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Clean & Simple Boutique Cards Course with Altenew Academy

 I really loved this course.  I'm by no means a beginner at crafting in general, but some of the tips and techniques Jennifer had were wonderful!  Like the dry embossing tip using a scoring tool.  I don't have a folder or die that would have worked for what I wanted to do, but Jennifer mentioned using an scoring tool to frame with... Lesson 3 of the course was a wow moment for me because I had forgotten all about that.  Dry embossing!  When I first started scrapbooking and such, there weren't very many tools to enhance pages and cards like there are today.  We made do with what we had.  Scoring and using the embossing tool was the way to do it.  I loved the way it turned out and even used it on vellum too.

The course hit on a few different techniques and I probably mixed quite a few into the cards I made.  I have been on an alcohol marker kick since the first set I bought.  I think when it comes to blending, I have gotten a lot better.  This card was done a few weeks ago so it's not the same level I am currently at now with blending. 

For the card, I started out with stamping the main image from the Paint-A-Flower: Wood Anemone on Nina solar white 80 lb. cardstock with versamark ink, embossing the image with gold embossing powder and using quite a few colors of Altenew alcohol ink markers to color in the image. I have been taking a photo of the inks with the project so I can keep track of the colors I use with each one. I ended up cutting the image in half and making two cards with it.  I used some Bazzill cardstock for my card panel and scored the three frames around the outer edges of the panel.  I used the Better Together 2 sentiment stamp for my sentiment on vellum and embossed it the same way as the flower.  I added a dry embossed frame around it with the scoring tool and adhered it to the panel.  The flower was lifted up with foam tape and adhered to the top of the panel.  I added some iridescent jewels to it as well.  I am a sucker for dimension, so the panel got some craft foam added and then glued to a card base.  There is a little ripple in the vellum.  Due to the humidity we had a week or so back, it decided to wave a bit. 🙋‍♀️ I still love the way it turned out. 




I have added a photo of the other card as well.  For it, I used the other half of the Wood Anemone flower on a blended background using the broken chevron stencil along with some gold Neuvo mica mist and a strip of  gold foil polka-dot washi tape along the edge.  I diecut the word miss from the I Really Miss You die set  with Altenew brushed gold metallic cardstock. I also cut a single U out in the gold cardstock.  The edges of the panel are lined with a thin strip of gold cardstock and adhered to a craft foam back.  I loved the look of the angle on the card base.  Simple yet elegant I suppose. :) 







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Erum Tasneem said…
Absolutely gorgeous cards, Jami!!
November 7, 2022 at 3:18 AM
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