Cards in Motion

 

Hello and welcome back to my blog.  Today, I am going to share all five of my Altenew Educator Certification Program (AECP) level III cards and project.  I believe this is the last part before the certification (but I’m not for certain).   I am going to share them in five (5) different post, so if you are not busy get comfy and let’s get-it-in!  Level III is more relaxed in that you get to pick the classes you want to try as long as they are not classes that you have taken in the previous two (2) levels.  Altenew has a vast library of classes to choose from so you won’t have a problem finding something that piques your interest with great price points too.    I chose the following classes: Cards in Motion, Mixed Media for Memory Keeping, Stunningly Styled Stencils, Muse, and Monoprinting.   They were all a lot of fun and yes, I do recommend all of them.  For now, I left all the cards blank inside. 

My approach to the projects in this level was to go through all the classes first.  I took notes on things that I had forgotten about and tips I found helpful during the class.   After I went through each classes I started on the cards and had the classes up on the computer for reference.    My inspiration for the cards and page was a wide range from the class itself to my K-Pop world.     

The first card I did was for the Cards in Motion class.   There were several examples of cards with motion to choose from which was great.  I really like the shaker with the large window.   I used the Dearest Friend stamp set for my main image.   I like the open lines and the playful feeling of the stamp.  For the sentiment I used the Crafty Greetings stamps set.  The sentiment is stamp with Altenew’s ObsidianBlack Pigment ink.  I love the elegant font mixed with the printed words; the combination of the two fonts really animates your message.  The image is coloured with alcohol markers. 

Please enjoy a few photos of my completed card for the Cards in Motion class from Altenew.  If you are interested in learning more about Altenew products or any of the classes click HERE. 

Thank you for stopping, stay safe

Joyce

Easy Die Cutting Technique

Hello, welcome back,

I am doing two post today for my Altenew Educator Certification Program.   This is the last class for my level I courses.   The class was Easy Die Cutting Techniques.   For my submission I did a partially hidden message card with the inlay technique.   This card started out as a practice to the practice (lol), but once again I was so please with it, I decided it would become the submission.   Another love, love card.    My inspiration was the stamp set packaging.  I didn’t think I would like the orange flowers but the green really made the images pop.

   

For my card I started with a 3 ¾ x 3 ¾” white card front.  I used Altenew’s Painted Flower Stamp Set.  This is a layering stamp set that includes an outline for each flower as well as layered leaves with an outline image.   It has three different flowers in the set.  I used two of the flowers and all three of the layers to both the flowers.  I used the Warm and Cozy, Golden Sunset, and Green Field mini cube sets to colour the images.   I die cut the word “thanks” from the stamped card front.  I cut an additional three “thanks” in white card stock.  I stacked and glued the three white “thanks” together, then I glued the “thanks” cut from the stamped card front on top of the other three.  I attached the negative portion of the card front onto some green patterned paper (had in the stash for years) cut an 1/8th larger than the card front.  Then I glued the stacked “thanks” back into the negative space of the card front, so it appears to be one piece of card stock again but this time the “thanks” is raised above the card panel. Part of the thanks has the flower pattern and seems to fade into the panel.  I call it a partially hidden message card.  I stamped the sentiment at the bottom using the Jet Black ink mini cube and one of the stamps from the Many Thanks Stamp Set.  I took several pictures to show the dimensions.  This was a lot fun to make.  I think I’m going to do couple more using different layered stamps set and words.   Something I learned from making this card was that, I didn’t like the colours initially, but I kept going with the colours and when I added the green it totally changed the look. 

Stay tuned next up…the level one challenge!

Altenew products:

Warm and Cozy Mini Cube Set

Golden Sunset Mini Cube Set

Green Fields Mini Cube Set

Painted Flowers Stamp Set

Many Thanks Stamp Set

Joyce

Seasonal Scene Building

I’m back with another class submission for the Altenew Educator Certification Program.  I finished the Seasonal Scene Building class and it was reeeeeally good!  I didn’t have the stamps used but you know I’ve already put my order in…lol.   I am inspired by just about anything French and or Country.  For my  card I chose a fence with a grapevine drape, primarily because these were the only scene building stamp I had on hand.  

