Monoprinting Cards

The next panels on my homework were the two for one and I continue the same when doing the cards. Again the panels were 5" x 7" cut in half giving me 3.5" x 5" mounted on some purplish color cardstock then on white cardstock again cut a bit to make my border even all around. Cut my Hola with an alphabet die then cut a border around with my stitched rectangle framelits die by SU the letters that came out on the first card went on the second card. I added some enamel dots from my stash on both cards. For the second set I added glossy accent on the letters

Monoprinting Cards

Since today is my dad's birthday thought I show this card 😊 my second panel on my homework, again it was 5" x 7" and cut in half but this time the other way as I wanted all the colors to show on the card. The card is an odd size but didn't matter as I had envelopes from greeting cards or something that fit perfectly just had to cut the card to about 4" wide and it's just about 7.5" the happy birthday is a die by The Stamps of Life part of the 3D pop-up drop-in. The enamel dots were sort of shimmery

Monoprinting cards

For my first panel on my homework, the panel was 5" x 7" so I cut it in half giving me two pieces of 3.5" x 5. Both cards are pretty much the same just the difference is the water splatter. I mounted on a lavender cardstock then on white, did cut a bit to make it an even border around. The thanks die is by Altenew and the words are from the matching set halftone thanks which I stamped with VersaFine Clair nocturne. On the die I added black Wink of Stella glitter blush then glossy accent as I wanted some glitter showing through but it didn't work, I couldn't tell if it had any shimmer on it or not. I also added some enamel dots from my stash

Monoprinting Class Homework 1

Last month I took an online class at Altenew Academy, Monoprinting Made Easy with Sara Naumann. It was a 6 day class. After each class we have "homework" which is to play with we learn I didn't have a Gelli Plate so borrowed one and did the first homework the others haven't done as they stain the Gelli Plate so didn't want to stain my friend's Gelli Plate and even though it was a messy thing I did enjoyed even though I had to use disposable gloves but something don't mind doing not sure if I would deal with a staining plate so waiting for my Gelli press to arrive and see LOL in the mean time this is what I did with my first day. Cards to come later

For all of them I used Altenew Crisp dye inks and I used regular cardstock not typing paper. For the first one I used midnight violet, deep iris & lavender fields the first thing I grab was the cat's water spritzer so not the best results as you have no control on the size of water mist but not bad either

For this one I used deep iris, eastern sky, parrot, orange cream, heart beat & fresh lemon for this I used a mini spritzer that has some sort of shimmer inside not plain water so it gave a shimmer to the paper along with the water I had to add

For this one I over water the Gelli Plate which was supposed be used as ink pad, it still worked as one but my negative images didn't show as much and I used the wrong set as technically I was supposed to use a set that had layer images an outline and background did get the background but didn't have an outline but used the image that was the fullest. I used the same colors as the first one midnight violet, deep iris & lavender fields. I used midnight violet for the top image. The leaves were from build-a-flower rose set also by Altenew

On this piece is where the leaves were stamped off because there was not enough images to fill the piece I used lavender fields ink to stamped the 3rd image and midnight violet to stamp the top image

Homework Day 6

This was the last class and it was washi tape. Altenew has this cool big washi tapes about 4-3/8" wide so Justine focus on those, I think they also have the little or regular thin washi tapes but we didn't use them on the class and I didn't pay attention on them while shopping 😉 the level one was just adding the tape on the cardstock and she made two cards by die cutting words out of one and then adding the words on a second card. I glue my washi tape, painted fantasy, and added die cut words on them which are wonderful jotted script craft die by Memory Box and the you is part of a message from beautiful inside set by Altenew with VersaFine Clair nocturne

Intermediate level was adding the washi tape to cardstock and die cutting it with a detail layer die and then cut the other layer die in cardstock but I decided since I only had the painted fantasy it was too much wasted of a design on a detail die

For the advanced level she did a shaker card so I did a two for one card. On the first card I did my shaker card using the painted fantasy washi tape and used the bits for the shaker by PPP springtime mix, the Y is MFT decor die-namic

For my second card I use the Y that came out of the card above, but before I attached it I stamped with build-a-rose set freebie from Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine with limestone ink the middle flower, I could see it but Bret said he couldn't see it so not sure if the photo shows it. I just wanted a very, very light background so the focus was the Y but there was still something on the background it wasn't just plain

Thank you Justine for challenging me with the homework to do things I don't like and things I have procrastinated to do.

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Homework Day 5

For this day it was embossing. Level 1 was normal wet embossing, just simple embossing. I don't like wet embossing it's messy so the first panel I did it got all blurry the second I forgot to do the embossing body so decided to just leave it as it was and this is what it came out. I used wallpaper art set and majestic bloom set with VersaFine Clair nocturne ink and clear embossing ink the message is from build-a-flower rose set with VesaFine Clair nocturne

For the intermediate level it was dry embossing with plastic stencils, since I don't have any Altenew stencils I used a stencil I had by Heidi Swapp

it is very light running it through the Vagabond even with two shims but was afraid to add another shim. The Thanks of from thanks die by Altenew cover with glossy accents. I mounted my layer with foam

I didn't do the advanced level since it was too much wet embossing and I really don't do wet embossing

Thank you Justine for challenging me with the homework to do things I don't like or procrastinate doing the things I wanted to do.

