Tag: Altenew
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Making a Card with Leftover Mixed Media Pieces
Yesterday’s post was about using one stamped image, and one die on several cards. There was a leftover stamped and watercolored image. This piece is what makes the butterflies on this card. The post, with three cards, is here. Cutting up mixed media pieces gives a new life to the work. The butterflies are die-cut from…
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Metallic Watercolor Cards
Splatter/Stipple Painting Erum Tasneem’s Creative Coloring class is the latest Altenew Academy class which I’ve completed. I was not familiar with her teaching style or videos prior to the class. The class was a lovely adventure of fun techniques and trying new things. I was inspired to apply some of the watercolor techniques on an…
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Art Journaling – Hands
Art journaling is a very personal pursuit. I only show a small number of journal entries to other people. This set of pages uses my traced hand as the focal image. Even though the content of the text is not very personal, using an actual body part is! I used Altenew’s masking paper to trace…
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Elements of Floral Composition
One of the Altenew Academy classes that I recently completed has to do with the elements of design. The class is taught by Jaycee Gaspar. He is an Altenew Design Team Member, as well as an Altenew educator. Jaycee makes beautiful cards using watercolor with stamped floral images. His work is gorgeous! I took this…
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Watercolor Takes Practice
Recently, I completed two Altenew Academy classes on watercolor for card makers. After viewing the two different instructors’ creations, the main takeaway is that watercolor takes practice. In my case, a lot of practice! The workshops are titled Botanical Illustration Inspired Watercolor, taught by Jaycee Gaspar, and Artists’ Watercolor 101 for Paper Crafters with Emily…
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Stacked Stencils for Clean and Simple Cards
Have you layered stand-alone stencils to achieve a new look? That is what today’s post is about. I used two stencils to create a different effect on three clean and simple cards. The idea is from Nicole Watt in her Altenew Academy class titled “Advanced Stencil Techniques”. Her class is filled with a lot of…
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Copper Medallion Card
This die set has been featured in several recent posts (i.e., here and here) because it is easy to work with and provides lots of ways to use it. Any metallic cardstock will give a rich look to the card. This one happens to be brushed copper from Altenew. Stacking vellum, black, and copper…
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Kraft, Black, and White Medallion Card
Kraft, black, and white are a gorgeous combination. It is gender-neutral, striking, and fun to use for card-making. Actually, I also used it when scrapbooking and still use it in my journaling and mixed media projects. It is a good go-to combination. Adding a pop of color takes it up a notch – see…
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Stenciling Two Ways For Beautiful Card Backgrounds
Both of the cards shown today are made using the same stencil and ink colors. By stenciling them two different ways, you can create interesting and beautiful card backgrounds. The first card is ink blended by holding the stencil in place and overlapping the ink. Because the colors are on the cool side of…
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Peek-A-Boo Bookcase Card
Have you seen the stamps and dies that make peek-a-boo interactive cards? This post from four years ago shows the Presents Background stamp set in action here. Today’s post uses the same Peek-A-Boo Doors die. The bookcase stamp set has many wonderful images on a gigantic stamp and also lots of little stamps to position…
Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann 