Spaceman birthday

Hi Everyone, from a wet and miserable day, however the grass looks greener and the light we have today makes the garden, with it's Spring bloom,s look lovely, although WET!  I was going to add some piccies, but this is a Lonnnnnnnggggggg post.

I have had a few comments on how I do things in Photoshop, so decided that I would give you an insight into what I did with this card, I'd love to hear your comments on whether you would like more of the same, or more in depth or not to bother LOL.  I don't pretend to be an expert, but I do what I can and try and find out what I don't know, hopefully this will help you find out things too.

I had a birthday card to do for my friends Grandson so here it is. With a joke?

The old fashioned spaceman is from WGP Printables at Etsy, the white moons are by Studio Linda Renee from her digi kit Chapel in the Moonlight, I used  PS Cloud brushes by Blazter and a star scatter by Dede designs.

I have made all sizes card templates in PS so I just choose the layout depending on which card size I intend to use, this is a 6 x 6 inch finished card.

1. I added a dark blue square shape for the background
2. Made a duplicate layer to each moon and used the
3. PS Filter gaussian blur to each of duplicates.
4. Added a gradient overlay to the bottom layer of one moon to add more colour. 
5. Placed different cloud brushes around and added the same gradient to them
6. Used the PS Filter "Twirl" to the clouds, to make the swirling line shapes
7.  I added the star scatter layer on top. 
8. The spaceman came in on another layer, I painted him in PS.  
9. The inside was done with all the layers, except the spaceman
10. I duplicated all the layers and merged the duplicate
11. This was moved to the left of the card layout with the originals staying on the right side
12. I hid the moons on the right side, 
13. Added a shape matching the colours
14. Added text and printed it all out.

After I had printed it and added it to the card I realised he was 21 duh! so cut out the 21 and a key on my Cricut. added them so I can post it to him today! I also added ultra fine glitter from The Range and 3D gloss on top of his helmet to make it look like glass, - hopefully :)

I hope that makes sense to you PS users, it's probably gobblygook to other crafters, that is why I am asking if you want more!  Anyhow here's the card.

Before the 21 and key added

hopefully from this you can see what I mean when I said about moving the merged layer to the left etc.

This is with the 21 and key added, I thought it had to be off white to layer over the moon.

http://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/science-fiction.html  Science Fiction.  - Yep!

http://oddballstamps.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/first-challenge-use-digi.html  Use a digi - Yep!

http://thecraftingcafe.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/april-challenge-one-for-boys.html  One for the Boys - Yep!

http://words2scrapby.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/w2sb-challenge-4-shine-bright-like.html  Bright like  Diamond - in the sky! - Yep!

http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/challenge-315-all-boy.html  All Boy - Yep!

http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/you-spin-me-right-round-challenge_4028.html  Spin me right round - Must contain circles - Yep! (the moons)

http://www.challenges.papercraftingmagic.com/challenge-7-masculine-a-new-designer/  Masculine - Yep!