It’s hop time! Altenew is releasing new stamps, dies and more today with its ‘All Things Handmade’ release and of course we are having a blog hop (and giveaway!) Thank you to Seeka for sending you my way – if you didn’t come from her blog, jump on over to the Altenew Card Blog to start at the beginning!
This release has something for everyone, and hopefully my projects will inspire you today!. My first card features the new Garden Delights Stamp and Die set. These are really pretty florals that layer beautifully yet easily.
I stamped out my flowers with Pink Pearl, Rouge, Coral Bliss, Pastel Sunrise and Peach Perfect. For the leaves I used Vanilla Cream, Hazlenut and Almond Butter, which I also used in the centres.
I die cut out all the leaves and flowers and mounted them onto a background cut from Jet Black Cardstock using the Gradient Stripes Cover die. I scattered a few Antique Gold sequins and finished with a sentiment from the set stamped in Obsidian Pigment ink.
My next project feature the new Grown With Love stamp set. This is such a cute little scene begging to be colored up with Artists Markers – which is exactly what I did! I stamped the scene with Permanent Black which is alcohol marker compatible. I used several colors from a few sets, but you can of course use whatever colors you like!
You might also notice that little path in the background? That came from the Home Sweet Home stamp set from a previous release and I thought it would work well with the set.
My background is pale blue cardstock, dry embossed with the Cloudy Day 3D embossing folder. I lightly ran a white pigment ink pad over the tops of the clouds just to emphasise them. To match the sky but without having to fussy cut out the centre of the garden stall, I colored it in with a close match marker.
That hill in the background is freehand cut from the newly released Alcohol Ink Backgrounds 6 x 6 Patterned Paper, which looks just like an alcohol ink background you created yourself – sneaky! I adhered the hill to the clouds panel, then adhered the path. I fussy cut out the stall and popped it up on Instant Dimension Foam Tape.
I added a few touches including white gel pen highlights, and a little Crystal Glaze to the scales. The sentiment was heat embossed in Pure White Crisp Embossing Powder on Jet Black and popped up over the stall.
My final project features the ‘You Are’ stamp set that was released a few days ago as an exclusive to the Altenew Mobile App. The stamps are all fully separate and great for all sorts of sentiments on cards, but I decided to stamp almost all of them in one bloc, onto a panel of the Alcohol Ink Backgrounds paper.
I used a MISTI to help me keep it all lined up, then stamped in embossing ink. As the paper is thick, it’s really easy to emboss on it, and I used Antique Silver. I actually heat embossed twice to get a thicker layer. And that’s it! Super easy right?!
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 02/10/2022 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 02/12/2022.
Your next stop on the hop is the super talented Yasmin Diaz!
Have a wonderful time!!
Jenny x
Supplies
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Full Hop List
Jenny Colacicco >>>YOU ARE HERE!
Yasmin Diaz >>>GO HERE NEXT!
Lovely cards Jenni, thank you for sharing ideas on how to incorporate patterned paper. Have a great day!
That flower stand makes an adorable scene card. So Spring-y !
Love the pinks and the saying card
Wow this collection has a little bit for everything i really love this!
Love all your cards. Such a nice variety of looks!
Outstanding trio of cards! So classy! I love your work!
I love all your cards. My favorite is the Garden Delights stamp set. You used my favorite color choices!
I always look forward to seeing your creations.
Your cards are fabulous! I love that farm stand.
Love all three! So inspiring!
Love the color combos. Such bright colors. Thanks for sharing your inspiration with us.
Beautiful creations and amazing release!
Your floral card uses my favorite colors to use!
Your cards are great and your coloring is totally awesome!
Great cards. The first one is my fav.
Fabulous cards!
Cute cards!
Gorgeous cards Jenny!
Wow, loved all your card designs!
Great cards, as always.
So beautiful.
Love your color choices. Pretty card with the embossed clouds.
Great cards. Thanks for sharing.
Love that sentiment card and gorgeous flowers!
Love your black and white background it really makes the flowers pop.
Lovely!!!😊😊
Beautiful!
I like that you used black for the gradient stripes on your first card. It is so pretty. Thanks for the inspiration.
Lovely cards!
Wow, love the combo of geometric and florals!
Love the flowers with the black and white backround!
Fantastic cards! I love how the black striped background looks with the flowers!
Love the cards. super neat how you stamped all the sentiments and heat embossed them on the paper.
Such a great job. Thanks for sharing your ideas and love how you did the background.
Beautiful cards! Garden Delights is my favorite- so pretty.
I love the garden stand – such a beautiful card!
Like the floral card and that cool background!
Beautiful job
Beautiful cards, love the black background on the first. And loved the scene you created on the second, so cute.
The coral-black color contrast is beautiful.
Wonderful cards. Love the colors you used.
Love your coloring. Colors look so deep.
Wonderful cards. I especially love this first one; I think the Garden Delights set may be my favorite from this release. Your coloring is amazing.
Love your Garden Delights card with the gradient die cut. I have that and love it in black. It makes the colored flowers really pop. I’ll be casing this card for sure. Beautiful.
The YOU ARE card is my fav!
Love the floral card! So bold and beautiful!
So beautifully colored
Thanks for showing the versatility of this new release.
So pretty! That new layered floral set is so beautiful and I love your composition. The 2nd card is so warm and colorful. Makes me happy to look at it!
The last card is my favorite.
All of your cards are lovely!
lovely cards – thanks for sharing your ideas with us
Absolutely beautiful cards! Those flowers just pop on that black Gradient Stripes background. Gorgeous!
I just got hit by the flower bug and when it hit, it hit HARD! I couldn’t figure out what the big deal was and it was like overnight I had all kinds of things coming in for flowers and all of a sudden I LOVE flower cards so of course that first card is like …WHOA! LOVE IT! Also love the die cut on the background. Great job on the other two cards as well. Nice colouring! 😀💕
Such wonderful cards! Love the colors…
Thanks for sharing.
I LOVE the way you’ve used the new products and made them look fresh and unique. Wow, that “Grown With Love” set is interesting, and it looks like it would be really useful for decorating meal planning pages or garden planning pages in a planner.
Great card! Love the color combo and design on your first card! Beautifully colored scene with the Grown With Love set!
Garden Delight is a sweet set. I really like the dimension of the black die cut panel behind your flowers.
Jenni
I ordered the You Are Everything stamp set and the stamps are difficult to ink up cleanly since I do not feel this particular set was made correctly. I am hesitant to reorder until I talk to someone who has this same set. Did you have any issues inking up the stamps for this set? I don’t feel like my words are raised enough to ink it clearly. Any info would be appreciated.
Hi Elizabeth – I didn’t have any problems inking up this set although i have in the past experience a similar problem that you mention (on a different stamp set). I am sure if you contact Altenew support they will be able to help https://altenew.com/pages/contact-us