Dracula and Wolf Man

 Dracula and Wolf Man

I'm still getting inspiration from Movie posters for Jen Rzasa Tuesday #altenewchallengelive from Altenew stamp company. 

First up is Dracula a famous vampire character introduced in Bram Stroker's 1897 novel of the same name.  I'm in a tag mood so my Dracula is a big rectangle style tag.  Started by blending a few green inks on a white card ... white embossed the Dracula in the center.  The other two were stamped with a green ink.  I know this poster colors were green and black ... but ... I just had to add a bit of red.  I mean it's Dracula a creature of the night who wants to suck your blood.

Next inspiration is The Wolf Man the image of a cursed soul doomed to become a werewolf at the rising of a full moon. Wolf Man another creature of the night.  This is longer but still rectangle style tag. I blended colors on this tag, but I only used blending brushes that were in front of me.  Another words only the ink on the brush ... I didn't get out any ink pads just used up ink on the brushes.

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Movie posters

 Movie posters

This week for Jen Rzasa on Altenew Tuesday #altenewchallengelive the theme is inspiration from Movie posters.  Of course, I would pick monster or mystery posters.  

For my first movie poster I picked Frankenstein! 

I created a BIG tag using the colors of this poster.  I also found this Frankenstein rubber stamp in my stash.  The letters are an Altenew alphabet die set, that I think worked perfectly for this tag.

My second movie poster is from one of my favorite old b&w movies that I think I have seen at least a dozen times (if you ask my husband he would say more like 100 times. teeheeheee.  I have it on dvd).  

Again I used an old rubber stamp of a face profile, and a skeleton stamp.  I started out by stamping all images with white pigment ink on black cardstock, then added color with my Prisma color pencils.  The Dead Ringer is from a real old clear alphabet set...it's so old the clear stamps are so sticky they were hard to put in place.

I hopefully plan on doing more monster poster inspirations this weekend.  I'll see how the weekend goes.

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Faux postage cards

 Faux postage cards

stamps/stencils/dies: Waffle Flower faux postage die/stamps, GinaKdesigns flower stencils, Altenew bloom with creativity

I am having lots of fun with this postage die because you can use anything inside the spaces.  This time I used Gina K designs flower stencils ..... one is zinnia and the other is sunflower stencils.  

These big flower stencils work great with the faux postage die.

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Triangles!

 Triangles!

This week in Jen Rzasa Tuesday #altenewchallengelive the theme is Triangles!  

I know I've said this before but I'll say it again ... I am having fun with these Tuesday Altenew challenges by Jen Rzasa co-owner and designer for Altenew.  The above cards are my favorites of the several cards I created with triangles.  The card in the middle is a 5x7 card (which I don't do often), but thought it worked for my triangle flowers on this card.  The other two cards are what I call geometric style. 

These cards triangle like .. what I mean is there is a big triangle on the card with the square.  The tag has a triangle in the bottom corner, and the last card is called a fractured card.  There are other names but can't remember right now.  If you know leave me a comment and I'll add it to this post.

I started off by getting out a few stencils that are from Altenew, even though, for these challenges you don't have to use their products. 

I pulled out different pastes to put through the stencils. 

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Fan fold cards

 Fan fold cards

I am liking these fan fold cards.  They are called Fan fold but there is no folding involved ... just a lot of cutting to look like a fan.

stamps/supplies used:  Altenew Darling Rose stamp set, SU DSP

The above blue Fan fold cards are actually 5" x 7" cards.  You can see all the instructions to create these cards on this post.  

These green fan fold cards with the poppies are scaled down to A2 size cards.  A2  (4 1/4" x 5 1/2" folded) cards are my preferred size.  

stamps/supplies used:  Altenew dancing poppies stamp/dies set, SU DSP

basic instructions (sized down by Frenchie stamps):

Base card 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"

Mark 2" from the end of the card on the long side.

Cut from 2" mark to bottom point of the card.  Save this pointed triangle that was cut from the base card.

On the 4" x 5 1/4" layer mark 2" on top of the 4" side.  Cut from 2" mark to bottom point of the card.  Place in trimmer and cut off 1/4".  This triangle will be layered onto the first triangle that was cut from the base card.

Pattern paper 3 3/4" x 5" layer.  Mark at 1 3/4" on top of layer.  Cut from mark down to bottom point of card to create triangle and layer for base card.  Trim this triangle 3/8" off.  Layer onto the triangle that is a big bigger.

On 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" layer (use same color as base).  Place 3 1/2" side in trimmer - shift to the right - cut point to point.  Use one of these triangle for card.  Save the second triangle for another card.

On 3 1/4" x 4 1/2" (layer color) card - cut same as 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" card to make two triangles.  Again use one and save the other.

Pattern paper 3" x 4 1/4" - Place 3" side in trimmer - shift to right and cut point to point.  Like before use one and save the other.

Assemble card:

Layer the biggest triangle on front of the base card so none of the points of the triangle go off the card. 

Layer smaller triangle on top of the bigger triangle on the front of the base card.  Decorate as needed.

