Memory Box Country Scene | New Years Card

Hi Everyone & Happy Holidays! I hope you're surviving the craziness which is this season. Now that Christmas is over I'm quickly doing up some New Years cards to send out next week. 

I knew that I either wanted to do a shaker card with this die, or an ink blended background. Since I was making multiples of this one I went with ink blending.  Here's how it came together:

I started by tracing my die outline on Bristol Smooth cardstock so I didn't waste ink blending where I didn't need it. 

Next, I created a galaxy type background using 3 different colors of distress ink

To create even more dimension, I spritzed the sheets with water and sopped up the droplets with a paper towel, followed by flicking on some gold watercolor paint.

To start the final assembly, I cut the die out of multiple pieces of card stock. Each card got two stacked on top of one another, with the top one being embossed with an embossing folder. 

My sentiment was printed with my laserjet printer and then heat foiled. After adhering everything together, I mounted the finished card panel onto an a2 sized note card.

And there you have it!

Challenges

Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

Supplies

Memory Box Countryside Circle Shop at: Dies R Us

Ranger Multi Medium Matte Where to buy: AMZ | SB	SA 3L Thin Foam Squares Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	SA 3L Tape Runner Where to buy: AMZ | SB	Cutterpillar Pro Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
Ranger Ink Blending Tool Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Scor Pal Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Teflon Bone Folder Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Distress Ink - Black Soot Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
Distress Ink - Dusty Concord Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Distress Ink - Picked Raspberry Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Spellbinders Glimmer Foil Where to buy: SSS | SB	Spellbinders Platinum Where to buy: SSS | AMZ | SB
Laser Printer Where to buy: AMZ