How To Make Magenta Cards + GIVEAWAY!

Hi! Welcome, to all of you who have just jumped over here from the Altenew Certified Educators (AECP) Viva Magenta Instagram hop. And, if not you can read more about the hop at the end of this article.

In this article, you will learn how to make 3 stunning cards using magenta, and about the AECP Viva Magenta Instagram hop and giveaway.

I love Magenta, so this Instagram hop is a lot of fun for me. I use some of my favorite Altenew products and experiment with different coloring mediums to come up with the look and feel that I am looking for.

Magenta Happy Anniversary Card

Our first card uses a lovely hot foil plate to create an image that covers the whole front of the card. And then we’ll color it to give its beautiful magenta tones.

To begin the card, we’ll do our hot foiling using a hot foil plate, gold foil, and smooth white cardstock. Using the instructions from your hot foil machine, let’s go ahead and foil the focal point.

Coloring the Magenta Happy Anniversary Card

Next, we’ll color the flower.  Beginning with our watercolor pencils, select a number of colors that mean magenta to you. I usually use a light pencil and a dark pencil of each color to help add shadows and dimension. Begin with the darkest color and color in where you think the shadows will be on the flower. Places like behind a petal, under something else, and where the petals turn back away from you or go towards where they are attached.

Then we’ll use the lightest color to color where the light hits the flower. Places like anything facing up, or anything that is closer to you as the viewer. Finally color in between the dark and the light places. When you have all of the coloring complete, then you can use a water brush to blend the colors together.

If you’re happy with the results you can go on to the next step. If you’re like me, and not quite happy with the colors in your flower you can work with your Prismacolor colored pencils until you are happy with them.

And next, we’ll use a little trick I learned from @KathyRacoosin in the Coloring Challenge Road Trip provided by Online Card Classes. I strongly recommend her class, it’s wonderful! Select a couple of colors that might be opposites on the color wheel to take your coloring up a notch. Make sure your pencils are sharp and that you use tiny little flicking motions as you add the color in.

Finishing and Assembly

Finishing the card is simple. We’ll fancy cut out our flower. And then, we’ll trace around it on a piece of double-sided adhesive foam and cut it out about 1/8″ smaller than the hot foiled piece. Once it’s cut out we’ll attach it to the back of the flower.

Let’s create a 5 1/2″ square card base. To do so, we’ll trim a piece of the pearlescent cardstock to 5 1/2″ x 11″. And then, we’ll score it at 5 1/2″ along the 11″ side. Now, we’ll remove the other backing paper from the foam sheet and attach the flower centered on the card front.

We’re going to add a pretty heat-embossed sentiment.

Brush the entire card panel with anti-static powder. As a result, the embossing powder will stick only to the ink-stamped images. Beginning with the large flower in the center of the card, we’ll stamp it tilted to the right with watermark ink.

Next, we’ll sprinkle gold embossing powder over the ink and let it sit for a second. And then, we’ll pour it off and give the card panel a tap. Next, we’ll heat up our heat tool for about 45 seconds and then heat the embossing powder until it’s smooth and melted.

When the heat embossing is cool, we’ll fussy-cut out the sentiments and attach them to the card. HINT: be sure to add little scraps of foam sheets to the backs of the sentiments if they hang off of the flower.

Magenta Happy Anniversary Card Supplies

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• Cardstock: Card base – Crafters Companion Centura Pearl White Gold; Card panel – Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Solar White
• Hot Plate:  Altenew Gilded Rose
• Stamp: Altenew Painted Poppy
• Watercolor Pencils: Altenew Ruby Red, Rubellite, Lavender Fields, Ultramarine; Derwent Inktense Deep Rose 0710, Fuchsia 0700, Thistle 0720
• Colored Pencils: Prismacolor Magenta PC930, Dark Purple PC931, Hot Pink PC993, Process Red PC994, Mulberry PC995, Dahlia Purple PC1009
• Adhesives: Scrapbook.com Double-sided Adhesive Foam Sheets
• Die-cutting and Embossing Machine: Spellbinders Platinum 6
• Foil: Spellbinders Hot Foil Roll Gold
• Hot Foil Machine: Glimmer Hot Foil System
• Embossing Powder: Altenew Antique Gold
• Score Board – Score-pal 1/8ths
• Anti-static Powder: Cottontail Anti-static Tool
• Watermark Ink: Versamark ink
• Heat Tool: Sizzix Dual Speed

Magenta Hugs and Happy Thoughts Card

I love to paint with watercolors. Especially with watercolor brush markers. And, I Iove to use the techniques that I learned while working on the Altenew Education Certification Program!

For this card, we’ll heat emboss the outline images of this beautiful flower and two different leaves with white embossing powder following the same steps as we used for the first card. Next, we’ll lightly blend the lightest pink ink over the embossed flower. We do this so that we can see where to color within the lines.

Next, we’ll apply our darkest pink watercolor brush where the shadows would be on the flower. And then, we’ll use our watercolor brush marker with water in it to draw the color out to the tips of the petals. Let it dry and then touch it up with medium and light colors.

And then, you can paint the stems and leaves and the center of the flower following the same steps. And that is all there is to the watercoloring.

Finishing and Assembly

This clean and simple card is easy to put together. We’ll trim the card panel to 3 3/4″ x 5″ and pop it up centered on a white A2 (4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″) card base with double-sided adhesive foam sheets. Next, we’ll die-cut out the flower and leaves with the coordinating dies. And then, we’ll trace around the flower onto a piece of foam sheet and cut it about 1/8″ smaller.

