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