Good morning! I am so excited to help Altenew celebrate their fourth anniversary today! They’re having FOUR days of blog hops with lots of exciting prizes from Altenew and their exciting sponsors! You can find all the giveaways details at the bottom of my post! Today I decided to play with my alcohol inks to create a birthday card with a moody color palette!
I started by dropping alcohol ink blending solution onto a piece of heavyweight yupo paper. I’ve found that heavyweight paper is the best for heat-embossing. Yupo paper is technically plastic so it warps easily if you apply too much heat but the heavyweight definitely takes heat better. You can find more of my tricks for heat-embossing on yupo here! I used alcohol inks in currant, eggplant, wild plum, and cool peri. I really love the combination of those dark moody colors! I used a few drops of alcohol ink blending solution to get the alcohol ink moving and used my air puffer to blend the colors together. I let it dry completely and then stamped the Arabesque Medallion twice with versamark before heat-embossing it with gold tinsel embossing powder. I deliberately positioned the stamp to follow the lines of the alcohol ink.
I trimmed the yupo paper down and adhered it to a white card base. Then I stamped the greeting from Birthday Builder onto gold cardstock and heat-embossed it with black embossing powder. I trimmed it down and added a strip of black cardstock beneath the gold and then adhered it to my card with foam mounting tape. I love the combination of those colors with gold and black!
Since it’s Altenew‘s Anniversary I decided to share a small gallery of cards I’ve created over the years using stamps and dies from Altenew! They’ve been one of my favorite companies from the very beginning and I am honored to be a stop on the hop today!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ALTENEW!! Here’s to many, MANY more!! 🙂
Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners and one Altenew Academy class to 5 lucky winners. There are also 13 awesome companies/crafty friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:
- Altenew: 5 $50 Altenew Gift Certificates
- Altenew Academy: 5 Class Spots
- Jennifer McGuire Ink: 2 $100 Altenew Gift Certificates
- Online Card Classes: 3 Class Spots
- Simon Says Stamp: $50 Gift Certificate
- Scrapbook.com: $50 Gift Certificate
- My Sweet Petunia: Mini MISTI Stamping Tool
- Tombow USA: 2 Dual Brush Pen Sets(10 Colors) and 2 TwinTone Dual Tip Marker Sets(12 Colors)
- WOW! Embossing Powder: $40 Gift Certificate
- Create & Craft TV: £25 Gift Certificate
- Ellen Hutson LLC: $25 Gift Certificate
- Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 Gift Certificate
- Amy Tangerine: 2 Signed Copies of Craft a Life You Love
- Chameleon Pens: 1 Pack of 5 Chameleon Pens
- Scrapbook & Cards Today: 1 Copy of Scrapbook & Cards Today Spring 2018 Issue
Be sure to leave comments by April 15th, 2018 at 11:59 PM EDT for a chance to win! 30 WINNERS will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew blog on April 17th, 2018.
You should have arrived from Lilith and Agnieszka is your next stop! In case you encounter a broken link here is a full list of all the hop stops today:
- Altenew
- Kristina Werner
- Lilith Eeckels
- Jessica Frost-Ballas –> You are here!
- Agnieszka Malyszek
- Keeway Tsao
- Terhi Koskinen
- WOW! Embossing Powder
- Debby Hughes
- Meghann Andrew
- Mindy Baxter
- My Sweet Petunia
- Laura Jane
- Julia Altermann
- Justine Hovey
Altenew is also offering FREE U.S. shipping with code HAPPY4TH or $5 OFF international shipping with code ANNIV at checkout. Offer valid from April 3rd until April 8th at 11:59 pm EDT. Not valid on prior purchases. Cannot be combined with other promo codes.
Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy the hop!
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Karen Hanson says
Beautiful card(s)!
MaryFran Simply... says
Oh my! This is just breathtaking! You are so talented.
Julie says
Love the color combo on your card. I’ve been using my alcohol inks more b/c of your recent posts.
char4355char says
So pretty!! I love the colors you used!
Anna says
Your cards are such an inspiration ❤️
Carol Brown says
This is an absolutely beautiful card! I can see that I need to start playing around with alcohol inks!
TERESA STEVENS says
Stunning card…I love the “one-of-a-kind” looks you get from this technique!
Ruth Swartout says
The alcohol inks are so vibrant – beautful!
Heather Price says
Beautiful card. The ink colors are gorgeous!
Tami Priebe says
Amazing!! Can’t wait to give this a try since I just got some alcohol inks 🙂
Tara Prince says
WOW! So gorgeous!!
Carol Rietzke says
I haven’t played with alcohol inks yet but I may have to give it a try.
Laura Casselman says
Love those moody colors and I must get a puffer too!
Cindy K says
I love the gallery of your cards. And I really like the medallion stamp you used with your latest card.
Renate Harrison says
Awesome card, love the contrast between the organic alcohol dies and the gold stamping. Thanks for sharing!!
Sdtephanie says
This is beautiful love the colors thank you.
Angela Person says
Awesome use of alcohol inks! Love this technique.
Donna W says
Beautiful, Love he inking. You do such beautiful work.
joy meadows says
The alcohol inks make such a pretty background for the floral stamp! Love the gold embossing, too!
Lisa says
wow !! your card is fantastic !! I’m in love with these colours !! and thank you so much for the link to heavy Yupo paper, I definitely have to try it !
Carol Henderson says
Your card is stunning! I love playing with alcohol inks and love the results they create. I have that beautiful stamp, but never thought of using it with my ink creations, but you have inspired me. Thank you.
Laura Greig says
Wow those alcohol inks are gorgeous!
Liz O says
Love that wonderful alcohol ink color combo match with the gold EP! As always Jessica your design is stunning, thanks for all you share!
Sharon says
What a beautiful card….I just love this technique!
Karen says
Your cards are gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your talent!