Hello everyone! I hope you are all staying safe and warm right now in this tough winter – sending good thoughts to you all caught up in it. Hopefully the inspiration on today’s Altenew blog hop, celebrating the Wondrous World release, will brighten your day. There is a givaway, and I’ve included the full hop list at end of this post.
My first card features the new Nesting Slim Rectangles dies which cut out a perfect slimline card (the largest die in the set), with a lightly embossed border around the edge. I die cut this size from Spicy Yoghurt cardstock.
I adhered the panel to my craft mat and created some custom embossing paste with Icy Water ink mixed into Altenew’s embossing paste. Using the new Narrow Brick stencil, I smeared over the paste on the lower half of the panel, fading out to the edges roughly, rather than going right up to it. I carefully removed the stencil, then replaced it and finished the paste up the remainder of the panel. Before it dried, I also sprinkled some clear glitter over the top.
My main focal piece is the giant and gorgeous Floral Lace die. It fits just about perfectly onto a slimeline card. I diecut mine from silver mirror cardstock and then when the paste on my panel was dry, adhered it over the top with foam squares trimmed to fit. The sentiment is from Simple Greetings, using silver mirror cardstock layered over. white cardstock, then popped up on foam tape.
I adhered the panel onto a white notecard created to leave a thin white border, and then encrusted the floral die cut with gems to finish!
For my next card, I got a two for one! It features the Radial Butterflies Cover Plate die. I first took a panel of watercolor cardstock and spritzed it all over with water. I then dropped in some pinks and yellows from the Altenew Watercolor pan and let them spread out abd blend.
When dried, I used the Radial Butterflies die to die cut the panel being careful to leave all of the pieces in the die itself. I flipped it over and very quickly went and added a blob of glue on the back of every butterfly. I then flipped it onto an A2 panel of white cardstock, lining up the corners of the die with the corners of the panel.
I used a pokey tool to carefully poke out each of the butteflies, adhering them to the white card panel underneath. I then slowly peeled back the cover die and removed the negative frame which I adhered to another panel of white cardstock.
The sentiments are both from the Block Sentiments stamp set from an earlier release, stamped in Obsidian Black into directly into the centre of the panel. For the panel with the outline, I also die cut a Mix & Match Mariposa butterfly from gold mirror and white cardstock, and scattered a few gems to finish.
For my next card, I’m featuring the Flower Bunch Layering Stencil. This is four different stencils that overlay on each other, and after ink blending you end up with a beautiful dimensional image. I ink blended a variety of pinks including Pastel Sunrise and Canyon Clay, greens including Sea Forest and Marshland, and Mangrove Root, and pale browns (Almond Butter, Vanilla Cream). I then fussy cut out the image.
For my background, I dry embossed Moonrock cardstock with the new Daisies 3D embossing folder. I mounted the fussy cut bunch onto the top and scattered a few pale pink Nuvo Drops to finish. The Hang In There sentiment is from the previously released Essentials Sentiments die.
For my final card, I’m featuring the new (and essential for your stash!) Branches and Berries die set. I die cut several of them from different materials including gold mirror cardstock, pale blue watercolored cardstock that I created with a scrap piece of cardstock, and washi tape adhered to a panel of cardstock – the Foiled Marble Washi is gorgeous and perfect for die cutting. I also die cut the Fancy Thanks die from the Marble Washi, and gold. mirror cardstock.
To pull my card together, I used a panel of Spicy Yoghurt cardstock, dry embossed the new Mod Squares 3D Embossing folder. I mounted the branches loosely with liquid glue and foam squares in the centre, and tied a gold thread bow at the bottom using Altenew’s Metallic Thread. I adhered the Thanks over the top (having glued the gold mirror and washi tape layers together), and then scattered a few Antique Gold sequins and clear Nuvo Drops. I also added some Stardust Stickles onto some of the branches for extra sparkle!
Giveaway
$300 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 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 02/22/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 12 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 02/25/2021.
Now it’s time to move on to the next stop on the hop – Svitlana! Enjoy!
Jenny x
Supplies
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Full Hop List
- Altenew Card Blog
- Therese Calvird
- Virginia Lu
- Emily Midgett
- Vicky Papaioannou
- Nicole Watt
- Dana Joy
- Jenny Colacicco >>>YOU ARE HERE!
