Blending Night Skies
Hi readers! Isn’t this gorgeous night sky blending by guest designer Chari Moss of Lawn Fawn so totally gorgeous? I love it! Want to know more about the process to recreate it for yourself? Read on!
Things are blooming and gardens are popping with color so I was inspired to break out my Gleeful Gardens set for today’s card. I thought it would be fun to create a night time garden party for something a little different. I used distress watercolor paper to blend my night time sky starting with victorian velvet at the very bottom, dusty concord, chipped sapphire and black soot at the top. I picked colors for my images that were a little more toned down, maybe how a bright red mushroom might look at night in the star light.
For the snail I tried to make him glow a bit like a glow worm, does anyone remember those toys? Of course no garden party would be complete without strings of garden lights strung above. For these I used Kirarina Wink pens in black and dandelion to hand draw the lights strung across the card. I also added tiny dots of silver with the Silver metallic Kirarina Wink pen for stars.
To keep the same look and texture I used distress inks to color the frame for my sentiment as well. I embossed the frame in gold on distress watercolor paper and blended it with scattered straw in the center then worked my way toward the outer edge with cracked pistachio and peacock feathers. I love how it looks like it is glowing as well. I finished off by adding some wink of stella glitter to the frame and the images, like stardust falling on the little snail and mushrooms below.
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I’m loving all the night cards I’ve been seeing lately. Beautiful!
Adorable card! Love that gorgeous background.
wow what an awesome blended sky.
I love this!
Such a beautiful technique! I love the night sky with the cute fairy lights. Magical!
Totally CUTE !
What. Great awesome job of blending the night skies on this beautiful card.
Such a cute card!
Love the distress ink backround. I really want to try them kiriana pens
Such an adorable card. LOVE your background.
Thanks for sharing with us! So very nicely done!
Beautiful blending on this adorable card. Thanks for sharing.
Love the gorgeous sky on this card!
Gorgeous scene created, beautiful card!!!
Beautiful card!
Chari I love the way you blended your colors for the night sky – it’s so beautiful!
Nothing quite like a beautiful night sky…sigh….so pretty…
Such a delightful background! Love the idea of a night garden too.
I’m not surprised that this card is FANTASTIC! Chari Moss is one of my favorite card designers. I love all of her work for Lawn Fawn and wish I had a ton of their products to craft with! Thanks, SSS, for including her as a spotlight artist.
I love everything about this card.
Your blended sky is gorgeous! Cute card!
Very cute!
I love this technique. I often make backgrounds like this. We are getting lots of northern lights up here in Canada this spring So this card reminds me of that.
WOW! Beautiful! It looks like fabric. :-D
Beautiful card, love how that background turned out.
I love the blending for a night sky. It’s gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.
beautiful night sky – great coloring!
This is such a wonderful technique. I love how this one turned out. It is beautiful.
The background is beautiful! Wonderful card!
Super cute! Love the card
Adorable! I love the night scene! Fantastic background!
There is an absolutely beautiful glow to this night time scene!
I love the night sky.
Love these stamps xxx
Chari is amazing. I love this beautiful card! Thanks for sharing.
Fabulous card and sweet stamps xx
Awesome night background! I really like Lawn Fawn products.
The card is simply gorgeous!
Oh how fabulous! I needed a night sky recently. I wish I had this before I did it. I’ve written down the instructions now for next time. Thanks so much!
How adorable! I love how it actually looks like night time! Great job!
Such a lovely card. Very cute, and the ombre background colurs are splendid.
A very pretty background. I have some distress inks, got me thinking
Very pretty. Love the colours you used. The shrooms and snail are cute. Hugz
Wonderful, Thanks for sharing.
I have to master this technique. It is beautiful. I love distress inks.
Lovely project! The shading is amazing!
Great card! Thanks for the technique how-tos!
This is just stunning….such talent! Thanks for the inspiration!
Like the color blending technique.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Really cool card. Loved the colors and the blending. Such a lovely card
This is so pretty! Thanks for the ideas on how to blend!