Good morning! I’m thrilled to be joining the amazing Altenew design team to celebrate their April 2018 release! They have a fabulous selection of stamps and dies in this month’s release!
I decided to keep to a black, white, gold, and blue palette and I love how the cards look like a set!
For my first card I did a loose watercolor wash of ombre blues on a piece of canson montval watercolor paper. I let it dry and then die-cut it with the new Gradient Lines cover die. I laid the die-cut over a piece of white cardstock and held it in place with post-it tape. Then I puzzle-pieced the negative strips into the die and adhered them in place before carefully removing the die which I reserved for another card. This left a really neat striped ombre effect on my background panel.
Next I stamped the Happy Heart florals onto a piece of white cardstock and heat-embossed them with gold embossing powder. I used copic markers to add shading to the center of each flower in colors that matched the background stripes. Next I die-cut the You Are Loved sentiment from black cardstock and gold glitter cardstock and adhered them together on a slight offset angle. I layered the florals onto opposite corners of the panels and adhered the sentiment in the top left. I finished the card with a sprinkling of gold sequins and a layer of spectrum noir clear sparkle on the black cardstock.
My next card uses the original Gradient Stripes cover die piece. I simply adhered that to a white cardstock panel and sprayed it with the jet black spray. I layered a few more of my copic colored flowers from the Happy Heart set under the You Are Loved sentiment and added a gold sequins. I die-cut the sentiment with black cardstock and gold mirror cardstock for a slightly different effect and added a layer of spectrum noir clear sparkle to the black cardstock.
For my last card I made the Mega Greetings the focus of my card. I stamped some of the berries and leaves onto a white cardstock panel and heat-embossed them with gold embossing powder. Next I stamped the flowers from Happy Heart onto white cardstock and heat-embossed them with gold embossing powder before die-cutting them with the coordinating dies. I used similar shades to copic color the die-cut flowers but used slightly darker shades of blue.
I adhered the flowers over the gold embossed background and then die-cut the Mega Greetings hello from black cardstock and gold glitter cardstock. This time I layered the gold glitter over the black and adhered it to the panel with foam mounting tape. I stamped the rest of the sentiment from Happy Heart onto black cardstock with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I trimmed that down to a label and adhered it to the card with foam mounting tape. Finally I finished the card with a few turquoise blue sequins!
To celebrate the release Altenew is giving away SIX $50 gift certificates! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to SIX lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog by Saturday, April 21st for a chance to win. Six winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 4/22/18.
And, there’s even more good news! 😉 EVERY stop on the hop is giving away a $30 gift certificate so the more you comment, the more chances you have to win! Please leave your comments by 11:59PM EST on April 20th and the winner will be announced on April 21st!
Here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:
- Altenew Card Blog
- Erum Tasneem
- Kay Miller
- May Sukyong Park
- Nina-Marie Trapani
- Svitlana Shayevich
- Lilith Eeckels
- Jenn Shurkus
- Agnieszka Malyszek
- Lydia Evans
- Jennifer McGuire
- Flora Monika Farkas
- Janette Kausen
- Sveta Fotinia
- Lydia Fiedler
- Debby Hughes
- Virginia Lu
- Laurie Willison
- Kymona Tracey
- Keeway Tsao
- Sandra Dietrich
- Gayatri Murali
- Vicky Papaioannou
- Altenew Scrapbook Blog
- Therese Calvird
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Nicole Picadura
- Justine Hovey
- Reiko Tsuchida
- Amber Rain Davis
- Enza Gudor
- Kelli Cool
- Laura Bassen
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These are all so lovely! I love the bit of sparkle throughout- my favorite is definitely the sparkly gold hello with the shadowed element. Gorgeous!
Your cards are stunning, I like the Mega Hello!
I love the big hello die!!
Gorgeous card! Love the giant dies!
I love how bold these are!
Omg! What beautiful cards! TFS! Love Altenew and this new release!
Such pretty cards Jessica. Love the gold and blue together along with the gold embossed flowers.
Beautiful cards (#3 is my favorite). I love the Mega Greetings and Gradient Stripes stamp sets in this release.
Lovely colors and layering on your cards!
Beautiful inspiration!
your cards are just gorgeous 🙂
Love your cards. The new release is great.
Your decision to use the same colors for both cards turned out to be wise. Both cards turned out awesome.
Those great big words are just the best!!
Beautiful cards. I really like your Hello card! Thank you for the inspiration.
Ooh la lah… beautiful cards in gorgeous colors. Your use of black and gold on each is stunning!
Gorgeous cards!! The blue and gold looks so elegant together, LOVE it. 🙂
So many great ideas! I love the mega word dies in the new release.
gorgeous cards ! I love this hello die so much !
Your cards are lovely!
What an amazing card set you made! The blue with the black, white and gold are SO beautiful together. I love that you made two cards from the one die cut and flipped the light and dark from top to bottom to give it a completely different look. Beautiful!!
I really like the loose coloring of the floral elements–it’s the perfect balance to the stripes!!! Thank you.
Gorgeous cards – love all your embossing touches.
Loads of pretty shimmer, beautiful cards.