Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Lily Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi there!
welcome to the Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Lily Release Blog Hop + Giveaway! You are arriving from Nicole's blog - a list of all the participants is available at the bottom of this post for your convenience-

Today Altenew is releasing a new subscription program, and i think you are going to love this...The new Craft-A-Flower die sets are released monthly and celebrate the beauty of a wide variety of flowers! Each set includes all the pieces you need to create a multi-layered floral arrangement, inspired by our popular 3D flower dies. All you need to add is colored cardstock and a die cutting machine. 

These Lilly blossoms are amazing, easy to build and so realistic that i wanted to use every piece of the die set. So, i chose to create a slim card for today's hop.

I cut the flowers from Gradient Cardstock - Cherry Blossom, Green Meadows, Summer Sunshine and Red Cosmos-. For the background panel, i used the Circle Quilt cover die to cut a large detailed strip, and glued it to the card ( even with some of the negative pieces still attached!).

A bit of foam adhesive behind the flowers brings them to live and adds movement to the card. Then i cut the small sentiment from the Envelope Stickers and added a few Satin Gold Sequins. Just love how this turned out, and perfect for Mother's Day! just saying!!!

This new set is amazing, just imagine the possibilities! And you too can secure your monthly release by using the

• Craft-A-Flower Monthly Subscription Planhttps://altenew.com/products/craft-a-flower-monthly-subscription 
• This is a monthly subscription plan for our Craft-A-Flower die set. When signed up, you are guaranteed a spot in our monthly Craft-A-Flower releases and will receive a set each month - at a specially discounted price! ($35.99 →$29.99)

Now to the fun part of the blog hop, GIVEAWAY time...

To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog for a chance to win. We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 05/16/2020.

Good luck everyone!

Now it is time to continue having fun, and hop onto Virginia's blog to be inspired by her work. Remember you can always visit the Altenew Card Blog to start the hop. A list of all the participants is available for your convenience:

Altenew Card Blog

Ashlea Cornell
Nicole Watt
Nathalie DeSousa <<< you are here
Virginia Lu
Svitlana Shayevich
Tania Ahmed
Jaycee Gaspar
Laurie Willison
Amber Rain Davis
Therese Calvird

Have fun hopin!

Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Hydrangea Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi there!
Welcome to the ALTENEW PAINT-A-FLOWER: HYDRANGEA RELEASE BLOG HOP + GIVEAWAY.  You are arriving from Amber's blog!   - a list of all the participants is available at the bottom of this post for your convenience-.

Today, Altenew is releasing a new Paint-a-Flower, meet HYDRANGEA... this flower is so beautiful and you are going to enjoy using all types of coloring mediums to detail it.  Here is what i have created for today's hop:

I chose to stamped the PAF: HYDRANGEA with Obsidian Black ink on the left of the layout so that it covered the left side of the page. 

I used the Altenew Artist Watercolor palette to detail the blooms in lilac, light blue and a hint of green in the centers of the blooms.  Once i finished, i used my typewriter to add my lines of journal and added the stamped title using the sentiments of the stamp set.

To make sure the picture is the focal point in this page, i cut the cardstock to form a large tag, and this time, i stamped the PAF: HYDRANGEA images at the bottom of the tag with Black Obsidian ink.   This time i added a wash of the colors used in the left side of the spread, and added splatters of the colors to both sides of the page to tie them together.

Just love how this came together so easily.  The new Paint-A-Flower: HYDRANGEA is sure to become a new favorite in my list of Altenew products.  Make sure you get yours.

• Paint-A-Flower Monthly Subscription Plan (optional) https://altenew.com/products/paint-a-flower-monthly-subscription

This is a monthly subscription plan for our Paint-A-Flower set. When signed up, you are guaranteed a spot in our monthly PAF releases and will receive a set each month - at a specially discounted price! ($15.99 →$12.99)

This is  a great subscription program that will ensure you receive your monthly Paint-a-Flower stamp set on your mail box each month!

Now, onto the fun part of this hop:   GIVEAWAY time

To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog for a chance to win. We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on THIS POST on 04/30/2020.

Good Luck everyone!

Thank you so much for joining in today. It is time to visit Virginia's Blog to be inspired by her cards. Remember you can always start the hop in the Altenew Card blog, or return here to complete the loop. Here is the list of all the blog hop participants:

Altenew Card Blog

Laurie Willison

Lilith Eeckels

LauraJane

Therese Calvird

Maryam Perez

Mindy Eggen

Jaycee Gaspar

Norine Borys

Kelly Griglione

Ashlea Cornell

Amber Rain Davis

Nathalie DeSousa<<< You are here

Virginia Lu

Nicole Watt

Sveta Fotinia

Thanks for visiting, and KEEP SAFE!

OTTAWA FIELD NOTES - Simple Stories

Hi there Simple Stories Friends!

Hope you all are safe in  your little corner of the world. Though most of us are doing our part to beat this virus, it does not stop us from reliving ( and wishing to ) our travels.  The new Simple Stories GOING PLACES collection is perfect to bring the best of those memories.

I started with a Sn@p  basic ledger paper as the background for the page.  What better way to bring happy to a page than a rainbow.  I pulled some of the Sn@p  cards with the same background design in different colors, as well as some of the collection papers.  Then cut chevrons  and hand stitch them to the top right corner of the page.

With so many bright colors in the papers, i glued a few pieces as layers behind the picture an set it at the end of the rainbow chevron.    Here is where i had fun with all the stickers, bits and pieces and even fussy cut some tags from the paper to form a cluster at the top right corner of the picture.

Did i mention this collection has so many fun embellishments?  It was so easy to combine embellishments with some stamping to bring interest and sentiment to the page.

To balance the page, i cut strips of the Happy Travels, On Our Way, 3x4 Elements and set them at the bottom of the page.  Here, i added a large cluster of ephemera at the left side of the paper strips at the same level as the picture.

With all the color in the page, i pulled the Black foam alpha from the Color Vibes  collection to spell the title of the page under the chevron pieces.  I added a phrase sticker from the Combo Sticker sheet to complete the title, then used the coordinating stamp to add more sentiment to the title piece.

This collection is amazing, filled with color, fun designs, and just the perfect sentiments to document your past trips, or plan the ones you will go on once we are able to do so!

I hope you check the GOING PLACES collection.   You are going to love it!

'til next time, keep safe!!

Materials used:

12300

12301  combo sticker

12303  Pack Your Bags paper

12309  On Our Way paper

12311  3x4 elements

12313  4x6 elements

12314  6x8 paper pad

12315  Chipboard

12316 bits and pieces icons

12317  Journaling spots

12320  Sn@p cards

12323  Foam stickers

12324  Stamp set

13423  Color Vibes Black Foam Alpha