Hello friends!

I’m back with another project for my Altenew Educator Program today.  My most recent course – “Let it Shine!” –  taught me various techniques to add shine, glimmer, glamour, and bling to my cards, and I’m happy to say I think I got maximum shine-age on this Mothers’ Day card.

To make this card, I started out with silver foil alcohol ink cardstock from Tim Holtz.  I used pinks, yellows, and orange alcohol inks and some blending solution to create a beautiful background. I even amped up the bling factor with a little sprinkle of loose silver glitter on the tacky alcohol ink.

The whole background, even the colored portion, ends up with a beautiful reflective sheen, but to reveal a little bit of that true silver, I turned to my new Alcohol Lift Ink pad.

I stamped an outline floral image from the Wonderland stamp set onto the dried panel.  I blotted and then buffed the stamped image to magically lift off the alcohol ink and reveal the silver cardstock underneath. With the help of my MISTI, I could repeat the process a few times to get really nice contrast.

Once I was happy with the image, I trimmed the inked panel down to a square and matted it with pink cardstock.

For the card base, I added a bit of texture and interest to the background with a woodgrain embossing folder. I also stamped “Happy Mother’s Day” (from the Extra Special stamp set) on the inside of the card.

Finally, I popped up my stamped panel on the front of the card along with a sentiment from Label Love and then finished everything off with a sweet little ribbon bow.

It is really hard to appreciate on camera how shiny and beautiful this is, but in real life it is almost glowing!   Here I am trying to catch the light for you:

Hope you enjoyed this project and thanks for stopping by!

see you soon 🙂

xo,

Tricia