Blooming Tulips

 Welcome back, Masking is a fascinating technique that adds the WOW factor in card making - creating unique cards each time. I will be using my post-it pads for all my masking needs. However, you can also use printing paper with some tack behind it or professional masking papers for all your masking needs. My first card uses Altenew’s Vintage Roses ,  Vintage Flowers  stamp sets and Fine Frames Diamonds Die  set. I die cut the third smallest diamond on a post-it paper and adhered it to the center of my panel. This will create a frame for my images. Then, I stamped the floral stamps around the diamond using Altenew’s ink pads. I created a mask for each floral before stamping other elements such as smaller leaves and flowers around it. I continue to do this until I finish stamping around the perimeter of the diamond.  I blended some light yellow around the diamond perimeter as well. When all the stampings are done, I removed all the post-it masks on the images. I stamped a sentiment at t

 Welcome back, Coloring is one of my many favorite card making “techniques”. Many card makers own coloring mediums such as paint, watercolors, watercolor pencils, brush markers and alcohol markers etc. Instead of using alcohol markers as a coloring tool on card stock paper, I am using alcohol markers from Altenew on different mediums such acetate, vellum and glitter card stock on my card making projects. My first card uses Altenew’s Cartoon Tulips  stamp set on acetate. I die cut 4 rectangular frames from my dies and stacked them together. I cut out a piece of silver glitter card stock to 3.25” by 4..75”. Using a heat resistant acetate, I heat embossed the tulip image in white embossing powder. I colored the tulips on the reverse side of the acetate. I trimmed the acetate to the size of the rectangular frame and taped it with the frames. Next, I adhered my silver glitter card stock onto my card front and foam mounted my tulips and rectangular frames on top of it. I die cut a thinner re