Chaos & Happiness

 I was having such a mental block on the Seasonal Scene Building Course that I am taking with Altenew.  I tend to overthink A LOT about many things and this made the cut...  HAHA! So the Seasonal Scene Building course is about making scenes with your card making. Building up elements to create a certain area or place.   I struggled with it.  I have so many ideas in my head and then I have too many ideas and can't decide which one I want to go with.  Ultimately, I just jumped in and decided that whatever I chose would be fine.  I will get better at it as I go.   I kept the card simple only using a stencil to build the background with 3 inks, three stamped images and a sentiment.  The last thing I added were the black enamel dots. You guessed it, 3 of them.   I ink blended the blue tone inks ( blueberry , dark night & cloudy sky ) using the Abstract Mountain stencil on a card panel I cut to measure 4 x 51/4 inches....

 I think this is by far my favorite project so far.  The Easy die-cutting Techniques course at Altenew was taught by Yana Smakula.  I love seeing all of the inspiration projects listed and especially when there is an added file for even more creativity to soak in.  I tried to link the instagram post but the image wouldn't cooperate with the size of the window...so here we are.   I recently got the Zero waste cover dies that are available at Altenew and the flowers are so much fun to work with.  I couldn't wait to get started on them. So I chose the die to be the star of the card so to say in two of them.  I cut a total of 6 panels and made 3 cards.  The fourth is still sitting on my desk but it's almost complete.  Card 1 The first card was cut from 110lb.cardstock along with a backing of double-sided adhesive and I ink-blended the entire die with the mini ink blending tools .  Then popped all of the flowers ou...