A quick and easy cardmaking technique using inks and water that produces spectacular results. Read on to learn how you can make them too. Introducing Faux Watercolor Blending I am so excited to share a technique that I learned while taking Easy Ink Blending Techniques, one of the courses in the Altenew Educator Certification Program. It is so easy and produces such beautiful results. You begin by embossing images onto an A2 watercolor paper card base with white embossing powder. We'll use a stamp that has relatively large, line-drawn images because it will provide a nice space to add color...
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How to Make Handmade Cards using Ink Blending Techniques
Wow, them with your handmade cards using different and unique ink blending techniques! Read to the end to learn how to make 5 cards. I am learning so many cool techniques while taking classes as part of the Altenew Educator Certification Program. In this post, I'll be sharing the cards that I made while taking the Easy Ink Blending Techniques class. Basic Ink Blending Techniques This card, reminiscent of Victorian cards, uses simple blending to provide a beautiful backdrop for the floral images. To make it I just lightly blend in around the top of an A2-size card base. The...
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Card Making the Boutique Way
Take your card making techniques to the next level by creating clean and simple handmade cards similar to what you'd find in a boutique. Would you like your handmade greeting card making to look like the ones that are in your favorite boutique? I'm going to show you some that I've made while taking Altenew's Clean and Simple Boutique Cards class as part of the Altenew Academy Certification Program. Card Making with Luxury Paper Creates Elegant Die Cut Handmade Card Three dies were used to create this stunning birthday card in minutes. I started out by selecting two colors of...
5 Tips on How to Improve Your Layered Stamping Techniques
Layered stamping produces gorgeous results but demands accuracy and makes the difference between stunning greeting cards and ones that is meh! I just finished the second course of the Altenew Academy Educator Certification Program (AECP), All About Layering 2, and it is focused on doing just that. As a result of participating in the first two classes of the AECP program and practicing what I have learned, I've discovered the following five tips for improving the quality of my stamping with layered stamps. Hopefully, they will help you too: 1: Use a “tester” card base to try out and familiarize...
How to Make 4 Interactive Christmas Cards
Who doesn't love a card they can play with? Read more to have fun with, and learn about new ways to make interactive Christmas cards. This is the third of three posts created after attending the Card Maker's Success Summit. You can find them here if you happened to have missed them: Christmas in July | Make your Cards now – Part 1 Coloring Techniques Christmas in July | Make your Cards now – Part 2 Unique Embossing Techniques Shaker Interactive Christmas Cards What isn't there to love about a shaker card? And look how fantastic this one is. Carrie...
How to Make Christmas Cards with Unique Embossing Techniques
Learn how to make five beautiful, elegant Christmas cards using new and unique embossing techniques. Read on for step-by-step instructions. I shared Christmas cards that I made using coloring techniques learned at the CardMaker Success Summit in July in an earlier post. If you missed it, you could find it here: Christmas in July | Make Your Cards Now – Part 1 Coloring. I'm sharing more cards that I have made in this article, but the techniques are different. We'll talk about how to make gorgeous cards using unique ways to use heat embossing. Pine Background Using Unique Embossing To...
How to Make 6 Christmas Cards Using Coloring
Christmas seems so far away but it will be here before we know it! Read to the end to learn how to make 6 cards with coloring techniques Making homemade Christmas cards is fun and so rewarding but it's a lot of work. If we don't get started making our cards now we may not get them done in time. Last week I attended the Card Maker's Success Summit hosted by Brandi Mahon from https://stampmesomelove.com/. It was a fantastic four days filled with twenty-five presentations of a great variety of ways to make Christmas cards. This was Brandi's first time...
I've Never Met a Craft I Didn't Like
Have you ever walked into a craft store intending to get just one little thing to finish a project? And left with a full cart? Full with everything you need to start a new craft? Me too! There are just so many cool things to try! That's fine if you have unlimited time and money. But if you're like me, you really have to work to find the time to do your card making and crafting. I usually end up tinkering with my new goodies for a couple of days, and then it all gets put into a box or...
Beautiful Cards Using Layered Stamps
Today is an exciting day! I am very pleased to share that I have been accepted into Altenew's Educator Certification Program. Today, I will show you how I created one of the cards that I made as part of the first class, All About layering I, using layered stamps. The class consists of ten lessons. Each lesson starts with a description of the stamps to use and a video that introduces the stamp set. I find it helpful to follow along with the instructor. I do this to create a practice run on a scrap of cardstock to get familiar...
Don't Let Life Get in the Way of Cardmaking
What if you had time to work on your crafty things like cardmaking? How would that make you feel? Here are some ideas for how to get it done. I can't tell you how many people have said to me, “I used to do crafts and loved it, but I just don't have time to do it anymore” Don't let that be you. I'll give you some tips to help you find ways to squeeze crafting into your schedule in this post. And look for “Quickies” in all my posts. Quickies are tips that I will provide to help you...