Altenew Educators Certification Program - Color Your Day

 Good afternoon! it's hot here which does nothing for my health! It's Mollie's birthday today, how is she now 12! time is passing too quickly 😢

I'm back with my AECP class submissions today and I have loved watching Therese Calvird's lesson about different ways to mix up and add color to your projects.

My first card used techniques from the first lesson, using colors inspired by a photo, as I do every year, I took a bunch of photos of the flowers in our yard and this one was a favorite:

I love the vibrancy of the yellow it is such a happy color. I used both the color and the texture in this photo for the inspiration for my card:

I stamped the flowers and leaves from Dahlia Blossoms and colored them with watercolor markers, blending out the color with water.  I know the flower centers wouldn't normally be brown but I used it to pick up all the colors in the photo. 

While my images were drying I cut a piece of grey cardstock to A2 size and using my scoreboard scored horizontal lines every 1/4 of an inch. This was then cut slightly narrower than A2 and added to a top folding A2 card base.

The scored lines were inspired by the siding on our house which can be seen in the photo.

After fussy cutting them, I played around with arrangement of my flowers, once I knew where I was placing them I added the sentiment to my card before adhering them in place with both wet glue and foam squares for dimension.

Finally I arranged some yellow enamel dots on my card.

For my next card I used a color wheel to choose my colors. I learnt from Therese the many ways to use a color wheel. The one I used is a real basic one:

 (I have since bought one with more detail for future coloring.) 

So my card used opposing colors of pink and blue green. I went out of my comfort zone with this card I didn't stick with my usual clean look but added lots of bright color to my card:

Using Majestic Bloom layering stamps I stamped the flower layers multiple times in 3 shades of pink.  A small amount of yellow was used in the flower centers. Then using rectangle nesting dies I cut out the center of my stamped card.

 I chose a dark teal colored card stock as my opposite color and matted an A2 card base with this. The outer part of my stamped card was then matted over this, leaving a hole in the middle. Using the teal card and the next size up nesting die I cut another rectangle and matted my smaller stamped piece onto this. This was then added back, covering up the hole and matching up the flowers. 

I cut a sentiment mat from the teal card and used some coordinating pink for the love word.

Finally a few glitter gems in coordinating color were added.

My last card again was to take me out of my comfort zone. I purchase Altenew's watercolor pans and brushes a while ago but have only really used them to add background color. For this card I decided to use them as an image coloring medium as taught in lesson 5.

I stamped Paint a Flower Tulips in embossing ink and then heat embossed the image with white embossing powder.

I then painted the image using the wet on wet technique, this allows colors to blend independently I loved how the 2 colors I used on the tulips gave them a realistic look.

Once dry I added a wash around the flower arrangement to make the white embossing powder pop!

I also added some splatters of a copper iridescent watercolor - again out of my clean comfort zone. 

Using a copper embossing powder I heat embossed my sentiment onto water color card and using 2 paint colors I had used on my flowers did an ombre effect. This was then cut with an angle at each end.

My image was adhered to my card base with a foam panel to give dimension. My sentiment was added so it hung off the edge of my card.

I think I will be using my paints a lot more now!

Thank you for taking time to read my post!

Altenew products I used:

Paint a Flower - Tulips Purchase From: ALW	Dahlia Blossoms Stamp Set Purchase From: ALW	Majestic Bloom Stamp Set Purchase From: ALW	Crisp Dye Ink - Chamomile Purchase From: ALW
Pure White Crisp Embossing Powder Purchase From: ALW	Artist Watercolor brushes bundle Purchase From: ALW	Heartfelt Sentiments Purchase From: SSS | ALW	Crisp Dye Ink - Fuchsia Purchase From: ALW
Crisp Dye Ink - Magenta Purchase From: ALW	Crisp Dye Ink - Baby Pink Purchase From: SSS | ALW	Artists Watercolor 24 Pan set Purchase From: ALW	Embossing Ink Purchase From: ALW