I finished Altenew Academy\’s Let It Shine Class and wanted to share this card on my blog. As the name suggests, our teacher Clarissa Wiley, taught us to embellish our cards with a bit of shine. I am happy with the way this card turned out….but boy did I put in a lot of work. I had a different layout created in my mind, but when I laid out the design there was too much metallic gold. I kept diecutting flags, banners and sentiments strips. Originally there was a lot more metallic gold cardstock but I decided for me, less is more…a little gold goes a long way! I will save the other elements I created for future cards and it will be nice to have them all ready to go.
My inspiration was to use metallic cardstock (lesson #5), gold embossing (lesson #2) and faux watercoloring over ink blending that I learned in Altenew Academy\’s Easy Ink Blending Class. Another example of this fun technique is here.
My Process:
I started by heat embossing this beautiful daisy in gold and then I lightly inkblended a pale yellow over the bloom. Next I gently sprayed the flower with water and then used a #8 brush and distress inks to paint on some darker yellow highlights using wet on wet watercoloring. I dried with a heat gun and then added random orange highlights using wet on dry watercoloring. I repeated the same technique with the leaves. I assembled the card using liquid glue and foam adhessive to raise up the flower bloom.
Supplies:
Altenew Smile More stamps and dies
Distress Inks
Watercolor Paper
Picket Fence Studios Life Changing Blending Brush
#8 Paint Brush
Gold Embossing Powder and Versafine Ink
Metallic Gold Cardstock
Scrap of green cardstock for sentiment
Liquid Glue
Foam Adhesive Tape
A2 cream colored card
As I said above, I tried a lot of layouts and decided in this instance, CAS was best for me.
I am also playing along at:
The Sisterhood of Crafters Favorite Technique Challenge. I recently learned how to faux watercolor and I am having so much fun with this new to me technique!
Global Design Project – Floral Challenge I am happy to add my flower to the GDP challenge.
I am so pleased that you stopped by!
Karen
Kenny's Cards 
It brought a smile to my face, another lovely card Karen.
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Simply BEAUTIFUL!! Love the CAS design too! Well done! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Sisterhood of Crafters challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.DarleneSISTERHOOD OF CRAFTERSDAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS Please stop in for a visit!
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Beautiful card and lovely colours!! Thank you for entering your work to the AECP assignment gallery.
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