Altenew Educators Certification Program - Impressive Heat Embossing

  Good afternoon! How can it be Sunday already? I wish time would slow down!

I'm back today with my latest submission for my AECP - This class was all about using heating embossing in different ways to stretch your stamps and crafting further.

My first card used the technique from class 2 but I also added elements from class 6, using clear embossing powder to give you a watermark effect - darkening the cardstock:

I started with 2 pieces of cardstock the same size, one green and one white. Using my MISTI I arranged by leaf stamps from the wild fern set long one side of the white card and stamped in green ink. I then, without moving the stamps, switched out the white card for the green piece and stamped the leaves in embossing ink. Turning the card 180 degrees and using embossing ink I stamped the leaves of the opposite side of the green card. I switched this out for the white card and stamped the leaves in green ink. This gave me 2 pieces of card stock both with leaves stamped down their long side. Using clear embossing powder I heat embossed the images on green card. which made the leaves look a darker shiny green.

I die cut the green piece with a rectangle die and when I laid this over the white card I could line up the leaves so they looked like complete leaves just in 2 different greens. These pieces were adhered together using wet glue so I had 'wiggle' time to make sure they were lined up correctly.

My next techniques was from lesson 6 I die cut the word 'Love' and heat embossed it layering the embossing ink and clear powder 4 times to give me a smooth raised die cut that looked like it was enameled. The mistake I made with this is I used clear embossing powder, I should have used white as the clear starts to yellow when you get multiple layers.

I worked out where I wanted my die cut and stamped the remainder of my sentiment directly on my green cardstock and heat embossed with with white powder.

I adhered my design onto a black A2 card base with foam tape to give dimension, lined up the Love with my stamped sentiment and added a few cream colored sequins to balance the card.

My second card for heat embossing techniques used lesson 4 - using embossing powder instead of colored ink for a layered stamp image:

I found this a much harder technique to do and did multiple attempts in multiple colors before I was happy with my results. 

The first struggle was finding embossing powders for my layers. I used build a flower Fashion Monger Dahlia which has 4 layers for the main flower and 2 for the center. 

I started with the solid layer in a pale pink color. the tick was to make sure each layer was fully cooled before adding the next. My second layer isn't as obvious on the photos but it was a slightly darker pink with glitter. The 3rd layer was a brighter pink.  I added my center in yellow after this, I chose to just do one of the center layers. My last layer was the outline of the flower. I initially tried gold for this but I lost the definition of the flower and the outline lines looked too thick so tried again with a pearlized white and liked this much better.

I only used one layer for my leaf, I used both gold and silver embossing powder on this and decided to go with the silver,

My flower and leaves were die cut ready to go on my card

I added a strip of glitter washi tape to the top of a landscape white A2 card base, This is actually nearer the base color of the flower but the camera shows it darker.

I matted a piece of grey cardstock over this and arranged my flower and leaves using both wet glue and foam tape in the corner of the card.

I cut my sentiment 4 times and used Magenta ink to color one of these. I stacked these together and adhered in place. 

I didn't have any embellishments in coordinating colors so I used clear gems and colored them with alcohol markers to match the pink in my sentiment.

Thank you for taking time to ready my very long post!!

Altenew products I used:

Envelope Liner Die Set Purchase From: SSS | ALW	Pure White Crisp Embossing Powder Purchase From: ALW	Crisp Dye Ink - Magenta Purchase From: ALW	Crisp Dye Ink - Forest Glades Purchase From: SSS | ALW
Embossing Ink Purchase From: ALW	Silver Embossing Powder Purchase From: ALW	Build a Flower Fashion Monger Dahlia stamp and Die set Purchase From: ALW	Wild Fern Stamp Set Purchase From: ALW

CAS Boutique Cards

Good Morning! I'm having a lazy day today, the heat is just too much to get busy!

My post today is all about Clean and Simple Boutique Cards - the third course in my Altenew Educator Certification Program. I have made 3 cards that are all CAS:

My first card was from lesson one simple styling, I've covered this by doing a single rose in the center of my card and a very simple sentiment:

I used Altenew's Painted Rose stamp set, stamping the layers of the rose with Rose Quartz, Puffy Heart and Purple Wine inks from the Rose Petal Mini Cube Set. I stamped the leaves with Frayed Leaf and then loosely drew the outline of them with a Faber Castell Pitt pen. Lastly I used a sentiment from Altenew Heartfelt Sentiments and stamped it with jet black ink.

 For my next card I used lesson 2 - Stamped backgrounds:

For this card I used one of the stamps from Wild Fern Stamp Set and stamped it multiple times on my card in  Just Green Ink. I then mixed some watercolor marker ink with water and, using a paint brush, made splatters cover the card front.

The sentiment, again from the Wild fern Stamp Set, was stamped in versamark ink and I heat embossed this with white embossing powder onto a strip of black card. This was then adhered on to my card.

My last card was my favorite technique and one I wasn't aware of. I added foiling:

This is a great technique if you don't have alternate ways of foiling. I do have a foil press but can't use that with my stamps! 

I used Altenew's Dahlia Blossoms, picked one of the layers of both the smaller and large flower and stamped this in Buttercream Ink. Then came the magic. I used my antistatic bag across my card and stamped the outline of the flowers with Stayzon ink. I heat embossed this with clear embossing powder. I had to repeat this step 3 times to get a thick enough outline for the foil to stick to. Following the embossing I laid Minc foil over the images and sent it through a laminator which had been heating up for a while. Once my card had cooled I removed the foil sheet and was left with a gorgeous rose pink foiled outline on my dahlias.

I went on to stamp the leaves from the Dahlia stamp set and some more from Altenew's beautiful Day stamp set. 

As I loved the foiling so much I had to do more! I chose a sentiment die from my stash. I die cut this in both black and white. I covered the white version in Stayzon ink and dipped it into my embossing ink. Again I repeated this 2 more times then covered it with foil and ran it through my laminator and it worked! I adhered this to the black diecut, slightly offsetting it so I had a black shadow to my foiled sentiment. This was then glued to my card.

This was my favorite lesson from the whole Clean and Simple Boutique Card course and I will be using frequently!!

Thanks for checking out my post - I hope it gave you some inspiration and if you like what you see please leave me some love in the comment section