My Sunshine
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For my Sixth submission to the Altenew Educator Certification Program I chose the Celebration Stencil Techniques class taught by Laurel Beard. I enjoyed all of the lessons, but my favorite was lesson 2 about embossing paste. I have a bunch of embossing paste…a bunch (glitter paste, lunar paste, plain paste, clear paste, this paste, that paste, yadda yadda yadda). All this paste has been sitting in a bin beckoning me to use it, and I will admit, I was intimidated by it. I have wanted to start slathering it on everything but I think I was afraid to ruin something. So thank you, Laurel for giving my bin-o-paste a voice in my creative endeavors! 🙂
I decided to work with Altenew’s Rain or Shine stamp and die set along with the Thunderstorm stencil. I took some time with paste and ink combos to see what worked the best. I tried Shimmery Goodness paste by The Crafter’s Workshop mixed with Icy Water ink. It was pretty, but not what I was looking for. So I started swiping some other pastes on my workbook.
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I found that Golden Mediums Soft Gel Gloss looked just like water, which was perfect.
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I mixed in some Icy Water ink and wallah…Rain.
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After the rain had dried (ha ha) I blended on the rainbow with Coral Berry, Marigold, Warm Sunshine, Sweet Leaf, Persian Blue, and Lavender Fields inks. Then blended on Dusk for the blue sky background.
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The clouds were stamped with Misty Morning, Cloudy Sky, Nimbus, and Dark Night inks and fussy cut just inside the inked area. I drew lines between some of the different shades of ink with Altenew’s silver gel pen. Then I die cut some shiny silver cardstock using the cloud die to put the clouds on…silver lining!
The sun and sunbeams were die cut from shiny gold cardstock. 5 sunbeams looked the best.
I took a piece of scrap mixed media paper and blended on the same colors from the clouds, then used gold embossing powder for the saying. The saying was put on a layer of shiny silver cardstock to match the clouds.
After laying out all the elements and adhering them, I trimmed off the excess cloud and sunbeam pieces to make them flush with the card. I attached the focus piece on a card base made from dark blue cardstock.
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I have found great joy in all the classes from Altenew that I have watched. The wonderful instructors have gotten me out of some of my comfort zones and challenged me to try new things. Not to mention: use the new things I have gotten but am intimidated with or at a loss how to try. I am learning to be more creative and to just try stuff. I now lean more on my workbook for experimenting before attempting a finished design, and I think that’s good.
Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful, creative day! 🙂
Carol
Wow. This is AMAZING! Looks so good! Thank you so much for your submission.
Thank you so much Erum! This was definitely a hard one, had to walk away and leave it several times before I finally had it all figured out…lots of re-workings!