Miss you

Howdy and hello my crafty friends! I'm enjoying my extra time off from work by completing yet another Altenew Academy class. I'm making it a priorty to continue my work towards my Altenew Educator Certification! The class I just finished was called Celebrations: Stencil Techniques and the teacher was Laurel Beard. Seriously a great class! Yet again jam packed with all sorts of ideas on how to use and create your own stencils!

I started by using the Doodled Lace Cover die to cut out a thick piece of cardstock as well as a thin piece.

I took the thin piece of cardstock and taped it down to a scratch piece of paper.  I liberally sponged on Victorian Velvet distress ink until I happy with the color.  I don't reach for this color very often but I don't know why.  It's gorgeous!  I took a pair of scissors and started cutting apart all of the floral elements. 

Back to that thick piece of cardstock.  I taped it down to a gray piece of cardstock.  I dug around and found my stash of embossing paste.  I squished my Hickory Smoke distress ink pad down on to my glass mat.  Then I took a scoop of paste out and mixed it with the ink.  I did this several times until the paste was as dark as I wanted it to be.  I used a plastic spatula to spread this over the top of the die cut cardstock.  I worked quickly so the paste wouldn't dry our before I was done.  Once it was smoothed out I removed the die cut paper and cleaned up my tools.  This is very important when working with embossing paste!

I set this aside for a little while until the paste was dry.  Then I started fitting the cut out floral pieces into the embossing paste piece.  I glued the pieces in place with a liquid glue.

Here it is with all of the pieces glued in place.

I took the completed panel and attached it to a white, side fold A2 card base.  I took my Wink of Stella marker and went over the leaf and heart shapes.  Now...how to add a sentiment.  I didn't want to cover up the cool background!  I found a small I Miss You sentiment in the Hug Me set from Altenew.  I masked off the "I" and stamped it on white paper with Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink.  I sprinkled on clear embossing powder and melted it with my heat tool.

I cut it down to a small strip and angle cut the right side.  I put foam tape on the back and glued it on the background.  I really love the look of the embossing paste!  I tried to capture the dimension in the photo below.

This class was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to the next one!  Thanks so much for stopping by.  I really do appreciate it!

~Kristina

Altenew supplies used:

Doodled Lace Cover die

Hug Me stamp set

Alcohol ink fun

Good evening one and all!  I have fallen victim to the call of alcohol inks.  Lets face it, it's just plain fun to play with them.  It's almost like being a kid again and playing with finger paints!  I also admit that its nice to not have any sort of plan when I sit down.  I just go for it.  I've been having so much fun that now I have several inked pieces sitting around.  Time to figure out how to use them!  Here is my first attempt to put one to good use.

I love the background so much that it's hard to cover parts of it up!  However, this gorgeous new Doodled Lace Cover die from Altenew is just about perfect!  It covers up small portions of the background while giving lovely glimpses of the alcohol inks behind.  

To minimize anymore distractions I used a single word die for the sentiment.  My background piece has bits of gold foiling on it.  To tie my sentiment to the background, I cut the Celebrate out of gold glitter cardstock.  I also cut several layers out of white cardstock and glued them together.  It gives the sentiment a little bit extra.

And there you have it.  I hope to find more ways to use some more of my alcohol ink backgrounds.  I'd love to hear how you use your alcohol ink backgrounds!

Toodles,

~Kristina