{Altenew} So Happy For You

I'm taking a break from regularly scheduled posts to share this baby card that was commissioned by a dance teacher at my son's school. One of their drama teachers is going on maternity leave soon and they're having a party tomorrow.

I thought that the little foxes from Hug Me were a perfect representation of mom and baby, especially since she's holding a little heart! All of the other images and the sentiment are from Celebrations, one of my favourite Altenew sets.

I heat embossed all of the images with sparkle embossing powder and watercolored them with distress inks, listed below. I also used the Watercolor Stripes Stencil on the left side of the base panel to create a bit of a background and to create movement across the card from left to right.

I added a strip of gold glitter cardstock at the bottom of the card to ground and highlight the foxes. Half of the images were adhered flat with large glue dots and the other half were popped up with foam tape for dimension and visual interest.

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{Technique Tuesday} featuring Love is in the Air

Hi, friends! We got more than two feet of snow yesterday and the snowbanks are almost as tall as I am. I don't remember having this much snow since I was a little girl. It's so pretty to look at and play in but a pain to shovel and commute in. In my whole life, we've never had a snow day in the big city!

Today's card features Love is in the Air and I created masks for the airplane and hot air balloon before stamping them with black Archival ink. I left the masks in place after stamping and used a cloud stencil to sponge the pretty pink clouds with worn lipstick distress ink.

Then I used distress inks to colour in the images and finished by adhering clear drops with liquid glue and a jewel picker.

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{Technique Tuesday} featuring Paper Airplane on the Border + Adventure Awaits

Today I'm sharing another project featuring Technique Tuesday's January 2019 Release. This one features the Paper Airplane on the Border Die. Isn't it fun? I think it will mainly be used for love-themed and Valentine's cards but I wanted to use it with Adventure Awaits to make an encouragement card.

The paper airplane works well with the travel-themed stamps from Adventure Awaits. I used the border die portion to cut the top half of the front of the card so only the bottom half opens to reveal the inside of the card.

After stamping the compass and sentiment, I created a mask for the star before sponging the inside of the card using four distress inks, listed below. Then I die cut the other half of the Paper Airplane on the Border Die from green-blue and silver glitter cardstock and adhered the pieces to the card base using liquid glue.

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