I don't know about you but I always struggle a bit to work out cards for the men in my life. This is my next creation for the Altenew Educator Certification Program and it's based on the For the guys class. This class has some great tips for making cards and creations that work well for men. For this I took inspiration from the pop art lesson. Using bright bold colours taking inspiration from the pop art movement. I used a couple of the sentiments from Painted Poppy stamp set. This is a floral stamp set so I just used the big "Happy" stamp and the smaller sentiment "you make me"
I cut a 4" x 4" square of black card and four 1 and 3/4" x 1 and 3/4" white squares. I lined the happy stamp up in my stamping platform and then stamped it in the following Altenew Crisp dye inks:
Yellow: Maple Yellow
Green: Grass Field
Blue: Aqualicious
Red: Crimson
I stamped a different colour on each white square. By using the stamp platform I was able to make sure they were all in the same place on the squares. I used another new tip from the Clean and Simple Boutique cards class and hand drew some lines around each of the "Happy" words to act as a bit of a shadow and make them stand out a bit more.
I moved the order of the coloured hello squares until I was happy that the colours balanced. I spaced them all out equally within the black square so that they have an even border around them.
Then to finish it off I added a mix of 3 different Nuvo drops in matching colours to the inks which give a bit of texture and interest to the card.
