by Penny Bearcroft
 These cards use some of the wonderful new range of Alpine Flower stamps from Artifacts. There are seven plates in this range and they have been designed by Mike Pinder and they are available from the Stamp Bug website. The stamps are unmounted and work well with EZ Mount and an acrylic block.
We gave three very talented designers, Penny Bearcroft, Sue Roddis and Felicity Goodwin, the same two plates of un-mounted stamps to see what they could come up with and I am sure they will all be quite different! The two plates all three designers have used are Alpine Flowers, UM016, and Alpine Meadow, UM017.
Over this and the coming two issues of Guilded, we will be having a look at their wonderful creations. This month Penny shows us her take on Mike’s Alpine Flowers. Penny has used a lovely background technique by Tim Holtz, with Distress inks and a water spray, to create a watercolour effect, which you can either make grungy and dark or pale and subtle. Fleur
 We used:
Step by Step:
 - Place the ink pads face down on to a non stick craft sheet, to transfer some ink on to the sheet. Try not to overlap the colours too much. Spray with a little water and then place the lime green card on the resulting ink and water mix. Dry the inked card with a heat tool and repeat until you get the desired effect.
- Cut a panel to fit on the C6 card and layer it on to a dark green panel, but don’t stick them together yet.
- Stamp the right hand edge of the panel with Treasured Memories using, first the Vintage Photo ink and then the Pine Needles.
- Stamp the Alpine images using Fired Brick.
- Sponge some of the Fired Brick and Peeled Paint inks on the panel and add some Vintage Photo around the edges.
- Tear a piece of the vellum and stick this on.
- Before removing the stickers from the backing sheet, sponge some of the inks on the chosen letters.
 - Peel off and place on to the non stick craft sheet. Sprinkle with gold embossing powder and heat to melt. When cool, rub with a little of the metallic Rub-Ons.
- Add the stickers and some layer paper flowers, secured with a brad, and then mount up the layers on to the card.
Flower Tag
 We used:
Step by Step:
- Cut a piece from the background that you made for the last card, then tear a strip off the bottom.
- Layer this on to a piece of lime green card, but don’t stick together yet.
- Sponge Distress inks around the edges as before.
- Stamp the panel with the Alpine images, using Peeled Paint and Black Soot ink, then stick the panels together and add to the card.
- Tear three pieces of vellum and stick them on as shown.
- Sponge the tag with some ink and stamp one of the flowers in the centre, using Black Soot ink.
 - Sponge the German Scrap Daisy with Fired Brink ink and secure it to the tag with a brad.
- Tie some garden string on the tag and attach it to the card with a larger brad.
Alpine Flower
 We used:
Step by Step:
- Stamp the linen card with various Alpine Flowers using the Rose and Old Paper ink pads.
- Apply the inks to a non-stick craft sheet, as before and spray with water. Place the card on to the sheet to pick up the ink/water mixture. Dry and re-apply as desired.
- Stamp the single flower on to your background and emboss it with black ink. Cut out a panel with the image at the centre. Dip the edges into embossing ink and then into black embossing powder. Heat to melt.
 - Mount on to the card, using sticky foam pads.
Cow Parsley Tag
 We used:
Step by Step:
- Stamp another scrap of your background paper with the Cow Parsley image using Fired Brink ink.
 - Cut out and edge with gold embossing powder by first tapping one edge onto the surface of the embossing ink pad.
 - Then dip that inked edge into the gold embossing powder, before heating with a heat tool. Continue on all four sides.
- Mount the embossed edged card on to a piece of torn vellum using sticky foam pads.
- Apply Tattered Rose and Old Paper Distress ink to your craft sheet and spray as before. Decorate the tag and dry.
- Stamp the Alpine images on the tag using Old Paper and Fired Brick ink. Sponge a little more ink around the edges.
 - Attach the mounted stamped image to the tag.
- Add a daisy with a brad and some fibres.
A quick ATC
 We used:
Step by Step:
- Start by cutting the ATC to the correct size 2.5 x 3.5 inches or 64 x 89 mm, then sponge the ATC with Fired Brick ink.
- Lightly sponge a scrap of card with Tattered Rose ink. Stamp the Dandelion head on it once with Old Paper ink and once with Peeled Paint. Edge with more Peeled Paint ink.
 - Add sticky foam pads to the back and attach a length of red fibre around the back edge. Stick this on to the ATC.
- Write the word ‘seeds’ on a scrap of backing paper with a fine tip pen. Add dot of Glossy Accents to a Fragment and stick the paper onto it.
- Trim off the paper round the Fragment and add it to the ATC. Add two brads to complete.
- The finished artwork! 
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