Well it has been about a minute.
Hello, welcome to my blog. I have been offline for a bit, well life happens and I have just not been able to get back to work with the things I really love. I participated in the Altenew Live event on October 29th. It was fun. I was not able to watch live all day but the videos are there for me to go back to. My courses may seem out of order or that I jumped from 5 to 7 but when I counted where I was I clearly was on course 7.
This course was about cards for him. I think like the rest of us I struggle with the more masculine card. I also thought I was going to get on board with filming while I am working so I can include videos with my blog posts. It just did not happen this time. So here we go.
One thing I love is what I call a two-fer. Meaning I can use the negative and positive of a die cut out for two different cards. Not just to keep them to use later but to actually make two cards in a setting. They usually turn out to be nothing alike even though I am using the same supplies relatively speaking.
In this case I was using some Altenew Dies (Bold Alphabet Upper) to cut out a negative area in the center of my card panel. Using a piece of Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock. I planned to back the open area with a piece of cardstock from the Enjoy the Ride Cardstock pack from Altenew. I set the strip to appear diagonal in the window. I adhered the striped paper to the card front and added the cut out panel lifted on Instant Dimension Foam Tape from Altenew. I was careful to keep the insides of the letters, I also put small pieces of foam tape behind those letter insides. I used the letters that cut out to place the insides of the letters by placing them in the hole and then putting the insides where it would fit in the letter much like a puzzle piece. I stamped Happy Birthday using the sentiment from the Floral Garden Stamp Set. I splattered the front with Black Paint that was watered down. I placed some enamel dots in odd numbers from the the essential black and white set of enamel dots from Altenew. Now I have those letters that I cut out of the front of this panel.
I cut 3 more HBD letters, and stacked them on top of one another. I layered them on another piece of the cardstock from the Enjoy the ride set of paper. It is cut to 4×5″ to be slightly smaller. I thought it would be a bit plain so I lightly swiped a matching green down the letters and a blue up the letters, then I stamped across them with a feather from the Golden Feather Stamp Set from Altenew. I used the Sand Dunes Crisp Die Ink from Altenew. I honestly cant remember which blue I used but I think it was from the Cool Summer Nights set of inks. The picture below gives a bit of a better view of the stamping. I splattered ink from the Dina Wakely line of Gloss Spray from Ranger in the color Sand. I used cardstock I had in my stash for the card base. This one is from StampinUp! in the color Crumb Cake. I stamped happy birthday on that same Crumb Cake Cardstock from the Floral Garden stamp set in Mountain Pine to coordinate with the greens in the paper. I fussy cut the stamped sentiment to a rectangle and ran the edges along my ink pad so give it a bit of dimension.
Cards 3 and four are single-“fers”, but I did keep the letters on the of one of them to use on a project later. They are also very simple designs
I used another pattern from the Altenew paper stack Enjoy the Ride the patterns that were not floral seemed more on the masculine to me. I cute out the letters from a cover plate die from My Favorite things. I backed the opening with the pattern paper and scattered enamel dots from the Cool Summer Nights set.
The last card for this post I used an old die I had in my stash, I am not sure where it came from or what it was called for sure. It cut out the word from the center of a card panel, I cut it from my actual card base. I lightly blended some Azurite Crisp Die Ink from the top and bottom, then deeper and darker on the area that said “Friend”, I masked the bottom of the card off to prevent ink from going where I did not want it. I also masked the top of the card and blended some Silver Metallic Ink from Delicata at the top of the word, it was a bit of an Ombre look. I backed the Friend with a piece of Black cardstock I dry embossed with the Linked Ovals embossing folder from Altenew and with my fingers I added some pearl luster gilding polish from Creative Expression to the top of the texture the embossing folder added. I used some Instant Dimension Foam Tape from Altenew to lift the front panel and give a clean backing for the card. I found a stamp that said Just for you (I do not know which stamp set I pulled this from, at this point I had several on my desk and I was looking for one that fit) with Jet Black Crisp Die Ink from Altenew in the upper left corner so the card reads Just for You Friend. I scattered grey enamel dots all about in different shades and sizes from the Rock Collection set of Enamel Dots I tied a piece of bakers twine on the left in a knot, I had this in my stash it was Blue and Grey so it seemed to go well.
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All the cards rock!! LOVE them!