Hope Your Birthday is a Blast

Posted on 7th March 2020 by Alison Pendlebury-Brown
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Purple Astronaut 2

Here I created a birthday card, perfect for the budding astronomer and/or space fanatic. To create this card you will need the following craft and card making supplies:

You will also need:

Astronaut/space stamps or dies
Coloured markers or pencils
Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks in Chipped Sapphire, Black Soot and Wilted Violet
VersaMark ink
White embossing powder
Circle dies or circle cutter
Sparkly embellishments

Purple Astronaut Card Blank

I started creating this card by making an A6 card base in the gorgeous Dark Violet Plain card 240gsm. I cut a 7.5cm hole in the front of the card base using circle dies.
I then created a frame for the front of the card using a 9.5cm circle die and the 7.5cm circle die from the awesome Charcoal Sparkle Print card 300gsm.
For the inside I created a mat with the charcoal sparkle card.
I then cut a further mat space effect that I created using Ranger / Tim Holtz distress oxide inks in Chipped Sapphire, Wilted Violet and Black Soot.
I also splattered the background with water and then with white and black acrylic paints watered down with a little water to create the space effect. I left this to dry.

Purple Astronaut Sky

Purple Astronaut Splatter

I left the background to dry while I stamped several cute little astronaut and planet images from a stamp set and coloured them in with Copic markers and fussy cut them out.

Purple Astronaut Elements

I created the "hope your birthday is a blast' sentiment strip stamped onto the dark violet card stock, mounted onto the charcoal sparkle print card.
On the space background I stamped the sentiment 'love you to the moon and back' in Versamark ink and opaque white embossing powder.
I then assembled the card layering the charcoat sparkle card and the space background to the inside using wet glue.
On the outside of the card I glued the charcoal frame to the aperture.
I added the sentiment, and some of the coloured in images with foam tape to give it a little dimension.
So that I could position the super cute astronaut to be seen through the aperture I mounted him with foam tape and added him with the card closed.
For a little sparkle (who can resist a little sparkle) I added some Cosmic Shimmer Silver Star glitter jewels to the front of the card and inside on the space background.
I added a little Wink of Stella to the planet on the front of the card and to the shooting star on the inside.

Purple Astronaut Inside