Hi there! I’m so excited to be joining the Altenew March 2019 Release Blog Hop! Today, ALTENEW is introducing so many gorgeous new stamps, dies, and stencils, and I’m happy to help introduce some of these new products to you! You should have arrived here from Laurie Willison’s blog, and your next stop is the Altenew Scrapbook Blog. (You can head to the Altenew Card Blog if you get lost!) Be sure to read til the end to find out about the fun prizes up for grabs!
For my first project, I wanted to create something colorful, springy, and just plain pretty. Enter: Watercolor Doodles stamp set. This brand new stamp set creates just the prettiest patterns, with minimal effort. Simply stamp the outline bouquet, then add in the solid stamps in whatever color your heart desires! The solid flowers are meant to be a little “outside the lines,” so you don’t even have to match them up perfectly! Here, I’ve stamped a pretty pattern in some springy Altenew ink colors on an A2 panel of plain white card stock, then die cut the Mega Friend die (reserving the interior portions), then backed the panel with some black shimmer card stock and replaced the interior portions of the die cut for a nice, flat, easily mailed card.
For my second project, I wanted to showcase the beautiful new Book Club stamp and die set. I heat embossed the image on white card stock using gold embossing powder, then colored it in an unusual color scheme with my Copic markers. I’ve noticed an awful lot of pink and purple in my cards recently, and wanted to shake things up a bit from the norm, so I colored the images in blue, coral, and mint. In the center of the circle, I heat embossed a thank you from the new Thank You Builder stamp set.
After I’d finished adding color and a greeting to the Book Club die cut, I used my T-square and a gold marker to create a golden frame. The frame highlights the beautiful lines of the flowers and circle in the die cut.
For the next project, I combined a few older products to create a pretty vase of flowers. I stamped two peonies from the lovely Beautiful Peony stamp set, as well as some wildflower “filler” flowers from the Focus on you stamp set. After heat embossing all of the images in silver and die cutting them with their coordinating dies, I used Tombow markers to watercolor the images in pretty, springy shades of bright pink and pale blue. I also heat embossed one of the vases from the new Versatile Vases on an A2 panel of white card stock.
To add some shadow and depth to the vase, I used the new Versatile Vases Stencils and the Picket Fence Studios blender brushes to add some pale blue blending to the bottom of the vase to indicate water. I popped the flowers using foam tape, then added a silver embossed greeting, also from Versatile Vases.
After so many white, clean and simple cards, I wanted to do something vibrant and saturated with color to showcase the absolutely gorgeous new Wallpaper Art stamp set. I stamped several of the blooms on a panel of A2 card stock, then used the cut outs from the Wallpaper Art stencil collection as masks to stamp the foliage. These stencil collections make for quick and easy masking to create bouquets and scenes!
I wanted to create some very pale pink anemones, so I colored the main images with my Copic markers (RV0000, RV00, RV63, V95 and G21, YG61, G46, BG96), then used the darkest green from the Green Fields Artist Markers to color the negative space on the panel. Finally, I added a sentiment from the Mini Hello stamp set in white embossing powder to make it pop!
Now, for some fun giveaway information!
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog by 3/19/2019 for a chance to win. Altenew has also generously provided a $20 gift certificate for my blog readers! Simply leave a comment on this post telling me which product is your favorite from this release! All winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 3/23/2019.
Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping! Your next stop is Altenew Scrapbook Blog.
I love your card with the black background it is so striking!!
Wonderful cards you created. My fave from the release is the versatile vases.
Love the Book Club set. Your cards
are fabulous. thanks for sharing
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beautiful work – love these cards:)
A Variet and of cards..clean and colorful and a super stunning card with wall paper art Stamp set !!
Can’t choose a favorite. They are all so pretty.
Your cards are beautiful. I like your new color scheme of blue, coral and mint! My favorite of the release is the inks that include marigold!
Oh, I don’t need another flower, said I “never”! Loving the vases and Book Club.
Beautiful Peony is my favorite. We can’t grow Peonies where I live, so they are EXTRA SPECIAL to me. When we visited my cousin in Wisconsin, we saw that she had a Peony bush and went crazy. She looked at us like we were odd because it’s easy to grow them there, and everyone has them 🙂
The Beautiful Peony stamp is my favorite. I like how it has ruffled, jagged edges. I tend to really like flowers that are ruffled.
Really, really pretty presentations.
Beautiful beautiful cards! I love the blue flowers – I never think to use blues for florals <3
Beautiful cards. I’m saving them.
So very pretty.
