Altenew Certified Educators Instagram Blog Hop

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for stopping by today.

Being an Altenew Educator is such an important part of my life. I love being able to share creativity with this amazing community. Another important part of being an educator, to me, is continuing to learn and grow.

For my project today, I definitely worked with some techniques that I don’t in my everyday crafting. I started with a leftover piece of background I had made in my dear friend Pam Boedeker’s workshop. We started with a large piece of water color paper that we sprayed with water. Then, we started layering in color. I chose Ocean Waves metallic spray. I would load the paint brush with the color and put it at the top of the page to let it drip down where the water was. I was so happy with the result I made sure to use every single piece!

Since it was mixed media, I really wanted to add more! That is the part I struggle with as I generally create clean and simple projects. I always feel like I have added too much with mixed media. My next step was to use the Splatter stencil and Antique Gold metallic spray. I really wanted controlled splatter and this is a GREAT way to accomplish this. Once this dried, I knew I wanted to add embossing paste. I chose to use On The Plus Side stencil, one of my absolute faves!! I added the embossing paste in three different locations — have to keep the eyes happy with the layout, lol! I love how the metallic gold shines through the embossing paste in different locations.

I thought about stopping here….and then I saw the Sweet Ginkgo stamp set on my desk. This stamp set definitely has a place on my faves list, it has such VERSATILITY! I again stamped in three locations with Darkest Night crisp dye ink.

Finally, I added the date to the page and voila! Even though this page will go in my travelers journal book, I don’t feel the need to add journaling. My hope is 20 years from now, the date will spur my memory enough.

Make sure you head on over to Instagram for the hop.

The hop starts from @altenewllc so make sure you start from the beginning!

Altenew is giving away a $20 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners! For a chance to win, please follow @altenewllc and @bridgetcaseydesigns and leave a comment by 6/1/2021.  

Altenew will draw 5 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this Instagram hop and announce the winners on Altenew’s Educator Instagram hop post on 6/4/2021.

We hope this hop inspires you to get your fingers inky and create something beautiful. Would you like to become an educator?? Click here for more information.

Until next time, happy crafting!