Altenew Educator Certification Program, Level 2 Class Submission for Beyond Basic Backgrounds

Recipe: Friendship blossoms in every season

Ingredients:

Neenah Classic Crest Cover 100lb, Solar White/White or cardstock of choice

Black 80lbs to 100lbs cardstock

Altenew Watercolor Paper Set

Altenew Rose Reverie Stamp Ste

Altenew White and Clear Embossing Powders

Altenew Embossing Ink

Altenew Watercolor: Lavender Fields, Deep Iris and Midnight Violet

Create a 5” x 7” side folding card base from white cardstock. From black cardstock cut and adhere a 4 ¾” x 6

¾” panel to the card base. Using watercolor paper, cut a 4 ½” x 6 ½” panel. Stamp the Rose Reverie florals

all around the watercolor panel with embossing ink, cover as much of the panel as you can. Emboss with clear

embossing powder. With a large paint brush, wet the front and back of the embossed watercolor panel. Wet

the watercolors in the pan and pick up a color, starting at the upper left-hand side of the card apply the color,

dip your brush in water then go back to the panel and pull down some of the color, repeat until you have gone

across the entire panel. It should have a gradient look as there is less and less color each time you dip the

brush and pull the color. Repeat the process with each color. Let panel fully dry and adhere to black panel.

Using white embossing powder, emboss a sentiment on a black cardstock strip and adhere to the watercolor

panel.

Recipe: Love You

Ingredients:

Neenah Classic Crest Cover 100lb, Solar White/White or cardstock of choice

Black 80lbs to 100lbs cardstock

Altenew Sulfur Cosmos Layering Die Set

Altenew Flourishing Bouquet Stamp Set

Altenew Captivating Floral Swag Stamp Set (sentiment)

Altenew Embossing Ink

Altenew Fresh Dye Inks: Obsidian, Sunkissed, Orange Cream, Autumn Blaze, Fire Brick, Mossy Meadow and

Green Opal.

Sticky embossing powder

Gold foil

Create a 4 ¼” x 5 ½” side folding card base from white cardstock. From black cardstock, create a 4 x 5 ¼”

panel, and adhere to card base. From white cardstock, create a 3 ¾” x 5” panel. Using embossing ink, stamp

with the Flourishing Bouquet Stamp Set, being sure to cover the whole panel. Emboss with sticky embossing

powder and immediately apply the foil to the card panel. Press down on the foil to make sure it has adhered to

the sticky embossing powder. Take off the foil, you should be left with a foiled stamp design, for any areas that

are missing foil, you can re-heat the area and apply foil again. You are not going for a perfect foiling look,

there will be some small areas that are missing foil or areas where the foil isn’t smooth, but that is the intent.

Die cut a flower and three leaves from the Sulfur Cosmos die set. Color flower with Sunkissed, Orange

Cream, Autumn Blasé and Fire Brick. Color leaves with Mossy Meadow and Green Opal. Assemble flower

according to the package directions. Arrange and adhere floral arrangement to the lower right had side of the

card.

Stamp the “love you” sentiment from the Captivating Floral Swag Stamp Set onto white cardstock with

Obsidian Ink. Using the coordinating die cut, cut three sentiment shapes, one of the actual stamped sentiment

and two from plain white cardstock. Adhere the three die cuts together. From black cardstock cut a 1 ½” x 3

1/8” panel, adhere the panel to the top center of the card then adhere the sentiment to the middle of the panel.

Recipe: You Are Loved

Ingredients:

Neenah Classic Crest Cover 100lb, Solar White/White or cardstock of choice

Black 80lbs to 100lbs cardstock

Altenew Stencil Art: Ditsy Flowers Wallpaper Layering Stencil Set

Altenew Fresh Dye Inks: Iceberg, Eastern Sky, Ultramarine, Azurite, and Jet Black

Altenew You Are Loved Sentiment Die

Create a 4 ¼” x 5 ½” side folding card base from white cardstock. From black cardstock, create a 4 x 5 ¼”

panel and adhere to card base. From white cardstock, create a 3 ¾” x 5” panel. Using the blue inks, follow the

package directions for the Ditsy Flowers Wallpaper stencil set, going from lightest to darkest ink. For the final

stencil, which requires the darkest ink, lay down a few layers of Azurite with a slight amount of Jet Black to

darken the color.

From white cardstock, die cut the sentiment three times and adhere to each other. From the center of the

stenciled panel, die cut the sentiment, being sure to keep all of the pieces. Adhere the die cut stenciled panel

to the black cardstock panel. Glue in the stacked white cardstock sentiment. Fill in the black spaces with the

die cut pieces from the stenciled panel, making it look like the sentiment was just placed on top of the panel. If

you don’t want the inlayed look, you can skip the die cutting of the stenciled panel and just place the stacked

white sentiments on top of the panel and glue in place.