AECP For the Guys
This AECP class is titled For the Guys. I kept putting it off as I thought it would be the most difficult of the 10 classes. When I think of Altenew I think of flowers. How was I going to make guy cards with flowers? But when I actually looked through the Altenew stamps there were quite a few that could easily be guy cards!
Interactive Card
I love my coffee. Thus I love my coffee stamps. Altenew’s Coffee Love images and Coffee Talk sentiments were used on this card. On water color cardstock I stamped dozens of cups with Distress Ink. (This did require a lot of masking.) I then used a small water color brush to fill in the images.
I used Altenew water colors for the one red cup.
The card base is also water color paper. On it is stamped a coffee bean border which is stamped and colored just like the first layer.
I stamped the coffee pot in black ink and water colored it as well. It is coated with Glossy Accents and adhered to a Wobble. That cracks me up because if I drank all that coffee that pot would definitely wobble in my hands!
Pop Art
This Pop Art assignment was not something I do very often if at all. I looked up Andy Worhal’s work and found both very colorful paintings and also paintings done in black and white. I thought the black and white was perfect for this image from Altenew’s It’s for You. A little math was involved so it would all fit into a square. The sentiment is from the same It’s for You set.
Galaxy
My daughter and her family live in LA. I purchased Altenew’s California Skies and have been anxious to use it. The galaxy technique is perfect for this stamp. The bright colors. The appearance of light radiating from the city . . . what a great match up!
I added a moon from Altenew’s To the Moon. It’s silver heat embossed on silver cardstock.
My grandchildren love to look at the moon here in Tucson as it comes up over the mountains. We sing Mr Moon and watch it rise. I tell them that when they look at the moon at home in Los Angeles, I am looking at the same moon here in Tucson.