Simply Marbelous Northern Lights Card

Use Stampin' UP! Simply Marbelous Sale-a-Bration paper to create an ink blended sky for the Northern Lights. by Patty Bennett

 

A Bucket List dream of mine is to see the Northern Lights!  We’ve seen just a glimpse of it on one of the Alaska Cruises we’ve been on, but someday I’d love to see it in it’s full glory!!  I decided to try to make a Northern Lights card using the Sale-a-Bration Simply Marbelous paper and some ink blending!  

 

Use Blending Brushes and ink on Stampin' UP! Simply Marbelous paper for a Northern Lights card.  New Horizons paper for mountains. by Patty Bennett

 

Using the 4 colors of ink shown below, I used my Stampin’ UP! Blending Brushes and added ink to a piece of the Balmy Blue Simply Marbelous paper to look like the Northern Lights.  Then I used Paper Snips to cut the mountain range out of a piece of New Horizons designer paper to place on top. 

 

Color Combo for: Stampin' UP! Simply Marbelous Sale-a-Bration paper and ink blended sky for the Northern Lights. by Patty Bennett

 

Limited Time Only!

Simply Marbelous Paper is ONLY AVAILABLE through 2-28-22 during Sale-a-Bration as your free gift choice, with your $50 online order.   The New Horizons paper is available in my online store along with the rest of the supplies for this card (see product photos at the bottom of this post). 

I thought I was going to add a moon to my card, so I stamped it onto the Basic Gray Simply Marbelous paper, but ended up not using it. 

 

Use Blending Brushes and ink on Stampin' UP! Simply Marbelous paper for a Northern Lights card. New Horizons paper for mountains. by Patty Bennett

 

The final touches were to stamp trees from the Mountain Air set (this also has the moon in it), then flick large drops of Wink of Stella onto the sky and then flicked white ink from the White Craft ink refill bottle to look like stars in the sky. 

 

Use Stampin' UP! Simply Marbelous Sale-a-Bration paper to create an ink blended sky for the Northern Lights. by Patty Bennett

 

Video Tutorial Added 2-22-22

 

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61 thoughts on “Simply Marbelous Northern Lights Card”

  1. Patty, you’ve really done it this time! This card is over the top. Using two DSP’s to make the Northern lights is just brilliant. And really just a minimum of stamping involved.
    It has been interesting seeing how creative people have been using these two papers, and here, you have combined them beautifully.

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  2. Patty, you have shared many beautiful cards with us over the years, but your Northern Lights card is the most fabulous I have ever seen!
    Growing up in Minnesota, I saw the Northern Lights many, many times. Each time was breath-taking and unique. The Northern Lights seem to wave and ripple in the sky, and you have captured that effect.
    Thanks for teaching us how to create this card. I can’t wait to try it out!
    I want to add a little reddish-pink to mine.

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  3. OH MY WORD! My two favorite papers used to create this unbelievably gorgeous card…with blending brushes….no stamping….THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

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    • I put the white craft ink onto a clear block and used the tip of my blender pen to flick down on the ink onto the paper. I think I’ve done that in a video before… with so much interest in this card, I think I might need to do a quick video 🙂

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  4. Beautiful card! Love how you did your background! Thanks for sharing all that you do on your blog. It is so helpful. Maybe I missed it, did you use garden green to stamp your trees?

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  5. What a great idea! I have tried to make Northern Lights by blending but it was a big fail. I will be getting another pack of Simply Marbleous with one last Saleabration order but I wish SU would sell this paper.
    I hate to travel so I won’t be seeing the Northern Lights unless they show up in NC.

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  6. You have such a knack to be able to use supplies in different ways than the obvious!! I envy your talent!! Thanks for sharing this beautiful card!

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  7. This is the most beautiful card you’ve made, Patty. I have been stamping for years but It sure would be a big help if you did a video on how you made the card. Please, please, make a video!

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  8. Yes, I’ve seen the Northern Lights on a week-long visit to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada to see the polar bears. The bears and the Northern Lights at 2 am were amazing!

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  9. This is genius! I’ve always admired your ‘art’ ability but this tops it all. Thanks for sharing and teaching us how to do this. Hope mine looks half as good. Kudos

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  10. What a creative card. I love it! That’s really thinking outside the box.
    As Mar-Sue mentioned, come to Manitoba and fly up to Churchill. You can see polar bears, northern lights AND beluga whales. I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba and it’s on my bucket list. I’ve seen the northern lights a number of times, but not for many years. The best one was on my birthday in February–a bitterly cold night. The lights whipped and danced around the sky in green and pink, flaming up toward a point right above us. Magnificent!

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  11. I’ve seen and tried several northern lights techniques and can’t wait to try this one! I’ve been wondering what to do with my marbled paper. Thanks for the video. Megan from Wyoming

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  12. Patty, Thank you for this tutorial. You talked me into getting the products, but I already have a SU demonstrator so I bought through her. Looking at the New Horizons I fell in love. Too bad it is mostly all sold out, but I did get the papers. Thank you again! I can’t wait to try this technique.

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  13. I love this card!
    Ecer since i saw a video of northern lights cards using this paper i have been obsessed! And even working on a technique to make them without the paper! Ive seen the aurora australis but not aurora borealis!

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