Put the card in your Misti and arrange the floral pieces on the card panel until you have them where you want them to be. Then add your sentiment and pick it up with the cover of the Misti. Now use low tack tape or Press ‘N Seal to remove your arrangement from the stamp positioning tool. And then stamp the sentiment on the card front.

Lastly, keeping all the floral pieces attached to the low tack tape, add a little liquid glue to each of the leaves. Then carefully turn the arrangement over and attach it to the card front. Then, all that is left is to attach the foam sheet to the back of the flower and then pop it up in between the leaves.

Supplies

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• Cardstock:  Card base – Neenah Classic Crest 110lb Solar White;  Card panel Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Solar White
• Stamp:  Altenew Golden Days
• Die:  Altenew Golden Days
• Ink:  Altenew Dye Ink Baby Pink, Fuchsia, Magenta, Frayed Leaf, Forest Glades, Evergreen
• Blending Brushes: Altenew Small
• Embossing Powder: Altenew Pure White Crisp
• Anti-static Powder: Cottontail Anti-static Tool
• Watermark Ink: Versamark ink
• Heat Tool: Sizzix Dual Speed
• Adhesives: Scrapbook.com Double-sided Adhesive Foam Sheets; Liquid glue – Bearly Art Glue
• Stamp Positioning Tool: Misti Mini

Magenta Thinking Of You Card

We’re going to create a formal floral grouping on this card. And, we’ll do so by heat embossing the floral images with gold embossing powder. To do this, we’ll brush the anti-static powder onto white cardstock. We do so because it will keep the embossing powder from sticking in places that we don’t want it to be.

Next, well stamp the floral images twice with watermark ink so that we have two sets. Then, we’ll sprinkle some gold embossing powder over the top, pour it off and give it a tap. And finally, we’ll heat the powder with our heat tool until it’s smooth and melted.

Coloring the Magenta Thinking of You Card

To color the images we’re going to do some layered stamping with some of Altenew’s newer ink colors. Beginning with the lightest pink we’ll stamp the first layer on both of the flowers. Then, we’ll stamp the medium pink with the second layer, and the darkest pink with the third.

And then, we’ll stamp the leaves and greenery the same way beginning with the lighter green ink.

To add a little variation between the two flowers we’ll add some shading on one of the flowers with colored pencils. We’ll use a very dark blue for the deepest shadows and just feather it out with the lighter blue. And then we’ll do the same with the two golds on the leaves. And to finish off the flowers we’ll use some medium blue and gold for the centers of the flowers.

When we’re done with the coloring we’ll cut the floral images out with the coordinating die set.

Finishing and Assembly

At this point, I had intended for the card to have a white background. Magenta is a very happy color to me. So, when I was planning these cards, they were all going to be for celebrations. But, life gets in the way sometimes. And all of a sudden I was in need of a sympathy card for a very dear friend.

So, I decided to take advantage of the blue shading I had done on one of the flowers and go with a navy blue background. The results are striking, don’t you think? The card is now a bit more subdued as is appropriate for a sympathy card. But it is every bit as beautiful as it would have been with a white background if not more.

The sentiment comes next. I choose a lovely stamp set that has sentiments for the inside of the card as well as the front. And, we’ll stamp the sentiment on the inside using navy ink. And then, we’ll heat emboss the sentiment for the front on a scrap of vellum with gold embossing powder.

To assemble the card, we’ll attach an A2 (4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″) size piece of navy blue cardstock to a white A2 card base using a tape runner. Next, I like to arrange the floral images just how I want them to be and then use Press ‘N Seal (a light tack paper) to hold them together in the arrangement when I lift them off.

Then we’ll use some liquid glue to attach the bottom flower. And we’ll pop up the second flower with some foam tape.

Finally, we’ll trim the sentiment and attach it using Mini Dots so that you can’t see the glue through the vellum.

Magenta Thinking Of You Card Supplies

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• Cardstock: Card base – Neenah Classic Crest 110lb Solar White; Color Accent – Concord & 9th Midnight; Card panel – Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Solar White; Sentiment – Altenew Vellum
• Stamp: Floral – Altenew Golden Days; Sentiment – Beautiful Inside
• Die: Altenew Golden Days
• Embossing Powder: Altenew Antique Gold
• Anti-Static Tool: Cottontail
• Ink: Altenew Crisp Dye Ink Baby Pink, Fuchsia, Magenta, Frayed Leaf, Forest Glades, and Tanzanite; Watermark ink – Versamark
• Colored Pencils: Prismacolor Jasmine PC1012, Ochre Jaune PC942, Indigo Blue PC901, Bleu Copenhague PC906
• Diecutting and Embossing Machine: Spellbinders Platinum 6
• Heat Tool: Sizzix Dual Speed
• Adhesives: Liquid – Bearly Art Glue; Glue runner – Altenew Glue Tape; Glue Dots Mini Dots

Instagram Hop and Giveaway

As I mentioned earlier, we are participating in a fun Instagram hop, and the theme is “𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑: 𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚”. The hop starts from @altenewllc, so make sure you start from the beginning! However, here’s a link to my page if you want to go check it out first: @CutColorandCreate.

Altenew is giving away a $20 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners! For a chance to win, please follow @altenewllc and @CutColorandCreate and leave a comment by 03/16/2023. 

Altenew will draw 5 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this Instagram hop and announce the winners on Altenew’s Educator Instagram hop post on 03/17/2023.

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