Hello and welcome! I am thrilled to be sharing my final task in my Altenew Educator Certification Program. Yesterday I hosted 6 crafty friends at my house – yes, we are very fortunate to not have Covid-19 in New Zealand – and I really enjoyed finally getting to teach again. My biggest passion is to […]

This was a recent course I just had to take as I am always so inspired by Erum Tasneem’s YouTube videos she creates for Altenew which always showcase her incredible talent with watercolouring. I am in awe of her talent and would love to be even half as talented as her one day!  My final

  I just love all flowers so this course was one that caught my eye early on in my AECP journey. The course was presented by Lilith Eeckels and Maryam Perez – two very talented instructors. For this card I used a slimline size but this time created a vertical card. I cut 2 base

  My card inspired by the class “Cards in Motion” by Ashley Tucker. It is fun to do something different with a card, just for a change and to make it more interesting for the recipient. I used the Altenew Mini Flower Cluster Die Set https://altenew.com/products/mini-flower-cluster-layering-die-set to die cut 3 flower clusters and 6 sets of leaves,

The course instructor for “Elements of Floral Composition” was Jaycee Jaspar. Jaycee is a very talented Altenew Certified Educator and in this course he taught how to use Colour, Value, Line, Shape, Form, Texture and Space to design a card which looks very pleasing to the eye. I used a combination of most of these

 Hello and welcome back to my blog. I hope you are enjoying following my Altenew Educator Journey with me as much as I have enjoyed it?! I passed Level 2! Whoohoo!  For Level 3 I was required to choose 5 more classes which were not part of Level 1 or 2 but which were extras

 Hello Everyone and welcome back to my blog.  I have been very busy this month completing my final projects for level 2. I am very happy to be sharing them with you today.  Let’s start off with the 4 masculine cards I created. The brief was to create 4 cards using the themes Birthday, Love/Thinking

 Masking is often something that scares people but it is actually really easy. It does require some fussy cutting but the extra effort is so worth it and lucky for me, I love fussy cutting! For my card, I chose to use positive masking techniques and made a mini slimline size card – just for

 Another great class which inspired me to create a card using bold colours this time. For this card, I chose the Beauty Within Stamp/Die/Stencil bundle set – one of my favourite sets in my collection!  I began by creating my background using a brayer and some yellow alcohol marker (I have the Nuvo alcohol markers

 Heat embossing is what started me on my card-making journey when I was just a teenager and when only a few colours of embossing powder were available and all stamps were only made using wooden blocks!! This class was such fun! I decided to make the most of the heat embossing technique and chose class