HI EVERYONE,

Welcome! Hope everyone is having a great day. Today I am excited to share that I was accepted into the Altenew Educator Certification Program. This is kind of like a college for papercrafters .. 🙂  This course will allow me to get certified as a teacher. I have to take a series of 25 classes and document my journey along the way.

I am very excited to be able to share my journey with everyone. I have been crafting for a long time but these classes will allow me to grow and sharpen my skills even more. I will attach the link below if anyone is interested in getting certified. 

https://altenew.com/pages/altenew-educator-certification-program

The card I am making today is from my first class called All About Stamp Layering 1.

I will be using the Altenew Vintage Roses Stamp and Die Set along with The Stamping Village “Thinking of you” Stamp set (The Stamping Village stamp set is a collaboration of 12 companies that came together to make a fabulous stamp set to honor servicemen and women, nurses, doctors and other important people in your life. With every sale of this stamp set $5.00 will be donated to the Save the Children. This is such a great cause.)

This Stamp set can look very intimidating at first because it has a lot of stamps in the set but once you get the hang of it, it’s not that difficult. This stamp set has a layering guide that helps you to know exactly where to line up each stamp. I learned all about this in my class and it really helped me to line up all my images.

I will be using my Altenew Inks. I like using these inks because they take the guesswork out of what colors work best together.

First I put my most solid image in the Misti stamping tool and use Pale Mauve to stamp the first image on to white cardstock. Then I placed the second image in the Misti and stamped it with Amethyst. I continued on to the third stamp using Grape Agate to stamp the image. Finally I stamped the final image using the Plum Ink. When I was done, I stamped leaves onto white cardstock with my acrylic block (I found it was easier to use for such small images).  I used Frayed Leaf for the first image and I used Forest Green for the second image. When I was done, I die cut all the pieces using my Sizzix Sidekick machine.

After I die cut all my pieces. I then cut a piece of white cardstock to 3 11/16″ x 4 7/8″ using my Hero Arts Rounded Infinity Dies and my Gemini Jr machine.  Then I put my paper in the Misti Stamping Tool. Here I stamped my three layered rose directly on to the paper. Again, I start with my most solid image and stamp it with Pale Mauve. On the second image I used Amethyst and I the final image I used the Grape Agate ink. I stamped three roses on the top of the card and two roses on the bottom of the card. Then I continued to stamp leaves next to the roses. I used the Frayed Leaf for the solid image and Forest Glade for the second layer. These are my two favorite colors to use when I am stamping leaves.

I will then stamp the “We Appreciate You” sentiment from The Stamping Village stamp set using Altenew Obsidian Black Ink. When I am done I start to assemble my card. I take the Rose panel and adhere it to some Gina K Plum Punch cardstock that was cut to 3 7/8″ x 5 3/16″ using the Hero Arts Rounded Rectangle Infinity dies again. Once I do this I then adhere the entire panel to white cardstock that was folded to 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″. Once my card is assembled I use foam tape to adhere one of the roses to the top of the card and one of the roses to the bottom of the card. I use the foam tape to give the roses dimension. Then I continued to add foam tape to the back of the leaves and adhere them to the card.

When my card is done. I use Pinkfresh Studio Gems to give some sparkle to the card. To finish the card off I use my Journey Corner Rounder to round off the corners of the card. +

That completes this card. I had a lot of fun making this card. I hope you enjoyed it as well.

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