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Homework Day 4

This class was dies or die cutting. Level one was just cutting dies the way they were intended to be and not doing anything other than that so this is my card with that level. I used Elizabeth Craft Design butterfly aperture die and for my message build-a-flower rose set by Altenew with Sapphire ink, did my banner with banner triple punch by SU

For the intermediate level was using the dies for something other than what they were intended so decided to use a technique I did a while back after I saw Jennifer McGuire tutorial using the stacked layers all together, I really like that technique and you get several cards at once. For these cards I used Spellbinders label 7 dies, enamel dots from my stash and the hello is from build-a-rose set by Altenew freebie from Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine with VersaFine Clair nocturne

And for the advance level was  using a technique and her technique was partial die cutting and turns out that it is also a technique in one of my Yahoo Groups and I had played with this technique in the past so decided to use it again. I used build-a-flower rose set and matching die by Altenew as well as their inks soft lilac, lavender fields, deep iris, midnight violet, bamboo, parrot and olive. For my background (you can barely see it on the photo) on the lavender layer I used one of the leaves in wallpaper art set with soft lilac ink, and a message from beautiful inside set with VersaFine Clair nocturne

Thank you Justine for challenging me with the homework to do things I don't like or procrastinating doing 

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Homework Day 3

Today's class was about masking. One subject I don't like, there was a time I did it often but because of it guess I just didn't like it LOL too much work cutting mask, back in the day we didn't have dies and now most dies don't work as they have borders well I only did one card for this homework and I guess it would be level beginner since I don't add another image around 😊

The card is not finish to what it will be as it's my dad's father's day card but it shows the masking part. I wanted to mask the lighthouse so I could do the background which was done with Copic airbrush system with B21, B41, B32 and some blending tool on the edge with broken China ink. I used The Stamps of Life stamp set lighthouse2stamp with Gina K amalgam ink jet black ink (like 4 times to get a nice black ink) and coordinating die to mask. The Stamps of Life has two dies one that cuts right at the edge of the image and one that leaves a border so in this case was great for the masking as I didn't have to cut my own mask the die did it for me just perfect. The words are from Guy greetings SU's set but the Spanish version Saludos entre amigos with Gina K amalgam ink jet black. I colored the lighthouse with Copic Markers

Thank you Justine for challenging me with the homework to do things I don't like. 

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Homework Day 2

Continuing with my homework, the second class was about stencils. I really don't own many stencils back in the day when we did the dry embossing I have a lot of brass stencils but then it became hard on my hands so unless I could used them with my die cut machine I wasn't using them and I did use them with the Zip-E-Mate perfect sandwich but then that was hard on my hand so switch to the Vagabond that is electric and the sandwiches are harder to accomplish so don't use them anymore, anyway the plastic stencils I only got mainly for background for my Copic airbrush system so I could do a little background like sky, grounds, bricks and or maybe some other technique I saw. Looking through my plastic stencils picked these to do my homework

I guess this will qualify as the beginner level. Not a lot of Altenew supplies, the stencil is Penny Black it's sun catcher used blending tool to applied inks and used lavender fields and deep iris for highlights, olive for the stems. The thank you is from majestic blooms Altenew set with deep iris

This would be intermediate level. Using two stencils one detail these stencils are by Memory Box, butterfly drifting and butterfly vine again used blending tool to applied inks originally I had applied wisteria on the first stencil but when I applied the detail stencil with Andromeda you couldn't see much of the wisteria so I had to go back and reapplied the butterfly drifting stencil with pink diamond. The message is from Altenew's kind words set with Andromeda ink

The advance level was using paste or any other medium with the stencils and for my card I used a stencil by Recollections. I mixed my paste with distress oxide reinker seedless preserves, the message is from kind words Altenew's set with seedless preserve ink

Making these cards specially the last one reminded me why I don't work with stencils, ink and paste way too messy. A lot better using the airbrush system LOL

Thank you Justine for challenging me with the homework to do things I don't like. 

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Homework Day 1

I decided to take one of the Altenew classes, Progressive Card Making,  it's a six day class with Justine Hovey. Each class has a 3 levels beginners, intermediate and advance. The first class was stamping. For what I understood we had homework after each class  not really sure what the homework is but I'm guessing is play with what the class was about either one or all of the levels, IF we wanted of course since being adults who is going to  force us to play

The "beginner" part guess I do it a lot as to me is more of clean and simple style but I understand as an instructor you can say it's a beginner way of making a card and they may not do many of this type of cards but personally I love making these cards. Don't consider myself an expert by all means as I believe we all have something to learn every day specially in card making but I sure don't consider myself a beginner for making this type of cards 😊
I used my stamping tool to make my card, the sets I used were beautiful day and majestic blooms both by Altenew with VersaFine Clair nocturne ink

For this second card, the stamping was in the intermediate level. I also used my stamping tool. Stamps and inks are by Altenew. The flower if from lacy scrolls set stamped with soft lilac (hope you can see the shadow stamped) and deep iris inks, the message is from beautiful day set with midnight violet ink. The leaves that are barely seen are from lacy scrolls set with morning frost ink stamped off stamped then stamped off again and stamped again. I wanted a very very light color and straight forward was too dark and stamped off once wasn't enough. My stitched layers were done with MFT stitched rectangle STAX dies. The little drops were done with Nuvo clear

And the advanced level was wet embossing with masking and watercolor coloring none of my favorites the first one is messy and the others just don't care but who likes homework? no one but we all do it so I so I finished a project with wet embossing unfortunately not all stamping is with Altenew stamps the doily is hello doily by SU embossed with VersaMark and white embossing powder and for the watercolor I used Pearl Ex-press watercolor palette misty lavender. The message was stamped with sweet plum ink (I should have grab one of the Altenew inks but this one was right on my desk LOL) and the set is kind words by Altenew

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Thank you Justine for challenging me with the homework to do things I don't like. 

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