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22 December 2021

Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Sweet Pea Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($200 in Total Prizes)

Welcome to the December Paint-A-Flower release blog hop and giveaway, you should have arrived here form Annemarie Caister, who's birthday it is today, so Happy Birthday. If you get lost on the hop you can go back to the start at any point by visiting the Altenew Card Blog.

The Paint-A-Flower Sweet Pea is a stunning outline stamp set that will fill your project with beauty, the set includes several sentiments that can be paired together to create the perfect sentiment for your project.

My first card has two of the Sweet Pea stems colored with Altenew's Alcohol markers. I didn't try to go all out with the colouring, instead I took a blobby approach lol

The sentiment is from the All About You Word Die Set, the base layer is cut from black card and the top layer from white card that was spritzed with Forest Glades Spray Ink. I added a few Essential Black and White Enamel Dots.

For my second card I decided to go for a loose water colour look. I started by stamping and heat embossing the PAF Sweet Pea in Rose Gold. I then used my Artist 24 Pan Watercolor set.

I wet each petal area and dropped in different shades of pink and lilac, allowing them to merge and create their own shades. Once dry I added a black stamped sentiment and some inky splatters.

Your next stop is Colleen Balija, before you go please take a moment to check out the giveaway information below.

Giveaway Prizes:

Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 12/30/2021.

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17 December 2021

Altenew NEW Year-End Celebration Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 in total prizes)

Welcome to the Altenew Year-End Celebration Blog Hop and Giveaway, you should have arrived here from Erin Thompson, if not you can go back to the start of the hop at any times by visiting the Altenew Blog.

This release sees 8 new die sets added to the Altenew Store, there's a really great mix of sentiments, tags, layering dies, frames and focal images.You can shop the new release here. I have four cards to share with you, lets take a look...

My first card features three of the new sets. I used the new Mini Rolled Roses Die Set to create the floral cluster which I sat against a die cut label from the Nesting Slim Labels die set. I added a sentiment using the Fancy Yay Die which I cut twice and adhered with a tiny drop shadow.

My second card uses the Mega Stamps Frame dies, I coloured it to have an old feel to it by adding more colour in some areas. I added flowers using the Lovely Daises Die Set, these flowers are huge and really make a statement on a card. The sentiment is from the Mega Stamp Frames die set.

Next up is the Gold Band Lily Die Set,this set is stunning. The flowers you make from it are a really good size and look or realistic. I cut from Neenah Solar crest which I backed with double sided adhesive sheets, this allowed me to quickly colour with Altenew's Artist markers and peel and stick the layers together.

My final card uses the Celebrate With Cake Die Set. This is a fantastic set! Not only do you get the cake with decorations but you get a whole set on numbers too. The cake can be decorated in several ways. I chose to use the die which creates the filling and coloured it to look like jam/jelly. I cut a few of the hearts from the set to add around the cake.

Your next stop is Natasha Davies

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Giveaway Prizes

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 12/25/2021.

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12 December 2021

Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Vintage Tapestry Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 in total prizes)

Welcome to the December Craft Your Life Project Kit release and blog hop. You should have arrived here from Jenny Colacicco, if not you can go back to the start of the hop at anytime by visiting the Altenew Card Blog.

This month we are introducing the Vintage Tapestry kit to the CYL family. This kit contains a beautiful 3-dimensional embossing folder, a 6x8 layering stamp set, a 4-piece layering stencil set, and a matching die set to cut all the pieces from the stamp set and the layering stencil set.

The stamp set features the classic layering concept we first introduced with our Vintage Roses Stamp Set. You will find that there are no outline images, but once you layer up the images you will get a beautiful flower and leaf in the classic vintage print style. Discover a rose (B1-B3), a daisy bush flower (A1-A6), 2 smaller flowers (E and G), and a set of leaves (C, D, and F). We know you will LOVE layering with these stamps!

The layering stencil set features two beautiful layering baroque swirl images that can be used alone or connected (Stencils 1 and 2). In addition, there are four layering floral buds and branches of varous sizes in the same style as the coordinating stamp set (Stencils 3 and 4). And finally, Stencil 4 also has the base coloring layer for the rose from the stamp set.

The CYL Vintage Tapestry kit is available as a one time purchase in store now , Craft Your Life Project Kits as available as a monthly subscription, I will share more details further later in this post.

Here's the card I created for the release. I used the flowers and leaves stamped in vintage tones. I adhered them to my card using foam tape to create a floral cluster. I added lots of inky splatters in the background and added 3 sentiments which I stamped and die cut using the Circled Sentiments stamp and die set

Your next stop on the hop is Rebecca Sogn, before you go please take a moment to check out the subscription and giveaway information below.

The Craft Your Life Project Kits are available as a monthly subscription plan, which you can sigh up to here CYL Subscription sign up. Each month we release a new Craft Your Life Project Kit Design. The monthly subscription means that we will send you the newly released Craft Your Life Project Kit without you having to go to our website to order it each month.

Giveaway Prizes

$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 12/18/2021 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 12/20/2021.

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07 December 2021

Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Carolina Allspice Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($200 in total prizes)

Welcome to the December Craft-A-Flower release blog hop and giveaway. This months flower is the Carolina Allspice. You should have arrived here from Svitlana Shayevich, if not you can go back to the start of the hop by visiting the Altenew Card Blog.

The CAF Carolina Allspice is available in store as a one off purchase. Lets take a look at the card I made for this release;

I started by cutting all of the Carolina Allspice layers using Altenew's Gradient Cardstock which I backed with Double sided adhesive sheets. I used the Green Meadows and Red Cosmos sets. I embossed a background using the Dotted Circles 3D embossing folder which I then added black ink to.

I cut a tag using the Terriffic Tags die set and added foiled detail with the Tiny Patterns Hot Foil Plates set. The sentiment which is included in the CAF Carolina Allspice was cut from black card and added using silicone glue. I added some thin black twine to the tag to complete the card.

The Craft-A-Flower is available as a monthly subscription plan,

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) Subscribe here

Giveaway Prizes

$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 12/13/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 12/15/2021.

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