Reach for the Stars Card by April Guest Designer Jennifer Hartsgrove

Hello Krafty Friends! I’m back as April’s Guest Designer for Newton’s Nook Designs. In this weeks card, Newton is looking through his telescope and sees a shooting star. I used the Cosmic Newton Stamp Set to make a cute slider card, I have many more ideas with this set in mind!


Working out the logistics of this slider card, was both exciting and a little frustrating. But…this months theme has been thinking outside of my box, I can’t get “outside” of my house, so I guess I should step outside of my box!

I started my project making my background. I wanted a pretty galaxy sky, I used Distress Oxide Inks to achieve my goal. I did make two large backgrounds so I could get four card panels out of them. On the first one I used Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade, Seedless Preserves, Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot. I first laid down the bright inks, overlapping some to blend in secondary colors. Then I muted them down with Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot to create a nighttime effect. On my second panel I left off a few colors (Squeezed Lemonade, Seedless Preserves, Twisted Citron and Salty Ocean).

Once the layering of ink was complete I first sprayed the panels with water, to get the oxide reaction. Then I splattered some watered down white and yellow acrylic paints with a little liquid stardust.


On my second panel I also splatter liquid stardust directly, I loved the effect this gave…its sooo shimmery!

I then decided to cut my background from the largest die in Newton’s Framework set. Next was my challenge. I wanted to create a shooting star, and all the slider card dies I have in my stash were too wide, so I had to be creative and come up with my own template. My first attempt (the second is shown here) didn’t work exactly like I had wanted, so I tried again. This time I did use a slider die, but modified it and made it smaller on a white piece of cardstock. I also decided that a curve wasn’t going to work properly, because I couldn’t get it to slide smoothly. I made my template, then traced it onto my background panel, and used my pen blade to cut it out. Then I used foam tape, and a dime to make my shooting star slide. The dime for the weight, and the foam tape for dimension. I used a triple layer of foam tape all around the edges of the card and some in the middle for stability. This gave the space needed for the star to slide.

I stamped my images onto a copic friendly cardstock using Lawn Fawn’s Jet Black Ink. Then used the following Copic Markers for my palette:

• Newton’s Fur: Y35, Y38, YR15 and YR16. Ears: R20. Collar: B04, B06, B00.
• Telescope: C2, C3, C4, , C5, `C6, and C8.
• Planets: RV04, RV06, RV09, V12, V15, Y06, B04, and B06.
• Stars: Y06, Y08 and Y19.
• Stardust: Y000, YR00, BG000, R00 and C00.

I went over the planets, lens of the telescope and the stars with a Wink of Stella clear glitter pen.


I cut grass from black cardstock and used Versamark Ink to stamp my sentiment “Reach for the Stars.” Then I heat embossed with Hero Arts white embossing powder. Next, I adhered all the elements to my card. 

I was pleased with how this version of my card turned out, I hope you all enjoy it as well!

As I said above this was my second card, the card on the bottom of this picture was my first. I didn’t care for the sentiment in the sky, I thought it popped much better on the black grass. Plus, I wasn’t pleased with the way the slider was actually sliding. So, I went back to the drawing board and fixed the areas I wasn’t happy with. I’m so glad that I did, I really love my finished card now!

I've also created a video showing you how I created this card:

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Thanks so much to Newton’s Nook Designs for having me as their April’s Guest Designer (can you believe April is almost over)?! It was such a huge honor for me to be asked, I truly love their products! They have such a wonderful group of ladies to work with, I’ve enjoyed my time immensely! 

Until next time, stay safe and keep krafting!
- Jennifer (Katahdin Krafts)