April Inspiration Station Challange

Above is this month’s inspiration photo and below is the link to hop along!

https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/

Bring on all the Earth love this month! Here’s my take on the inspiration photo, and i feel it came out nearly exactly like it did in my workbook. Yes, it’s a shaker card too! Below is how I created it with things from my stash!

First of all, this is an A1 card base from 80lb Nenah solar white cardstock. The panel on the front is 110lb Nenah solar white cardstock with a die-cut circle I cut out and kept it closer to the top than bottom because I knew I wanted this row o houses to run along the bottom and just slightly cover the bottom of the “world” so I did use the largest circle die I felt I could without losing room around the edge of the panel for adding the foam tape behind it.

The “Earth” was made with some sloppy mixing of watercolors: blues for water, browns for earth area. I mixed them together on a panel of Cason 140lb cold press watercolor cardstock. I spritzed the painted area with water and wipe it off with paper towel. then i heat set it with my heat gun. I repeated this process a couple times until I got a good look.

To create clouds, I used just a small amount of watered down Cloud Whip and applied with a palette knife in specific areas over the “earth” painted panel.

The neighborhood was a very large sticker I have had in my stash, and I have no idea where it came from. I stuck it to a scrap of cardstock, then cut off a line of “clouds”. I stuck it to the front base of the card, then trimmed it to fit.

To create the shaker element, I glued the “earth” panel to the front of the card. On the cut-out panel, I flipped it over and taped an acetate panel over the cut-out circle. I then folded my double-sided foam tape in half to double up the size and laid it around the area for the shaker bits and also around the edge of the panel. I chose some earthy colored shaker bits and set those on the “earth” panel, in the center.

Then I attached the cut-out panel over that.