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Irresistible Inking Techniques: AECP

Hello everyone! Thanks for stopping by! Today I’m sharing another card for my Level 1 AECP journey. In case you didn’t know, I recently joined the Altenew Educator Certification Program and have been having a blast. I’m almost done with the Level 1 courses so let’s dive right in!

This card was inspired by the “Irresistible Inking Techniques” taught by Sara Naumann. This was a jam packed, technique heavy class, and I loved it! I decided to use multiple inking techniques discussed in the course for this card. I started off embossing a flower from the  Craft Your Life-Sunshine Flowers kit on white cardstock. I thought by embossing it, it would give me some extra boundary when painting it in. As discussed in the course, I used some of my dye inks to color in those whole flower image! Can you believe it??? I love how simple it was and the embossing really helped to contain the ink in the designated area.




I really wanted the flower to pop, so I took a black marker and colored in the panel so it looks like it was embossed on black cardstock. I topped off the flower with some metallic paste to give it extra shimmer and shine. I used sentiments from the Timeless sentiment die and and Label Love stamp set to finish off the card.

I used another technique from the course and inked the edges of my white cardstock with green to create a nice matted border on the cards panel. Since it was the same ink I used in the leaves, the border matched perfectly with the card.

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