Craft Your Life Feathered Lilies

ByPam

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This Craft Your Life Kit has everything you will need to create a variety of cards with a variety of techniques and these gorgeous lilies. I’m so happy Altenew selected a lily for this release. It is perfect for spring birthdays and holidays. What a beautiful wedding card it would make!

The Craft You Life (CYL) kits can be purchased at www.altenew.com

There is a fabulous video introduction to this kit at the Altenew Card Blog https://wp.cm/p6Dps1-fbW

Floral beauty and messages of love all in one! The stamp set features a beautiful bouquet of lilies, elaborate leaves, and baroque elements. The minimalist style is a colorist’s dream, as it provides plenty of open space to add coloring and shading. Not a coloring enthusiast? Our coordinating coloring stencils make adding color sweet and simple. Finally, we have maximized this stamp set with tons of sentiments so you can stay in touch with your loved ones.

Feathered Lilies Stencils, 3D Embossing Folder and Die

3D Embossing Folder

Coloring or Fussy Cutting a 3D embossing folder used to be a real challenge for me. I slipped outside the lines when I colored. My fussy cutting edges were far from perfect.

Altenew has taken us a long way from that with the addition of blending brushes, stencils and die cuts that line up perfectly with the 3D image. Now I color and die cut the image and just say “WOW!” when the image is finished. The addition of stencils and die cuts is a game changer when it comes to 3D embossing folders.

Initially I just experiment with my stencils By coloring them, I get to know the design (differentiating leaves from petals) and figure out where shading should be..

First experiment with the Feathered Lily Embossing Folder
Playing with depth of Color/Shading
Experiment with a “light touch”

Watching Jaycee Gaspar color in a recent retreat helped me better understand how to go about coloring with a lighter touch. I tend to start out too bold with my inks. It’s hard to turn back once that darker color has been applied. The resulting flower is darker than what I wanted as I continue to color and deepen the darker colors so they contrast with the light.

The goal with this card was to create delicate, pastel lilies.

I used just two ink pads for this image, Misty Moor and Wisteria. In some places I only colored one time with the small blending brush. In some areas I went back two or three times to get a darker shade without going too dark.

For the background I colored Altenew Embossing Paste with the Silver Stone Alcohol reinker. The paste was evenly spread on the Woven Stencil. The result, to me, looks like striped ribbon.

I stamped the sentiment from Feathered Lilies in jet black ink and heat embossed it clear onto a 2″ strip of vellum. I then die cut the “hugs” three times, and ombre colored the top layer.

The Feathered Lily image was die cut in gray then offset under the main image to give a shadow effect.

I decided on no sequins, not glimmer . . . more than likely this will be a sympathy card. I wanted it beautifully simple. And it is.

Diane Ten Hove has influenced me to use more square cards. This is a 6″ square. It allows enough space for most of the embossed image.

Making a white flower with gray alcohol markers.
Giveaway Prizes
$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $ 25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 01/18/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 01/20/2022.
 
Blog Hop Order
Colleen Balija Colleen Balija follows me in this hop. She’s one of my favorite designers. Don’t miss her post.
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Vicky Papaioannou
Jenny Colacicco
Dana Joy
Erum Tasneem
LauraJane
Laurie Willison
Teri Wilson
Emily Midgett
Mindy Eggen
Jaycee Gaspar
Danielle Dunlop
Michelle Short
Teresa Litchfield
Terri Koszler
Juhi Khanna
Nathalie DeSousa
Fiona Duff
Reiko Tsuchida
Rachael Shedeed
Therese Calvird
Maryam Perez
Linda Parker
Annemarie Caister
Rebecca Sogn
Penny Pynnonen
Nancy Souza
Pam Boedeker

Colleen Balija

 

 

I hope to meet you some day in a class. I teach about once a month on Bridget Casey’s Free Saturday Workshop. I also have a class every second Wednesday evening at 6:00 PM EST. Watch for announcements from Altenew or FaceBook Altenew Fan Group.

54 Comments

  5. Great cards. Love looking at the photos of your experiments with shading. Very helpful. Thanks for sharing.

  6. Thank you for showing how you get familiar with new AlteNew products. I like how your home page is organized. And of course your cards are great. 🙂

    1. I appreciate your nice comment. Getting new Altenew products in the mail is the best. I love it when I have time to just play with my new toys.

    1. Thank you Meghan. I am working on that light coloring as I tend to have a heavy hand. Thanks for noticing.

  8. Gorgeous cards! I loved seeing all the experimenting with shading you included in this post.

  10. Thank you Kristine. It’s fun to just play with new products when there’s no pressure to immediately make a card.

    1. Jeanne, thank you so much for visiting my blog. I love the depth of color I can get with Altenew’s products. That purple is really fun.

    1. I appreciate you stopping by my blog. It is fun to just play sometimes without the pressure of making a card.

  18. This flower set is really great . . . gorgeous yet not hard to assemble. Thanks for your comments.

  30. Lovely cards Pam, I particularly love the different textures and colors you used on your first card. Thanks for the inspiration!

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