Batcats – Mixed media DT inspiration card

Hello Everyone and welcome back to my blog!

Today I would like to share with you the card I created as DT inspiration for Knitty Kitty Digis and the image I have used is called Batcats.

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In the mean time please enjoy the tutorial 🙂

I used Microsoft Word to print the images on mixed media card stock. I wanted both the image alone and the one with the city line so I could fussy cut the batcats and adhere them on top. After they were printed I drew the moon in the background and starting doing some watercoloring of the sky, city line and the moon. I used Distress inks in seedless preserve and a blue watercolor pan from the Prima Marketing Confections. For the moon I used Distress ink in scattered straw.

For the city line I used the Distress ink seedless preserve and the Distress oxide in black soot, for the stars I used Distress ink in mustard seed. When the background was dry I used the Mister from Ranger to create some droplets of water and create this cool effect.

I added stars in the sky with a white gel pen and I continued by coloring both the images of the batcats with Derwent Inktense pencils and a waterbrush. I also used Polychromos pencils to add an extra texture on the batcats.

After I finished with the coloring of the images I fussy cut them, I find this process to be very relaxing…
I set the images aside and started working on the brick wall that I wanted to create for the front panel of the card.

My card base measures 11,5cm x 15,5cm and the frame for the brick wall measures 10,5cm x 15cm. The inside window of the frame measures 7,5cm x 11,5cm.
To create the brick wall I used a stencil from The Crafters Workshop and Texture paste by Ranger.

To color it and create the feel of an old brick wall I used Distress inks in fired brick and rusty hinge, Lyra aquabrushes and the Mister from Ranger.

Using white Gesso by Finnabair I brushed the bricks to bring them forward again and with Distress oxide in black soot I sponged all around the outer frame and inside the frame.

I then adhere the image behind the brick wall frame and used foam tape on the back and then adhered it on the black card base.

I then used the Zig 2 way glue to adhere the fussy cut image of the mama batcat, then with I adhered the other two images with foam tape.

To finish off the card I used Nuvo Drops on the stars and the windows of the city line, and adhered two spiders on the brick wall and two bats in the sky.

I had so much fun coloring the images and creating the card and I hope you like it.

You might want to pin the pictures on your board for later reference and inspiration.

Thank you for visiting me today,

I am so happy that my card was noticed by
The Snarky Stampers challenge

 

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

Creatalicious challenge
Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers
Crafting with Dragonflies
Classic DT challenge
World wide open DT challenge
Crafters Castle
The Crafty Addicts
The Corrosive Challenge
Hiding in my Craftroom