You make everything better

Wow!  I can't believe it has been so long since I last posted a project for the Altenew Educator Certification Program!  Life has gotten in the way but I'm slowly making a little more time for crafting.  I just finished up Creative Watercolor Media.  This class was taught by THREE different instructors.  I loved getting different takes on techniques from the different instructors.

The technique I'm focusing on is painting with your Altenew inks.  Let's take a look at my finished card and then I'll take you through my process.

The stamp set I'm using is called Cherished Memories.  The first thing I did was to stamp a mask of the flowers and the leaves.  I knew I was going to need them to get the look I wanted.  I cut a piece of watercolor cardstock to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" and got out my Misti.  I laid out my first series of flowers and leaves to figure out what needed to be stamped first and masked.  I stamped the flowers with Dusk ink and the leaves with Industrial Diamond ink.

I then just kept working my way around the edges of the cardstock until I had it all filled up.

Next I created a palette of ink to work with by squishing Dusk, Ocean Waves, Industrial Diamond and Silver Stone inks onto a craft mat.  I generously spritzed all of the colors with water and Shimmer Spritz Spray in Sparkle.  I used a water brush to pick up the Ocean Waves ink and did a wash over all of the flowers.  I dried it with a heat tool before going in with the Silver Stone ink and doing a wash over all of the leaves.  I dried it again.  I went back to flowers and added some shadows with the Dusk ink and water brush.  I also did the same with the leaves using Industrial Diamond ink.

This is what it looked when I was done.

While the panel was drying, I started to work on the sentiment.  I had this lovely open space in the middle of the card that I wanted to fill with a die sentiment.  I went through my collection and found the everything die from the Halftone Everything die set.  It's an absolute perfect fit!  I put Stick It adhesive on the back of a slightly metallic dark gray cardstock.  Then I cut out the die three times.  I peeled off the backing and adhered all of the layers together.  Then I placed it on the card panel.

Now, here's where I'll tell you to do as I say and not as I did.  I *should* have stamped the sentiment words BEFORE I put the die cut in place...but I didn't.  Not a total loss though.  My Misti to the rescue!  The words come from the matching Halftone Everything stamp set.  I lined them up on my Misti and stamped them several times until the ink was dark enough.  

Once everything was dry, I trimmed off just the smallest of slivers from all four sides of the panel.  Then I layered it onto an A2 card base made from Neenah 110lb Solar White cardstock.  For the finishing touch I added a few dots from the Rock enamel dots collection.

I tried really hard but I just couldn't get that shimmer to show up in my pictures.  Trust me, it's so pretty!

I really appreciate you stopping by.  Hope you have a fabulous day!

~Kristina

Supplies used:

Rock Collection 4 mini ink cube set Shop at: Altenew	Neenah Solar White Shop at: SBC | EH	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Wink of Stella - Glitter Clear Shop at: SBC | EH
Tonic Studios-Retractable Craft Pick Shop at: SBC | EH	Stick It Adhesive sheets Shop at: SBC | EH	Mini MISTI Shop at: SBC | EH	Canson Watercolor paper Shop at: EH
Ranger Tim Holtz Water Brush - Fine Brush Shop at: EH	Cool Summer Nights Altenew Mini ink cubes Shop at: Altenew	Rock Collection Enamel Dots Altenew Shop at: Altenew	Cherished Memories stamp set - Altenew Shop at: Altenew
Halftone Everything Stamp & Die set - Altenew Shop at: Altenew	Sheer Shimmer Spritz, Sparkle Shop at: EH	Jet Black Amalgam ink pad - Gina K Shop at: EH