- Svitlana Shayevich >>>GO HERE NEXT!
- Verity Biddlecombe
- Laurie Willison
- Tina Smith
- Erum Tasneem
- Terri Koszler
- Tenia Nelson
- Amanda Baldwin
- Lilith Eeckels
- LauraJane
- Jennifer McGuire
- Nathalie DeSousa
- Preeti Chandran
- Seeka
- Maryam Perez
- Teresa Litchfield
- Agnieszka Małyszek
- Karen Brown
- Yoonsun Hur
Beautifully done Jenny! Love this fabulous array of cards, I especially love the last one, it is so pretty and elegant!! Thanks for the inspiration Have a wonderful day!
Your last card, THANKS, is so magical. It reminds me of snowflakes, although it is just an impression.
Love all the different treatments used on the products. Makes my wish list longer with each hop.
Beautiful cards
Beautiful cards.
Just beautiful!!! 🙂
Gorgeous cards as always! love that flower bunch stencil set.
OMGoodness, your foil marbled thanks card is wonderful. The soft, watercolor blue is so pretty with it. Amazing job.
Lovely cards Jenny. Such pretty designs… the floral lace card is so pretty! I also love the radiant butterflies… the last card looks so cool… love the white and metallic look. Thanks for the inspirations!
Beautiful cards and a wonderful new release!
Wow, your cards are so beautifully soft and ethereal. Instead of boldly catching our attention, it grabs us with softness and beauty. Especially love your last card, subtly gorgeous. Love your style. Thank you for your inspiration.
Your cards are lovely! Thank you for the inspiration.
Such pretty projects. Your Hang in There card is my favourite!
Amazing cards!! I love this new release!!
Really pretty cards. I like the idea of putting flowers on top of an embossed floral background!
Such beautiful cards! Loving all the stencils in the new collection.
Gorgeous cards! I LOVE the thank you card with the Mod Square embossing as a background.
All your cards are gorgeous but my favorites are the last two. The stenciled flower bunch with its hand picked homey feel is such a contrast to the cool elegance of the Thanks. I am putting your ideas in my mental inspiration folder and hope to try them myself soon. Thanks for the great ideas.
Beautiful cards! One can do so many things with this new release!
So much beautiful inspiration in this post! I especially love the floral “hang in there” card!
Wow! I love every one of your cards! The last one is so beautiful! The flower layered stencil is stunning! The butterfly card is so clever, and I appreciate the “every butterfly got a dot of glue” creation. Thanks for all the inspiration.
Oh my, your last card captured my heart. The mix of spicy yogurt cardstock, EF texture, gold CS, botanical sprigs and stickies puts it over the top. Did I miss anything? Wowzer
I must say, I am left speechless after I saw your final card. The marble, gold mirror, white, pale blue everything looks so good together…feels like it’s made of real gold, diamond, mirror and marble… and I always loved washi tape but could find only very few ways to use them in craft projects… and today you taught me such a clever and interesting way to use those beautiful washi!😍 …thank you😃
Oh wow, that gold and white are great looking! I love how you used the thread too.
All your cards are beautiful, but that last one is stunning!!!!!
Love your cards, especially the first and last, really beautiful. Thank you for sharing your creations from this wonderful release.
Oh that slimline card is gorgeous! The lacy die is so versatile.
Beautiful cards. Love the soft colors!!
All of your. cards are so beautiful but I especially love the thanks card its so elegant. Who knew I needed that die set?
Jenny your cards are lovely. I love the thanks card with the die cuts and the embossing folder together. They are all super creative and lovely.
The HANG IN THERE card is my favorite. I love the colors & texture.
Love your use of berries and branches.
So beautiful!
So very pretty. Thanks for sharing your inspiration
I love your soft colors and elegant designs!
Your cards are so elegant!
Nice combinations. Great share of ideas for the release.
Love the twigs cut from mirror cardstock!
Beautiful designs and colors on these lovely cards!
I love your pretty pastel collection! The touch of shiny gold really makes your first card pop!
Fabulous girl! So elegant and beautiful. You pulled it together so well. So very creative – Wow, Thank you, Denise
PURE LOVELINESS!! Soft and serene!! LOVE your stenciling and color palette! THAT slimline die!!!!! Oh my!! Am adoring it!!
