I'm so excited to be participating in Altenew's July 2017 blog hop! Altenew is releasing some absolutely beautiful new products! There are new stamps, dies, and ink pads!
If you are hopping along, you should have arrived from Enza Gudor's blog. If you just stopped by to see what I've been up to, let me encourage you to head on over to the Altenew blog to get started. When you're ready to keep hopping, Erum Tasneem will your next stop.
PRIZES
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to FIVE lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog or/and Scrapbook Blog by Thursday, July 27th at 11:59 pm EDT for a chance to win. The winners will be announced on the Altenew Card/Scrapbook blogs on Sunday, July 30th.
ADDITIONAL PRIZE
In addition to the prizes above, I will draw a winner to receive a $30 gift certificate. To be entered, just leave a comment on this post. I will announce the winner on July 28th at 9 am EDT.
Here are the projects that I created...
My first card features the new Blooming Bouquet and Heartfelt Sentiments stamp sets. I have long admired Altenew's floral images and this beautifully detailed set just reinforces my admiration!
To create my card, I started by embossing the large floral bouquet in white onto watercolor paper. Using a fine, round brush I added some color using my Gansai Tambi Watercolor Paints. I added the sentiment by first embossing it on vellum cardstock and then wrapping it around my top layer and securing it to the backside. I have found this is a great way to hid the adhesive. For embellishment, I added several small white sequins.
My next card features the new Floral Fantasy stamp set and another sentiment from the Heartfelt Sentiments stamp set.
Be still my heart! I am head over heels for this new floral set! I just love how you can achieve such a detailed look for minimal effort! To create the background, I quickly painted on some stripes using a flat brush and black watercolor paint. I stamped the flowers using the colors from the Rose Petal Mini Cube Set and the leaves using colors from the Tropical Forest Mini Cube Set.
My next project is a card set created using the new Arabesque Medallion stamp set.
I just love creating card sets! For this particular set, I used the same design on all five just changing the sentiment strip color.
I embossed the large medallion in white. Using my MISTI was really helpful to quickly duplicate this five times.
My final card features the new Baby Balloon stamp set. I was instantly drawn to that large balloon and especially love how many ways there are to customize it!
I was in need of a baby girl card, so I chose some very girlie colors. I created a simple watercolor wash for the background. After it was dry, I stamped the included little heart in dark purple and pink.
For more inspiration make sure to visit the designers below...
Altenew Card Blog
Jennifer McGuire
Altenew Scrapbook Blog
Kristina Werner
May Sukyong Park
Flora Monika Farkas
Therese Calvird
Mindy Baxter
Svitlana Shayevich
Debby Hughes
Enza Gudor
Laurie Schmidlin
Erum Tasneem
Kathy Racoosin
Lilith Eeckles
Marika Rahtu
Agnieszka Malyszek
Kymona Tracey
Galina Filippenko
Sveta Fotinia
Yana Smakula
Sandra Dietrich
Lydia Evans
Sandy Allnock
Eunyoung Lee
Laura Bassen
Chari Moss
Yoonsun Hur
Nicole Picadura
Thanks so much for stopping by!
~Laurie