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Strong Oak

 Strong Oak

I have been enjoying using lots of different stencils on my cards, tags and more.  I started out making these samples for Jen Rzasa #Altenewchallengelive ... Tuesday challenge for Altenew stamp company.  The thing with this challenge you can use any supplies you have on hand ... I just happen to have a good amount of Altenew products.  First up is shades of brown.

supplies used:  Altenew Stencil Art: strong oak stencil set, hello die set

Next up is a card and tag using the shades of purple.

supplies: Altenew Stencil Art: strong oak stencil set, Versatile greetings die set

I couldn't help myself making more and more of these cards using the same strong oak stencil set in different colors.  I kept going with different colors, so why not do green.  For the green and orange cards also used Halftone Hello stamp set plus Hello and Hugs stamp set.  

One more set of two cards, and these are shades of orange. 

 What do you think ... did I use enough different "hello's" and colors to fit into the criterium for this challenge? This strong oak stencil set is going to be a favorite of mine.

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Lighthouse

 Lighthouse

Thought it would be nice to have a couple lighthouse cards in my

                                    stamps used:  Stampin' Up lighthouse stamp set, Unity dies

stash.  I have mentioned this before ... my oldest son used to like lighthouses.  He had paintings and all in his house.

This card uses the same stamp set but arches dies by Unity stamp company.  

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Magnolia

 Magnolia

I'm having fun with Jen Rzasa ABC challenge this week.  Found more M things so I created more samples. 

Starting with these two cards.  M is for Magnolia dreams (embossing folder-stencil set), (Delicate) Magnolia die set, Moth from Meadow Reflection stamp/die set.  Used the colors Magenta, Maroon and Marigold.  Mini brushes on the cards, and perfect pearls MIST on unfinished panels.

Mini blending brushes came into play blending Marigold ink on Magnolia die cut flower.  Ribbons are also Magenta and Maroon in color.  Mini brushes were also used to blend inks onto Magnolia embossing folder.

Here are a couple of panels that I plan on making into tags, and bookMARKS. 

The Magic stamp is an old Impress company wood mounted stamp.  Also sprayed the panels with Perfect Pearl MISTS. They have a beautiful shine in person.

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M is for Magnolia

 M is for Magnolia

The challenge from Jen at Altenew this week is ABC.  Another words pick a letter to use for your theme on card or project. I picked the letter M.  I used Magnolia flower dies, Moths from Meadow Reflections, Mango and Marigold color cardstock, and papers.  I also used mini blending brush to add color to the magnolia flower dies.

stamps/supplies used:  Altenew Delicate Magnolia die set, Meadow Reflections (moths) and mini blending brush, SU mango color papers/cardstock

This is called a Fan card.

basic instructions:

base - 7" x 10"  score at 5"

layer - 4 3/4" x 6 3/4"

1.  Use same color as the base card for 4" x 6" layer, and cut in half diagonally.

2.  Color layer cardstock 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".  Cut in half diagonally.

3.  Pattern paper 3" x 5".  Cut in half diagonally.

4.  Layer all layers from line #1 thru #3.  This will form bigger of the triangles that will be assembled on card.

5.  On 7" x 10" card score at 5".  On the 10" side of card measure 2", and cut diagonally to the bottom of card.  Fold at 5" score to form base card.

6.  On 4 3/4" x 6 3/4" card measure in 2 3/4" then cut diagonally down to bottom of card.  Cut off 1/4" of this triangle.

7.  On 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" card measure in 2 1/2" then cut diagonally down to bottom of card.  Cut off 1/2" of this triangle.

8.  Layer all of these layers from line #6 and #7.  

9.  Assemble card with all the layers.  Add Magnolia flower on the bottom point of triangles.  Moths can be adhered on the top and bottom of card.  This makes a 5" x 7" card.

I will be entering this card in the #Altenewchallengelive.

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Masculine cards

 Masculine cards

Here is the masculine card I made for my creative card crew in April 2025.  

stamp/supplies:  car/saying by MFP stamp co., brown ribbon/embossing folder Stampin' Up, mesh unknown source

As you can see I stamped everything in a brown ink.  Colored in the lights with yellow prisma color pencil. The landscape version of the card was for my card crew.  The vertical version was just for fun. 

Changed up the color of the car and saying on one of the cards to a dark brown, and other with a square version.

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Die cut Inlay

 Die cut Inlay

I decided to do another challenge by Jen Rzasa from Altenew that she does on Tuesday. 

stamps/supplies used:  Altenew Painted Butterflies & Bold sentiments

Jen used one of the cover dies but I don't have any cover dies from any company.  Needless to say I had to find another way to do an inlay technique.  I went to an old faithful creator, Jennifer McGuire.  She did this technique where you glue strips of cardstock to a layer. 

Next you die cut out an image then layer a smaller image inside the cut out image.  Sometimes it works out (if you don't mess up) that you can get two for one.

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one sheet wonder cards

 One sheet wonder cards

One sheet wonder cards are several cards you make from a template. This is the template I used for these one sheet wonder cards.  

I made these cards for my local creative card group for March 2025.

stamps/supplies used:  DSP by Stampin' Up, saying by MFP stamp company

I chose this template because it made four cards so all I have to do for my creative card group was do it twice.  This way I would have eight cards, and that is more than I needed for my group.

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