Today is the big day! The day of the Total Solar Eclipse 2024 that many people have been looking forward to! We are here in Central Texas hoping for at least a little parting of the clouds so that we can see the actual eclipse with our fancy glasses we bought months ago!

Of course, I had to make a card to commemorate the big event! This is my vision of the moon coming between the sun and the earth on this day at just the right time to line up and perfectly cover the sun. This will be the last total eclipse across the United States for another twenty years!

For this card, I had to have darkness so I started with a card base of Basic Black. I used two inks and Blending Brushes on Basic White for the dark sky. I used Pebbled Path first and then Starry Sky. Of course, I could have just used Basic Black cardstock but that wouldn’t be as interesting. I just colored and colored with the Blending Brushes until I had a dark enough color.

For the eclipse representation, I used the Deckled Circles Dies. I thought they were perfect because they say the sun will peek out behind the mountains of the moon and the corona of the sun will have an uneven edge. So the Deckled Circles Dies were better than punched circles!

I chose this one in the Color & Contour Stamp Set (sold out) for a greeting. I first thought I would cut out the word ‘amazing’, but I decided the whole sentiment was fine. Because the total eclipse is “absolutely amazing”. I stamped it with Versamark Ink and used Gold Embossing Powder to make it special.

I’ll have to let you know later how the eclipse turned out! It seems a lot quieter here than we expected. Perhaps a lot of people changed their plans when it turned out the forecast was for clouds obscuring the eclipse and maybe some storms afterward. We expected massive traffic jams everywhere but we haven’t seen that so far although there are more popular places to see the eclipse than where we are. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that we will have a break in the clouds at the right time and that we have the full experience of this magnificent event!