Altenew 6th Anniversary Blog Hop Day 2 + Giveaway!

Welcome, crafty friends!

If you just arrived from Mindy Eggen's blog, you're in the right place!

I'm so thrilled to be sharing these projects I made for the Altenew 6th Anniversary Blog Hop!

Altenew has produced so many of my favorite stamp and die sets over the years - and my very first floral stamp was an Altenew set!

There's tons of great ideas along the hop today, and I hope you feel inspired to do some creating after you see all the fabulous projects. So let's get to the cards!

For the first card, I revisted one of my favorite techniques - ink blending over versamark.

I cut down a piece of Specialty Stamping paper to 4 x 5.25 inches and then used the Wildflower Doodles stamp set and Versamark ink to stamp the repeating images on the paper. I then heat-set the paper and applied Coral Berry ink all over the paper. The Versamark ink resists the ink and gives a lovely muted white result.

I glued the finished background piece on to a cut and scored 4.25 x 5.5 inch card base and then started the other elements.

I had a few assembled floral and leaf die cuts from the Wild Rose 3D die set in my scraps and the colors matched PEFECTLY! I adhered them down with foam tape to a stamped Pen Sketch Mandala image that I cut in half with my scissors, and then mounted that assembled element with foam tape and adhered it down to my background.

To finish off the card, I glued down a die cut from the Flower Arrangement coordinating die set and then completed the sentiment with using a "beautiful" stamp from the Amazing You stamp set.

For the next card, I used the Warm Sunshine watercolor brush marker to lay down the background watercolor wash on to a 4 x 5.25 inch piece of watercolor paper. After that wash dried, I used the Wildflower Garden stamp set and some Distress Oxide inks to stamp the images on to the watercolor washed background.

I used a sentiment from the same stamp set and stamped it in the upper right hand corner of the watercolor wash to finish off the card panel.

To complete the entire card, I adhered the finished panel on to a cut and scored 4.25 x 5.5 inch card base.

For the last card, I started out by cutting and scoring a 4.25 x 5.5 inch card base from dark blue colored carstock.

I used a Circle Frame die to cut out a piece of pale pink cardstock and glued it down to the card base, and then used the same die on a piece of vellum paper so I could use the negative circle space. I used one of the small stamps from the Flower Arrangement stamp set and some white pigment ink to stamp the small white images on to the piece of vellum. I turned the stamped vellum piece over and then applied liquid glue on to the areas where the stamping had been applied so that the glue would be hidden behind those stamped images. After the glue was applied I turned the vellum circle piece back over and adhered it down to the card base within the frame.

I then applied white nuvo drops to the center of the white floral images for some extra dimension,

Using several stamped and die cut images from the Flower Arrangement set, I arranged them all together and glued them down to the card as well, making sure the leaves were peeking out from behind the larger floral images. I used the Mega You die to create the first part of the sentiment, and then stamped the rest of the sentiment using a phrase from the Folksy Floral stamp set . I used the Deep Blue Seas, Cherry Blossom, Green Valley, Green Meadows, and Pocketful of Sunshine mini ink cube sets for the floral and leaf images in my bouquet.

Let's get to some special details of this hop!

Enjoy FREE U.S. shipping with code HAPPY6TH or $5 OFF international shipping with code ANNIV20 at checkout. Offer valid from 4/2/2020 at 12:01 am EDT through 4/5/2020 at 11:59 pm EDT. Not valid on prior purchases. Cannot be combined with other promo codes. Shop here: https://altenew.com/

Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners and one Altenew Academy class to 10 lucky winners. There are also 14 awesome companies/crafty friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:

Altenew: 6 $50 Altenew gift certificates
Altenew Academy: 10 class spots
Jennifer McGuire Ink: 1 $100 Altenew gift certificate & 5 Share Handmade Kindness goodie bags($20 each)
My Sweet Petunia: 1 prize bundle(Original MISTI, a set of Creative Corners, a Cut-Align and a bar magnet)
CiLi in Papers: $100 gift certificate
Craft Stash: £75 gift certificate
Amy Tangerine: Your Brightest Year Yet online workshop(valued at $89)
Online Card Classes: 3 class spots
Simon Says Stamp: $50 gift certificate
Scrapbook.com: $50 gift certificate
Michelle's Cards & Stamp: $50 gift certificate
Ellen Hutson LLC: $30 gift certificate
Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 gift certificate
Scrapbook & Cards Today: 1 copy of Scrapbook & Cards Today Spring 2020 issue
Bumbleberry Papercrafts: £25 gift certificate
Seven Hills Crafts: £25 gift certificate

Be sure to leave comments by 4/12/2020 for a chance to win one of 37 prizes! To make the hop more exciting, start your comment with "Hi from (city or country where you're from)!". 37 winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog on 4/18/2020.

Your next stop on the hop is Agnieszka Malyszek.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and spending some time with me! 

Have fun hopping!

Kelly