A monochromatic moment

I can't believe this is class 9/10 for my Altenew AECP level 2! I have been enjoying these classes so much and the Polychromatic class is no different.

This class is all about how you use colour and I really LOVE colour! For my card today I have been inspired by the monochromatic lesson. I like to mix up colours so sticking to just one colour and making it really pop was a great challenge for me. I found some pink card and then tested my Altenew inks and my copic markers to find ones that would give a good tone on tone effect. I settled with Pink Diamond crisp dye ink and an RV13 copic marker.

I decided to go with the Amazing You stamp set for this card as I liked the fact it was just outlines of the flowers leaving me space to do the shading with my copic marker. I stamped the roses all over a pieces of pink card in Pink Diamond crisp dye ink. Then I used the RV13 copic marker to shade the petals and make them look more 3D. I also outlined the roses so they showed out from the card a little bit more. Just colouring was a bit stark so I used the blender pen to just soften all of the edges of my colouring.

Next I die cut my coloured panel to add some interest with the stitch effect edges. I used the Heffy Doodle whimsically wonky dies to give me this wavy line. I wanted a sentiment next and went for this hello sentiment die from Heffy Doodle which I placed along the top of my panel and cut it from the panel. I made sure I kept hold of all the pieces so I could paper piece them back in place around the sentiment and keep that straight line across my card. I cut the hello 3 times out of the same pink card that I used for the panel so it matches perfectly and then used gold Wow! embossing powder on one of them before stacking them up to give the sentiment some real dimension.

If you have seen a few of my makes then you will have realised that I can not resist some bling so to finish this card off I scattered around some Nuvo drops.

I am going to enter this card for the following challenges:

Little Red Wagon - Make it bloom

The sisterhood of craft - Think Pink

Get creative - Use Flowers

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Masking with layering stamps

I am working my way through the classes for the Altenew Educator Certification Program (AECP) level 2. This card has been inspired by the lessons in the brilliant Masking Unleashed class. I had no idea there were so many ways to do masking. I really enjoyed mixing these stamp sets as using the masking paper to be able to stamp right around those pretty hydrangea blooms. There are so many little tips in this class for the ways to get the best results from masking it is well worth doing.

The stamp sets I combined for this card are Halftone circles and Garden Hydrangea. Fussy cutting around the Hydrangeas was time consuming but I have saved my masks storing them with my stamps so I can use them again and not have to cut them out again. 

I used the following inks for this card:

The leaves - Firefly, Grass Field

The flowers - Pink Diamond, Pinkalicious, Razzleberry

The background - Dew Drops, Caribbean Sky

For the sentiment I used a Heffy Doodle stamp and die set called Rascal alphabetters. I didn't want the letters to get lost in the details of the flowers so unlike the masks for the hydrangeas I cut the masks for the letters using the coordinating dies. This has given them a white kind of halo effect around each letter in contrast the the other masking which as I cut just inside of the outer line of the stamped images has gone right up against the next image.

There was the odd place where due to the layers on layers of masks the stamps did not quite go all the way to the edges but there were brilliant tips for combating this in the class that I was able to use so thing this is some of the most flawless masking I have ever managed and I am so pleased with the result. If you want the tips you will just have to watch the class as I don't want to steal the glory for them :)

I am going to enter this card for the following challenges:

Make my Monday - Spring time

Dare 2 be Artzy - Flowers

Lil patch of crafty friends - Anything Goes

We love stamping - For a lady or girl

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

 

Magical Marker Techniques

This is my next class in my AECP level 2 journey. If you have not seen Altenew have a whole range of online classes that you can sign up for. This includes their AECP (Altenew Educator Certification Program) course. For my card I have used inspiration from several of the classes in the Magical Markers techniques class. This is such a fun class. I have been colouring with markers for many years but realised that I rarely use them for anything else. This shows you lots of ways to stretch your supplies which I really love.

So as well as colouring the beautiful big flowers from the Quaint Blooms stamp set I have used a marker to colour the gems that I have added to the flower centres and scattered across the card. 

For the back ground I have used the broken chevrons stencil and used markers to draw through the stencil giving a great pattern to my lines and keeping them all a uniform size. The sentiment is also from the Quaint blooms stamp set and to finish the card off I used the same markers to colour the edges of the stencilled panel and the whole card. This is so far from my normal style but I had a lot of fun putting it together and trying all of the techniques :)

I am going to enter this card for the following challenges:

Through the craft room door - Anything Goes

Crafting Happiness - Anything Goes

Get creative - Use Flowers

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

 

National Teen Self Esteem Hop 2022

 

Have you seen the #nationalteenselfesteemhop22  

A great group of crafters have come together to spread love, joy and encouragement to our younger generation.  Do you have a teenager in your household or maybe a younger child who struggle with Self Esteem, please share with them the lovely projects in this hop and maybe they can take some encouragement away from it! 

