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Good morning! I’m thrilled to be joining the amazing Altenew design team to celebrate their May 2018 release! They have a beautiful selection of stamps and dies in this month’s release!
I was looking through my cardstock stash and decided to use a color that I don’t think I’ve ever used before and I love how it turned out with my trio of cards!
My first card takes a little inspiration from that pretty Rifle Paper Co. notebook. I started by stamping the flowers from Bride to Be on white cardstock with peachy pink and red inks from Altenew. I die-cut them with the coordinating dies and experimented with arranging them in a variety of ways.
Next I stamped the fabulous Rustic Linen stamp onto that muted teal cardstock with versamark and heat-embossed it with clear embossing powder. I arranged the flowers over the panel and added a heat-embossed sentiment from Starry Flowers.
For my second card I started by stamping the Starry Flowers floral image onto watercolor paper with versafine and heat-embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I watercolored it with my Mijello Mission Gold watercolors. Once it dried I die-cut it with the coordinating die. I stamped the sentiment from the Garden Silhouette set onto white cardstock with versafine and heat-embossed it with clear embossing powder.
Once again I clear heat-embossed the Rustic Linen stamp onto teal cardstock. To finish the card I simply adhered the floral image and sentiment. I wanted to keep these cards flat so I avoided adding embellishments or sequins (which would normally be my go-to’s)! 😉
My last card used the same teal cardstock but this time I stamped directly on the panel. I started by stamping the florals from Bride To Be on the teal cardstock with white pigment ink. I blasted it with a heat gun and then restamped the images on top of the white pigment ink with a variety of purple and green inks from Altenew.
I also stamped the large white flower on a scrap piece of teal cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I stamped the inner layers with pigment inks and heat-embossed them with clear embossing powder as well to keep them from smudging. Then I die-cut the flower with the coordinating dies and popped it up with foam mounting tape. I also stamped the sentiment from the Garden Silhouette set and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder.
This was definitely an unusual color palette for me but I really loved pushing myself out of my comfort zone and I love the way the cards turned out! I hope you do, too! 😉
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/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog by Friday, May 26th for a chance to win. Six winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 5/27/2018.
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 May 25th and the winner will be announced on May 26th!
Here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:
- Altenew Card Blog
- Agnieszka Malyszek
- Sandra Dietrich
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- May Sukyong Park
- Debby Hughes
- Paige Evans
- Virginia Lu
- Simon Says Stamp Blog
- Lilith Eeckels
- Vicky Papaioannou
- Therese Calvird
- Justine Hovey
- Enza Gudor
- Chari Moss
- Gayatri Murali
- Altenew Scrapbook Blog
- Yoonsun Hur
- Anna Komenda
- Jenn Shurkus
- Reiko Tsuchida
- Laurie Willison
- Kymona Tracey
- Jennifer McGuire
- Svitlana Shayevich
- Raquel Bowman
- Lydia Evans
- Kelly Latevola
- Nicole Picadura
- Nina-Marie Trapani
- Terhi Koskinen
- Rubeena Ianigro
- Sveta Fotinia
- Emily Leiphart
- Flora Monika Farkas
- Laura Jane
- Michelle Short
- Erum Tasneem
- Kimberly Wiener
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Awesome cards, Jess! Love the arrangements & that wonderful Rustic Linen background.
Love the darker backgrounds, especially the rustic linen.
love the muted aqua background with the flower colors – wonderful cards, Jessica!
Beautiful cards in my favourite colours, love the darkness x
Your cards are incredible and love the colors you chose. Yay new collection!
You are so talented! What beautiful cards!
I love the colors you used! Beautiful!
Gorgeous cards Jess and I love the background stamp and the linen look it gives the cardstock. So pretty with these gorgeous flowers!
I love the colors and your cards are beautiful!
What a great background! Fantastic texture and I love how the light colors pop against that background!
Beautiful cards. Love the Starry Flowers.
Beautiful cards. Love the contrast you achieved with the dark backgrounds and light floral images!
I love the colors you chose to with the back ground color, just gorgeous.
Great inspiration, thank you!
Beautiful cards!
Love that background die! Your cards are beautiful!
Love the Linen background and the Bride to Be stamps. Thanks for showing us stamping on dark cardstock with white then color!
so many great products this release and great inspiration too. thanks as always for sharing.
Your cards are beautiful, Jessica! I really love that teal background with the pretty florals!! That Rustic Linen background stamp makes a gorgeous background!!
The linen background stamp adds so much depth and interest! Lovely group of cards!
Great color choice. I love how your cards turned out. There are so many wonderful images in this new release. I am really falling for that Rustic Linen background stamp.
Love that linen stamp!
The muted teal is a fabulous background look with those great plum tone altenew inks. I’m loving that linen-look stamp.
Lovely cards!
Very pretty