Hi everyone! I’m so excited, it’s an Altenew hop all about new stencils and embossing folders-woo!! My very faves – a great price point and so many techniques you can do with them. I have several projects to share with you today. If you didn’t land here from Erum’s blog, you can always start the hop over at Altenew’s blog. There is a fabulous giveaway too – stay tuned!

My first card features the new Greenwood Flowers layering stencil. These are wonderful for creating quick and pretty florals, and Altenew’s inks make it easy to choose colors for the layers. I decided to go with soft and pretty and chose the Martian Terrain range of inks for the flowers including the centers. I created two florals then fussy cut them out. I also created a few leaves using Nature Wonders inks and fussy cut those too.

My background is a panel of Spicy Yoghurt cardstock dry embossed with the new Dreamy Tiles 3D embossing folder, over which I ever so lightly ran the Pastel. Sunrise ink in a few places. I then arranged the florals over the top and adhered with foam tape. I also added some gold gel pen detail to the centers for interest.

For my sentiment, I created little banner flags from gold mirror cardstock using the Mantel Decor – Spring die set released last month. I backed them with cardstock inked with Pastel Sunrise to coordinate and then mounted then all onto the corner of my card. I finished with a few soft pretty sequins.

For my next card, I dry embossed the new Henna Square Background stencil using an embossing tan mat and running it through my die cutting machine with navy cardstock. It leaves a beautiful impression!

To give it more emphasis, I ran over it with Antique Gold and Enchanting Gold pigment inks. very lightly, to pick out the embossed raised parts. I also went around the edges of the panel. Before the ink dried, I added a little sprinkle here and there of Antique Gold embossing powder for a weathered look.

The sentiment I used was heat embossed in white on the same navy cardstock. It comes from the Folk Art stamp set. I mounted it with foam tape onto the front and finished with a few gold crystals. I love how versatile stencils are!

My next card features the Thunderstorm stencil and this card is super easy but gives a really pretty look. You can use this technique with any stencil. First, I inkblended some darker blue-gray inks over the stencil to create that dark thundery rain. Without moving it, I. then used clear iridescent glitter paste over the top. This lets the colors show through with sparkle over the top. Perfect for rain! I used Nimbus, Cloudy Sky and Dark Night inks.

I wanted a monochromatic look, so I stamped the Bouquet of Love image in Obsidian pigment ink, die cut it out and adhered over the top of my glitter panel, which I trimmed to 4 x 5.25″ and mounted with fun foam to a white notecard.

I used the ‘Miss You’ sentiment from the same stamp set, heat embossed in white embossing powder on Jet Black cardstock and punched out with a 1″ circle punch then mounted with a double foam square. I also added a few pale blue enamel dots to finish.

My final card features the Illusion Unique Twist stencil. I did some ink blending with pastel colored inks for this card, letting them to overlap to create new colors. I used Peach Delight, Rose. Quartz, Fresh Lemon and PolarBear. Before lifting the stencil I added one spritz of Antique Gold Metallic spray.

I added a sentiment from the recently released Carpe Diem stamp set heat embossed in white embossing powder on Jet Black. I thought this worked perfectly with the twist image!

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 Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 05/24/2021 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 05/26/2021.

Your next stop on the hop is the uber-talented Emily Midgett! Enjoy!

Jenny x

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45 Comments

  1. Love the Don’t Quit card. What a brilliant pairing of the twisted stencil and the black rectangle. Very effective.

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  3. Lovely cards. I enjoy seeing all the creativity and artistic use with these new products. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  4. Layering Stencils have quickly become my favorite technique. Love the look of all of these new products. Ang

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  9. The more I see the Greenwood Flowers stencil on these blogs, the more I want it. Beautiful work!

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  13. Great cards. I like that you made cards using very different styles. The first one is my favorite but I like them all. Thanks for sharing!

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  14. Your cards are wonderful. You’ve used two of my favorites from this fantastic release — the Greenwood Flowers stencil set and the fun Illusion Twist stencil!

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  15. My favorite is your spring card. The dreamy tiles and the pastel sunrise is so pretty together.

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  19. So many beautiful cards…..I love what you did with the rain stencil. That is a great technique to know about. I have loved all the floral stencils and this one is no exception, all your details make it even prettier. I also like your illusion stencil card. Thanks for all the inspiration.

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  20. Lovely cards, thanks for the inspiration! I love all the products in this release but at the minute, my favs are the thunderstorm stencil and tiles 3-D embossing folder.

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  21. All your cards are beautiful, but I must admit I adore the navy one! It’s so unique and attractive.

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  22. Thank you for all the inspiration! Love what you did the the thunderstorm stencil- a great technique. I also like the tile embossing folder!

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  32. Fabulous projects Jenny, love the new stencil line, especially the Illusion Unique Twist! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  36. Beautiful cards! I am especially loving the Dreamy Tiles embossing folder! Such a pretty design, and a lovely background for your floral card!

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  39. When I saw your card using the pastel sunrise ink I audibly went “wow” this colour makes those flowers so beautiful. Is it part of a set in cubes?

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  43. Fabulous cards. I am amazed how embossing folders create such a big impact and often just need a sentiment or a simple die cut. My kind of cards!

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