Altenew - AECP - Level 2 - In the Mood for Colour

Hi all,

I'm back today with another two cards I've created for my AECP - this class was taught by the lovely Stephanie Klauck - 7 lessons all about colour and the mood that each colour makes you feel..

Now, I've never really thought about what colours depict what mood, but after taking these lessons, I can now appreciate that sometimes a sentiment isn't going to match the mood colour of the card...

We know that when we see colours, they can make us feel, very different emotions.. little bit of Psychology going on here with my cards today! Some colours are warm or cool, but each one of those colours has a different mood attached to it.  I'm going with different shades of Blue/Green..cool colours and a hint of Gold for warmth.

So Blue is calm and Green is soothing, and the sentiment I chose for this card also reflects the mood of the card colour too..The hint of Gold (yellow) is for optimism and cheer.

So now we'll look at the process of making this card.. 

I stamped the Study of Watercolor stamp set on to water colour card stock, with three of the Sea shore collection of inks, to create an ombre effect.

Now I have a tendency to over think my cards and find it quite difficult to produce a card with white space...also I'm quite a perfectionist when it comes to water colouring inside the lines LOL and the thought of letting the paint drip scared me LOL..but I do like the end result...

I added the antique gold ink spray by first spraying it on a piece of vellum and then picking it up with a paint brush for the splatters.

I think the sentiment "I'm just a thought away" matches the mood of this card perfectly!

So for my second card, I've decided to go rainbow...yes full on rainbow for a happy bright birthday card.  I'ts actually for my son who turns 24 this week! so no unicorns or glitter with this rainbow LOL

I've used the "Birthday Bash"stamp set for this one, I stamped the streamers onto white cardstock in bright birthday colours and then filled them in with the same inks. I embossed the sentiment in white on to a piece of vellum and on the back of the vellum I used the same ink colours as before to create a soft ink blend. I stamped the confetti in gold and filled it in with the antique gold ink spray.

The party blower was coloured using my Copic and Altenew alcohol markers.

I love the bright but yet soft feel to this card.

Hope you like these cards, and I know for sure that I will be matching card mood colours with sentiments from now on!

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs

Alli

XoX

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Altenew - AECP - Level 2 - Magical Marker Techniques

Hi all, I'm back today with another two cards from the class Magical Marker Techniques for my AECP level 2.

This class is with the lovely Sara Naumann, six lessons, with lot of tips, tricks and out of the box techniques.

For my cards I've decided to combine two of the techniques and mix them up a little...

If you would like to try this at home, this it what you'll need

Also Isopropyl alcohol and a couple of pieces of glossy photo paper (I have some old Epsom photo paper from when we used to print photos out LOL)

Now not every marker responds the same, but Altenew markers are fabulous for this technique! Were going to ink smoosh with the markers add some of the Isopropyl and lay the photo paper glossy side down in the inky mess, remember it dries quickly, but its so much fun!

And please try to use colours that play nice together, we don't want a muddy mess ...

I've made two, but I'm only using one as a background and the other I'm going to use to stamp on..

I've stamped the outline image from the Build a Flower - Anemone and I've die cut it out. Added the fancy die cut hello and a few sequins to make this first card.

Now for my second card, I've used the panel I created as a background, I've added a thank you die cut from the Flower Arrangement stamp and die set, but this time I've stamped two flowers on to vellum and coloured the one below with the R403 marker, stamped a few leaves on to the left over panel  from the previous card.  A strip of the gold washi tape and this card is complete!

Two very different cards, using the same technique and the same stamp set!

Here's a few more photo's

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs
Alli
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Altenew - AECP - Level 2 - Impressive Heat Embossing

Hi all,

I'm back sharing another card for my AECP - this one was for the class called Impressive Heat Embossing with the lovely Svetlana Marchenko.  Six in-depth lessons of how to be more creative with those embossing powders!

Now if you are like me and you're embossing powders only ever sees daylight when you need to emboss a sentiment...then you need to take this course!

Now I only ever heat embossed sentiments...and why is that you ask... because I never thought to do any thing else with it... I have a draw full going back over 15 years of embossing powders in a multitude of colours...but which ones do I always reach for the... white...for sentiments.  Well I tell you, never again..that embossing powder is going to be used so much now, because of what I learnt in class! .

So we all know that Altenew do gorgeous layering flower stamps, but I had never thought of layering the embossing powder... but  I have learnt so much but I'm going to highlight one of the classes from the course, called triple heat embossing!

So I had to have a practice run, and I was a little ambitious, I had just received my happy mail finally from the USA and I wanted to play..So this was my first experiment at ever doing triple heat embossing and on Vellum too! Yes I don't like to make things easy do I....

OK, I love the flower, I loved the copper and the peach, but I wasn't keen on the yellow or the black!

Back to the drawing board...

So the set that I am playing with is Build a Flower - Anemone (I do love these build a flower sets, they are such good value!)

So I stamped the outline image in Versamark ink and heat embossed it with Copper embossing powder.

Then I stamped the second image and heat embossed that with the Peach embossing powder.

And finally the middle of the flower with Enchanted Gold embossing powder.

OK, I loved this... now on too making the card!

I wanted the rest of the card to be simple, I didn't want to take anything away from the flowers, as they are the focal point of the card.  The gold and peach screamed wedding or anniversary to me, so that was the plan, make a Congrats card, as it could be for both!

I decided on using the Watercolor Stripes cover die, and the Congrats script word die...

I kept the very middle cut out, as I wanted to mount my Congrats on to it and use foam tape to give it a bit of lift.

Three flowers had the right balance on this card, not too heavy or over the top, with just a few sequins to finish it off!

I think this is a simple card but Impressive with all that heat embossing!  Hope this has given you some inspiration to pull out that embossing powder and give this technique a go, or better still.. sign up for the class!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Alli

XoX

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