Make your own background is the challenge theme for MMM and I went with a night sky look. As I’ve mentioned, I was commissioned to make 4 Christmas cards, each with their own theme based on the recipients taste. In this particular case science is the interest requested although no specific science was chosen. I had to think quite hard about this card, particularly because I have no science related stamps. I thought an Aurora Borealis was somewhat science related so began with that idea. This one here is my third attempt at a background as I didn’t really like the other two. They will be used eventually and hubby likes them so he is making photographs as I type. Once I had the colours sponged I went over the entire piece with some black soot. Let it dry and then used a Hero Arts star stencil and Versamark which I heat embossed silver. Set it all aside as some more thinking went on. I went through many online images that were sort of science related but not a lot popped for me. Then I came across this equation and I thought it would work. It was already a jpeg image but resizing it wasn’t going to work, so I recreated it using CorelDraw. I think recreating it took me longer than anything else I’ve worked on recently. The Santa hat is from a Tim Holtz set stamped and die cut. This was then coloured using glitter pens. I added some Cosmic Shimmer Fluffy stuff and used it as the tree topper. The equation is kind of tree shaped and the baubles are all glittered. The Santa and Reindeer came from a store bought card that I deconstructed and I used them because they are small. Anything I own would have been too big.
The card will be entered into the Anything Goes Peace on Earth Christmas challenge. I quite pleased with the end result and it is certainly different. Thanks for stopping by.
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Fun card! I like the equations. I think the scientist will enjoy this.
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Thanks. It required quite a bit of thought but my friend was over the moon with all 4 cards.
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This is a fantastic card for a science enthusiast. Great job on creating it!
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Thanks Golda, Of the 4 commissioned cards this one was the most challenging.
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Love the Christnas equation!
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Thanks. I had to recreate this in CorelDraw. Each letter was inserted individually and took forever.
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Very creative, fun and unique, looks like you had lots of fun with it!!
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Yes, I did but it required a fair amount of thinking and some research to achieve it. I’m glad you like it. Thanks.
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So fun, Johanna – and congrats on persevering! I think it came out wonderful, and the “sentiment” is brilliant, lol. Love it so much – especially the background!
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Thanks a lot. My friend, who commissioned, it was blown away and she says the recipient will be too.
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Your background is lovely and such a clever card with the equations. I thought it was a Tim Holtz stamp. Cute idea to add Santa and his sleigh too.
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Thanks Gayle, even though I had to do 3 takes on the background, what really took time was building the equation. I used CorelDraw, but each letter had to be inserted individually so I could shape it properly.
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Love your beautiful background and that clever equation you used. So creative!
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Thanks a lot Lisa. Of the 4 commissioned cards this one stumped me for a while.
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