AECP – Level 3 – All About Layering 7

Hello!

The next course for my AECP certification is All About Layering 7. These were very interesting classes and I learned a lot. Using ink blending, water color, embossing folders, colored pencils, alcohol markers, embellishments, etc. you can add beautiful layers to your projects.

I chose Altenew’s Craft Your Life Set – Illuminated Scenes for this project. This set took me way out of my comfort zone. It is intended to be a single layer card and is a beautiful set to work with, but I wanted to add layers.

I stamped the image on white cardstock with black ink.

The set includes stencils to color the components and create illumination of a portion of the image.

I worked through each stencil and added a little bit of darker shading in areas of the images. The inks used were Altenew Fresh Dye Ink – Fresh Lemon on the window and some pink left in a blending brush, Wisteria and Ultraviolet on the pillows and Mocha and Fresh Lemon on the planter.

I continued working through the stencils and masking off sections so I did not over blend the ink.

I blended a bit of Altenew Fresh Dye Ink – Silver Stone onto the blanket and then wanted to try a technique I saw Jen Raza use on a live a few weeks ago. I masked everything off and using Altenew Shimmer Paste – Pearl, I added it to the image but made it textured so it looked like the blanket.

I really liked how it turned out. Thanks Jen!! I added Glossy Accents to the windows to make them look shiny like glass. I then fussy cut around the image to add more dimension.

Using colored pencils I added a bit of shading to the pillows, the couch, the table, the tray, the book and the planter.

Using a fine liner black marker I added a few lines on the blanket to create the folds in the material.

I added foam tape to the cutout image and added it to a white cardstock panel.

After masking off the image, I added just a bit of ink blending on the edges of the panel with Altenew Fresh Dye – Caribbean Sky ink and a large blending brush.