Donna T Crafting: AECP Level 2

Today's course was called "With a Twist". This was a great class to learn about different ways you can use techniques you already know and do today but in a different way (or with a twist).

My focus for today's card was a section called "Cutting It Oddly". I really love odd shapes and odd cuts, so this was something that really sparked an interest. But this card did not go in the direction I had planned. That is ok, I still really enjoyed making something different.

I started today with the Altenew Garden Trellis Cover Die and cut this in white cardstock. I adhered this to my navy A2 card base with some glue.

Next I marked off where I wanted to cut a triangle out from this trellis. I mark this off because when I get it in the trimmer, I am likely to get to the wrong section. Then I used the paper trimmer to cut out a triangle only on the top panel. This will now show the inside bottom part.

I decided I wanted to use my hot foil machine and I used the Altenew Linear Life: Tropical Garden set to foil some flowers and leaves. I wanted the flowers in dark blue and the leaves in green. I was struggling to get the right foiling settings for this and was not sure what I wanted to do. Then I got an idea.

I had just received a hot foil plate so I could use my negative pieces. So I took my flowers and my leaves and put the negative pieces on some white card stock. I really like how these turned out!! I then die cut all my flowers and leaves.

I now took my card base and opened it up. I stamped some flowers and leaves on the bottom so it would peek through the triangle that was cut out on front. I used a post-it note to mask off the areas where needed. I used my copic marker to color in the middle area.

Now came assembly time. I laid out the flowers and leaves and started gluing them all together to make a panel of flowers/leaves.

Then I put foam tape on the back of all this. I glued on a previously foiled sentiment from the Altenew Essential Sentiments Bundle and then put my flowers on top of this.

I originally thought I wanted the pop of white of the flowers with a blue outline, but I do really like how these tone on tone flowers look on this card. I would love to hear what you think.