The Crafty Den: Cards for All Seasons IG Hop

Hello friends; I hope you're having a great week so far. I'm back today to share my card for this week's Cards for All Seasons IG hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly. We are now on Week 17 and our theme is 'galaxy/stars/outer space'. Such a fun theme this week; think space-ships, space-men or go for a bright star inspired card. There are going to be so many awesome creations along the hop this week and I can't wait to see what sparks your imagination.

I really wanted to make a galaxy inspired ink blended background so ordered a space-ship die especially for today's card. I'm really happy with how my background turned out and the finished card is so much fun. I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the space-ship:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by creating my galaxy background. I used ink pads from Gina K Designs in lots of colours - blues, purple, pink and yellow and blended them until I was happy with how they looked. I splattered some white gouache all over and left it to dry. I die cut the space-ship (or should it be rocket?) from coloured card from my scraps bin and adhered it together with liquid glue apart from the front 'leg' which I added with a tiny foam square. I also die cut the moon and stars from some yellow card and lightly ink blended some orange ink over them for some definition. I didn't have a suitable sentiment in my stash so used my pc and printed one out and cut it with a sentiment strips die. Once my background was dry I trimmed it down to 4" x 5 1/4" and arranged all the die cuts and added the larger ones with foam squares and the small stars with liquid glue. The sentiment was added to the bottom left corner with foam squares. I added some scrap white card behind my panel for stability and dimension and then added it to the card base with double sided tape. For the inside I cut a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and added the left-over pieces from my background to the top and bottom of the panel with liquid glue. I stamped a sentiment in black ink in the centre and finished off with some die cut stars, which I added with liquid glue. The panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

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I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; please use the hashtag #cfascardhop2025 to see all the gorgeous creations and also if you want to participate we will be able to find you.

I'll be back later with another card so I hope you will pop back and check it out. Until then thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs,