Altenew Inspiration Challenge
Each month Altenew has an Inspiration Challenge found at the Altenew Blog www.blog.atenew.com. I often go to this challenge for color ideas when I can’t come up with a color combination I want to use. The floral image on this card is from Spring Daisy, an older Altenew stamp set. The flowers are colored with…
Text Savvy
Instagram Hop September 10, 2021 Welcome to our Altenew Educator Instagram Hop. Our challenge this month is unusual but one I enjoyed. It’s all about Text; numbers, alphabet, sentiment etc. Altenew incorporates a great variety of beautiful fonts into their stamps and dies. The sentiments in new stamp sets are eagerly anticipated just like the…
May 2021 Altenew Inspiration Challenge
The photo for this month’s inspiration challenge is filled with colorful umbrellas. When I laid out my Altenew Alcohol Markers I found the colors to be rather retro. For this challenge I used Altenew’s Tall Tales stamps and dies. The Bold Thanks Die set and Teachers Rule script are used for the sentiment. This card…
February Altenew Inspiration Challenge
I thought the colors for this month’s challenge were difficult. However, when I actually got out my alcohol markers and started to color, the colors worked very well. This method of coloring with Alcohol markers was introduced to me by Yana Smakula. It is my favorite. I want to color every new Altenew floral stamp…
Altenew January 2021 Challenge
The new color challenge is a combination of pink, magenta and brown. When a new Altenew product comes into my house I open it immediately and drool over the tri-fold guide that comes with it. It stays on my desk until I use it. When this challenge was announced, Snowdrops Craft-a-Flower was sitting on my…
A YEAR IN REVIEW CHALLENGE 2020 POST
Our challenge was to choose one of 12 photographs posted in the challenge blog during 2020 and make a card inspired by that photo. My photo was inspired by the July photo: I am intrigued by cards with windows. My card represents the window panes with the Garden Trellis Cover Die. The glass is created…