Great presentation of the new release!
Such lovely cards!
Amazing looking projects!!
The first and the last card are my two favorites, but having said that, I think they are all beautiful!
Such beautiful cards, Jenny! T he last one is absolutely breathtaking!! Love it.
Such a variety of cards and all so very pretty!
All of your cards are beautiful, but the first is my favorite. Great work on all of them! It’s amazing how many different ways stencils can be used.
Love the dimension on your card with the slim rectangles. Really pretty!
Wow! Gorgeous cards! I love the blue textured background on the slimline!
All of your cards are so pretty! Great work on each! I love all the new Altenew products but especially loved the lace die on your slimline card! Beautiful!
All of your card designs are awesome…TFS!!!
Beautiful cards! Such wonderful colors and designs.
Thanks so much for sharing.
Love your white on white card, with gold accents
Beautiful cards, especially love the 1st one. TFS
Wonderful and delightful cards!!! My favorite is your card using the branches and berries die cut. Fabulous!
I like all your cards, but the last one is amazing! The touches of gold are stunning!
Jen, all beautiful, cleverly done cards. Your method of using the butterfly background die for two cards is a wonderful tip. I would have been chasing those little cutouts all over my craft table!
Your cards are just gorgeous, Jenny! I love the first using the Floral Lace die and the beautiful Flower Bunch layering set!! Thanks so much for the wonderful inspiration! Stay safe! 🙂
So many beautiful examples!
super sweet cards – pure eye candy!!
Such lovely cards! I especially love the look of the lace over the slim bricks stencil….just stunning. And totally in love with the Flower bunch stencils! Thanks for your inspiration!
Such creative cards! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful cards!!
Wonderful cards, well done!
Loved how you used the Branches and Berries die. So elegant.
Beautiful cards. Great job on the creations of this new release.
I have to agree with so many of the above comments, all of you cards are beautiful, but the “Thanks” card is a show stopper!
So pretty thx for the ideas
Jenny you go over and above Wow!
Your flowers on top of floral embossing back ground, your thanks card is so beautiful and lovely for winter! The texture paste brought out to the edges of the card….can’t say enough!
Thank you so much, I have learned some techniques from you🥰
Good day!
Great cards and inspiration all in this release. Lots of ideas for the creative mind.
Gorgeous cards. thanks for sharing your talent.
Very nice!
Love all of your cards.
I would never have put fancy lease and bricks together on my own. Thank you so much for the inspiration.
You have a great eye for designing these cards. The colors on the 2nd and 3rd cards are so springy and made me smile! The other two cards are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing your talent!
OMG, your cards are all amazing. My husband is going to kill me cuz I need this whole release!!! LOL.
Beautiful cards. The last was my favorite! How in the world do you find time to do these beautiful cards after working in NYC every day? Kudos!!!
Your cards are lovely, especially the foil thanks card… I love all the layers. The dies, folders stencils and more!!! Wonderful.
Jenny, you are right about that berries and branches die set being an essential item in every crafter’s arsenal of supplies. I can’t wait to get my hands on that set along with a few other Altenew items featured in the new release.
That 3rd card is breathtakingly beautiful, Jenny! I’d love to watch you make it. (Not because I didn’t read your description or can’t figure out how to make it, but it would just be so fun to watch putting together such a beautiful card!) 🙂 <3
Just bought my first layering stencil! Thanks for the inspiration! ❤️
I really like the monochromatic feel from the last card using the branches and berries die set, it’s calming yet impactful.
Spectacular cards!
I especially love all of the butterfly cards!
This new release is awesome! Thanks for the inspiration!
All of your cards are beautiful but I absolutely adore the slimline! I am a newbie at cardmaking and the more I see this type of card, the more I can’t wait to make one! Thank you for sharing!
Wow!!! I am in love with the stencil floral card, and the elegant thanks card at the very end! So elegant!
Such amazing cards! I like them all but the white lace against the blue brick is my favorite. Thanks for all the wonderful inspiration!
All your cards are beautiful but my favourite one is the lacy die with the brick stencil background. That blue really helps to highlight the lacy die