With A Twist

Take a simple stamping technique and give it a "twist," which is what Altenew Academy's With A Twist class is all about. In this class you would learn how to use stamps in other ways that maybe they were not intended to be used.

Over the years I've realized how stampers view and purchase stamps... it's often after they see a card they like made with a particular set of stamps, so they purchase those stamps and replicate that card. Although this works well, it doesn't give much life to their stamps if they can't see other ways to use them. If you were to take this course you would see how to take a stamp set and use it in many different ways, giving more "life" to your stamps. 

Usually I wouldn't use orange and teal together, but found it worked for this card. I chose to cut away a section of the card, add acetate in the cut-out section and do the flower and leaves differently than usual on this card. What's usual for me? Coloring in black images would be my usual method for making the following card.

I don't like to clean it off stamps with solvent cleaners, so I usually avoid StayzOn ink, but when stamping on acetate, it's necessary!

As you can see, I didn't use a green shade for the leaves, but two shades of blue. I used a piece of pool cardstock and stamped the leaves from Altenew's Peony Bouquet stamp set with Altenew's Crisp dye ink in Teal Cave and Aqualicious. I used a rectangle die set to cut a section from the card and a strip of gold glitter cardstock and then a piece of teal cardstock and added them to the edge. I added a piece of acetate to fill in the cut away section and stamped "hello" from Altenew's Peruvian Lily stamp set in Jet Black StayzOn ink.

I stamped the flower and leaf outline stamps from Altenew's  Peony Bouquet set on white cardstock with Altenew's Autumn Blaze and Teal Cave Crisp dye inks. On the bloom I used a black Copic pen to color in the center and on both I used different shades of Prismacolor pencils to add shading to the bloom and leaves. Both were fussy cut and the bloom was added with a piece of foam tape for dimension.

I added Nuvo Crystal Drops in Morning Dew to the leaves and bloom, and since the drops are clear, they are difficult to see but I added them to the leaves and one on a flower petal.

So take a look at your stamps and imagine them used differently and try new things with them! Thanks for looking.