Hanna's Paper Haven - A papercrafting journey through Altenew's AECP

Onward to the second AECP course - Layering Stamps 4.  Although I thought that I developed much better skill with layering stamps in the previous course, I still found this second course on layering stamps to be extremely challenging. I used an older stamp set, Build-A-Flower Gardenia, that I had always wanted to do well but I never felt satisfied.   So I gave it a try, using what I had been learning from the first two courses. I found it very difficult and I was very very close to quitting working with this stamp set and trying another one. However, I had promised myself that I would hang in there, so hang in there I did. And, in the end, I did get an image I liked. Below are a small sample of my early attempts.    Much of my frustration was that I couldn't quite get the colors on the paper that were in my mind.  In the end, I used the image third across from the left on the top of this image. The main stamp is Altenew's Build-a Flower Gardenia (an older stamp ...

I have been accepted into the Altenew Educator Certification Program (AECP) and I am excited. This is the card I created for my first  AECP class -  All About Layering 3.  The class is about layering stamps.  I have a history with layering stamps and it's not pretty. I have tried lots of layering stamp sets from Altenew over the years. Altenew is known for how beautiful and realistic their layering flower stamps are, and there have been times when I've created something beautiful with them - but I always felt that I had to work way too hard and it was difficult.  Eventually I decided that layering stamps was just not my strength and I passed almost all of my layering stamp sets on to others.   Now I am faced with wanting to do a good job for my very first AECP class. I started by finding a layering stamp set that remains in my stash. It's an Altenew orchid stamp set, Laelia.. My first tries were horrid but then I had an important insight: I am used to being...