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September 18, 2020

Altenew Geometry & Nature Stencils Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello there crafty friends! Today I am thrilled to be part of the Altenew Geometry & Nature Stencils Release Blog Hop + Giveaway. You should have arrived here from the blog of the wonderfully talented Norine Borys...

There are so many awesome new stencils in this release and I had a chance to play with a few of them for this hop. There are so many great designs that will be sure to become staples in your stencil collection. You can see all of the new stencils HERE. Today I have created five different cards for you playing around with a number of different styles...I hope you find something you like!

The first card uses the new Mighty Corners stencil paired with more muted colors for a retro feel...I completed the card with a popped up Hello from the Bold Greetings die that I cut from multiple layers of cardstock.

For my second card, I used shimmer sprays and water with the Modern Circles Stencil to make a monoprint onto the paper...simply spray the sprays onto the stencil, mist with water and flip the stencil onto your paper. Place a paper towel over the stencil and press down, then lift. The paper towel is what will help the open spaces remain free of spray :) I combined this colorful panel with a sentiment from Mega Label Love to keep it simple.

For my third card, I applied ink in rainbow colors through the Sphere stencil, and added a big bold hi that I cut from the Bold Alphabet die. I cut a small strip and stamped a sentiment from the Hello Sunshine stamp set, and added a few enamel dots.

For this card, something a bit different. I used the Leaf Drops stencil along with some gel medium to create a resist for my Lagoon Metallic Shimmer Spray. Once the panel was dry, I added some Jet Black spray splatter. I stamped and colored and die cut the flowers from the Wallpaper Art stamps and dies and colored them in with Watercolor Brush Markers. Then I embossed the sentiment in white on a black cardstock strip.

For my final card, I made something a little more artsy using Embossing Paste and Antique Gold embossing powder through the Color Block Triangle stencil. I stamped and embossed the flower from Ornate Foliage set and colored it in with Metallic Watercolors on black watercolor paper. Then I stamped and embossed a greeting from the set to finish the card.

GIVEAWAY:

To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 3 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog by 09/23/2020 for a chance to win.

They will also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew Winners Page on 09/26/2020. Please be sure to comment and hop along. The next stop on the hop is the AMAZING Erum Tasneem!

Blog Hop Order:

Altenew Card Blog

Therese Calvird

Laura Bassen

Amber Rain Davis

Victoria Calvin

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August 13, 2020

Altenew Mixed Media Ink Lovers Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi there crafty friends! I am thrilled to be joining Altenew today in their Mixed Media Ink Lovers Blog Hop + Giveaway. You should have arrived here from the blog of the amazing Maryam Perez.

Today I have created a card and a canvas pouch with the new Altenew Mixed Media Ink Collection. This pigment ink is water-based and will leave a gorgeous detailed impression every time. Best of all, you don't have to worry about the ink fading. It becomes permanent once heat set with a heat gun or iron. It stamped beautifully on the solid heart images on my card, and also on the canvas pouch as well. I set the ink on the canvas with my heat tool once I was done stamping.

There are currently 8 colors of Mixed Media Ink available and you can get them all here. Here is a swatch chart so you can see them displayed all together.

SPECIAL OFFER

Receive a FREE Demystifying Mixed Media class(Value $8.95) with every order of the Summer Fun Mixed Media Ink Bundle from 8/13/2020 at 12:01 am EDT until 8/14/2020 at 11:59 pm EDT or while supplies last. Shop here --> https://altenew.com/products/summer-fun-mixed-media-ink-bundle The free gift will be added to cart automatically. Not valid on previous purchases

GIVEAWAY

Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog by 8/18/2020 for a chance to win.

They will also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew Winners Page on 08/21/2020.

Thank you for stopping by today and be sure to head on over to the next stop on the hop, the very talented Therese Calvird!

Blog Hop Order:

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July 11, 2020

altenew: paint a flower iris

Hi there crafty friends. Today I have another card project that I completed as part of the Altenew Educator Certification Program. This card was created based on techniques from the Impressive Heat Embossing class. I based my card on the first lesson which is embossing for coloring. I love heat embossing when coloring because it is an easy way to help me stay in the lines, especially when watercoloring. I combined the new to me Paint A Flower: Iris stamp set with the Altenew Artists 24 Color Pan Watercolor set.

To start I embossed the Iris in Gold Embossing Powder and colored in the Irises in shades of reds and oranges by wetting each area I wanted to color and dropping the color in to that section. I let each area dry and was careful to color areas that were dry on either side for each section. I colored in the petals first and once they were dry, I completed the leaves. When the Iris coloring was completed, I added a wash of the Crystal Water blue paint all around the Iris, letting the color fade out at the top. The embossing really helps to keep the wash from getting on to the flowers. Once the panel was dry, I stamped the sentiment in Archival Ink.

