Go Overboard with Stars

This week I've been having fun playing with my new Silhouette Cameo. While much of using pre-designed cut files is pretty straightforward, there's still a bit of a learning curve to be taken to design cut files yourself, but I'm working on it. I'd already purchased a stars cut file from the Silhouette store and had a photo of a partial lunar eclipse from last year ready to scrap so the challenge this week on Shimelle's blog - to go overboard with stars - was ideal!

I love the look of layouts which use a cut file and back the shapes with different papers, but I hadn't realised just how time consuming it is to do that! Needless to say, it took me a while, but all the different papers are from the Galileo paper from the Shimelle Starshine Collection from American Crafts. The different sized blocks of colours and patterns were just the thing to back the stars, and although I used pieces of the Gemini paper and Keppler paper from the same collection as photo mats, all the other layers under the photo are leftover scraps from that original Galileo sheet.

I popped the cut file up on some foam and backed it with another sheet of black cardstock - I love the shadows this creates. The additional stars are wood veneers covered with platinum stickles glitter glue for that bit of sparkle.