Welcome to the newest Altenew’s Educators Blog Hop! The theme/topic for this Hop is “Anything But A Card”. I have the perfect project to share with you. I used some of my favorite Altenew products- pattterned paper, Washi tape and a stamp with a matching die.

For my “Anything But A Card” project I repurposed an upainted 5″ x7″ wooden easel picture frame. Here are some photos of the repurposed picture frame.

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HOW I REPURPOSED A PLAIN WOODEN PICTURE FRAME- FROM ORDINARY TO EXTRORDINARY USING ALTENEW PRODUCTS.

I had this 5″ x 7″ wooden picture in my collection of card making supplies and mixed media projects for a long time. It needed an upgrade. I painted the wooden frame with white acrylic paint to cover the unpainted frame. I used the Altenew Many Dots wide washi tape to wrap the frame starting from the inside edge, the sides and the back of the frame. I used a craft knife to create the mitered corners.

I then selected a watercolored background paper from the Altenew Summer Garden 6″ x6″ paper pack. The watercolored blueish paper was a great contrast to the black and white dots on the frame.

Next, I stamped the outline Smile stamp from the Altenew Halftone Smile stamp set on blue paper. I used the coordinating Altenew smile die for the stamped smile word. I die cut a 2″ x 3 1/4″ white card stock rectangle and stamped the word ‘just’ from the same Atlenew stamp set onto the white rectangle and then glued the smile die to the tag. I used foam tape behind the smile die cut word to pop it up from the background paper. The last step was to secure the easel back cardboard to the frame. Done! A big step up from the plain wooden frame. So, if you have a wooden frame that is boring and needs an upgrade, use Altenew washi tape, word stamps, Altenew patterned paper and a coordinating die to go from plain to fabulous.

Here is a link for you to post your “Anything But A Card”. Can’t wait to see your awesome creations!

Please, check out my Altenew Blog Hop AECP Colleagues to see what they have created! Have fun and be inspired!

Altenew Card Blog 

Terri Marie Koszler 

Neha Aggarwal 

Bridget Casey 

Tenia Nelson 

Nandini Karmarkar 

Teri Stokes 

Rachael Shedeed 

Fiona Duff 

Eva Bussom  

Nenette S. Madero 

Roteja Galvan 

Karen Brown 

Sandra Woodson 

Helen Kalb 

Maryam Sharara 

Penny Pynnonen 

Rosie Neustaedter 

Irina Fonina 

Rebecca Sogn  (check out Rebecca’s Blog before you visit mine)

Nancy Souza  ( don’t forget to check out Virginia’s Blog next)

Virginia Lu 

SIGN UP TO ATTEND. THIS CLASS THAT WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO USE ALTENEW PATTERNED PAPERS- EITHER 12″ X12″ PAPER, 6″ X 6″ PAPER OR BOTH!

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Do you have 12″ x12″ scrapbook paper that you have not used in awhile? Not sure how you can use it to make a card? Join me to learn how to create ten cards using one sheet of Altenew 12″ x12″ piece of double sided paper. Or if you want , use a piece of 6″ x 6″ double sided paper and you will learn how to create four different card layouts. You select the Altenew papers that you already have in your collection. Make ten, four or fourteen cards! Don’t have any 12″ x12″ paper? Learn how to create ten cards so you are ready when you want to use the larger piece of paper for ten special cards. You will learn how to stretch your paper supplies using paper you already have. A fun evening learning new card making sketches! Hope to see you -virtually on Tuesday, July 6 at 6:00 P.M. EST.

SIGN UP DETAILS AND INFORMATION

AECP EDUCATOR INSTRUCTOR- Nancy Souza

COST- Free, no charge

DATE- Tuesday, July 6, 2021

TIME- 6:00 P.M.- 7:30 P.M. EST

PLATFORM- ZOOM

CLASS SIZE- Maximum 10

REGISTER- via this Blog post by Friday, July 2, 2021 confirmation will be sent to confirm your workshop attendance

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – PDF directions, including supply list and other information will be shared four days prior to the workshop

QUESTIONS- contact me via this Blog

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