Make my Monday #108 - Poppy/Poppies

I'm here today as it's time for the Make My Monday #108 challenge, This challenge has been chosen by the lovely Caz, and you need to use a Poppy or Poppies.

Here's my card for this challenge,

I've chosen a very simple card for this challenge as I'm still not well... I must admit it's taking its fair time to go and every day I feel more miserable as I'm losing my crafting mojo, so if you find my mojo, can you please send it back ASAP please :)

So back to the card, this is an Altenew stencil, and I filled in the stencil with distress inks and then went over it with my Arteza watercolor pens, and I just used a water pen to blend/watercolour out the edges, once dried I just went back in with the Arteza pens to put in some fine details. (see told you it was simple! although I made it over a two week period as I can't look down for too long urhhh)  I added a die cut thanks and some sequins and that along with some paper completes this card..  

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the rest of the cards made by our amazing design team, on the Make My Monday Blog, and I do hope you are inspired to take part!

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XoX

Make My Monday #100 - Thank you

Happy Monday everyone, and that means challenge time over on the Make My Monday blog

This weeks host is the lovely Caz, and the theme for this challenge is Thank you. And we would like to say thank you to you guys too, we had over 100 entries in our last challenge, which was amazing!
So please join us again in this our 100th challenge!

So for my DT card, I thought what could be better than a bunch of flowers as a thank you, and that's what I have created for my card!

For this card I have coloured the Beautiful Bouquets: Dahlias by Wplus9 with my Polychromos pencils, the sentiment is also by Wplus9 from the Basic Labels set.

The background stamp is by Altenew - Wood Pallet and that has been ink blended with Festive berries Distress ink.

I've paired this card with a couple of Spellbinders dies, from the Tranqil Moments Card Creator, and a few sequins and crystals completes the card!

Hope you like this card and you'll think about joining us for this challenge on the Make My Monday blog

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Alli

XoX

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

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Alli
XoX

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Altenew - AECP - Level 2 - Beyond Basic Backgrounds

Hi all, I'm back today with another card for for AECP level 2 this one is all about backgrounds..

The lovely Lydia Evans, took this class, it was all about stepping up your backgrounds, now I learnt a few things in class, so if you are one of those crafters that just reaches for the patterned paper, then I would suggest you take a look at this course!

Sometimes the card's background can make the card, and all you need is a sentiment!

Now again I have made more than one card, just to give you all that extra bit of inspiration LOL (OK I couldn't decided on which one...I love them all!)

So first up, is a technique that you have probably already mastered, Emboss Resist...

I stamped the images in Versamark ink from the Persian Motifs set, and heat embossed them in Pearl embossing powder, then I've gone over the whole background with Distress oxide inks in, Tattered Rose, Tea Dye and Dried Marigold.  The Congrats die is from the Script Words set by Altenew, and that has been cut out of Pearl cardstock, and fun foam, much easier to glue these together as opposed to trying to cut tiny pieces of foam tape, a few splatters of gold paint and a couple of sequins and this card is ready to go!

So card number two is something I've never thought of doing.... it's called bleaching technique, but with water... So I've taken a piece of water colour cardstock as we're using a lot of water for this one.. and I've ink blended it up with Dried Marigold, Picked Raspberry and Festive Berries Distress ink. 

I've used my stamping platform and the Altenew set A Study In Watercolour and instead of stamping it with ink, I've stamped with water and as you are all know distress ink reacts with water, just like bleach!

 This is what I was left with after blotting up the water/ink puddle LOL..

I've paired this background with the Thank you die from the Flower Arrangement set, but I felt that something was missing so I traced round the bleached images with my Sakura Stardust Gelly Roll Pen, and now I just loved it!

 And to finish it off a few droplets this time from Studio Katia.

My Last card is a Masculine card....Yes I hear you... I don't do many of those... but Father's day will be fast approaching and I thought I would kill two birds with one stone as they say...

So this is another technique that I haven't done before too! (see I told you, you would learn lots!)

For this one, I've taken the Mug die from the Best Dad set and marked and die cut it and made a stencil.

Now hang on to one of those mugs and the little piece that goes in the handle as we're going to need them!

We need it for that little space in the handle... So we don't ink the whole of the image! I've used Stormy Sky Distress Oxide Ink.

Next we'll stamp the image with the coordinating stamp and Versamark ink and black embossing powder to create the card, and finally stamp a sentiment, and mount it on white cardstock and our card is complete!

I'm entering this one into 

1. Challenge #344 - CAS over on Addicted to Stamps and More 
2. June challenge - Masculine - Crafty Calendar Challenge
3. Challenge #175 Man or Boy - addicted to stamps
4. Masculine - Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

 Thanks for stopping by, I hope you liked these cards, and that you'll take a look at the class over on the Altenew website!

Hugs
Alli
XoX

I think I'm getting the hang of this link tool... YAY

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