To finish the card, I masked off the flower and the sentiment and added Altenew Antique Gold Metallic Spray, Jet Black Spray, and Pure White Spray by dipping a clean paintbrush into each spray and splattering it on the card.

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July 06, 2020

altenew: statement flowers

Hi crafty friends! After a very long break, I am continuing on with my Altenew Educator Certification Program. I am glad I took some time away and continued on when I had time to really focus on the material. For this card, I took ideas and inspiration from the Color Your Day class by Therese Calvird. I took my inspiration from Lesson 2 in this class and used analogous colors on the color wheel (groups of 3 colors that are next to each other on the color wheel) including red, orange, and red-orange (and a bit of yellow) for a soft and warm palette. I also took inspiration from Lesson 5 and used a new medium (DIstress Reinkers) that I have not colored or stamped with before. For me, this took a bit of time and patience to paint, but in the end I was really pleased with the result. I used the gorgeous Statement Flowers Stamp as the focal image of my card.

To color my card, I used Tim Holtz Distress Reinkers in Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Dried Marigold and a bit of Squeezed Lemonade for the flowers. For the petals, I used Crushed Olive and Twisted Citron. For these you only need the tiniest drop of reinker mixed with water as they are super concentrated. Keep in mind that you can also mix colors together to get different, in between colors.

To begin, I stamped the Statement Flowers stamp in Antique Linen Distress Ink onto watercolor paper. Then I started painting the petals by adding a wash of water over each petal and filling it in with the colors drying between each layer and building up the dark areas. Once the painting was dry, I cut it out with the Statement Flowers die. To finish the card, I adhered it to a panel of striped paper, then solid paper in the coordinating color. I created a thin sentiment strip using the Sentiment Strips stamp set and adhered a few sequins to complete it.

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November 12, 2019

altenew: wallpaper art

Finally getting back to finishing my Altenew Educator Program certification. Diving right back into the courses and today I have created a card inspired by the Creative Watercolor Media class. I used a technique from Debby Hughes where she painted her florals with shimmer sprays. I have several of these sprays, so I thought I would create a similar card. To create this card, I stamped and embossed the Wallpaper Art flowers and leaves and painted them with a watercolor paint brush with shimmer sprays in Puffy Heart, Coral Berry, Forest Glade, Frayed Leaf and a bit of Warm Sunshine to brighten up the leaves and flower centers.

Once all of my leaves and flowers had dried, I die cut them and played around with the arrangement, so I knew where to put them on my card. I used a few sprays of Antique Gold shimmer spray on some black watercolor paper and stamped and embossed the sentiment from the Sincere Greetings set in gold to tie it all together.

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May 12, 2019

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 :)

For more information on my classes you can check out the classes & events tab on my blog or to get on my mailing list to be the first to know about future events and classes, be sure to sign up for my newsletter!

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May 08, 2019

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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January 28, 2019

altenew: moroccan mosaic

Another card made inspired by the lessons in the Altenew Educator Certification Program. This time, the inspiration comes from the class In the Mood for Color course by Stephanie Klauck and I've gone with a warm orange and pink color palette desired to evoke feelings of courage (orange) and caring (pink). I love this Morrocan Mosaic set and for this card, I stamped and embossed it with Antique Gold embossing powder making it the perfect background to watercolor in. I love the warm, sunshiny tones that this card conveys and hope it brings some good feelings to the recipient. The sentiment was embossed in white onto gold foil cardstock.

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January 27, 2019

altenew: watercolor dots

Hi crafty friends. I have been signed up as an Altenew Educator Certification Program participant for a while now, and have just gotten around to taking some of the classes I need to take to finish the next level of certification...I love Altenew products and have been using them in my classes for a few years, but I thought it was time to make it official! The latest class I have completed is the Beyond Basic Backgrounds with Lydia Evans. This class had so many fun ways to create backgrounds with all different types of techniques.

One of the lessons in this class created a background with 'water bleaching', which is a technique that I love the look of, but have not played around with it in a quite a while and this reminded me to revisit it. It's such an easy way to change up supplies we may already have on hand. To create this fun background, I inked up a watercolor panel with some of my favorite colors of Distress Ink using a foam blending tool, then I misted the stamp with water and stamped the panel. I thought the effect would look even more pronounced with a big bold dot stamp like the Watercolor Dots stamp set.

To finish off the card, I added a some big bold flowers and a sentiment from the Inked Rose set...

Here's a close up of that fun background. I have a lot more classes to complete, and really forgot how fun it was to explore techniques...so I will be sharing some makes from the next few classes soon.

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July 09, 2018

simon says stamp monday challenge: summer fun

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Thank you for joining us for the Red, White and/or Blue Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too

This week the challenge is Summer Fun...and it's not summer to me without some ice cold lemonade. I wanted to use this new Main Squeeze set from Altenew and combined it with some dotted washi for a bit of contrast: