Cindy Brown AECP: Progressive Card Making 2

This is my third class for level three of AECP. I am learning so much about art theory and card making from the Altenew online classes. This class which I just completed, "Progressive Card Making 2" did not disappoint me.  I learned new techniques with color blending and new card folds. I chose to highlight here my final card for the class where I demonstrate my new skill of creating a W fold inside a card. 

Inside of card as pop-out

Inside of card, flat

I thought the W fold which then allowed me to isolate 4 different scenes was a perfect match for the Altenew stamp and die set "Celebrations" as I was able to take elements of a celebration and give each scene it's own platform to shine. 

I covered the outside of the card with the Altenew Dotted Wide washi tape and then glued a rectangle of a bright pinkish paper to frame the flowers and sentiment that I stamped from the set. I then used my Altenew alcohol artists markers to lightly color the flowers and I added a few gems into the centers of the flowers. I propped up the flowers on adhesive foam which I also used to adhere the gold thread I used for embellishment. 

When the card is opened, the four highlighted areas pop up and consist of a cake I stamped and cut from Altenew's Cake Love (colored with Altenew dye ink Snapdragon), a macaron, a tiered dessert tray, a bowed gift and the sentiments of Congratulations and Celebrate! Again, I used the bright pink paper as a frame to the Neenah white cardstock. Most images were not colored, but enhanced with washi tape from Altenew (delicate stripes and dotted wide). I deliberately chose not to color the images as I thought it would be too busy. 

I think this card will be fun for the bride to open and find all those happy sentiments and happy images of celebration. Do you think I should color the images or leave them as is?

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to hearing your ideas about my newest card.☺️