As the name indicates, this class from Altenew is all about easy die cutting techniques. I think from all of the classes that I did for the level 1 course of the Altenew Educator Certification Program, this one was the one I enjoyed the most. I love die cutting and this class was right up my alley. I completed several cards from this class and I had a hard time choosing my favourite project.
This cityscape card almost made the cut as my favourite and it was so simple to make that it may become one of my go to cards for a quick masculine version for a birthday card. I love the way it embossed with the two dies and I wasn't sure if it would turn out by running it through the big shot twice but it remained embossed for both layers so that was a win.
But I think the winner of the favourite project from this class is the one where I made my own embossing folder with die cuts. I arranged them in a pattern on the card and did a white on white combo so that I could use the "folder" as a card front after I was done with the embossing part of it. It turned out so well. I did learn that if your are going to emboss with a die cut and you need to run the card front through the die cut machine to make a border or edge cut to do that first or the embossing flattens out somewhat as shown in the grey card. It is still visible but a much softer embossing on the second pass in the machine.
