Hello everyone!!! We just finished an Altenew Workshop last Saturday at The Nook Co-work space in Alabang and wanted to share with you some photos of the event. I had so much fun teaching the 26 students who attended the workshop. There were a number of newbies who were a bit overwhelmed by the number of steps needed in order to create a card (but the ended up creating beautiful cards!!!) and there were also others who knew the craft. It was nice to share some techniques, tips and card designs for them to follow. The participants got to bring home a personalized loot bag, stamp and die set, cardstocks, envelopes, personalized stamp, pencil case filled with goodies and a number of other crafting goodies. There were raffle prizes from Altenew and other important tools that were given away as well.
Below are the cards that the participants had to make. Although we didn’t have enough time to finish all the cards, they were able to bring home all the card kits and the instructions on how to make these cards.
It was made extra special by the presence of the Altenew Philippine team– Karen, Jho and Irick 🙂 Thanks so much for joining the workshop!!! Special shout out to my DT members Ime, Marian, Karen, Daniel and the newly appointed DT member, Anna Mahtani for helping me out!!! Couldn’t have done it without all of you!!! ❤️ Hope to see all of you again for My Little Attic’s next Altenew Workshop!!! Happy crafting, everyone!!!
Hello everyone! You have just come from the talented Lilith Eeckels . Altenew is collaborating with the amazing Kathy Racoosin from The Daily Marker to inspire crafters to find joy through coloring. Kathy is celebrating her 14th 30 Day Coloring Challenge until the end of November 2019. If you have time, come and participate in the 30 Day Coloring Challenge by coloring something and share it on social media using the hashtag #thedailymarker30day. I hope you will find some “me time” and enjoy the benefits that coloring will give.
I’m in the middle of preps for an Altenew Workshop that I will be teaching in but still wanted to join this hop so I created some CAS cards using easy coloring techniques that didn’t take too much time to create.
I enjoyed doing no-line coloring with these plants using the technique that I saw some days ago by Erum Tasnim. I stamped the leaf image on watercolor paper using Sand Dunes dye ink or any light colored ink to define the outlines of the image then I used both dye inks and watercolor brush markers to color in.
Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils were also used to add depth. The ombre background was colored using Altenew dye inks and a blender brush.
I wanted this potted plant to be the main focus of this card so I kept the background pretty simple. The image was stamped with a light colored dye ink then colored using watercolor brush markers and polycrhomos colored pencils. The leaf frame cover die was adhered to a dark-coloured cardstock. It helps adding an image to a dark colored cardstock for more contrast. The image was added using foam squares for more dimension.
I liked the look of the dark background against a stamped image so I made 2 more cards using the same navy blue cardstock. You probably know by now that blue is my FAVORITE color 🙂 I used some blues and greens from the Distress crayons to color the watercolor paper then added water to activate the colors. After drying it with a heat tool, I stamped the images using Versamark Ink then embossed with Rose Gold embossing powder. I then colored specific areas with brush markers and metallic watecolors. The letter N was die cut 4 times and stacked on top of each other to add dimension.
Don’t you just love gold on blue?!?! 😄 I had extra watercolored paper so I stamped another image from the Weekend Doodles Set then embossed with rose gold embossing powder. Certain leaves were made darker using the watercolor brush markers and the metallic watercolor. The sentiment was stamped on vellum then added behind the colored wreath. These were attached to the card front using foam squares. The sides of the circle quilt cover die cut was embossed using Versamark ink and rose gold embossing powder to add high contrast.
PRIZES
Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners and Kathy from The Daily Maker is also giving away her original 5”x7” watercolor artwork(including a custom frame). Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog by 11/22/2019 for a chance to win.
Altenew will also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left here and on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 11/24/2019.
Special Offer Receive a FREE brand new Like Family Stamp Set($4.99 value) with every order from 11/18/2019 at 12:01 am EST until 11/29/2019 at 11:59 pm EST. The free gift will be added to cart automatically. While supplies last. Shop here.
I hope you enjoyed viewing the cards I made for this hop. Please say hi and leave a message. Would love to hear which one is your favorite. I truly enjoy hearing from you😄 If you haven’t subscribed to my blog, please do so. I’ve gotten to know some amazing and talented people through this blog so thank you for signing up! Next stop is Norine Borys. Happy coloring and thanks for dropping by!!!❤️
