Clean and Simple Boutique Cards - Round 2

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After last week's set of failures (in my opinion). I decided to give this class another go and only create one project and concentrate on how to make it better.

I continued using Altenew's Beautiful Day stamp set with the outline stamp and the 3rd stamp from the flower. I feel my stamping came out much clearer and even better aligned. I used Alenew's Persian Blue and Sapphire inks.

KimG/Clean and Simple Boutique Cards

I opted to use specialty paper this time around and grabbed my favorite silver mirror cardstock. I used Altenew's Creative Edges: Lace Die on the silver to give the card some interest and texture.

KimG/Clean and Simple Boutique Cards

I added a touch of Persian Blue splatters and used a sentiment from the Beautiful Day set. I backed my sentiment with just a hint of mirrored silver cardstock, then popped it up with foam tape. I am much happier with the results of this project (round 2) than what I submitted the first time.

Supplies Used:
Cardstock: Blue cardstock from my stash, Neenah Solar White 80lb cardstock, Mirrored Silver cardstock
Ink: Altenew Persian Blue and Sapphire
Stamps: Altenew Beautiful Day
Dies: Altenew Creative Edges: Lace Die

Clean & Simple Boutique Cards

Today I have 3 cards to share for the Clean & Simple Boutique Cards class. While I am not happy with the results of my final projects, I am posting them to show the work I have completed. 

I absolutely loved the class and worked on each mini class within the class. It always makes it easier when you have the same supplies being used in the class. I then changed my projects up, just a bit.

For my first card, I used the foiling technique. I have been foiling for quite a while, but use a different method. For this project, I used WOW Bonding Powder and WOW Fab Foil (which I have never used before) and was not pleased with the results. I had great ink coverage with my VersaMark ink, sprinkled the bonding powder on my image and the powder did not adhere to the ink which then caused my foil to not melt onto the card.

KimG/Clean & Simple Boutique Cards

While my card didn't turn out all that bad, it was not the results I was wanting and multiple attempts gave the same results. The card kind of has an artistic impression to it.

KimG/Clean & Simple Boutique Cards

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Neenah Solar White, Old Stampin' Up cardstock from my stash

Ink: Altenew Persian Blue Ink, Altenew Jet Black Ink, VersaMark Ink

Other: WOW Bonding Powder and WOW Fab Foil in Dark Blue

Card 2 - Faux Letterpress/Embossing

My second card was another project that I struggled with. I had issues coming up with the "perfect" sandwich for my die cut machine. I either had too much pressure or not enough and finally picked the best card out of all of the many I made.

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I enjoyed working on this card and I still like how it turned out. I think my favorite part is the paint splatters!

KimG/Clean & Simple Boutique Cards

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Neenah Solar White 80lb., Black cardstock from my stash, Vellum

Ink: Altenew Hydrangea, Altenew Aqualicious, Altenew Pinkalicious, VersaMark

Other: Hero Arts White Embossing Powder

Card 3 - Luxury Papers

While I didn't use luxury papers for this card, I did use a cover die to add a background for interest.

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I used Altenew's Gradient Stripes Cover Die in a Bazzill cardstock. The cardstock has some texture to it which adds some additional interest to the card. I stamped my flowers with Altenew's Build-A-Flower - Sakura stamp and die set.

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I hope you like my projects. This is one class that I will review repeatedly as I really liked the projects shown throughout the course.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Neenah Solar White, Bazzill Yellow cardstock from my stash

Ink: Altenew Iceberg, Eastern Sky, Ultramarine, Firefly, Grass Field, Fresh Lemon, Maple Yellow, Honey Drizzle and Jet Black

Stamps: Altenew Build-A-Flower - Sakura stamp and die, Altenew Sentiment Strips

All About Layering Class 2

I finally found some time to work on my second class in the Altenew Educator Certification Program (AECP) "All About Layering 2" taught by Nicole. Nicole is a great instructor and shows you some of the best ways to line up your stamps for perfect layering (of course for me, it took some practise!). Thankfully, I already owned many of the stamps sets discussed in this class. I was really torn on which set to use for my project and decided to use my "go-to" set Peony Bouquet stamp and die set. I seem to reach for this set repeatedly!

KimG/All About Layering 2

For my project, I made an A2 top folding card using Neenah Solar White for the card base and the top layer of the card. I did a light ink blending of Spun Sugar Distress Oxide ink leaving some white space in the center. I then took a small mister bottle and gave it a couple of spritzes of water.

I stamped the outline of the peony flower and leaves in VersaMark ink then heat embossed it with WOW Metallic Gold Sparkle Embossing Glitter (I love this stuff!). At the bottom of the card I added an additional peony using Rose Quartz, Puffy Heart and Cosmic Berry inks using the matching die to cut it out.

I pulled the sentiment from Altenew's Persian Motifs and heat embossed it with the Gold Embossing Glitter.

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Lastly, I used gold mirror board to give my card a little more shine. I love pink and gold together.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Neenah Solar White, Mirror Gold Cardstock

Altenew inks: Rose Quartz, Puffy Heart, Cosmic Berry

Other inks: Spun Sugar Distress Oxide ink, VersaMark ink

Embossing Powder: WOW Metallic Gold Sparkle Embossing Glitter

Altenew Stamps & Dies: Peony Bouquet, Persian Motifs

Altenew Academy

After a very long hiatus on this tiny blog of mine, I am back! I was recently asked to participate in the Altenew Educator Certification Program. This came as a very nice surprise for me as I had forgotten that I had applied quite some time ago. I am a huge Altenew fan and have quite a collection of Altenew products!

The first class is All About Layering 1. Altenew's layering stamps are hands-down my favorite stamps. Vintage Roses was the first stamp set I purchased from Altenew. This class was awesome. I learned new tips and tricks for layering my stamps. I still struggle with the Vintage Roses set and when I put some of the techniques taught in this class, it made the layering much easier. I need to really sit down and practice some more with this set, but I had fun making my card.

I made an A2 card using Vintage Roses and Painted Butterflies. The sentiment is from the Painted Butterflies set. For the roses, I started stamping with the darkest color first and worked my way to the lightest. I got much better results this way. I popped the butterflies and the sentiment up with some foam tape, then added some sequins for some sparkle.

KimG/All About Layering 1

I hope you enjoy my first project.

Supplies Used:
Cardstock: Neenah Solar White, Stampin' Up Daffodil Delight
Altenew Inks: Buttercream, Fresh Lemon, Snapdragon, Firebrick, Jet Black, Eastern Sky, Ultramarine, Frayed Leaf, Forest Glades, Evergreen
Altenew Stamps & Dies: Painted Butterflies, Vintage Roses
Sequins from my stash