{Altenew Video} March 2018 Inspiration Challenge featuring Build-A-Flower: Sakura Blossom

 

I needed to make a couple of sympathy cards and I thought that the colours from Altenew's March 2018 Inspiration Challenge would be a great place to start. When I was asked to feature the Build-A-Flower: Sakura Blossom at release time, I wanted to share a video tutorial but I didn't have time so I thought this would be a great opportunity to share how easy it is to create these beautiful 3D flowers.

Since I go into detail on video about how these cards were made, I won't write too much about it. The ink colours that I thought matched perfectly with the challenge colours are Caramel Toffee, Coral Berry and Dusk. I chose the remaining shades based on the sets those colours belonged to.

I used pearlescent embossing paste and sparkle embossing powder with the Watercolor Stripes Stencil. On both of these cards, I also used sentiments from Thinking of You. 

I used white glitter dots in the centres of the flowers on the first card to match the embossing paste. Enamel dots in coordinating colours were added to the second card since it was a more clean and simple design.

Altenew's March 2018 Inspiration Challenge runs for the duration of the month - and there's a new challenge every month - so be sure to play along! You can enter as many times as you like. Four lucky winners will receive a $30 gift certificate to the Altenew store.

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{Technique Tuesday} Sassy Birthday with Chicken Family + Easter Sale

I'm always going to need birthday cards so I thought I'd make another funny card using the Chicken Family with Sassy Birthday and Simply You 2.0. Don't you just love the chickens' faces? The rooster is annoying the hen who is completely exasperated by his birthday wishes. LOL

The first and third lines of the sentiment are from Chicken Family and the middle segment is from Sassy Birthday. The cake is also from Sassy Birthday. The three little exasperation marks above the hen's head are from Simply You 2.0. I masked off part of the little bouquet icon to symbolize the hen's emotions.

Did you know that Technique Tuesday offers discounts on stamp and die bundles? The Chicken Family stamps and dies can be purchased together for a 10% savings!

Today through Tuesday, March 13, 2018, Technique Tuesday is having a great sale on Easter and Faith-themed products! Click on the link or banner below to start shopping. :)

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{Waffle Flower} Watercoloured Cat Trio

Two 30-day colouring challenges ago, I coloured the Hello Stampurr set and I've finally turned them into cards! I mixed and matched these images - some had to be redone in different colours - and combined them with images from Popping In. It's ridiculous how long it takes me to use some of the stamps I buy! There are never not enough hours in a day.

For each of the backgrounds, I used white embossing paste with three different Tim Holtz stencils - latticework, speckles and woodgrain, respectively. I have so many of these amazing stencils and rarely use them but I'll have to use them more often now that I've fallen in love with them again. The debossed background is a retired Tim Holtz Candy Stripes embossing folder.

All of the sentiments and images were heat embossed, then watercoloured with distress inks. Now, I just have to address them to friends - that's even harder than getting through my supplies. ;)

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