The new Altenew stamps and dies came out to play again this weekend … I ended up making a card for my parents for Easter.
I started with a piece of paper that I had already stencilled onto using texture paste … I had previously got too much texture paste out for another project and didn’t want to waste it so used it on this piece of paper and left it to dry.
It wasn’t pretty but I knew I would eventually get around to using it!
First I took white gesso and gave it a coat of that to take away most of the colour and give the paints something to stick to.
I took some acrylic paints and coloured the whole piece in a peachy colour … you can still see some of the blue tones on the stencilling but I thought they worked well together.
Then I rummaged around to find my sparkly paints and added a little gold to the background and splattered some pink.
I decided this would do perfectly as a background to a more subtle version of the Altenew flower. I heat embossed the line art with gold and then used the final stencil layer and some old paper ink to add that.
I added a little colour to the stamen of the flower too using a watercolour pencil.
Then I die cut it out.
I cut down the background panel added the flower on top and trimmed off the top and bottom where I hung over.
Then I added a piece of the Sycamore Street text pattern paper behind which I had added a little subtle inking to using distress inks. I added foam behind the mixed media panel and then stuck this all together.
I then grabbed a sentiment and embossed it in gold and then cut it out and inked it.
I added some metallic thread behind the sentiment (this is one of my new favourite things to do) … and called it done!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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