Super Heroine

Up, up, and away!  Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's a... super hero!! err.. heroine!

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Putting It Together

This card started from the button.

I like working with resin and I cast this button from a mold (Cool Tools) last weekend with the last of a batch of resin I had mixed up for some other items. I've cast in this button mold before and really like how it looks. For this time, I brushed the mold with metallic silver powder (finely ground aluminium) and then poured in resin coloured with opaque blue. The end result is a silver button with blue back light. Because there's actual metal in the surface colour, it picks up light like metal casting. I didn't put a surface patina on the button, but, because of the metal, most metal patinas would work well with it.

While thinking about this button, I thought about how it would look with a super hero themed stamp and I happened to have just such a stamp in my stash. I stamped the image with black archival ink to be like the cell shading of the comic books. I also chose a spotty red ribbon to go with my super heroine and the super button.

I coloured/painted the image with Distress ink minis and water brushes. I also used a couple Perfect Pearls. I used the Forever Red on the cape in powder form after I painted it in the reds. Perfect Pearls is formulated to bond with water. There was just enough damp in the cape to hold on to the powder for a light transparent sparkle. I used gold on the trim and stars of her outfit, applying it wet so it would be thicker and opaque. I loosely fussy cut the heroine, leaving off the stars. She's pointing at all the colours I used for her *laugh*

I found a background in my stash, long retired designer paper from Stampin' Up. My local enabler... err demonstrator was de-stashing a few months ago and I picked up a bunch of retired papers. I also used an oval I cut for a previous project but didn't align the hole die up quite perfectly. For this card, the imperfection could be covered by the image making it a perfect place to use it. I had tried to make a bow but failed miserably *laugh* But, I rather like the 2 'flags' better for this card.

When assembling the card, I lined up the oval frame on the oval I cut in the patterned paper. I had cut the oval in the background at a slant to continue the upward aspect of the heroine. Here you can see where the dots are too close to the edge for part of the oval. I hate it when dies shift while running through the Big Shot.

Putting the rest together: I put foam mounting tape on the parts of the heroine that would not be tucked under the oval so they would have dimension. For the leg partially under the oval, I used the same tape runner as the rest of the background to attach it directly to the card base. The heroine rises out of the oval on a slight angle which gives a nice 3D effect. The button and ribbon are attached with Glue Dots since those work great for multi-surface dimensional stuff.

For the inside of the card, I isolated the stars from the stamp, the part of the stamp I didn't use on the front, by masking them with well used Post Its. After inking the stamp, I removed the mask and only the inked part gets stamped. (Be sure to remove the masking after inking BEFORE stamping. I've forgotten that important detail before.)

I coloured the inside stars with a bit of Mustard Seed. I left the rest of the inside empty because I didn't have the 'right' sentiment in my stash. I told my sweetie that this morning and he laughed. He agreed that I do need more things to fill that gap.. or that I would be getting more to fill it *laugh*. I was surprised, though, that I only have one "super", the one with this stamp set, but it's a "superstar" and not really maskable to be only 'super' or I could have built my own sentiment with a 'super', such as "have a super birthday" (I was surprised none of my birthday sets have that, then again, I don't have many sentiment sets, really).

Challenges

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