Don’t worry you have 7 days to hop along so feel free to keep popping back! 

To enter please go to the Crafty Purple Frog Instagram ( @craftypurplefrog ) and hop along to see everything :)

If you get lost along the way please visit @jasmincraftymakes to find the full line up! 

You have until 14th May to hop along; winners will be announced by 18th May on @jasmincraftymakes IG

Sponsor Prizes:

Heffy Doodle - £40 voucher

Whimsy Stamps - $25 voucher

Janes Doodles - $30 voucher

My Perfect Stamps - £25 voucher

Scrappy Boy Stamps - Stamp set of your choice (US only)

Scrappy Tails - $25 voucher

Time for Tea Designs - £20 voucher

JasminCraftyMakes - Mystery craft box of new or lightly used supplies worth £100+

Crafty Purple Frog - Free Digi images (visit the CPF blog to grab yours!)

Artful Angel - $10 voucher

This is my make for the hop. I have used the digi set that is free this week from Crafty Purple Frog to celebrate the hop. 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Through the craft room door - Anything goes

Crafting Happiness - Anything goes

Pammies inky pinkies- Anything goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Mermay revisited

 This weekend as you may have seen we are celebrating as there is a new release for Mermay coming our way. Sweet November Stamps have a gorgeous new release that you can see some sneak peeks of in this video.

But there have also been 2 previous mermay releases from Sweet November Stamps and this weekend we at Crafty Purple Frog and the Sweet November Stamps team are revisiting them so be ready for lots more inspiration and mermaid goodness. For my card I have used the Goldie stamp set and combined that with the horizon lines under the sea stamp set. The sentiment is from a Greeting farm set called Bring me smiles.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Through the craft room door - Anything goes

Crafting Happiness - Anything goes

Pammies inky pinkies- Anything goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

In the mood for colour?

Hello you lovely people :D It is time for me to share my next makes for the Altenew Educator  Certification Program (AECP) level 2. If you have not seen you can do a whole load of great classes online with Altenew in their Academy and if you want to take it even further then you can join up for the AECP yourself find out how HERE.

For these makes I have taken inspiration from the In the mood for color class. I LOVE colour and this class goes into the feelings evocated by various colours. I made a lot of cards around this class so there will be more posts but I am showing this one for my AECP entry because I rarely use yellow (I am not sure why??) and this is my first time using one of the Altenew Layering dies.

The layering daffodil die set just seemed to be begging to be used for this yellow inspired card. I wanted to use some of the great yellow inks from Altenew to make the daffodils so I took some ink pads direct to a piece of white card let them dry for a moment before using the dies in the set to cut the various parts. The die set has a handy layering guide so you can work out which shades of the colours you want each part to be. I got this die set free with a magazine many years ago but they have a new daffodil dies set which is available to buy and has more parts to it HERE. 

For this card I used the following inks:

Leaves and stems - Limeade, Lime

Flowers - Citrus burst, Mango smoothie, Honey Drizzle, Sunkissed

I just love the details in these dies and the way they give the flowers depth. I wanted this to be quite a simple card so that yellow can really sing. Yellow is such a happy colour that it just had to be teamed with a thank you sentiment from the Painted Greetings stamp set. I used two of the yellow inks to give it an ombre look. To finish it off I added in the gems for a bit of sparkle.

I hope this card makes you feel happy when you look at it and it has certainly inspired me to use yellow more.

I am going to enter this card for the following challenges:

Crafting Happiness - Anything Goes

Get Creative - Springtime

Pammies Inky Pinkies - Anything Goes

Use your Stuff - Spring/ Easter (I have had these dies for many years!)

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Impressive Heat Embossing

I am such a fan of heat embossing and so was really excited for this class called Impressive heat embossing. I had never used embossing powders with layered stamps and this was so much fun. I have so many ideas now for my other layering stamps :)

I used the Garden Delights stamp set and its coordinating die set for this card.  I wanted to try and get outside of my comfort zone with this class so I decided to keep it black and white and just add a highlight with the gold.

I also used an idea for another lesson in the class and used clear embossing powder to give a tone on tone effects across the back of the card. I think this give a great touch of texture and added interest.

The sentiment is embossed in gold to stand out and is from the painted greetings stamps set. I coloured a black edge around the card to frame it and you can see how the ink resist happened as I waited to colour the edges after I did the clear embossing. I like the way this adds a little extra detail when you look closely. 

I am going to enter this card for the following challenges:

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Patties Creations - Anything Goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog.

Huge hugs

Amy xx