‘Seasonal Scene Building’ is an interesting mix of a class from Altenew. The tutor Nichol Magourik, brings a different way to use techniques that you may already be familiar with. I found myself thinking a lot during the class, that I had never thought of doing that before.

This class was all about building a scene within your cards. The best card I created was a flower themed ‘Live in the moment’ one. To begin with, I stamped out the flower from Altenew’s ‘Sewn with Love’ stamp set. An interesting stamp, that is not as tricky to use as you would think.

I decided that it needed a frame, so I die cut one out. It was white card and ink blended with Altenew Paper Bag ink to get the right colour.

For the background, I first ink blended Turquoise and Teal Cave ink pads. This gave a nice blue colour with some variations in tones. I did not ink blend all the background as I knew I would just end up covering it up. I then used Versamark with the Altenew ‘Pattern Power’ stamp set. Heat embossing this with a clear embossing powder gives a very nice effect.

Finally, I used a sentiment from Altenew ‘Simple Flowers’ stamp set with Versamark ink on vellum. Adding the silver embossing powder to the vellum made the sentiment stand out.

I really like how the finished product looks like it is an embroidered picture hanging on the wall.

Supplies:

  • Altenew Sewn with Love Stamp Set
  • Altenew Pattern Power Stamp Set
  • Altenew Simple Flowers Stamp Set
  • Altenew Turquoise ink pad
  • Altenew Teal Cave ink pad
  • Altenew Dew Drop ink pad
  • Altenew Rose Quartz ink pad
  • Altenew Coral Berry ink pad
  • Altenew Ruby Red ink pad
  • Altenew Mountain Mist ink pad
  • Altenew Frayed Leaf ink pad
  • Altenew Volcano Lake ink pad
  • Altenew Paper Bag ink pad
  • Versamark ink pad
  • Card
  • Vellum
  • Wow clear embossing powder
  • Stampendous embossing powder: detail silver opaque
  • Double Sided Tape
  • Glue dots
  • Heat Gun
  • Stamping platform

Things I learnt from this class:

  • The snapshot idea of having your card look like a close-up shot of something.
  • Frames are a really good idea to bring attention to the focal design.
  • Not to be afraid to layer stamped images.
  • Used Promarkers for the first time for colouring in the stamped images.
  • How to die cut an aperture in a card.
  • Some interesting new layouts.

Some of my favourite pieces from this class.