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class recap: altenew marvelous may flowers class at the ink pad

Hi there crafty friends! As you might know, I teach a monthly class at The Ink Pad in NYC. This month I taught a class using Altenew products as part of my Altenew Educator Certification Program training. One part of the certification requirement is to teach a class that is observed by Altenew via Google Hangout. I was lucky enough to have my class observed by Virginia and Nicole from Altenew this past Friday night.


This store is tiny (only 300 sq ft) so a lot of prep work is done by me before the class to make sure everyone has an enjoyable creative experience in a small space. To teach the class, all the fixtures in the shop have to be moved once it is closed and tables have to be set up. The classes in the shop are small and there is only room for 10 students in class. I travel on the subway after work with all the supplies, so many of the pieces are stamped and die cut in advance. Each student gets a class kit with all of the pieces and card bases they will need to create their cards and I bring small bins for all the supplies needed to create each card, so they don't have to carry a lot with them besides the very basics. The way the tables are set up, we usually split the room into 2 groups and each table takes turns making the cards. We began the class with a fun prize raffle so very generously donated by Altenew...Congrats Laurie! I hope you enjoy your new goodies! 


This month's class was Marvelous May Flowers and we used all different types of Altenew flower stamps and dies, stencils and tons of different coloring mediums to create the cards we made in class. We colored with Altenew markers, Shimmer Sprays, Watercolor Brush Markers (these were a class favorite!) and regular watercolors. The ladies spent the evening with lots of different methods of coloring in the class...and everyone agreed it was a super relaxing way to destress on a Friday night. 






I think everyone had a great time! Some of these ladies have been taking my classes for years (this is my 10th year teaching at the shop!) and they just know what to do. We had a couple of students that were new (and one brand new stamper) and everyone helped each other out.  


Thanks Su-Queen for being my card model and showing off your fabulous class creations! 

And thank you Linda and Lissette for taking four classes in a row with me this year!!! I love to see you in class and appreciate your support so much :) 


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altenew: coffee love see through shaker

Hi crafty friends. I am continuing on my journey of becoming an Altenew Educator and have been working through all the required courses and having tons of fun. For today's assignment, the card I have created was inspired by the Acetate with a Twist lesson in the With a Twist class by Therese Calvird For this lesson, she taught a super cute see through shaker card. Here is my take on the lesson using the Coffee Love stamp set. The shaker lets you see right through the card to the coffee pot underneath...I splattered some ink onto my card to give it a bit of interest. 

In all of my years of card making, I don't think I have ever made a see-through shaker card...It was pretty easy and I think the look is super cute! For the inside of the card, I kept it simple and added a sentiment from the Coffee Love set on the inside. 



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simon says stamp: use something metallic

Hi crafty friends, it's time for another challenge over one the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. Thank you for joining us in last week's Tag It Challenge and I hope you will join us again this week too! This week our challenge is Use Something Metallic and the design team is using products from Brutus Monroe. Of course I wanted to try out the awesome Rainbow Embossing Powder!!!

I have been wanting to do something fun with the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Scrollwork stamps and I thought it would be fun to color them in a rainbow palette and add accents of the rainbow embossing powder to different areas on the Scrollwork, so I used a Versamark pen to get precise placement of the powder. Once it was all dry I added an embossed sentiment from the Mini Motivation stamp set.

 

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So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

 

 

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altenew: magical marker techniques

Another card for the Altenew Educator Program today. This time it's a card based on a lesson from the Magical Marker Techniques class. The background on this card was made by coloring through the stencil with markers. It was super easy to create too!

I cut a panel from Neenah solar white cardstock and then placed the Skylight Stencil on top of it using the Wendy Vecchi Make Art Stay-tion. This new product is a magnetic board with some really awesome magnets to hold your stencils in place while you are using them. I was able to color through the stencil and the magnets stayed in place the entire time. Another great feature of the station is that you can turn it around to color another portion and it does not move! 


I finished off the card with the Thanks die and let the background really shine on its own.


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altenew: polychromatic

Continuing on my Altenew Educator journey today with a card inspired by the Polychromatic class taught by Nina-Marie Trapiani. I love her card making style and her lessons were wonderful. I especially loved her lesson on creating a card that was mostly white with pops of bold color...such a fun and happy look!


For this card, I used the All the Hearts stamp set and stamped them in a repeating pattern in brightly colored inks (Coral Berry, Sapphire,Volcano Lake and Rubellite) I cut the Simply Friend die from the panel and stacked two more cut out dies behind it before adhering it back to the panel. To finish the card, I added a strip od contrasting cardstock and stamped a sentiment from the All the Hearts set. 

This is a technique that I will be trying again real soon in other color combinations..so fun and perfect for so many occasions!


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