Altenew January Inspiration Palette

 Hello, I wanted to play with some new sets I received. Altenew had a pretty inspiration photo to draw from on their January challenge.

I used the Chocolate Flowers stamp and stencil set and the Timeless Sentiments 2 for my card.

This also fits the bill for the Simon Says Stamp "Something New" Monday Challenge. I used Concord and 9th inks for the blended flowers and stamping.

Color Therapy featuring Cottage Garden Alcohol Markers

Hello. Altenew is working a little color therapy in your life with some alcohol marker art on Instagram today.  I used the newer Cottage Garden set to create my "flame stitch" background. If you are not familiar with the term "flame stitch" I have included a photo below to show the stitch. The Cottage Garden markers also fell right in line with the Altenew Inspiration color palette.

I used a white panel of cardstock to create my flames with the markers. Then covered the panel with two-sided adhesive and sprinkled glitter over the panel, pressing it into the adhesive. I then ran the panel through my die cut machine with the Crossstitch Canvas die to give it a stitched look. Adding foam tape to the back of the panel I mounted it to a dark green card.

Using the Stencil Art: Natures Splashes add-on die set I cut- out four white leaf clusters, glued and stacked them together for dimension. Then using the Craft-Your-Life: Wings & Petals kit, I die-cut the larger butterfly from white cardstock and the base butterfly from velum coloring it with the Y301 alcohol marker. The greeting is from the Scripty Sentiments die set. The shadow layer was white cardstock that I colored with the G965 alcohol marker.

It was fun to think of different ways to use alcohol markers other than coloring Altenew's beautiful images traditionally.

One more with a different feel but still sporting a butterfly from the Hope Butterfly set.

 

I started with a Bristol Smooth top folding card for smooth ink blending. I die cut the leaf from the Nature's Splashes add-on die set, making a mask with tape. Then taped off the area I wanted to blend and chose three soft ink colors that matched the Cottage Garden marker set.

After removing the tape, I placed dots of C030 marker on the leaf edges to help define the leaf silhouette. I then stamped, heat embossed and colored the Hope Butterfly with the alcohol markers from the Cottage Garden set.

Using a rectangle die I cut the center of the card out and Heat Embossed the greetings from the Sulfur Cosmos set. Then popped the panel up with foam tape. So head on over the my Instagram @SentSue and hop along with us for some fun prizes. These cards also fit the gorgeous inspiration photo for the Altenew January Inspiration Challenge.

AAA Cards Challenge #281

Hey there. We are starting off the new year on the AAA Cards Challenge with a "Flies in the Air" clean and simple challenge.

Stamps: Concord and 9th Simple Seasons

Lawn Fawn Flying By

Stencil: Stampin' Up Clouds

Extras: alcohol markers and Glossy Accents

Here is a reminder as to what "Clean and Simple" is:

I hope you can carve out some time in the next two weeks to create a CAS card following our theme.

Altenew Year-in-Review Inspiration

 

One final card for this fabulous challenge. I chose Michelle Short's beautiful pinks and green floral inspiration for my card.

I used the Sulfur Cosmos stencil for a no-line floral, using a light and medium pink ink for the flower. Then after stenciling the green leaves and stems, I added a bit of green colored pencil. The gold thread, Nuvo drops and heat embossing gave my card a bit of sparkle and dimension.

Thanks for stopping by Sue.

AAA Cards Challenge #280

Let's go out with a bang. We are going into our last AAA Card Challenge of the year.  I made a simple one-layer card in shades of blue.

Stamps: CASual Fridays Snowflake set

Stencil: Simon Says Stamp Simple Pattern Trio

Altenew: A Year in Review

 Hey there. I just couldn't quit playing with the new sets from my Black Friday order and all the inspiration from the Year in Review challenge. 

The Zero-Waste Chocolate Flowers die and stencil has so much to work with. My card started with a white panel that I embossed with the Dotted Geo Cover die. Then using a greeting from the Sulfur Cosmos stamp set I heat embossed the greetings. April Leithner's color palette was my inspiration.

Altenew Inspiration

 Hello again. I just had so many new sets from this last order that I needed to play with. LOL. The Altenew Year in Review challenge helped with the inspiration.

Tenia's inspirational photo drew me in with the pink, orange and yellow. I used the Sulfur Cosmos stamp and stencil to create my card. This is one of my favorite color combos!