Blogging is not my super power... all about layering 1

I'm not sure I have one, but I haven't blogged in about 10 years or more. I used to post on a regular basis back when I was knee deep in 3 kids, 4 dogs, 3 hamsters, a gecko, carpooling, crafting, design teams and magazine publications.

Fast forward to today... I am officially a grandma to 2 beautiful little girls. My children are all grown and having their own babies. Life is good. My husband and I are retired now and have slowed the pace a bit. I still love paper crafting and photography. I don't think that will ever change.

I am taking courses with Altenew Academy and this is my first post for the All About Layering 1 course. I had never been much into stamps because it seemed so difficult to get the images to come to life. I did a ton of one color stamping and a ton of embossing. That was years ago before the layered stamps came out and the Misti was invented. I am in love with making cards with stamps now! The stamps and die cuts, the papers, the inks, the possibilities are endless!

So for now, I'll post a couple of cards I made today. It's a stamp that I bought a few months ago and could never get the hang of. It's an easy layering stamp but the shapes throw me off. I decided that would be my goal. Challenged myself to just go with it and not give up.

I used the Scribbled Flowers stamp set by Altenew, along with Altenew crisp dye inks, some Nina solar white cardstock, double sided adhesive 3-d foam squares and 1/4 inch scor-tape.

I created a background on a 5 and quarter inch by 8 and half inch piece of 80 lb. NSW cardstock using the various stamps to fill the background in and also using some of the leaves as well. I stamped some other flowers and leaves on a separate piece of cardstock and fussy cut all of them out. I layered them on top of one another along the side edge of another piece of cardstock measuring 3 inches by 4 1/2 inches. Added the sentiment at the bottom right and taped the panel to the background that measured 4 inches by 5 and a quarter inches. then add it to a card base.

Bonus... I love to make more than one card at time if possible and with the stamped background, I was able to do so. Very simple yet classic, I think. I used the background piece as a main part of the card, trimming it down to 5 1/4 by 4 and popped it up with craft foam added a separate flower and leaves that were also fussy cut, with some foam squares, added the sentiment along with another foam square, trimmed to fit and done.

I have been making cards like nobody's business in the last few weeks. I've got more to post but need to photograph them when I get back to town next week. Thank you for taking a look!

Comments

Erum Tasneem said…

I think your cards are beautiful, Jami, and I love the soft colors too! Hang in there, you will settle in :)

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