Northern Lights Background

I have been experimenting with a Northern Lights background.  Scenes and backgrounds are not my strong suit, but I am trying to work on that.  I have made about 8 of these and have gotten to where I am consistently satisfied with the end results.


I start out with twisted citron distress oxide ink and using a sponge daubers, I make streaks of color starting toward the bottom (I leave about an inch uninked) and moving toward the top of the card panel varying the length of the strokes.


Once the card panel is filled with twisted citron, I do the same with salty ocean distress oxide ink, but leaving a border of the twisted citron showing. 


I repeat the same process with wilted violet distress oxide ink leaving some of the salty ocean showing.


I finish this part of the process with picked raspberry distress oxide ink at the very top.


I make stars on the card panel with a white sign pen.  The final step is to make streaks over the distress oxide ink (again from the bottom to the top) with a spectrum noir shimmer pen.


Personally, I think it looks like a hot mess until you add the land. For this, I used the Lawn Fawn stitched hillside dies and cut off the upper hill and added another hill lower down.


This would have looked better with the hillside glued down. I was doing this at work and did not have my foam tape available.

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