Far, far away

With DT projects and homeschooling three kiddos, I don't get a lot of time to just play and stamp for projects I want to do.  But the timing was right this week and I needed a birthday card for one of my brothers-in-law.  I got these two Neat and Tangled sets quite a while ago with the intent to use them for a different brother in law, but when his birthday came around, I totally forgot!!  Luckily, I discovered them while going through my box of stamps and pulled them out.  Neat and Tangled is hosting a challenge to create a card/project and create a tutorial for it, so here I go (sorry, this is going to be a photo laden post):

 I started out by finding a rectangle die that fit the Time Warp Image

 A created a frame using that die and a large stitched rectangle die.

 I used sponged daubers and these inks (SU! Basic Black, Lovely Lilac, Brocade Blue, Night of Navy and I switched in Rose Romance for the lighter PTI Sweet Blush and I used PTI Lemon Zest)

 to sponge my galaxy background.

I cut a piece of acetate from some stamp packaging to fit behind the frame and used my Mini Misti to stamp the sentiment with Versamark ink on the acetate.  I used my frame for placement and you can't see it, but the acetate is under the frame in the photo below.

 Then I heat embossed the sentiment with black embossing powder.

 I squirted a tiny bit of white acrylic paint on one of my clear blocks and spritzed it with some water, mixed it up

 and used a paintbrush to flick it onto my frame to create the look of stars.

 As you can see, this was a bit messy with paint getting all over my desk, but never fear!

A couple months ago, I bought myself a microfiber cloth meant for dusting or cleaning at Walmart.  I think there may have been two in a pack for under $5.  I keep one at my desk and it is awesome for cleaning stamps AND other things.  I get it wet and it cleans stamps like a dream.  No more of those little linty bits that I always got when I used baby wipes to clean the stamps.  I just used it to wipe up the paint splatters and the best thing is that when it gets too dirty, I can just throw it in the washing machine and it's as good as new.  And look, clean desk!

 I put my sponged panel in my mini Misti and stamped the Time Warp stamp with Versamark Ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder.

 I adhered the sponged panel onto a black card base, marked the frame opening lightly with pencil and placed foam tape all around the edges.  Then I filled the shaker box with die cut gold and vellum stars and some gold and clear seed beads.

 And here is is all put together:

 And here is the shaker element in action:

 On the outside, the sentiment says "A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away . . ." and I finished it on the inside with the rest of the sentiment "You were Born" and the Time Warp stamped in yellow.

 Thanks for hanging on until the end!!  I hope you enjoyed yourself!  I know my brother-in-law is going to love it!

Supplies:

Stamps: Neat & Tangled "Time Warp" and "Far, Far Away"

Dies: Spellbinders "A2 Matting Basics A" small rectangle and MFT "Blueprints 25" Large rectangle and stars

Challenges:

Cards Galore #155--anything goes

Crafting with An Attitude #43--anything goes

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #26--anything goes

Creative Inspirations--anything goes

Crop Stop Challenge #43--anything goes

Craft Rocket Challenge #152--boys/men

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie #102--anything goes

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog #152--anything goes

Crafty Friends #90--embossing (heat embossing)

heARTful Stamping--anything goes with a stamp

Shopping Our Stash #371--upcycle (I used a piece of acetate upcycled from some stamp packaging I had saved--you know, for that time when you might need it for something!)

The Paper Shelter #353--embossing

Penny's Challenge #397--anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--pop it up (used foam tape to pop up my shaker element)

Crafty Creations #374--anything goes

Pause, Dream, Enjoy--cards + anything goes

Neat and Tangled--photo (or video) tutorial

Cardz TV #65--anything goes
Simon Says STAMPtember Neat and Tangled link up--anything goes with Neat & Tangled