8 inches wide by 4 1/2 inches tall

PNG here on Flickr:
(with the PDF linked in the description there)


JPG version of the snippet of sky:

Clickable Blogger photos:




Hope you're having a magical week!