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Game Over Retro Gaming Card with Striped Background Panels - the finished project — The finished project

Create a vibrant retro gaming card featuring a cool character illustration with a rainbow-bordered circular frame. The design showcases three horizontal striped panels with black and white comic-style backgrounds, accented with bold orange and purple borders. Use alcohol markers to add bright colours to pre-printed images for a modern, playful finish.

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Step by step

Place white stamping card into your stamp platform and stamp the Game Over background stamp three times in black ink, spacing them evenly down the card to create three separate sections.
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Use a paper trimmer to cut the stamped card into one-inch horizontal strips, creating six individual strips from the three stamped sections.
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Arrange the patterned strips on a 4½ by 6½ inch card base, alternating the gaming pattern so the images continue across the strips. Leave even spacing between each strip.
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Adhere the patterned strips to the black card base, starting with the top and bottom strips to establish even spacing, then fill in the middle rows to create a striped background.
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Trim the excess edges of the striped paper strips flush with the black card base using scissors.
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Mount the striped background panel onto the rainbow-coloured paper layer. Adhere this assembled piece to the white card blank to create a colourful border frame around the design.
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Stamp the Crash character image from the stamp set onto white card using black ink. Stamp the 'SMILE!' sentiment onto the same white card using black ink.
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Colour the Crash character using alcohol markers. Apply blue to the hair and t-shirt with darker blue shading, colour the ring red, add red to the earphones, purple to the jacket, and orange to the sleeves.
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Colour the character's face and visible fingers with a pale skin-tone marker. Outline the character with a very pale grey marker to add depth and create separation from the white background.
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Colour the border of the 'SMILE!' sentiment stamp with a green marker. Carefully cut out both the character circle and the sentiment using scissors, leaving a slight white border around each element.
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Attach foam pads to the back of the Crash character and position it in the centre of the card, slightly above the middle.
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Add small flashes of colour to the background pattern using alcohol markers in green, red, blue, and orange to echo the colours used on the character and tie the design together.
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Tips from the show

You don't need to colour the entire background; small flashes of colour work just as well to bring the design together.
Using a pale blue, grey, or lilac outline around stamped images makes them pop and creates depth from the white paper.
You can arrange the striped panels with even spacing or vary the gaps to create different visual effects.

Game Over Retro Gaming Card with Striped Background Panels

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