Altenew Sentiment. – Kenny's Cards

Hello! Well, I am still camping out while work continues on my house, but it left me plenty of time to finish my next Altenew class called Masking Unleashed. I did have to run home to get my inks and blending brushes. Svitlana Shayevich taught us loads of useful tips and techniques.

For this card, I chose to work on negative masking. In the past, I’ve done positive masking where you cover the image you are working on. With negative masking, you cover the area surrounding an image. In lesson 4, Svitlana also taught us how to ink blend with Negative Masking.

I decided Altenew’s Mega Alphaget “T” die would work well and started planning a thank you card.

My Process:

I trimmed a piece of masking paper to 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”, taped the die in the center and then ran it through my die cutting machine. I then carefully adhered it to a Bristol Cardstock panel.
Next, I lightly blended four shades of Distress Ink from the bottom to the top.
I taped the stencil at an angle over the “T” and blended 5 shades over the stencil using a much heavier hand. I carefully peeled back the masking paper, trimmed the panel down, attached some craft foam to the back and added it to a top folding A2 panel.
I die cut a sentiment from navy Cardstock and glued it to the panel. I also added three enamel dots in coordinating colors.

Pro Tip: Make sure the masking paper is firmly in place before you start ink blending so you have sharp clean lines. I used a bone folder.

Featured Supplies:

Altenew Mega Alphabet “T” die

Altenew Watercolor Stripes stencil

Altenew Thanks die

Altenew New Day Enamel Dots

Just Add Ink “T” Challenge. My card is T for thanks.

I am so pleased that you stopped by!

Karen

Hello there! I was at a cardmaking convention in February and saw this humorous dog and die set (Photo Play – Fetch) and knew I could make some really fun cards. Don\’t you love how the dog almost makes a perfect square?

I started by stamping Fetch and the small bird (SSS Stacking Animals), coloring with Copics and die-cutting. I knew I wanted to frame the little vignette so I die-cut a large frame. I had previously made the background (Tim Holtz Bricked Layering Stencil) in a bright vivid blue. Next I stamped the Hello sentiment (Altenew Pinstripes Background Stamp Set) on the frame. I wanted to emphasize the frame so I used foam tape to adhere the frame and animal die-cuts to the bricked background. I think this is a cheery little card that will be fun to send to a friend.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown \”Frame It\” Challenge