Wow! What an amazing Journey I had which I started from July
2018 and now here I am, completed my 25 great tutorials with absolutely amazing
teachers from Altenew.
Before I go ahead and share my last Altenew Educator program
post, I would firstly like to present a BIG THANK YOU to Virginia Lu and Erum Tasneem,
who have been wonderful support throughout my Journey in Altenew Educator
Program. They have guided me in every project I submitted, correcting me where
ever I was wrong which helped me in just overall improvements. And last but not
the least, Thank you to Altenew LLC and their team for giving me this
opportunity to enroll myself and improve my work with their products for this
Educator Program initiative.
And now back to my project. For my last challenge here are
few points which I had to do and keep in mind.
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Teach a 2-hour class in a
classroom or workshop setting
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There must be 4-10 students in
attendance at the workshop.
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Pre-workshop: planning and
details of the workshop.
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During the workshop: Google
Hangout with Altenew team members.
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Post-Workshop: report of the
workshop, classroom projects and reflection on the class.
To fulfill my above requirements I organised my class on 21st
June 2019 and 29th June 2019 at my store Auzz Trinklets N Krafts. I gathered few of my regular
customers to conduct this Class, where I taught them 3 different types of Card.
Below are the cards which I taught them during the session
Card 1:
Materials for the card used:
- · White base cardstock 8 ½’x 11
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Black cardstock 4 ¼’ x 5 ½’
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White cardstock 4’ x 5 ¼’
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Climbing Clematis Flower and Leaf stamped die cuts
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Warm and Cozy , Golden sunset , Pocketful of
sunshine and Greenfields Mini ink cubes
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A piece of vellum
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Couple of sequins
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Cozy Flannel Cover Die
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Coffee Break Mini ink cube set
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Altenew Antique Gold Pigment Ink pad
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Black colour from Altenew Watercolour
Palette
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Splatter Brush
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Glue, tape and Scissors.
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Glad Press N Seal
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Black Permanent Ink Pad
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MISTI
Focus for the Class:
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Let it shine : how to put embellishments or
bling and Splatter
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All about layering : how to Layer your flowers
and following the guide
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Partial die cutting; Using your die cover dies
in for partial die cutting.
How to Make the Card:
- Take a Back piece of cardstock and stick the partial cut cover
cardstock which is shown in the picture.
- Now splatter few black drops on the partial
cover die using the Altenew Watercolour Palette and splatter brush.
- I stamp all my flowers and leaf using the layering
guide which was provided on the back of the Climbing Clematis stamp. I have
used mini ink cubes: warm and cozy, Golden sunset and Pocketful of sunshine for
flowers, for leaves I have used Green Field.
- Start arranging your flowers as you like. Below
I took two ways of arranging them. Once I was satisfied with my arrangement I
headed over to my next step.
- In order to have the same arrangements I used
Jennifer Maguire’s Press N Seal technique where I took a piece and stuck that
on my layered flowers until they are all temporary stuck on it.
- Gently removing them from the base I applied
glue on the flowers which I wanted to be stuck down and foam tape on the raised
flowers and leaves. And then I took it back the way I lifted it, to have it
placed the same I initially desired.
- I used the sentiments from the same stamp set
and stamped in on the Vellum strip and then adhered it on the card base as well
keeping in mind the 1/3rd rule.
- To finish the card I stuck few sequins following
the trick of putting them in triangle and also odd numbers which I learned in
the class “Let it shine”.
Card 2:
Materials for the card used:
- White base cardstock 8 ½’x 11
- White cardstock 4 ¼’ x 5 ½’
- Shades of Purple Ink pad
- Spring Bouquet 6 mini Ink cube pads.
- Black Permanent Ink pad
- Micron 01 pen
- A study in Watercolour Stamp set
- Baby Wipes
- Altenew Tape runner
- Altenew Antique Gold Spray
- Altenew Halftone Hello Stamp
- Extra piece of Cardstock for masking the area
for sentiment.
- Altenew Evening Grey and morning frost Artist
Markers
Focus for the Class:
- Let it shine : how you can Use Altenew Spays.
- One Layer Wonder : how to keep your card to
Minimal layer and yet they look beautiful
- Basic masking: Simple masking technique used for
sentiment.
- All about layering: How can solid stamps be
layered.
How to Make the Card:
- First mask the area which will be used for stamping the sentiment. I
had used a piece of rough paper to mask the area.
- Now placing my stamps where I needed on the
Neenah cardstock 4 ¼’ x 5 ½’ and stamped the different stamps with the inks
from Shades of Purple and spring bouquet pink shades. I used two shades from
each colour family.
- First I stamped with the lighter colour. Now
daube darker colour on the same stamp ( do not stamp yet) , using baby wipes I took
off some of the ink from the sides giving it like a shaded effect and then
stamped over the lighter stamped area.
- Once I
completed my stamping, I removed paper from the masked area and with the help
of T ruler I drew two lines with the Micron pen.
- I took My Artist maker evening grey first and
made scribbles along the top and bottom line where I wanted the sentiments. Then
I did the same thing with my Morning frost Artist marker too. (This gave the
look of having a paper on top of the base for Sentiment).
- I also did a little bit of shadow effect on the
stamped flower and petals with morning frost Artist marker. I kept in mind my
light and shade areas before putting my shadows.
- Once this was all done I went ahead and stamped
the sentiment on the side by using the word “hello” from Halftone Hello.
- To finish this card I splattered some Antique
Gold from Altenew Spray. While I did this I masked my sentiment again so that I
don’t get any gold splatter on my sentiments.
Card 3:
Materials for the card used:
- White base cardstock 8 ½’x 11
- black cardstock 4 ¼’ x 5 ½’
- White cardstock 4’x 5 ¼’
- Spring Bouquet 6 mini Ink cube pads.
- Black Permanent Ink pad
- Picket fence Blending Brush
- Halftone Thanks stamp and Dies
- Baby Wipes
- Altenew Layered Kaleidoscope A & B
- Few Water drop embellishments
Focus for the Class:
- Let it shine : how to put embellishments or
bling
- Easy Die cutting: Using dies for stenciling.
- Clean and Simple Boutique Cards.
- Easy Ink Blending.
How to Make the Card:
- Die cut out the Kaleidoscope layer A and B on a thick cardstock as
they will be used for stenciling.
- Take the white Neenah Card stock 4’ x 5 ¼’ and
place your stencil on top of it and position it on your craft mat so that the
stencil does not more when doing the blending.
- I first used fresh lime Ink pad and then Fusia
ink with my respective stencils.
- Once I was happy with the results I then
positioned my dies “Thanks” on the center of the card stock and die cut it out.
- I used the “for your thoughtfulness” from the
coordinating stamp set and stamped on the white strip.
- When I die cut my thanks I managed to save the
loose piece which I later on stuck it with the foam tape when I was adhering
the rest of my card on the black cardstock.
- To finish of my card I used few water drops
which I had in my stash.
I am so happy for my class for both the days. I was so pleased and thankful to the girls who joined me for the class in learning those three cards. A big thank you to my three coordinators Virginia Lu, Erum and Nicole who gave me their continue support during my both class workshop. I would like to take an opportunity to share few pics of the Workshop which I conducted at my Store.
Pic 1: How I did my preparations for the class. Card Kits
Pic 2: Setup for the Class:
Pic 3: My lovely Students working so hard :
And Final Work from the girls :
Hope you all liked my cards and I love all my lovely students who came to learn those cards from me.
Hope to get more creation done with Altenew and see you all soon here reading my blog posts.
Regards
neha
