Aya's Designs - Card Making

Good evening!  Today's class was about die cutting techniques. I've been wanting to try inlaid die cutting and had the perfect die in mind!  I selected Altenew's Oval Serenity dies and then set out to pick some colors.  I decided to use the first card I blindly pulled from Sarah Renae Clarks' Color Cube . I don't think you can go wrong with any card but I got lucky and pulled colors I love and also have in stock.     I really enjoyed making this quick and easy card. I really like inlaying the die cuts and deciding what colors would go where. I finished with Altenew's enamel dots and am happy with this effort     Thanks for stopping by!

Hi everyone, thanks so much for dropping by! Today's card was all about using different inking techniques like layered stamping and using ink pads as paint. I'd been wanting to use Altenew's Indian Lotus layering stamp set for quite a while and thought this would fit the bill. I wanted the lotus to sit on the flower pad so first, using the Tropical Forest set of crisp dye inks, I stamped the flower pad. Then I covered it with a Post-It note mask and set about stamping the flower using the Deep Blue Seas set of inks. Unfortunately, the blue inks bled right through the Post-It note to the card base.  So I dug out the Altenew Masking Paper I recently got free with an order and tried again. This time, the masking worked perfectly. I decided I wanted to use this tranquil looking lotus on a sympathy card and used the "With Deepest Sympathy" sentiment from the  Sunrise in the Park silhouette stamp set. I stamped my sentiment with  Sapphire pigment ink and heat embo...