Altenew Educators Program - With a Twist

 Good afternoon - Wow is it hot here, we have a red flag warning - high risk of fire as we have low humidity gusty wind and high temperatures - It's also not rained in a while!

My cards today are using techniques Therese Calvird taught in the Altenew Academy Class - With a Twist.

I love all the techniques she taught but have taken inspiration from 2 for my AECP class work. The first one is acetate with a twist, I love Therese's shaker so decided to do something similar but with a flower stamp set.

The Ranunculus stamp and die set are great for this technique as it is a gorgeous large flower! 

I started my card with an A2 card base and a piece of the same cardstock cut to the same size.

I lined up the die on the cardstock piece and ran this through my cutter. 

Before removing the die I lined up the card piece wit my card base and traced the inner edge of the die onto the front of my card base in pencil. removing the die from the cardstock,  I then lined the die up with the pencil markings, opened the card base and ran through my cutter leaving me with an aperture in my card front.

I did the same with a piece of white fun foam to use for the spacing of my shaker.

I traced the aperture onto the inside with pencil. This gave me a template of where to stamp my first flower layer. The remaining layers were stamped giving me the stunning flower so when I closed my card it showed through the aperture.

Next I built my shaker, I glued a piece of acetate to the outside of the card front and the back of the extra card panel. The foam was glued in place on the card front, making sure that the glue adhered the foam firmly around the aperture. I placed prills onto the acetate on my card base.

I stamped the sentiment on the outer of the extra panel and then adhered this to the top of my card base, encasing the prills between the 2 pieces of acetate.

Finally I added some Nuvo drops around my sentiment.

My second card inspiration was Therese" Cut oddly class, I used a die for my card cut out section:

I started with an A2 card base and cut the right corner away with the Soda Bottle die. I repeated this on a piece of A2 green card stock.

On the inside of my card I stamped the flower and colored with alcohol markers. 

I used 2 of the leaves from the same stamp set to do tone on tone stamping on my green card. This was then adhered to my card base. I stamped a sentiment with versamark ink and heat embossed this with white powder, trimmed it to size and added across my card front.

A few clear enamel dots were dotted around my flower to balance the card.

Thank you for taking time to stop by and I hope you enjoyed my post. 

On to the next class!

Items I used:

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb Coverstock Purchase From: SSS | AZN	Copic Markers Purchase From: SSS | AZN	ZipDry Glue Purchase From: SSS | AZN	Translucent Enamel Dots Purchase From: SSS
Altenew Jet Black Ink Purchase From: ALW	Altenew Green Meadows Crisp Inks Purchase From: ALW	colored cardstock Purchase From: SSS	Altenew Sugar Plum Crisp Dye ink Oval Set Purchase From: ALW
Altenew Build-A-Flower Ranunculus Stamp & Die Set Purchase From: ALW	Acetate Dura-lar Sheets Purchase From: AZN	Plum Crazy Prills Purchase From: ACOT	Altenew Poppy Arrangement Stamp Set Purchase From: ALW
Altenew Soda Top Nesting Dies Purchase From: ALW	Altenew Pure White Crisp Embossing Powder Purchase From: ALW	Versamark Ink Purchase From: SSS