Colourful Card Creations: Northern Lights Technique

Friday, 8 August 2025

Northern Lights Technique

Hi all. I decided to try to make a card featuring the Northern Lights and I looked at lots of photos to get an idea of colours and then set about replicating it. There are also lots of YouTube videos which I looked at, and also Loll and Susan have recently put up their versions which are all beautiful, and they have both mentioned videos which you could look at. I also used three different tree stamps..two from a Stampscapes set and one from a set by Chocolate Baroque. Two out of three of the tree stamps are being used for the first time.

I started with the green and pink colours in the sky for which I used Distress Inks in Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet. The Twisted Citron is a small ink cube and building up the colour took quite a long time and that was one of the reasons I added the Mowed Lawn which I have in a normal sized ink pad and which made it a bit faster, though I did want to keep the colour as light as I could. I then added in the Chipped Sapphire DI which is another ink cube and I filled in the gaps and around the outside edges, and darkened it up with Black Soot DI which I added to the bottom section too. Unfortunately I have managed to create a bit of brown between the green and pink because I accidentally laid one over the other and it has made the join a bit muddy, but apart from that it went quite well.

I finished it off by adding the different trees across the bottom at different heights for a bit of variation using my Misti so that I could stamp them several times, and I used Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink. I also added some Posca Pen stars and finished with a birthday sentiment using Hero Arts Unicorn White Ink and heat embossed it with WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder. It does have a slightly grey look but I didn't want it to be a stark white so I think that works OK.

Thank you for visiting me today and I will be posting more frequently again. I have had rather a long break as our son came to visit from Australia for three weeks which was lovely, so cardmaking was suspended, and I always find it hard to get myself revved up again which is silly as I do enjoy being creative, but once I start I am generally fine and the mojo mostly works..lol.