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!
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful rest of the week!!
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WOW your card is so beautiful!!!
Such a beautiful card!!!
Woooow I love the silver on the flowers! Beautiful!
Stunning flowers, just love them!!!
Stunning! Love how you used the silver here. ♥
Such a beautiful flwoer and card!!
Fabulous flowers, love
the embossing!
Carla from Utah
Jess, this is absolutely gorgeous! That background is stunning and the silver with all those wonderful pinks – SWOON!
Beautiful peonies. The silver looks stunning on that color!
Love the silver on these!
Girl…this is amazing! Those flowers?!!! And I love your alcohol ink background! I can’t wait to dig into my alcohol inks, but I have to wait until it warms up! But I’m totally itching to use them!
Gorgeous!!!!
Love this, Jess! I now want to go warp something. 🙂
The silver with the pinks and coral colors are show stopping! I keep going back to look st the flowers. Amazing!
Love it! I just bought my first alcohol inks. Thanks for the chance to win
Love the soft color of the flowers…beautiful card!
Mind. Blown. Such a creative way to use the yupo paper for the flowers!!! Absolutely love it! Keep up the alcohol ink magic! 🙂
Wow! This card is gorgeous! Such a beautiful elegant card. Thanks so much for sharing.
I didn’t know there was translucent yupo paper. It looks awesome in the flowers. Beautiful card!
Wow this card is amazing. I watched your video last week with alcohol inks and just had to get more ink colors. Now I need to get translucent yupo 😉 Thank you for the inspiration!
A big wow. Love the silver with these colours so pretty.
These peonies are stunning against the alcohol ink background. I love the softer colors you created with the inks! beautiful card! 🙂
Wow…Amazing …
Beautiful! I’m going to have to get some of that glitter embossing powder – so pretty!