With this card I would have normally used my Neenah Classic Solar White #80 or #110.  I ended up using a scrap piece of Georgia Pacific (GP), that I cut down to 4 x 5 ¼” card front.  This card front was supposed to be a demo.  I was just practicing my scene building.  My demo turned out so well, I decided to use if for the actual card.  I used five different Judikins stamps to make the scene.  I stamped the scene using Gina K’s Amalgam ink (it was the closest to me at the time and it is Copic friendly).  I coloured the scene using my Copic Markers.  I used Altenew mini ink cube Aqualicious for the dots and Midnight Violet for the grapes.  I used the Jet Black mini ink cube to ink up the “Hello” greeting from the Halftone Hello Stamp Set as well as one of the smaller sentiments from the same stamp set.  I mounted the card front on to a piece Sand coloured 80# cardstock cut to 1/16^th inch larger than the card front.   I mounted the card front onto an A2 sized tent fold card base. To keep the simplicity of the card I left the card flat.  Thanks for stopping by…

Check out these and other Altenew Products from the links below or click HERE. 

Green Fields Mini Ink Cube Set 

Sweet Dreams Mini Ink Cube Set 

Shades of Purple Mini Ink Cube Set 

Halftone Hello Stamp Set 

Joyce

Celebrations: Stencil Techniques

Hello my crafty friends!

Today I’m sharing a card I did for the Celebration: Stencil Techniques class for Altenew’s Educator Certification Program.  My inspiration for this card was Altenew’s Classy Stripes Stencil.  I love this stencil!  You can easily change the feel of a card or a scrapbook page with this one stencil. Vertical bars, depending on the colour and saturation, can have a wide range of mood effect from light and fun to dark and dramatic and anything in between.  Using this stencil, I was able to create an adorable country themed encouragement card.  

I started this card by cutting my cardstock a little larger than the 6 x 5 7/8” stencil.   I did this so I could have something to anchor the stencil to.   I use a light (temporary) adhesive spray to cover one side of the stencil.  I followed the directions on the spray adhesive container for setting time.  I use adhesive spray instead of tape to decrease the possibility of the stencil lifting when I’m inking.  WARNING: Read the directions for use and use spray adhesives in WELL VENTILATED areas.

  

After I am done inking, I place the stencil in light soapy water to clean it.  I placed the stencil on to my #65 white card stock piece (tacky side to cardstock). I used Altenew’s Maple Yellow mini ink cube and a blending tool and started at one end of the cardstock with very light pressure applying a light covering of ink.  As I progressed toward the middle, I used heavier pressure to lay down more colour.  Moving away from the middle of the card (toward the opposite end), I used very light pressure again creating the gradient look.  I rotated the stencil 90 degrees and repeated the same process.   I cut the inked cardstock down so that the most concentrated area of ink was the focal point of the background.  For the flowers I used Altenew’s Daisy Stamp Set.  This is one of the mini layering stamp sets.  There are 3 layers for both the main image and the leaf.   I stamped the Daisies using the Warm Gray Mini Cube Set.  From the Warm Gray set, I omitted the Lava Rock to keep the Daisies light.  and I used the Green Valley Mini Cube Set to stamp the leaves. I left out the Firefly mini cube.  There is no die for the (mini) Daisy stamp set, so I cut them out using my Brother Scan N Cut.  You can also cut them the images out manually.  The sentiment is from the Bamboo Rose Stamp Set.  I used my Misti Stamp Tool and the Evening Gray ink cube to stamp the sentiment several times.  After I arranged the Daisies and leaves, I trimmed the sentiment and adhered them all down with small pieces of double-sided tape.   I added some Fun Foam to the back of the finished card front and mounted that on to an A2 sized side fold card base. 

For more information on Altenew products, classes, and inspiration click HERE. 

Altenew Products: 

Classy Stripes Stencil 

Daisy Stamp Set 

Warm Gray Mini Cube Set 

Green Valley Mini Cube Set 

Pocket Full of Sunshine Mini Cube Set 

Bamboo Rose Stamp Set 

Joyce

Easy Ink Blending

Hi There! Glad you’re back.   

The card I am sharing today is for the Altenew Easy Ink Blending Techniques class.  This is one of my favorites because I love, love, love blending.  It doesn’t matter if it’s Copic Markers, Distress Inks, Clear Color Brush Markers, Gansi Tambi water colours, Prisma Color Pencils, or Altenew Crisp Dye Inks, I just love blending and shading colours.   My inspiration for this card was the tropics and Altenew’s Bamboo Rose Stamp Set.  This is a great outline stamp set.  It has so many supporting images like leaves, branches, stems, and butterflies, this is in addition to the 6-7 different rose sizes! You can make a bouquet of roses, stamp them individually, make a trellis of roses, your imagination is the limit!  It also has five greeting/sentiments in a fun font.  I would say, this is another must have; especially, if you love to colour.  From stamping the images on a plain white background with some coloured ink or embossing powder to colouring the images with Crayola Crayons you will love this stamp set! 

