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  Clean & Simple Boutique Cards Well, hello!  Welcome to today's project submission for the class Clean & Simple Boutique cards.  What an amazing class!  Who doesn't love a boutique first of all and then add clean & simple...I am in!  In this class we learned about simple styling, backgrounds you can make in a variety of ways to elevate your cards and many other  fabulous techniques.  I was inspired by the gorgeous Slim Deco Cover Die by Altenew.   Hello Deco Drive, am I right!?     My other inspiration was the color Navy along with Gold.  I chose to create a luxury paper using Altenew Gold Foil Cardstock and the Slim Deco Cover die.  I just think this combo created a luxurious background.  I chose to keep it simple and heat embossed in gold the Build A Flower Coneflower by Altenew.  I just love the look of the white and gold on Navy.  To finish my card, I stamped my sentiment from the Dotte...

All About Layering 2 Hello and welcome back to my blog.  Today I will be sharing my take on the All About Layering 2 class.  This was a great class full of techniques on how to layer Altenew's layering stamps.  I really enjoyed the class as I love to work with layering stamps by Altenew.  Here's a snippet of info, Altenew was my first exposure to layering stamps.  Can you believe my first order with Altenew was January 2021 and let's just say, I have made up for lost time in my ordering!  HeeHee...I digress...back to the goods.   My very first layering stamp by Altenew, Peony Bouquet, was used for this card.   Don't you just love this flower?  It is gorgeous!   In this class, Nicole used this stamp set and pointed out how helpful it is to use the big v space between petals to line this one up.  She was so right.  That made it even easier with the first and second layers.   For this top fold card, I chos...

I am so excited to have been accepted into the Altenew Educator Certification Program!   What a fun start...All About Layering 1.  This class consisted of 10 different lessons that go over all the different ways to layer Altenew's layering stamps and also shows how to turn those ideas into a beautiful card.   I was so inspired by the beauty in simplicity.  My card has a few different layers, but my main goal was to keep the beautiful bloom as the focus.  I used the Beautiful Day Stamp Set for this card (I use this set so much my tween daughter has even commented that I use that stamp set too much!)   So let's get into the details, shall we?! I used Altenew Crisp Dye Inks for my projects (have I mentioned how much I LOVE their colors and that they take all the guess work out of what colors look best layered together?!)   I chose to use the following colors from the Red Cosmos set:  Frosty Pink, Coral Berry & Ruby Red.  ...