Altenew Ambassador - Flourishing Bouquet with Metallic Watercolours

 Today, I'm sharing an unusual card for me - it's painted on black! I used Altenew's Flourishing Bouquet stamp set with gold embossing and Metallic Watercolours for a dramatic look. 

And I made a video! 

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Darling Dahlias birthday card - Altenew Ambassador

 Today, I'm sharing a card using the Darling Dahlia layering die set from Altenew. I created a background using Altenew watercolours, and cut the flowers from watercolour paper and watercoloured them as well. The sentiment is from One Go: Solid Sentiment Strips.  

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AECP Final assessment workshop

Last weekend, I taught a cardmaking workshop to complete my Altenew Educator Certification Program. I ran the class via Zoom, and there were 15 crafters in the class! These are the two cards I created to share in the class: 

For the first card, I created a rainbow of watercolours in the background, and white embossed the Lovely Rose Peony image onto vellum and added more rainbow colour behind the vellum with alcohol markers. 

For the second card, I created a rainbow of ink blending on the focal image, and embossed the white background with the Angled mosaic 3D embossing folder.  Both cards have the die cut HI sentiment cut from black cardstock and popped up on foam adhesive. 

I also made some bonus cards to share, to give my participants some extra ideas in case they didn't have specific products, tools or mediums to create either of these two cards. 

 Clockwise from top left,

1    I used ink blending in the background and alcohol markers on vellum for the floral image, 

2    I masked the floral image and did ink blending in the background, 

3    I used watercolours for both the floral image and the background, and 

4    I used alcohol inks in the background and alcohol markers on vellum for the floral image.

Participants in my class have generously shared photos of their own creations with me!  

Please visit their Instagram accounts and leave them some love! 

Therese Calvird

 Jane Clark

 

 Tristan Dawes

Rachel Finn 

 Cecilia Hsieh

 

 Disha Jain

 Berit Kyllo-Steinmoen

Donna Lewis

 

Aditi Mahajan

Nora Niskanen 

Ishani S 

 Kriti Sharma

 Irene Smith

 Lisa Tilson

 

 Natalie Walsh 

Many thanks to Erum Tasneem for all of her help and encouragement during my AECP journey! 

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Charming Clusters Sending Hugs - Altenew Ambassador

Today, I'm sharing a card using the Charming Clusters stamp set from Altenew, along with their Artistry by Altenew Watercolours. 

 

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Happy birthday, Melissa!

 I made this card over a month ago for a cardmaking friend, Melissa! Seeing as she has it now, I can share it here! 

I used the Delicate Outline Flowers background stamp from Simon Says Stamp (sadly, discontinued) and dies also from Simon along with Altenew watercolours.  

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Rainbow Christmas Trees

Today, I'm sharing a fun Christmas card using an embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp along with dies, stamps and a stencil from Waffleflower. 

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AECP Level 3: Stencils Unleashed

Today, I'm sharing a card I made for the Altenew AECP class, Stencils Unleashed. I ink blended over these stencils to give me a starting point, but then used watercolour pencils and a water brush to get a new look. 

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AECP Level 3 - Artist watercolor 101

 Today, I'm sharing a card I made for the Altenew AECP class, Artist Watercolor 101. 

 

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