Altenew Educator Certification Program, Level 2 Class Submission Magical Marker Techniques

Recipe: Love you always

Ingredients:

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

Altenew Rustic Charm Stamp Set

Altenew Waterlily Dahlia Outline Stamp Set

Altenew Fresh Dye Ink: Jet Black

Altenew Artist Markers: Charcoal Suit, Ruby Red, Grapevine, Swamp Green, Matcha Tea, and Oak Moss

Cut an A2 size panel, 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Stamp the Waterlily Dahlia in the center bottom portion of the panel. Color

flower and leaves with desired colors; this card uses the Ruby Red, Grapevine and Charcoal Suit for the flower

and the Swamp Green, Matcha Tea and Oak Moss for the leaves. For the flower, use Charcoal Suit and

Grapevine to shade the bottom of the flower petals and blend out to the ends of the petals with Ruby Red.

Follow the same process for the leaves, shading the base of the leaves with the darker greens and blending

out with the light green. Stamp sentiment to the upper left-hand side of the card. Adhere the panel to an A2

card base.

Recipe: Love You

Ingredients:

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

Pink cardstock

Altenew Marigold Butterflies 3D embossing folder

Large sentiment die from stash

Altenew Artist Markers: Crimson, Velvet and Burn Red

Brayer

Isopropyl Alcohol

From white cardstock cut a 3 ¾” x 5” panel. Dry emboss the panel with the Marigold Butterflies 3D embossing

folder. On a glass or craft matt, scribble the Artist Markers on the surface in equal amounts, being sure to lay

down enough color to cover the panel. Spray the colors with Isopropyl Alcohol, two to three sprays should

work, and brayer the color over the embossed panel. Repeat process until the desired effect is reached. From

white cardstock, cut another panel, this time measuring 4” x 5 ¼”; color the outer edges, about ¼”, of the panel

with Velvet. From pink cardstock, cut a panel measuring 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Adhere pink panel to an A2 card base,

then layer the 4” x 5 ¼” panel in the center of the pink panel and then the embossed panel on top of that.

Cut large sentiment from white cardstock twice and adhere together. Color the sentiment with the Crimson and

Velvet Artist Markers; adhere the sentiment to the center of the embossed panel.

Recipe: With Love

Ingredients:

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

Gray cardstock

Altenew Garden Bouquet Outline Stamp Set (Sentiment)

Altenew Rose Reverie Stamp and Die Set

Altenew Leafy Splendor Simple Coloring Stencil Set

Altenew Fresh Dye Ink: Jet Black

Altenew Artist Markers Morning Frost, Evening Gray, Frayed Leaf, Forest Glades, Evergreen, Soft Lilac,

Lavender Fields and Deep Iris

Altenew Woodless Coloring Pencils: Midnight Violet

Foam Tape

From white cardstock cut a 3 ¾” x 5” panel. Stencil panel using the Leafy Splendor stencil and the Morning

Frost and Evening Gray Artist Markers; be sure to leave room for sentiment on the upper right had side of the

landscape card panel. On a separate piece of white cardstock, stamp floral from the Rose Reverie stamp set.

Color the florals with Soft Lilac, Lavender Fields and Deep Iris Artist Markers and the leaves with Frayed Leaf,

Forest Glades and Evergreen Artist Markers. For both the flowers and leaves, use the darker shades for the

bottoms of the petals/leaves and blend out with the lighter colors as you reach to the top of the petals/leaves.

Darken up the bottom of the petals with the Midnight Violet coloring pencil. Die cut the colored stamp and cut

the flowers apart where they naturally separate. With foam tape, adhere the larger flower at the bottom left

corner of the stenciled panel and the smaller flower on the lower right hand side; trim off the portion of the

flowers that go off of the card. Stamp sentiment of choice in Jet Black in on the upper right-hand side of the

card.

From gray cardstock cut a 4” x 5 ¼” panel. Center and adhere the gray panel to a white A2 card base (4 ¼” x

5 ½”). Then, center and adhere the stenciled panel to the gray cardstock.