Hi there crafters! Are you ready for a new Craft Your Life Project Kit?? (Aren’t you just loving these – I don’t know how but Altenew just keeps on coming up with amazing designs time and again!). Today’s reveal is Fragrant Florals! Our blog hop today has a ton of inspiration – hopefully you were sent along by Cheryl Espie but if not, you can head on over to the Altenew Card Blog to start at the beginning.
I always love the gigantic floral arrangements that Altenew releases (remember Simply Spring – lovvved) and this one is perfection – large open spaces and a gorgeous matching coloring stencil set and embossing folder. I didn’t want to lose a single part of the of the bouquet so I used entire thing on the card, letting it hang off the edges of my A2 panel.
I started by stenciling my flowers (without stamping any outline first) using the stencil in the kit. I used the Martian Terrain set of inks for the petals, and added some warmth and depth using the Summer Afternoon set of inks for the leaves. On all layers of the stencil, I first blended lightly fading out towards the outer edge/ tip of a petal or leave, and then came in with a deeper ink color to add depth. When all my ink blending was done, I placed my card panel in the MISTI and aligned the Fragrant Florals stamp outline over the top, lining up all the leaf veins and centres, and stamped in Warm Sunshine a couple of times. I love how this lightens over the top of the ink blending!
I also stamped the sentiment directly over the top using Obsidian Pigment ink. When it was dry, I added white gel pen highlights in the flower centres and also onto the ‘fabulous’ word.
For the background panel, I used a warm coral A2 panel of cardstock, dry embossed with the Fragrant Florals 3D Embossing Folder. I then die cut the flower panel and using foam tape, arranged it over the top of the dry embossed panel so a little peeped out. I added a few Antique Gold Sequins for a subtle shine to finish.
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 04/18/2022 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 04/20/2022.
Your next stop on the hop is: Colleen Balija
Have fun !!
Jenny x
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Full Hop List
Jenny Colacicco >>>YOU ARE HERE!
Colleen Balija >>>GO HERE NEXT!
Reiko Tsuchida ***Note: Due to strict regulations in Japan, you might not be able to leave a comment on her blog post.
What a lovely spring bouquet Jenni, nice touch adding the texture in the background! Love this new kit, thanks for the inspiration! Have a wonderful day!
Gorgeous colors! Very pretty card!
How pretty! This kit is amazing!
Great card…thanks for sharing.
What a great kit! I’d have loads of fun with this one.
Hello from New Hampshire. This kit has great saying and you really showed one off. Thank you
Love the coral color scheme!
Your card is gorgeous! Love the colors.
I love this kit! Thanks for the inspiration!
this is a gorgeous card!
Love what you did with this kit!! Gorgeous colors!
Great card. Kit looks great. Thanks for the inspiration.
Martian Terrain colors…magnificent!
That is a beautiful card….. tyfs 🙂
A beautiful kit, love all the details. Your card is so beautiful, love the colors.
Love that color combo! Thinking I “need” that coral cardstock! Wonderful design! This
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Your color choices and the white open spaces look fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful card! Such dreamy colors!
Very pretty card. I love the sentiments in the kit.
Wow Jenny, absolutely stunning!
Love the peachy colors you used. Very well done!
I really like the colors you used.
your card is so pretty, i would love to play with this kit!
Beautiful card! Can’t wait till my kit comes.
Liked how you let the full bouquet hang off the card. LOVED the color combo.
This is another beautiful kit from Altenew. Your card is gorgeous.
Beautiful colors! I LOVE the warmth!
Peachy colors are my favorite, so I am totally in love with this design.
Those tone-on-tone oranges and yellows are beautiful.
So gorgeous!! Love the colors!
Beautiful! Love the choice of colors!
Wow! Your colors are so mellow but really adds to your card. I will have to try to color first then stamp the outline. Nice job.
Oh these color choices are amazing.
Gorgeous!
Love this kit and the way you used it. The highlights with the white gel pen look lovely.
I love this color combination and the beautiful ink blending! Gorgeous card!
Your colors really pop!
WOW, you knocked it out of the park with this color combo!
this is beautiful!
Holy moley, that is a stunner. I love the 3-d embossed version just peeking out from underneath
Thanks for sharing your lovely card!
I need to get my hands on those coloring stencils. Your inking is beautiful.
Lovely card. I like the way you stamped over the stenciling so the details are there but they don’t jump out at you the way the would if you’d stamped in black. Thanks for the inspiration!
Wow- what an explosion of color!
Gorgeous floral design in this awesome kit! Beautiful card with awesome dimension and colors!
What a beautiful card! I love the colors. TFS 🙂
Your coloring is exquisite! Love the light you have showing through.
What a gorgeous card! I wouldn’t want to cut any of it off either. And I love the choice to stamp the outline but not in a bold colour.
I love the color combo!
Love your color choices!
Gorgeous card. I really like the colors. Thank you.
This is gorgeous!! Love the color combo!
This is a lovely card! I like the embossed background and the large floral main image.
Nice blend share. I like the color mix for the image. Good mix with the background.
Stunning card! I love the color palette and all the extra details you’ve added to the stamped image.
Love the way you blended that gorgeous card and only stamped in more colour. Cutting that beautiful flower would have been a real shame.