Hello, I hope you are all staying safe and feeling well
during these most challenging times.
Thank goodness we have crafting! Today,
I am posting my card for the Altenew-AECP Level II course Beyond Basic Backgrounds. This is a quick and simple card. To create my background, I started by inking
some white card stock (CS) with Altenew’s Glacier Caves Mini Cube Set. I used blending brushes to lay down my colour.
I used all four colours in the set to
create an ombre effect. I took my time
with the blending to make sure the colour gradient transition was smooth (no harsh
demarcation lines). Once the CS was inked, I used Altenew’s
Shutter Cover Die to cut out my piece. The die cut is a little smaller than a A2 size
(4 ½ x 5 ¼ “) card. I used a glue pen to apply adhesive to some
areas on the back of the inked die cut and then adhered it to the card base. Since I started taking Violin lessons just
recently, I thought this would be a perfect time to use Altenew’s Treble Love
Die. This die set comes with three metal
dies, a Treble Clef, the sentiment “love you”, and a staff. I cut out the Treble Clef and the “love you”
twice in black CS. I doubled-up each
piece to make them a little more durable.
I added some tiny (and I do mean tiny) pieces of foam tape to the back in
a few places and adhered them to the front of the card. I let the Cover Die parallelogram
bars represent the staff. Here are a couple
photos of the finished card, for now the inside is blank.
Altenew products used to create this card:
