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Woohoo!! It is time to celebrate double digits!!! Thanks for stopping by after checking out Erin Thompson’s blog www.everydayexpression.com I wish I could say my 10th birthday was this fun lol, but I did get a Barbie doll, so that was super cool! Hop along with us as we all celebrate the first in many milestones for Altenew!! I am so proud to be a part of this amazing crafty family!! Head on over to April Leithner’s blog Inky Creations with April – Creating Handmade Hugs with Stamping and Papercrafting or you can start at the beginning at:
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Giveaway Prizes CHECK OUT WHO’S COMING TO THE PARTY!!!
Over $3,500 in total prizes! We are giving away a $50 Altenew gift certificate to 10 winners, a $20 ArtistrybyAltenew gift certificate to 5 winners, and an online papercrafting class ($39.99 value) from Altenew Academy Online Class to 14 winners. There are also 28 awesome companies/crafty friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:
Be sure to leave comments along the hop by 04/16/2024 for a chance to win one of 68 prizes! To make the hop more exciting, start your comment with “Hi from (city or country where you’re from)!” 68 winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog on 04/19/2024.
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Here’s a few highlighted projects of mine over the last year:
Above is this month’s inspiration photo and below is the link to hop along!
https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/
Bring on all the Earth love this month! Here’s my take on the inspiration photo, and i feel it came out nearly exactly like it did in my workbook. Yes, it’s a shaker card too! Below is how I created it with things from my stash!
First of all, this is an A1 card base from 80lb Nenah solar white cardstock. The panel on the front is 110lb Nenah solar white cardstock with a die-cut circle I cut out and kept it closer to the top than bottom because I knew I wanted this row o houses to run along the bottom and just slightly cover the bottom of the “world” so I did use the largest circle die I felt I could without losing room around the edge of the panel for adding the foam tape behind it.
The “Earth” was made with some sloppy mixing of watercolors: blues for water, browns for earth area. I mixed them together on a panel of Cason 140lb cold press watercolor cardstock. I spritzed the painted area with water and wipe it off with paper towel. then i heat set it with my heat gun. I repeated this process a couple times until I got a good look.
To create clouds, I used just a small amount of watered down Cloud Whip and applied with a palette knife in specific areas over the “earth” painted panel.
The neighborhood was a very large sticker I have had in my stash, and I have no idea where it came from. I stuck it to a scrap of cardstock, then cut off a line of “clouds”. I stuck it to the front base of the card, then trimmed it to fit.
To create the shaker element, I glued the “earth” panel to the front of the card. On the cut-out panel, I flipped it over and taped an acetate panel over the cut-out circle. I then folded my double-sided foam tape in half to double up the size and laid it around the area for the shaker bits and also around the edge of the panel. I chose some earthy colored shaker bits and set those on the “earth” panel, in the center.
Then I attached the cut-out panel over that.
What a fun class we had this past Saturday, 03/30/2024. We learned how to bring all the skills and concepts of fine art watercolor and colored pencil into the work of paper crafting-making it an easier and more accessible art form for those of us who are not fine art painters. And of course, becoming brave and empowered as we went. Everyone did amazing! I am so proud with how far everyone has come with their bravery in trying new things. We learned pro-tips with watercolor:
And for colored pencils:
After class, the students were given homework assignments to expand on what they learned in class-I cannot wait to see how they finish their projects!! Here’s what I did with my examples I used in class. Can’t wait for next class! The link to the Altenew shop is below the photos here, so you can get all your crafty supplies!
Simple botanicals are a great base for masculine cards, so that’s the direction I went with these: a 5 x 7″ and an A2 card I used Altenew Craft cardstock spritzed with Altenew Antique gold ink spray. I cut an oval out of the craft panel for the A2 card to highlight the best parts of my botanical panel. For the 5 x 7″ card, I also spritzed the cardstock panel, but it will be used as a frame for the panel.
I chose some supplies to finish the cards:
I added some antiquing to the craft cardstock face panel for the A2 sized card for a more mature asthetic:
Finished cards! Simple 🙂
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Above is my take on the colors that inspired me from this month’s inspiration photo below.
Click the link below to check out all the amazing projects on this month’s hop or to jump in and play along!
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I started this project with picking the colors I wanted to use, since the colors are what inspired me for from this picture, as well as the challenge of making pink an official color for St. Patrick’s Day, lol.
Like last year’s March project, I wanted to do another impact card so I chose a 6 x6: pop-up easle card.
Next, I thought I’d try something I’ve never done before in an easel pop-up card. I used a concentric oval die to cut out a window.
I used all scraps of paper to make everything on this card, and loved the dark, rough green I chose for the card face and inside. However, it is a really cheap cardstock so of course the design cracked all over when I embossed it with the Book Cover Engravings 3D embossing folder from Altenew.
No worries, some dry brushing in Altenew Crisp Dye Green Opal Ink and some gilding with some Tsukneko Co. Dew Drop in Brilliance covered the cracks right up.
And since I had the Green Opal ink out, I did three stampings on the inside panel, off-set on the left corner with the In the Woodland stamp set from Altenew. I had to do three stampings, made much easier thanks to the Altenew Stamping Wheel, because this cardstock has a canvas like texture so the first stamping didn’t stand out over that.
To assemble the card so the easel pops up, the front of the card base is folded in half. I put glue on the right side of the folded front and then place the cover layer over the entire card face. This way only half the card layer sticks to the base below and this is what allows it to pop up.
I then used the next size up from this oval die to cut out a frame from gold cardstock.
I set an acrylic stamp block on top of this to set up good once I glued the frame over the hole. While that was setting up, I picked out scraps of pink patterned paper, pink metallic and gold metallic cardstock and used the Charming Foliage layering die set from Altenew to make a whole bunch of leaves, greens and flowers to accent this card.
I glued these all up, set them aside to dry and went back to the card. Behind the window I glued some vintage look patterned vellum.
On the front side, I used an old wood block shamrock stamp and a custom mix of embossing powder, Pesto (green) from Recollections and Copper by Darice to emboss on the vellum window.
Next I created my floral bouquet on the front.
I used the cut-out oval scraps to make the stopper inside the card (pro tip: use two layers of foam tape to make your stopper high enough to work good) and used some leftover flowers and leaves to embellish the stopper.
I hope you like this project! Don’t be afraid to push things and go for some “Maximalism” as I talked about in my previous post regarding 2024 trends. Something to note: pinks and greens go well to gather because they are variations of red and true green which are complimentary colors on the color wheel. And also, never cry over cracked cardstock! It’s an opportunity to add depth and interest with dry brushing or gilding!
Don’t forget, if you try any of the techniques I used in the project, or you re-create this project, please tag me on IG @scrappystampthefunup, I would love to see your work! See you all next month and good luck if you jump on the hop challenge!
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Hello my crafty peeps! So, first of all, not gonna lie; last week was a bad week and I ended up falling asleep under a pile of cats after work last Wednesday and totally forgot to do a Facebook Live! So, head over to the Facebook page and check out the amended events page for the upcoming live crafting.
BIG NEWS hitting my social media this week, so make sure you have an account here, so you get the details via email and follow me on Instagram @scrappystampthefunup. Hint: Altenew Retreat I will be teaching at in April!! Woot woot!! I am beyond proud and excited for this opportunity!!!
I know you don’t see me using the markers much, but I go through Tombow glue like water!! They are having an amazing sale until March 7th, hit the link below to check it out!
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Here’s some 2024 trends you may wanna think about if you are in a crafting slump-I search fashion, home, art and designer sites to try and bring inspiration into my paper crafting. Head over to the Pinterest page (link at the bottom of this post) for all kinds of new inspiration photos, but in the meantime, below is my list of design trends to try this year.
Potpourri: combine multiple design styles, i.e. modern with shabby chic.
Handcrafted look: vintage pieces in artsy display or colors.
Maximalism: go extra! Don’t stop at the rule of 3, make it the rule of 7.
Bold patterns: backgrounds with bold patterns look amazing when accessorized with solid black embellishments.
Wallpaper: funky is back. Think vintage colors and modern shapes, or random animals in 70’s colors, large leaves in bold prints, etc…
Biophilic design: use natural materials and found objects.
Shapes: curves and organic shapes are in!
If you try any of the above trends, be sure to comment here or tag me in Instagram, I’d love to see your work! Stay tuned, tomorrow is the monthly post for The Inspiration Station Blog Challenge, so make sure you check that out to join the hop and win a prize!! See you soon!
Now this was a fun technique! In this class I taught my take on the Northern Lights technique. There are literally 5001 different ways to achieve this look in paper crafting, so i decided to give it my own twist. Not going to lie, it took many tries to get it down to a super simple, yet highly effective technique using basic crafting supplies everyone will have on hand. I taught this technique for one of Bridget Casey’s free Saturday crafting session. Everyone was very brave and did such an amazing job with this technique!! If you attended this class, leave me a comment, let me know what you thought of it, and tag me @scrappystampthefunup and tag @Altenewllc on Instagram, we’d love to see your approach to this look! Thank you again to Bridget and everyone in class!! See you next month!!
Here’s another version-every time you do this technique it will always come out different 🙂
Wahoo! Is it just me or has it been a long year already! Things are moving fast here at Stamp the Fun Up and I got a lot of projects done this month! If you don’t already, follow me in Instagram @scrappystampthefunup to see all the hops and projects I’ve been getting up too. Also, head over to the Facebook page Stamp the Fun Up to re-watch the live shows! There is one more this month (they are bi-weekly and the event page over there has been updated thru the end of April. I have some big things happening this spring for live events here in my hometown, but, if all goes right, you will be able to join in on Facebook too! Make sure you like and follow the Facebook page for details. I am posting photos of the February projects below so you can re-cap and get inspired all over again! March is shaping up to be another fun, creative month! Also, while you’re hear click on the account button and enter your email to get updates from Stamp the Fun Up! I don’t spam, it’s usually a once a week update 😉
Hi my crafty peeps!! Head over to the Facebook page where you will now find the schedule for my Wednesday Live shows, just click on the events tab! Or click the little link below for info on the next show!
Hi crafty peeps! I’m going to be posting the projects from the Saturday classes I teach for Bridget Casey Designs for Altenew! I try to teach a class once a month, and if you are interested in joining these FREE Saturday afternoon classes, contact Bridget at the picture link below:
Also, I am super excited to be one of the Altenew Educators teaching a class for the “Craft Fest 24 Hours of Crafting Bliss online retreat, which you can sign up for at Bridget’s site.
This mini-delight class was to teach you how to maximize your mini-delight subscriptions stamp and die sets. Sometimes small stamps and dies can be super intimidating, but you know my method is work smarter not harder and to always craft bravely! We learned how to use composition, and design to use small stamps to their fullest potential and everyone did great! I love teaching you all how to be brave and master the techniques of the pros and this class had all of that! The coolest technique was learning how to stamp with watercolor paints! To those of you who attended this class, I hope you learned a lot and were inspired to be brave and not to be intimidated. The Altenew Mini-Delight monthly subscrption is one I highly recommend. It is cost friendly and honestly, I find myself using the mini delights more than the large stamp sets. And they are so versatile!! Did you catch the Altenew Educator You Tube blog “Colorful Carnations”? Head on over to Stamp the Fun Up on You Tube to check it out and see how I used mini delights to create a large carnation flower ( I do not have ANY carnation stamps in my arsenal! lol) The link to the You Tube hop is listed below as well as the link to the Altenew shop where you can grab all the goodies or sign up for the mini-delight subscription. And don’t forget, I love to see your takes on my projects, so be sure to tag me on social media @scrappystampthefunup! My next class with Bridget will be on March 30th where I”ll be teaching a “Northern Lights” technique! See you then!
The supplies I used for these project cards are listed below:
Mini Delight Painted Posies and Delicate Butterly
Crisp Dye inks in orange sorbet , peach perfect and midnight violet
Brushed Rose Metallic cardstock
Crossweaves 3D embossing folder
Exotic Garden stamp
Watercolor Essential 12 Pan Set
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