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Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Daffodil & Glitter Cardstock Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello everyone! So nice to welcome you to my blog. Today we’ve a double celebration; the Daffodil Craft-A-Flower and a lovely new collection of Glitter Cardstock in the most gorgeous colours. I’ve got one project using the new dies and 2 other projects just using the Glitter Cardstock Sets. You may have come from Maryam Perez’s blog, so a big hello if that’s the case. If you’d like to start at the beginning, do go to the Altenew Card Blog.

I’ve used the beautiful Craft-A-Flower Daffodil set (all links are affiliate ones) and I’ve used the Gilded Glitter Cardstock Set (which is 6 colours and 24 sheets in total) and the Forest Canopy Glitter Cardstock set (4 colours and 16 sheets). The Gilded colour is on the inside of the daffodil and the Forest Canopy on the leaves. You can also get the Craft-A-Flower Daffodil and Gradient Cardstock bundle (there’s a 5% discount).

Initially there will be a limited supply of the cardstock so if it’s not available when you want to purchase please sign up for back-in-stock notification on the product page to get notified by email as soon as the glitter cardstock sets are available again.

You might spy the background Moroccan Lattice Cover Die and the thought provoking sentiment is from the Slim Sentiments Die Set. I added some Grafix Duralar Matt film over the top of the Moroccan Lattice die to soften the effect and so it’s not fighting for the limelight with the beautiful daffodil.

Onto the next projects using the beautiful blues; Ocean Reflection Glitter Cardstock Set (4 colours and 16 sheets).

I chose the gorgeous Craft-A-Flower Buttercup die set to decorate the tag. I used some grey cardstock for the base and trimmed off slithers of the different coloured glitter cardstock and added white cardstock to highlight the glitter. Sometimes we can use it sparingly and it still creates impact.

Giveaway Prizes

There is $200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 07/13/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 07/15/2021.

Glitter is notoriously hard to photograph but the picture gives a real hint of the sparkle from the Ocean Reflection Glitter Cardstock Set. I added strips of each different colour in the set and put the Ornate Cover Die over the top. Adding the Hello from Hello & Hugs die set is the perfect finishing touch.

All that’s needed is for me to direct you to the lovely Karen Brown’s blog.

Thanks for joining me today and I’ll see you soon x

Keren Baker you are HERE..

July 7, 2021 at 2:00 pm 40 comments

Altenew January Release Blog Hop

Hello everyone! So glad to have you visiting today! I’m so thrilled to be joining Altenew for their January release, and what a release it is! You may have come from the lovely Reiko Tsuchida’s blog but if you want to begin at the start, head to Altenew’s Card blog .

I’ve got several projects, a video and I’m part of a stellar blog hop that I’m sure you’ll want to go and visit!

There are prizes too, which I’ll mention at the end, but for now- lets get on with the projects!

I kindly got sent several products and the first project uses two of them; Ornate Cover Die and Hello & Hugs Die. The dies are really good. That grey cardstock went through the die perfectly and only once- so don’t worry about the intricacy of the shapes. I try to use double-sided adhesive sheets with complex designs or self adhesive cardstock. Isn’t it a stunning design.

I thought it had an Art Deco vibe so I used some classic colours and then did a little doodling with a white gel pen. It’s very therapeutic and you can colour as much or as little as you like; dots, dashes, colouring in with a gel pen- gold or silver would do too!

The next project just shows perfectly what Altenew do so well; flowers ! If you love stamping and florals, you’re going to love this ‘Simple Beauty‘ set. I used some orange inks and then added some extra shading using Prismacolor pencils. It wasn’t hard, I just echoed the shading already provided by the image.

I used the small flowers in the set for a background, using the grey ink for all the flowers and adding a little black watercolour ink for the centres. I punched out a few holes in the layer to show the colour underneath through. You can also see I’ve added more little gel pen and black marker dots to both the flower and the background. It’s a simple trick to add texture. The sentiment is from the next set ‘Incredible‘.

This is a wonderfully versatile set called ‘Incredible’. If you love colouring, paper piecing or heat embossing, this is an amazing set. Yes, this does look like an unusual card- probably because I’ve die-cut a big circular chunk out of it! I wanted to make a different shape and have the flowers echoing the shape.

You can see the background is the Ornate Die that I’ve already showcased and the blue leaf (because of course, leaves can be blue!!) is from the Parlor Palm Dies. The heat embossing is done on Dura-Lar Matt which is why it’s not curled or warped. I’ve added blue-y green centres to keep the colour scheme unified.

The last card I’ve created is using the Tartan stamp set. This is a set that you can really be creative with. Whether you’ve a Scottish heritage or just love the vibe, this can go traditional or clean and modern. I only used the outer stamp and one of the inner images.

You can see that I rotated the grey stamped square so that it gave movement and more dimension onto the project. Honestly, I could have sat and created for hours more with these wonderful sets. I used the Hello & Hugs dies again and added..you guessed it…a little more gel pen doodling! It’s addictive once you start!

If you want to see all of these projects in my video plus a good look at the gorgeous new Altenew goodies I’ve used, do head over to watch.

I’ve listed the entire blog hop list below and before you go, there are some PRIZES to be won!! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog by 1/30/2020 for a chance to win.

We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $20 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 2/2/2020.

To see the entire release and go shopping- the Altenew store is where you need to go!

It’s time to visit the lovely Norine Borys who creates some amazing cards! If you get lost, do check back here for the whole list which is below!

Thanks for reading this far…;-)

Keren xx