Campology Northern Lights Card

Update: Thanks so much for voting! My card came in second place, just behind the incredibly talented Lori Willcox. Here is the link to see the cards:  Top Ten International Highlights

Hello everyone! I am participating again in Kylie's October International Blog Highlights, and would like to ask for your vote again, please! If you like my card, please click on the link below, and vote for me by clicking on the top right corner of the thumbnail of my card (which is card #29), until you see the heart turn red. 

If you have checked out my blog recently, you will know that I am on a watercolour background kick! This card, and the similar ones below, follow the same trend. I was trying to create a Northern Lights effect on this card. What do you think? I hope that I sort of captured what I was trying to achieve. 

You can see some of the sparkle from the Shimmery White cardstock in this close-up.

It's funny, whenever I make a watercolour background—almost every time—I really don't like the background at first. I remember doing 20 cards for a team swap one time. I was almost in tears, and was ready to throw them all out! I was SO disappointed in the results! This time was no exception... I liked only one of the four that I made. I have learned to walk away, and wait until the next day to look at them. They always seem to look better in the morning! The background in the card above was the one I liked the least, but once I stamped on it, it turned out to be the one I like the best. Go figure, hey? Below are two of the other cards that I made using the backgrounds I created all at the same time.

It's kind of funny that all three of these cards were made with the same ink refill colours—Balmy Blue, Granny Apple Green, Pacific Point, and Night of Navy—yet they all look so different! I started by spritzing Shimmery White Cardstock a few times on the back (to discourage curling), and on the front until it was quite wet. Then I added drops of ink refill to the wet paper, using a Water Painter, until the colours blended on their own.

I stamped the trees, from our Campology stamp set, in Memento black ink, and then sponged the bottom of the cardstock with Memento, as well. The Thank You sentiment is from Blossoms in Bloom.  Each card front was matted on Basic Black with a thin border. The top two cards were mounted on a Pacific Point card base, and the bottom card was layered on a Just Jade card base. To finish the card, I added three Rhinestone Gems.

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