To make this card I started with a piece of Canson Aquarelle #90 water colour card that was a larger than I knew my card front would be.  I do this because sometimes you get the colours just right and of course you’ll never be able to duplicate that background again...well, there is a way, but we won’t go into that here.   I wanted this card to have a tropical feel, so I chose bold bright colours like pinkish reds, corals, yellows, lime green, and oranges.  I started with the lightest colour first.  I added the lightest colour in random areas on the card stock and progressed to the darkest colours.  I was careful not to overlap the colours too much otherwise you end up with a bunch of earth tones (grays, brown, mud).  After I was satisfied with my ink blended background, I cut it down into a 4 x 5 ¼ card front.  I stamped several sizes of the Bamboo Roses onto my card front using my Versa Mark ink pad and embossed them with white fine detail embossing powder.   In the Easy Ink Blending Techniques class we also learned about quick and easy water colouring.  I used that technique on some of the roses and the leaves; it added a bit of dimension to the images.  I die cut the word hello 3 times, glued them together and attached them to the card front.  I added a layer of Fun Foam to the back of the card front and attached that to the front of an A2 sized tent fold white card base…and card was born!  For more Altenew inspiration, products, and information on classes click HERE.

Altenew Products:

Bamboo Rose 

Thanks for stopping by, see you next time...Joyce

Clean & Simple Boutique Card

Howdy Everyone,

Today I am sharing a card I did for my Clean & Simple Boutique Card Class over at Altenew Academy.  My inspiration was floating roses.  I wanted to keep the imagery and the colours light.  I started with a 3 ¼ x 3 ¼” white card front.  I randomly stamped the roses and the rose leaves using Altenew’s mini stamp-Carved Rose.  The Carved Rose stamp set is a single layer solid image stamp.  The stamp set comes with the rose and rose leaf, a sentiment with accompanying phrases to complete the sentiment.   I used Frosty Pink from the Red Cosmos Mini Cube set and Minty Mint from the Green Meadows Mini Cube set.  After I stamped the roses and leaves, I used a Copic Multiliner pen to outline the leaves.  I only outlined the leaves.  In outlining the leaves, it not only helped the leaves to stand out, it created separation of the images and it lifted both the roses and leaves from the white background.  To give more separation of the white background I mounted the card front onto some black cardstock and then mounted the entire card front on to a 4 ¼ x 4 ¼ side folding white card base.  I stamped a sentiment from Altenew’s Label Love Stamp Set with their Jet Black ink from the Green Fields Mini Cube set on some white cardstock, trimmed all around the sentiment and inked the edges with the same black ink to hide the white core of the card stock.  In this lesson I learned a couple of things.  One was using the Copic multiliner to give flat images a lift  and the second was how make a clean and simple card into a boutique type card. For more information on the products I used to make this card  see the links below or visit Altenew.com HERE and Craft Your Life like me!

Altenew Products:

Carved Rose Stamp Set 

Red Cosmos Mini Cube Set 

Green Meadows Mini Cube Set 

Green Fields Mini Cube Set 

Label Love Stamp Set 

Chat soon,

Joyce

All About Layering II - Dearest Friend Card

Hello and welcome back to my blog.  Today's card was inspired by some of the Altenew packaging.  I love how they give you inspiration by using the layered stamp set as part of the packing.  One of the great things about Altenew is you don’t even have to turn on the computer, all you need to do is just flip your pack over to the back side and there is your inspiration! 

For the All About Layering II class I used Altenew’s Remember This stamp set.  The main image is a four layered Flower.  It comes with layered leaves, a layered flower bud, layered flower stems, some outline foliage and a couple sentiments.   

I started my card with a 4 x 5 ¼” piece of cardstock for my card front.  I wanted the image to have a no line colour feel, so I did not use the outline image for the main flower or the leaves.  I stamped one flower at the top and a couple at the bottom in the opposite corner.  To give the card some balance I stamped more leaves along the edge and across the top. To make the images look connected and flowing I did some masking.  I used Altenew’s Shades of Purple and Green Fields Crisp Dye Ink mini cubes sets.  I have to say Green Fields is one of my favorite ink sets.  You can't go wrong using this set of inks for any foliage.  No searching for the right combination, the work is done for you.   I embossed the greeting “Dearest Friend” from Altenew’s Dearest Friend stamp set using black embossing powder and I stamped the sentiment underneath using the Jet Black ink cube from the Green Fields set.  I mounted the card front onto a white side fold A2 size card base and my card is complete. 

