Altenew - AECP - Level 2 - With a Twist

Hi all,  I'm back today with another two cards, for my AECP level 2, this was such a fun class, six lessons  hosted by Therese Calvird.

With a Twist, is all about having fun with your supplies, getting more out of them, cutting on a weird angle and maybe stepping out of you're comfort zone!

So my first card is based upon the idea of getting more out of your supplies...you know the ones that we only use now and again......

I'm using the Altenew Shattered triangle for my first card...

So other than using this set for a masculine card... I've not really used it that much...until now..from now on this set has been re-purposed.. its now a conical wall hanging basket...Yes you read that right...its a wall hanging basket, full of green foliage and flowers!.. lets take a look at the card...

I've used the Doodle Blooms stamp and die set for my flowers and foliage, and coloured them with Altenew Alcohol Markers, in just three colours G702, R403 and Y204 .. I've even shaped the baskets by adding two pieces of foam tape in the middle and one piece on either side of the basket.. so it looks 3D..

I also added some brown sisal, to look like moss...I didn't want my flowers to dry out now did I LOL.

OK, so lets have a look at my second card... the twist with this one is that  I've fussy cut it on a angle... and to get that angle right, I've draw in a diagonal pencil line from top right to bottom left.. 

Yep...it looks like a hot mess... I know... but just wait....till you see...

Now doesn't that look pretty!

Sets used are :-

Wallpaper Art

Beautiful Peony

Peony Bouquet

Beautiful Day

Many thanks

I've coloured this one with Zig markers as I stamped it on to Bristol Smooth card stock and Bristol smooth will tolerate a small amount of water...

As you can see I've fussy cut the image..

Now I didn't want to waste the rest of the paper, so I distress ink blended it with Tattered Rose and Antique linen.. Die cut it with a stitched rectangle.  I've mounted this on not one but two pieces of fun foam... I really wanted it to stand out and give it some dimension, and I've added some water droplets..the inspiration for the water droplets...came from outside as it's been pouring down where I live...LOL.  The thank you sentiment was too large so I had to stamp the "thank" and mask off the "you" and then position the you underneath and then mask off the "thank" bit..

Hope I've given you inspiration to re-purpose some of those crafting supplies, or to take this class!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Alli

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Make My Monday Challenge #97

Hi all, I'm back tonight sharing my first card as a DT member for Make My Monday

Wei is our host for this Challenge and the theme is Interactive...

I thought this card would be great for this challenge, as the plane is on a wobble...

I've stamped the images in Copic friendly ink from the Plane and Simple set by Lawn Fawn, and die cut them with the coordinating dies. 

I've coloured the images with Copic markers.

The background and the cloud border dies are also by Lawn Fawn too.

Thanks for stopping by and sharing my first card as a DT with Make My Monday, hope you can pop over and enter the challenge and see more inspiration from the very talented Design Team!

Hugs

Alli

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Altenew - AECP - Level 2 - Creative, Watercolour Media

Oh my...where do I start, this has to be one of my favourite classes so far!...
It was taught by the lovely, Jennifer Rzasa, Debby Hughes and Laura Bassen.

Now you all know that I love to water colour with paints, but you don't need watercolour paints to achieve the watercolour look!

I would really recommend anyone to take this class, it has lots of inspiration and tricks... so much so that I couldn't just do one card for this class...I had to do four, and they are all different, and made using different techniques, from what I learnt in class!

 I'll start off with my favourite card out of the four...

Firstly, I stamped the images using a water resistant ink, I wanted to be able to see the black lines for this card. I masked off my images (I have gone over this in a previous post) until I had a cluster of flowers that I was happy with.

I've smooshed the ink pad on to my glass surface, added a drop of water and mixed it with my paint brush, and I've started with the lightest brown ink Sand Dune, to create my background shadows, I like to start with the lightest and build up the colour, just as you would doing any normal colouring. 

After all my ink smooshing and painting, I've ended up with this... just a few ink splatters needed!

And this card has been created using these ink pads, which is fabulous when you don't have some of these colours in the watercolour pan set, it gives you so many options!

Ok on too my next card...a close second ....

This one was fairly easy, I started by stamping my three flowers with Tattered Rose distress ink, as I wanted a no line look for this one.  Distress ink, reacts with water and it helps to actually colour the image too!

I fussy cut the flowers as I didn't want a border round them and I arranged them on my background so I knew where I needed to stamp the leaves..

No I'm not drawing smiley faces, but a line so I know where my leaves have to go LOL

I've also stamped the leaves in distress ink too, so I can blend it out with water... The background is a mix of distress ink and white gouache, it gives it chalky/faded look. All that was left was to paint a grey shadow border and foam mount the flowers and add sequins!

My third card is a water coloured panel on which I have heat embossed a background and then reactivated the paint by adding a darker colour on top.

And for my last card, I've water coloured through a stencil, and then smooshed some ink on to acetate with some gold shimmer for the gardenia flower.

And here's all of the cards I created with the inspiration from today's class!

Hope you liked the cards and I hope that I've encouraged you to either take the class or have a go at one of these techniques!

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Alli

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Altenew - AECP - Level 2 - Colour Your Day

Hi guys I'm back today with another card that I've made for my AECP.

Todays class was called Colour Your Day, with the lovely Therese Calvird, I really enjoyed this class and some of the info in the class I remembered vaguely from art class at school...way, way back...(too far back if I'm honest LOL)

So lets look at the colour wheel.. (this one is a free one I've downloaded)

Can you see from the wheel that if you say go with Red, that the complementary colour is Green, and that the Triad colours would be Blue-Green and Yellow Green... (Triad means it forms a triangle).
And if you look at the wheel it shows what other colours work well together too..like Orange and Red Violet or even Blue, colour combo's that you often wouldn't use together...

This really helps when your stuck, and not sure what colours go well with each other.

Also, photos can be a great colour inspiration too, or colour swatches, I have a lot of those saved on my Pinterest.., the other day I actually did a colour challenge that was from one of those swatches!

So I've based my card on the formula that Therese taught us the 70:20:10 Which is 70% of the card will be one colour, 20% is the next colour and 10% the last colour.. The colours used can be within the family of that colour. (like the colour wheel above)

Any way my card as I said is on the 70:20:10 rule,  I'm going to show you the card and then the process used..

I've used 70% as the neutral kraft colour, 20% the pink colours and 10% green colours.

So the process involved in this card... firstly, I stamped the image on to some kraft card stock with Sand Dune ink.

I've then go in with my light colours to add highlights, I like adding the white first on kraft card stock, this just ensures that I do in-fact get highlights where I want them.  And you need to work fast when using a light ink on kraft card stock as the ink seems to vanish..

Here I've started to add the darker greens to the image for shadows.. and then I'll move on to my Pink colours.

And once the image is complete, I can go back and re-stamp if need be. (I am using a stamping positioner)

I decided that I wanted to stamp the rest of the card with the images from the set, but my only colouring would be this one image, creating a spotlight effect.

Don't forget, that it won't be as detailed as this as the ink will nearly vanish.

I've framed the card and heat embossed a sentiment in Pink and used Pink sequins to tie in with my 20% colour.

 This formula can also be used in many ways... here's a few examples I've made..

On this card, I've used similar colours but the background is my 70% the cream leaves my 20% and the gold sentiment my 10%.

On this one, my background is splattered with my 20% and my 10% colours. (Pink/Reds and Green)

This whole card is just three colours too, White, Gray and Pink.

Hope this has helped you with you're colour combo struggle!

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Alli

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