AECP – Color Your Day

Howdy!!  Welcome Back!!

This set of classes was Color Your Day.  Lots of interesting ways to add color to your projects.

For today’s card, I used the February Craft Your Life Monthly Subscription Kit – Flower Arch.  The kit has stamps, dies, stencils and an embossing folder.  This whole kit was amazing and I could not wait to use it.

Using the Stampwheel 2.0, I stamped the floral twice on Hammermill cardstock in order color it with alcohol markers. I did it twice in case I made a mistake.

Using my Ohuhu alcohol markers, I colored the floral using the markers shown.  Then cut out the image with the coordinating die.

I sprayed 110 lb. white cardstock with some water and then embossed it with the Flower Arch embossing folder from the kit.

After the cardstock dried, I began ink blending the stone areas with Distress Oxide Inks in Pumice Stone, Gathered Twigs and Hickory Smoke using Altenew blending brushes and the stencil from the kit.

I kept adding color until it looked like stone.

I cut the sculpted upper piece from silver cardstock and aged it a bit with Distress Black Soot Ink. Then blended some blue ink onto  a small, scrap piece of cardstock to create a bit of sky.

I then fussy cut the arch, glued on the silver piece and then glued the entire piece onto the embossed card base.

On a scrap piece of kraft cardstock, I embossed the door section and inked it with the same Distress inks listed earlier.  I fussy cut it and glued it onto the card base as well.

The detail in this embossing folder is crazy. There is a lion’s head door knocker on the door!!

Not sure of the placement for the floral element, I moved the flower around several times before making a choice.  Added foam tape and adhered the floral element to the card base, trimming off the excess.

I used several of the cut off leaves to fill in some spots to make it look fuller against the stone wall.  Then adhered the entire piece to an A2 card base and a sentiment from the One-Go: Solid Sentiments Strips Press Plate.

The details in the embossing folder are just amazing.

This card was so much fun to create.  I look forward to finding new ways to use this floral stamp as well as this gorgeous embossing folder.  The kit also included beautiful door dies I haven’t even tried yet.

Thank you for stopping by.  Hope to see you again soon.