Today is the total solar eclipse of the sun! Finally, the day is here! I thought I would commemorate the eclipse by trying to make some sort of card. Thankfully we now have Glossy Cardstock back at Stampin’ Up! because this was the perfect paper to use for my eclipse card!
The card base is Basic Black with a layer of Gold Foil. On the Glossy White Cardstock piece, I sponged on ink of various colors with pieces of a Stamping Sponge. For the sun, I used the new Starburst Punch. I actually punched a piece of a sticky note with the Starburst Punch when I started making the card and stuck it down on the clean sheet of glossy, then did all the sky colors around it. That way the sun itself would not be colored. Next I took off that mask, and placed the negative of the sticky note over the Starburst shape on the card, carefully lining it up, and sponged in the sun with Crushed Curry ink.
For the moon covering the sun, I punched a 2″ Circle in another sticky note and used the negative over the sun for the mask and sponged on Memento Black Ink in the center of the sun inside that outline of the 2″ Punch.
The adirondack chair die cut is from the Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies. The little greeting is from the Eastern Beauty Photopolymer Stamp Set. I die cut that and the gold foil layer with the Layering Circle Framelits Dies.
My son is off camping in Oregon on a ranch to experience the solar eclipse of 2017 in totality, so we are partly more interested in the eclipse because of that, but we would be interested anyway! Just hoping for no clouds at the time of the eclipse today!
Hope you enjoy your eclipse experience! Just be sure NOT to look at the sun for even a second! You can look online for many ways to safely experience the eclipse.