Progressive Cardmaking Day 3 Masking – Intermediate

| Lisa K

For the intermediate level with masking, it involved masking more than one image on the card front.

Masking Butterflies

I masked the middle butterfly, then stamped the butterflies above and below. I colored the middle butterfly and left the other two white. My background was quite plain, so I used the flourish stamp in the set with ink that closely matched to give it a bit of background. I used a set designed by Gina K Designs for a Catherine Pooler’s Stamp of Approval collection. It is called Beautiful World. The background paper is Stampin’ Up Wisteria Wonder, stamped with GKD Wild Wisteria. The black ink is Versafine Onyx Black. The sentiment is from SU Paper Pumpkin, Sentimental Rose (April 2019).

Progressive Cardmaking Day 3 Masking – Beginner

| Lisa K

Day 3 of the Progressive Cardmaking class is all about masking. The beginner masking is quite simple, basically masking one image to keep it in the forefront.

Birthday Wishes

I used Gina K Designs Bold Blooms for the main image, masking the flower before adding the leaves. The sentiment is from a incentive set by Gina K Designs. It doesn’t have a name and cannot be purchased in her store, but came during a holiday sale. I used Rose Gold embossing powder on Versamark ink. I left the card very simple with no sequins or embellishments. This will be posted in the Altenew Academy class Student Forum.

Hero Arts Memories

| Lisa K

Hero Arts is celebrating 45 years in business. I love Hero Arts stamps. I began stamping in 2000 and many of my stamps were Hero Arts. Hobby Lobby carried many Hero Arts stamps, both individual and in sets, and I purchased several. Here is a photo of a few stamps found in my collection from the 1990’s with colored stickers.

Hero Arts woodblock stamps

These will be entered in the Hero Arts Celebration post.
https://heroarts.com/blogs/hero-arts-blog/sharing

Welcome Parker-Jane

| Gayle Chrvala

Baby Girl cards for a new mom and dad, grandparents and the big sister!  One of my dear friends shared the birth of her newest granddaughter this past weekend.  I used a variety of stamps:  The baby elephant and giraffe are a Lori Whitlock Sizzix framelits w/stamp set; my blocks on the Big Sister card is a Gina K Oh Baby! set by Rupa Shevde,  and a variety of unknowns.   These cards were a little bit of this and a little bit of that but I was happy on the way they turned out.    Both the Cute and Cuddly as well as the Big Sister card are 5″x7″ cards….sometimes you just need a larger than A2 size card.

Progressive Card Making Day 1 Advanced

| Lisa K
Day 1 Watercolor

This lesson was about watercoloring the image. I chose a Unity set called God is Love. I masked the flower image each time I stamped another flower. Ink colors used: SU Flirty Flamingo, Grapefruit Grove, Berry Burst, Tombow 451-Sky Blue, 055-Process Yellow. The final detail I was to add sparkle to the flowers using a Crafter’s Companion clear Sparkle pen.

Progressive Card Class Day 1 Beginner

| Lisa K

I am taking an Altenew Adademy class called Progressive Card Making, taught by Justine Hovey. Each day has three levels, beginner, intermediate, advanced. Following are Day 1 beginner photos.

Card 1: GKD Rose Peonies
Card 2: SU All that You Are

This day is all about stamping. We lined the stamps up on half of the Misti, then rotated the paper and stamped again. I did add a few images to fill in the white spaces. I am enjoying this class. It is independent, so I do not have to hurry. My day 1 has lasted a few days.

I used Lawn Fawn Hippo ink for the flowers and Versafine Black ink for the greetings, embossed with clear embossing powder.

Thinking Of You

| Gayle Chrvala

One of my favorite GKD stamp sets is Bold & Blooming  which is going out to someone special.  I also used GKD’s Dazzling Dahlia for the sentiment.  I think I could have used a larger sentiment  to fill in more of the white space area.  Card base is blue lagoon and layered with turquoise sea and white card stock.  I stamped this with my favorite go  VersaFine Onyx Black ink to which I added clear embossing powder and heat set ,added a few sequins and my Stampin up! colored pencils.

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