Good morning! I’m excited to introduce you to the newest Altenew Build-A-Flower set: Peony Blossom! Lots of possibilities with this set…and the included dimensional dies are really awesome! I decided to use the stamps and dies and a normally unwanted result of working with yupo paper to my advantage for today’s card! 😉
I haven’t been able to put my alcohol inks down recently but I wanted to try something a little differently for this card. I’ve been focusing on super vibrant designs and today I wanted to tone it down a bit! I used LOTS of alcohol blending solution, just a little bit of pink sherbet and shell pink alcohol ink, silver mixative, and silver foil! You can see a video on how I add foil to alcohol inked backgrounds here! Once the background was finished I set it aside to dry while I worked on the floral elements!
To create the flowers I blended alcohol inks onto yupo paper. I used shell pink, coral, pink sherbet, and watermelon alcohol inks for the petals and gunmetal and silver mixative for the leaves. I deliberately used translucent yupo paper for this project (instead of heavyweight) so that I could easily die-cut the paper. Once I had all the flower shapes die-cut, I stamped the layers and heat embossed them with silver sparkle embossing powder. Usually when I heat-emboss on yupo paper I use heavyweight yupo and keep my heat gun moving to avoid warping….but today, I decided to take advantage of that warping and allowed the yupo to curl and warp. This resulted in much more realistic looking flower petals and leaves! I love when something that should be a mistake ends up making the card even better than I could have imagined! 😉
I stamped the sentiment from a different Altenew set, Peony Spray, onto grey cardstock and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder. I trimmed that down to a flag and adhered it to the yupo panel. Finally I attached the flowers using a mix of regular adhesive and foam mounting tape!
The Altenew Build-A-Flower: Peony Blossom set includes 1 stamp set (15 images) and 1 coordinating die set (8 dies).
The Altenew Build-A-Flower: Peony Blossom is only sold as a set, not individually. There’s also an available ink bundle set!
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This is absolutely gorgeous. Love the colours, love the design. Stunning!
Soooo pretty. You can’t go wrong with Peonies – or those gorgeous colors!
WOW Jessica, this is really beautiful. I haven’t tried Yupo paper yet, heavy weight or otherwise so your tips on it are good to know for when I do. It certainly DID work to your advantage today. Just lovely!
Gorgeous card, Jessica! I love the silver!
Gorgeous with the silver and the shades of pink.
Jessica, your card is stunning! Love your choice of colors and layout!
Beautiful card, Jess! I love the colors & that gorgeous silver! This is a lovely set & so nice that the dies cut right to the edge. Altenew is tops at florals!
Just gorgeous! I love happy accidents, opens up new possibilities.
I love this pink marbled effect and I am putting that on my list to try today! Love this Jessica!
This card is absolutely gorgeous!
Beautiful! Brilliant to use the heat tool to warp your die cut flowers. Such a cool set.
WOW! This IS So COOL!!!! Love the colors you used! Adding the Silver gives it Shine and Elegance! Beautifully done! Great Creative, Colorful, Unique Work of Art! Great Job! Well Done Jessica!
Wow, just gorgeous and so effective, love love love it Jane x
Wow, so stunning and elegant! Love the metallic silver accents.
The silver accents are so wonderful. Thanks for the inspiration
Hi Jessica I love your alcohol ink technique. Thank you for sharing this truly awesome technique accidental or not!
So beautiful! I love the shimmer! 🙂
This card is so pretty – love how you got the petals to curl – very clever:)
Love everything about this card, awesome flowers!
Oh Jess this foiled flower is fabulous, such shine in flower and leaf, the silver combined with the red looks fab, try some more colour combo’s and let us see what else you make like the alcohol ink video’s, really enjoyed this one.
Stunning, you really made this new set shine!!
So pretty – love the silver embossing.
This is so pretty!! I love how you’ve made the flowers. Silver on red looks stunning.
Love your wonderful card. The silver is beautiful.
Peonies are my faves! This is gorgeous!