Mother's Day card - Altenew Educator Certification Program - All About Layering 1

Hi Everyone,

Today's post is a very happy and special one - it's my first post and project share for the AECP (Altenew Educator Certification Program). I am so honoured and happy to be able to participate in this fun initiative, and I hope you will enjoy this "journey" with me! 

My first project was inspired by the "All about layering 1" course (which, by the way, is FREE, so feel free to check it out yourself), where Nicole shares her inspiration using many of the gorgeous layering stamp sets by Altenew. 

Many of her projects truly inspired me, and my creation uses a few of her suggestions and techniques: second generation stamping (the flowers in the background), heat embossing the outlines of the image, fussy cutting and popping up the focal images, using smaller images from the stamp set for the background, and - finally - using the outlined images without the "proper" stamped layers, and free-hand colouring them instead. 

I wanted to make a Mother's Day card for my purple-loving mum, and opted for the "Beautiful day" stamp set, which was my very first set I got from Altenew, and is still my favourite of all the ones I own. 

I had loads of fun making this card, and I am really happy with how my colouring of the flowers with ZIGs turned out - for a moment, I felt like a true watercolour artist, they're so easy to use! 

I was considering adding sequins or other type of bling, or at least some glitter/shimmer, but in the end decided not to - the design is already quite busy, and I wanted to make sure that the main focus is on the three coloured flowers :o)

I hope you like my first project, stay tuned for more in the coming weeks!

I am entering the card into the following challenges:

Altenew April Inspiration Challenge

SSS Monday Challenge - Flower Power

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes

Work it Wednesday - For the Mom

I will be taking a short break from blogging and crafting for the next few weeks, as I am going away, but I will be back mid-May! 

Take care,

Mirella

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