Layering and Masking with Altenew

Welcome back to my Studio! I’m so glad you are here!

Altenew AECP…

I’m so happy to be back again with another fabulously fun project for the Altenew’s Educator Program!

Today I’m working with the beautiful Build a Flower: Gardenia

Gardenias are definitely one of my favorite flowers…although, I’m pretty sure I LOVE all flowers! Especially the ones I can stamp with from Altenew! They are all GORGEOUS!

Layering & Masking…

For this project lesson, I am layering large flowers and leaves that are a little more inticate than my previous layering projects.

Color Palette…

I have to admit, I rarely make cards for men, but I wanted to created this one for a special guy!

I decided to work with Altenew‘s Soft Succulents and Fall Harvest Crisp Dye Ink in hopes it would suitable for a man as well as a women. I think these colors are perfect for everyone. What do you think? Not to mention they are fabulous Fall colors too!

I started off by stamping the solid base layers and then built up my flowers layer by layer with Fall Harvest…takes practice for sure, but once you get the hang of it, the results are beautiful!

Once I stamped the flowers on the card base, I stamped another on a separate piece of white cardstock and die cut it with the coordinating die set and set it aside.

Masking…

Before I could stamp the leaves, I had to mask the flowers. I stamped the outline stamp, from the Gardenia Stamp Set, a couple of times on masking paper and hand cut them and placed them over my existing flowers.

Now I was free to stamp my leaves wherever I needed without polluting my flowers.

My leaves were stamped and layered with Altenew’s Soft Succulents Crisp Dye Inks

Putting it All Together…

Once my Leaves were in place, I attached the die cut Gardenia with foam adhesive to give it some dimension.

The background seemed a little bare so I stamped a few small random leaves from Altenew‘s Handpicked Bouquet Stamp Set, dotted a few gold clusters with a Copic marker and of course, I had to add several stunning gold sequins.

Happy Crafting…