With this card I learned patience with layered stamping and practice makes perfect or at least really good…lol

Altenew Products:

Remember This 

Dearest Friend 

Shades of Purple Mini Cube Set 

Green Fields Mini Cube Set 

Joyce

Altenew Educator Certification Program

I’m in!!!  I am so excited to share that I have been accepted into the Altenew Educator Certification Program 2020 class!   Over the next few months, I will be sharing my class assignments on my blog.  I will share how I made the cards or scrapbook page and I will have some links to the products. 

For my first submission, my inspiration came from the demo card Nicole made in class.  I really liked the small additions of colour and the whimsical floral stamp.  I was just getting started with my Altenew stamp collection (now totally hooked), but I did not have the stamp Nicole used (I do now…lol).  Instead, I used Altenew’s Beautiful Day Stamp Set.  For my inks I used their Floral 6 Mini Cube Set.  I started with some white #65 card stock cut to 4 x 5 ¼” for my card front.  The main floral image has four stamp layers.   It also comes with leaves which have three layers, some other outlined images and a couple sentiments.   I used the large flower outline to randomly stamp on the card front using the Jet Black Crisp Dye Ink Cube.  Then I used the 3^rd layer of the large floral image to add some colour.  I stamped one with Frosty Pink, one with Coral Berry, and the last one with Ruby Red. 

I stamped the leaves near the larger flowers and used the 2^nd layer image as my colour fill.  I used Frayed Leaf for this layer.  To fill in some of the white space, I stamped the smaller images between the large floral images and on the edges.  I added some Wink-of Stella to the leaves (only) for just a touch of sparkle.   I chose one of the sentiments from the stamp set, stamped it on the same type of card as above, trimmed the sides down and popped it up on a small piece of black card stock using 3M Foam Tape, then I mounted the card front onto a tent fold A2 card base using some more foam tape.  I love the black and white with a splash of colour here and there.  I learned that you can do a lot with a little as far as colour.  You can still tell the card basic colours are black and white.  I also learned that mounting white on white really looks good (you will see a lot more of that) and that I prefer neutral card bases over coloured.

Altenew Products:
Floral6 Mini Cube Set
BeautifulDay Stamp Set

This close up shows the shimmer on the leaf from the Wink-of-Stella.

Joyce

Mardi Gras Card

Howdy folks,

Just popping in to share a quick card I made for Mardi Gras.  I’m posting a little late.  I made the card on Mardi Gras Day (St. Valentine’s Day).  I used my Cricut Explore Air 2 for all the elements, including the “Happy”.  I just love my Cricut and highly recommend that if you don’t have one and you are planning to get one; either get the Air 2 or the Cricut Maker.  The only other supplies I used is purple, yellow, green, and white cardstock and my Tombow Mono Adhesive.  This was a super simple and super quick card.  Well, that’s it for tonight.   Until next time, have a blessed Lent.

 

Joyce

 

Spellbinders Majesty die Shaped Card

Hi everyone,
     Today I am sharing a card I did with Spellbinder's Majesty die S4-445.  I love this die, it's so, so pretty!  There are just a wonder of ideas and possibilities with this die.  I was inspired by a card I saw in the JustRite booth at the last Craft Expo I attended. The card I saw was actually a baby card.  I plan to do the baby card eventually.   I used scraps to do this first run card.   Just making sure I'm able to line up the templates correctly and making note of any adjustment needed for the real card!  The card measures about 4.25" x 4.25".  The supplies  I used are JoAnn's pink cardstock, the white cardstock is my go-to source Michael's Recollection brand, and  the patterned paper is some old scrap; can't eeeeeeeven remember the name.  The little multicolored rose is from an old Prima collection called Sherwood Rose Cottage. The 1/8 inch satin ribbon is a scrap from a previous project.  I punched the butterfly out of vellum paper (Recollection brand), and added some (Wilton) sparkling stamen and some Crystal Stickles from Ranger.  The little tag is from Spellbinder's Framed Tags One S4-392, the "Thanks"  is from JustRite  All in The Family Large Sentiments CR-04400, and the ink is Stampin UP! Blushing Bride.  Hopefully, in few days I can start on the real thing.  I plan to enter this card in the following challenges.  Thanks for stopping by, til next time...Hugz from me!

Alphabet Challenge Blog- A for Anything Pink
Crafting with Friends- Challenge #16 Anything Goes
Creative Fingers Challenge- Challenge #104 Anything Goes
Fussy and Fancy Challenge #159- Anything Goes with Wings
PDE Linky Party- Challenge #114 Anything Goes
Polkadoodles Crafting -Week 10 challenge-Spring Color
Simply Papercraft Challenges- Challenge #25 Anything Goes