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The Online Spring Card Camp has been a wonderful distraction.  Each morning I have a card-making video from a designer I love waiting in my Inbox.This morning it was Yana Smakula teaching a technique she called Cut Background.It begins with a background stamp that has lines that can be fussy cut.This background stamp from Hero…

Erum Tasneem posted a beautiful shaker card with red flowers.  This card is inspired by hers. The Altenew Pen Sketched flowers are gold heat-embossed on water color paper.  I used Altenew water colors in shades of blue.  Once they were absolutely dry I die cut them.  Some are popped up with foam dots to create…

My daughter is home schooling her two children as well as conducting  business full-time during these weeks of isolation due to COVID19. I would love to help but we cannot come into contact with them at this time. The one thing I can do is send art projects. This is a rainbow card taught by…

Monogram Monogram cards remind me of thank you notes for important occasions like graduations,showers or weddings.  My nieces all get cards sets from me for wedding and baby showers.I even include the postage stamps.  It’s become a tradition they count on. Images from Ditsy Print were gold heat-embossed on 4 x 51/4″water color paper.  Altenew…

I blew the dust off of my 50 year old sewing machine this week-end.  It was comforting to set up my old friend once again.  It was top of the line back then when my mother bought it for me.  She said she wanted me to have a good machine at the time of my…

As suggested by Therese Calvird, I have made samples of each of my 3D Flower Dies.  They are right in the packaging with the dies for reference each time I make that flower.  It saves a lot of time because you only have to think through the assembly one time. Color challenges are a great…

             This card is for the Altenew April 2020 Inspiration Challenge.   Details will be on my next post  3D Floral Focus AECP Level III.

I did it!  I did it!  I did it!!!!

I have finished ten more classes in the AECP and am now posting my final project for Level II!I’ve learned from every class.  Three techniques from these classes will be highlighted in this final project:  Layering, Color, and Die Cutting.LAYERING is at the heart of Altenew stamping and die cutting.  An early release, Altenew’s beautiful…

Bushels of Altenew Tulips Yes I did!  I made tulips from every Altenew color family except for the grays, browns and greens. Why?  Well, it all started as a project to make color swatches of the Altenew families. Once I got that Misti producting tulips in one beautiful color family after the other I decided…