Interocitor

Sci-fi, bad movies and shaker cards. Yes it was time to make a birthday card for my other half again. This time I went straight for This Island Earth aka Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie and created an interocitor.

Once I found a reasonably clear image of the whole of the interocitor, I used that as the basis for creating my own outline version — this time with a graphics app on the computer rather than the light box as it is mostly straight lines and circles.

Once I’d coloured it, I fussy cut it out, including the inside of the triangular screen, which I then turned into a small shaker element with an alien in the background.

I split the card background in two: half being a floor for the interocitor and the happy birthday to sit on and half being a galaxy background with a space ship and planet and stars. I’ve only tried galaxy backgrounds a couple of times, but I was really happy how this one turned out; it’s amazing how much difference white star spatter makes!

And the important thing is that he loved it 🙂

And now I’m starting to panic over what on earth I’m going to come up with this year!

Supplies:

• stamps:
  My Favorite Things – out of this world
• dies:
  Lawn Fawn – Finley’s ABCs
• pens:
  Uni-ball – Signo – UM-153 – white
• Distress ink pads:
  galaxy – picked raspberry, mustard seed, salty ocean, black soot
  floor – weathered wood, stormy sky
• Copic markers:
  alien eyes – G12, G14
  alien body – YG07, YG09, G07
  alien mouth – BV02, BV13, BV04
  alien background – V91, V93, V95
  flying saucer – T0, T2, T4, BV02, BV13, BV04
  planet – T0, T2, T4, BV02, BV13, BV04, V91, V93, V95
  stars – Y32
  interocitor – C3, C4, C5, C6, C7, C8, C9, C10, Y18, Y17, Y38
• embellishments:
  Specialist Crafts – seed beads – silver
  Specialist Crafts – seed beads – gold
• paper and card:
  Neenah solar white 216gsm
  Papermill Direct – plain – azure blue
  acetate
• miscellaneous:
  Ranger – Distress paint – picket fence
  Inkadinkadoo – stamping mask paper

Another catch-up post. This card was created on 12th July 2016 during The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge.