Hello there, I am delighted to be joining
Altenew today to celebrate the release of their new Exotic Garden Collection. This is such a wonderful collection packed full of yummy goodies. I have a lot to share with you today, so I apologise for the long post but I hope you like seeing the inspiration. We are celebrating the release with a fun blog hop, more on the hop below.
Let's get started with my first projects. To start with, I fell in love with the new Dovetail Butterflies set. These are beautiful and can be used in lots of different ways - for the card I used the outline only. For the tag, I used the layer and the outline. I started off my card by stamping one of the outline images from the
Altenew Dovetail Butterflies Stamp Set on to vellum using Versamark Ink. I applied
Altenew Pure White Crisp Embossing Powder and heat set.
Before we move on to more projects. I wanted to share with you the new
Altenew Color Swatch Decal Set - Small. These are rounded labels with all of Altenew's colour names on. There is also the name of the colour family too. These are great for lots of different things.
They fit perfectly on the top of the
Small Ink Blending Tools. This would be great if you happen to have a separate tool for each colour family of inks or certain colours that you use all the time.
I thought that I would create some swatch tags with mine. I often forget which colour of inks are in which family and so I thought making swatch tags would help me when I need to look them up. I first went to my computer and in a Word document typed up the name of the ink set. I typed them but this could easily be hand written or made using a label maker.
Next up is the new washi tape. If you haven't already guessed by my first two projects, I really love the Cherry Blossom colours, so I was excited to see the new
Altenew Cherry Blossom Slim Washi Tape Set. For my card, I started off by taking a panel of white cardstock and placing the washi tape strips on to it. I then die cut it out using one of the large
Altenew Terrific Tags Dies.
For my final project today, I went completely out of my comfort zone! I started off with a panel of black cardstock. It was run through my die cutting machine using the new
Altenew Decorative Florals 3D Embossing Folder. Using an ink blending tool, I then applied a layer of white pigment ink across the raised areas. Whilst the ink was still a little wet, I applied
Altenew Rose Gold Embossing Powder on top and heat set it.
I really like that it just highlights the raised areas and gives the card some sparkle. The panel was added to a black A2 card base with tape runner. I then took the sentiment from the
Altenew Fresh Freesia Stamp Set and stamped it on to more black cardstock with Versamark Ink. I applied more rose gold embossing powder and heat set. It was cut in to a strip and added to the card with foam tape. To finish off, I added Bronze Jewels.
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Here are the links to
what I have used on the project. Affiliate
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the product to shop at your favourite store. All products were personally
purchased except those from Clearly Besotted, Hero Arts or those marked with an
asterisk (*) which were kindly sent to me to use. You can read my full
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As mentioned this blog post is part of a fun, inspiration filled blog hop. For the hop, you should have arrived here from
Maryam Perez. The next stop is
Therese Calvird. If you get lost along the way, please head over to the
Altenew Blog.
Here
are THREE ways to get a FREEBIE to kickstart your creativity! Free gift will be
added to cart automatically:
- Get a FREE brand new Exotic Garden Stamp & Die Release
Inspiration Guide (worth $5.99) with every order of high-value Exotic Garden
release bundles. *Exclusions apply.
- Get a FREE brand new Creative Jump Start Class with every order
from the new Storybook Fantasy release collection from 4th May 2021 through
10th May 2021.
- Get a FREE brand new Exotic Garden Stamp & Die Release Mini
Inspiration Guide with every order from 4th May 2021 through 6th May 2021.
GIVEAWAY:
$300
in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift
certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please
leave a comment on the AltenewCard Blog
and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 10th May 2021 for a
chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners
from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners
on the Altenew Winners Page on 12th May 2021.
Thank you so much for stopping by today. I apologise again for the post being so long. If you got to the end, I really do appreciate it. I hope you have a wonderful rest of the day!