ALTENEW ACADEMY LEVEL TWO "BEAUTIFUL DETAILS"

  All of the classes in this section were so lovely and the techniques used were inspiring. Having to choose just one was difficult but my choice was made by having only a limited number of stamps to choose from.

The technique I used was Alcohol Ink Coloring. I used only the outline stamp from the large flower in the Lush Garden stamp set and stamped it using Memento Paris Dusk ink.

                                                        

                       After coloring the first flower using Copic Alcohol ink NOS. V01, V04, V15, V17, and    V20 ,I masked that off and stamped a second flower. 

The second flower was colored using Copic Alcohol ink markers B23, B29, and B32

After coloring both flowers I masked them and stamped the leaves which were then colored using Copic Alcohol Ink Markers G07, G28, G21, and YG11

                                               

The flower centers were colored using Copic Alcohol ink nos. Y06 and Y35

The flower layer was adhered to a solid green card stock layer and then both were adhered to an A2 white card base.

My original intent was to have the fold to the left but, after turning it around I liked the top fold orientation better.

Altenew Men's and Women's Cards Part 2

My Previous Post for the final submission for completion of section 1 of the Altenew Academy was rejected due to my misunderstanding of the requirements for the assignment. Although I was disappointed, I was excited to produce new Men's and Women's Card Sets.

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The theme of the Men's Set is Leaves. I chose several from the two Altenew Leaf Die Sets I have and featured unique backgrounds for each card

The Women's set uses a different technique for each card but they all contain elements from the

Altenew Craft Your Life Lush Garden Project Kit

This background uses the debossed side of the embossing folder and was colored with a combination of brown and orange inks applied wit blending brushes.

The sticker was made using the out line from a dark brown cut and the leaf petals from an orange cut. The edges were then inked using a darker orange ink cube and then adhered to an orange card base

The background for the tree card was made with embossing paste made by mixing white embossing paste mixed with gold alcohol ink.  

The background for the green leaf card uses the embossed side of the leaf embossing folder . Although the attached leaves appear to be black in the photo they are actually gold.

The background for the yellow and green card was made using a multi layered Argyle stencil

                                   The card holder was made using a pattern in Cricut Design Space

  

                                                  

All of the womens cards were made using elements from the Lush Garden Project Kit

A piece of vellum was embellished with red alcohol ink and stamped with the outline stamp using Versa Mark and then embossed with gold embossing powder. It was then die cut.

                      

The embellishment was then attached to an alcohol ink embellished piece of white card stock and adhered to a purple card base

This card has a gold heat embossed outline stamp which coordinates with the 

alcohol ink colored large flower stamp from the Blooming Bouquet stamp and

die set

                         

     

                                                   The purple card was made by using the 3D embossing folder with                                                                    white core card stock and then burnishing with a sand eraser.

 

                      

The last card was colored using Altenew Inks applied

with blending brushes through the stencil from

the Lush Garden Kit

The cards were boxed using a template from Cricut Desing Space

Altenew Men's &Women's Cards

I used the Altenew Sunburst Stencil as a uniting theme 

for the Men's and Women's card sets I made for the 

Altenew Academy Mid-Term Assignment.

Each set consists of four matching cards. Both sets

are made using  IZINK embossing paste.

The men's set using only the green and 

the women's set using green and pink 

For the men's set I chose to make Note Cards

rather than full size cards.

The embellished layer was adhered to gold foiled paper

and then  to the card base.

The envelopes and card holder were made using the 

We R Memory Keepers WORKS tool. 

The Thinking of you sentiment on

 the cards and holder were

embellished with gold embossing powder

The Women's cards are 5x7 with the

embossed layer mounted on

pink cardstock layered onto a green 5x7 card base

and embellished using the 

Altenew Itty Bitty Flowers Die Set.

        The envelopes for the women's set were embellished

                                                   Using the Altenew Envelope Liner Die                                           

                                        

                                             

The card box for the women's set was made using

the Cricut Maker. The base is heavy card stock

and the lid is clear acetate embellished with

a strip of gold foil tape.

Both sets contain a set of 12 sentiment lables to 

be used for the sentiment on the 

inside of the card.

These lables were made using the Cricut Maker

I thought it would be nice for the sender to

be able to personalize the card.

One of the main reasons I started making cards

was because I often could not find  a card 

that had both the outside I was looking for

and the sentiment I wanted.

 

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