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Good morning! I’m so excited to be a stop on the Altenew Crafty Friends blog hop! This is such an amazing community and I am honored to be part of it! I’ve been crafting since I was a kid but blogging and crafting “publicly” since 2014! I discovered Altenew shortly after I started blogging and I fell in love with their gorgeous floral designs, layering stamps, and ink pads! You can find one of my very first Altenew cards here! 😉
For today’s card I decided to do a little no-line coloring with my luminance colored pencils! Here’s what I created!
To start I stamped the flower from Sweetest Peas with barely beige ink and colored them with luminance pencils. I used a variety of pinks for the petals and warm greys for the stem. After I finished coloring I used the coordinating dies to die-cut the image. I stamped a sentiment from the same set onto red cardstock with versamark and heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder. Then I trimmed the cardstock down to an angled label.
Next I stamped more of the flowers onto dark grey cardstock with versamark and heat-embossed them with gold tinsel embossing powder. I used a trick from Debby Hughes and splattered a little water on the panel and sprinkled the drops with the same gold tinsel embossing powder. As long as you don’t let too much time go by the embossing powder will stick to the water just the same as versamark or versafine! I love the look of that gold embossing powder on grey! I adhered the sentiment label with regular adhesive and then used foam mounting tape for the flower for a little more dimension!
And that’s it!
There are tons of prizes for today’s (and tomorrow’s) hop! Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners and one Altenew Academy class to 5 lucky winners. There are also 12 awesome friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:
- My Sweet Petunia: 3 MISTI stamping tools(Memory, Original, and Mini)
- Jennifer McGuire Ink: Altenew $50 gift certificate & 10 handmade cards
- Online Card Classes: 3 class spots
- Create and Craft TV: £50 gift certificate
- Ellen Hutson LLC: $30 gift certificate
- Chameleon Art Products: 1 pack of 5 Chameleon Pens
- Stamp & Scrapbook Expo: $25 gift certificate
- Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 gift certificate
- Simon Says Stamp: $25 gift certificate
- Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine: 2 copies of Scrapbook & Cards Today Fall 2018 issue
- Scrapbook.com: $25 gift certificate
- Tombow USA: 1 pack of 10 Dual Brush Pens
Be sure to leave comments by Sunday, December 9th, 2018 for a chance to win! 37 winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on all of these blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on December 15th, 2018.
I am also giving away a $20 Altenew gift certificate to one random commenter! Please leave comments by Saturday, December 8th, 2018 for a chance to win and the winner will be emailed on December 9th!
You should have arrived from Zinia and Zsoka is your next stop! You can find the full hop list on the Altenew blog!
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Angela T says
Your backgrounds are just amazing!
Subhashini says
Stunning creation. Love the gold embossing
Chandhini says
This card stole my heart, love the gold embossing along with coloring against the black background.
Jane Booth says
Your card is so elegant! And I love the tip about how to emboss “splatter drops”!!! Thanks for the inspiration! I also added the polychromos to my wish list 😊
TamiB says
Nice card!
Jess K says
Very pretty card, beautiful coloring. The flower just pops from the black card. Love this!!!
Monica W says
Such a pretty card! Love it
Mindy1414 says
Your card is gorgeous and your coloring is stunning! Thanks for sharing Debby’s tip (splattering a little water on the panel then sprinkling embossing powder on it), I can’t wait to try it. Thanks also for sharing your card and for the always amazing inspiration. (mardy14@bellsouth.net)
mandalj says
What beautiful colouring! I love the pink against the dark cardstock!
Carmela Hubler says
Gorgeous card, Jess! I love the dark background and how the Lily stands out with such pretty colors.
Nikki Anderberg says
Such a striking card!
Becky Flammang says
Love your card!
Lenice W says
Beautiful card! Love the pop of color on black, and the gold outline looks great. Thanks for sharing!
Andre M. says
Beautiful design on this pretty card. The palette is so lovely.
Alli says
Oooo! I like the simple gold embossing with the colored flower in front…neat layout!