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Every Flower Must Grow Through Dirt

By on July 15, 2019 in Uncategorized

Hello! Today I have some very exciting news!! I’ve been accepted into the Altenew Educator Certification Program. I’m so excited about this and today I have my first card to share from my first certification class.

I was inspired by Yana in the Easy Die Cutting Techniques class. She had so many wonderful tips and ideas, but there was one that absolutely jumped out at me. This is a technique I had never done before: die cut the image and offset the image from the die cut card base.

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I loved the idea of offsetting the image to show a peek at something below. And of course I had to use a little sparkle with glitter paper! I used a blush glitter paper to match a color in my flower.

Look at that glitter paper…it’s like a promise of something good!

To create this card, I first heat embossed the peony image with glitter gold embossing powder. Then, I colored up my Peony with Prismacolor pencils in these colors: Mulberry (PC995), Process Red (PC 994), Blush Pink (PC918), Light Peach (PC927). For the leaves I used: Grass Green (PC909), Apple Green (PC912), and Chartreuse (PC 989).

I die cut the image with the matching die. I also colored up two extra leaves. I set those images aside and splattered the panel with a dark brown watercolor paint. Then I stamped the sentiment “Every flower must grow through dirt” in Rich Cocoa ink. Love that sentiment!

I attached the stamped panel piece with liquid glue to the blush pink glitter paper. The glitter paper is cut to an A2 sized card: 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and the stamped panel is just smaller at 4″ x 5 1/4″.

The top flower is popped up with 3M foam tape

To attach the flower, I used 3M foam tape. (The extra leaves are glued directly to the card panel beneath that popped up flower.)

To finish it all off, I added some Sparkling Clear 4mm sequins. I hope you enjoyed this project today!

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Thanks for stopping by!

Beautiful peony!
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Hope Blooms

By on April 10, 2018 in Paper Crafting

Hi, today I have a soft and beautiful floral card to share with you. I just got a new stencil that I love and I decided to dry emboss it first, then add some color using distress ink and a little colored pencil.

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Isn’t this a glorious flower? Here is another photo where you can see the embossing:

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Sometimes I just need to to make a flower come alive with color! “Where flowers bloom, so does hope” is from the Peony Spray stamp set from Altenew. This stencil, called Poppy Bloom is also from Altenew and was perfect for today. So pretty, and the soft coloring was just like a hug for me. Hope on a card!

I hope you enjoyed this sweet and hopeful project today.

Wishing a very Happy 4th Birthday to Altenew!!

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