Altenew Academy – In The Mood for Color

Hello and welcome back to my blog.  Thank you for sharing part of your time with me today.  Today we are working on projects focused on color.  While it is fun to focus on one color, there are so many why limit ourselves?  Each color has certain properties to it.  Many of us have heard blue, for example, referred to as a calming color.  

I started by die-cutting all four frames from white cardstock.  I then used Fresh Lemon, Hydrangea, Aqualicious, and Coral Bliss along with my Altenew Large Blending Brushes to color the cardstock.  I only used the actual frame piece for this project, but I saved the rest of the pieces to these shapes for a future project by placing painters tape on the back of the cardstock.  In order to fit all four frames ( I couldn’t choose one to leave out), I had to make my card a bit larger than the standard slimline card.  The length is the same at 8.5″, but the width is 4.0″ instead of the normal 3.5″.  I chose to use Altenew Pale Grey cardstock for my front panel as the white looked too stark to me.  I laid the dies out on my grey cardstock panel and cut them out in one pass of my die cut machine.  Then, came the fun part for me.  It is like a LARGE puzzle.  I glued in the frames and then placed in all the grey pieces into the holes.  This was a super therapeutic process and I am looking forward to repeating this card with the leftover pieces from my colored die-cuts.