Wow – gorgeous cards.
Your cards are so pretty. I love the Versatile vases stamp set from this release!
The Watercolor Doodles looks like a must have – or at least the first must have in this release… I love the dark green background on your Wallpaper Arts card too.
Lovely cards Emily! The Wallpaper Art stamp, die and mask set is gorgeous. These lovely flowers are so pretty on the black cardstock. Thanks for sharing.
Love the black and purple of the wallpaper card. Very beautiful!!
Wonderful designs Emily! Love the new Book Club Set, and the Wallpaper Art. Thanks for the inspiration!
Beautiful cards. I love the Watercolor Doodles stamp set!!
Love your bold “hello” card. The dramatic contrast is gorgeous.
As, always, standout cards. The Wallpaper Art coloring is just magnificent. I also love the watercolor doodle set. The simple lines and your color choices are teriffic.
Beautiful cards!! I love Wallpaper Art.
Such pretty cards! The Watercolor Doodle set is perfect for creating some quick, easily colored designs, and I must get the Versatile Vases to use with all my Altenew florals.
I love the flowers in the vase and the ones with the black background. Very beautiful!
Beautiful projects! Love this release!
Beautiful cards…all of them. I love the Wallpaper Art stamp set and I think the Vases are a must have, too!
These are cute!
Your cards are beautiful! The Wallpaper Art set is so lovely and your coloring is wonderful! Can’t pick a favorite, they are all so good!
Pretty cards and another great release!
Your coloring is absolutely gorgeous! Love your cards & now I need all those stamps to play with!
Beautiful cards, thanks for sharing
Beautiful projects! I have many favorites from these release, both Wallpaper Art and Book Club stamp set are on the top!
Ahh…the more cards I see, the more I NEED everything from the release!! Your cards are gorgeous!!
What beautiful cards. I love the gold accents.
Love the Book Club stamp card. Wonderful!
Love the card using the Wallpaper stamp. The bright flowers on the black is stunning!
My fave is the Wallpaper Art set and I love, love, love your creation with pink on black. Gorgeous!
Beautiful! I can’t get enough of those wallpaper and book club stamps!
Love this release, and what you made with it!
Gorgeous coloring! and card design! I love the FRIEND one!!!
Beautiful creations! Thank you for the inspiration.
Great variety of cards here, and you used two of my fav sets from this release: Wallpaper Art and Book Club.
great release and fun projects. thanks as always for sharing.
Beautiful cards! So inspiring, but now I want to buy ALL the sets!!!
I love that card with the dark green background and the pink anemones. I just love the Wallpaper Art set.
Awesome coloring on all your gorgeous cards, especially love the Wallpaper Art flowers on the dark green background, stunning!
Beautiful! Can’t even decide which one I like the most.
All of your cards are so lovely! My favorite is the thank you card. I love the blue, coral and mint combination.
Your cards are so lovely! Someone would be SO lucky to receive one of your cards in the mail!
I’m in love with your Wall paper art card.Its stunning.
I especially loved the light pink Wallpaper Art flowers on the dark background. It has such impact.
Emily, your colouring is amazing. Another fabulous release from Altenew.
Thank you so much for sharing your talents.
T x
Gorgeous projects, the contrast on that Wallpaper card is stunning – Thank you, Denise
Beautiful cards!
Beautiful cards and wonderful coloring techniques. Love these new Altenew Wallpaper Art stamps.
My favorites are the second & third cards, just stunning.
Beautiful designs and coloring! Love your pretty cards!
Beautiful cards but the Wallpaper Art card is so dramatic it’s definitely my favorite!
Very pretty cards! Thanks for the chance to win and sharing.
Your cards are gorgeous. I love how you used the book club stamp to make a thank you card. Thanks for sharing your time and talent with us
Your last card is my favorite. All of the cards are wonderful.
Love all of your cards as always. My favorite is the Book Club Stamp. It is beautiful.
Love your cards. Thanks for sharing, and thanks for the chance to win.
All of your cards are gorgeous! I love how you colored the vase. And the dark background of the Wallpaper Art card looks awesome!
Emily, these cards are simply beautiful. Great designs and coloring…tfs
Love the soft colors! Your cards are amazing… Thank you for the inspiration 🙂
Your Wallpaper Art card is beyond awesome!
Wow, all of your cards turned out gorgeous. Not a surprise, since I always love your work and this release is amazing! My favorite in this release is the Wallpaper One… I always go for the big blooms, it seems.
Stunning selection, Love the Copic colours you chose
Beautiful cards and my favorite from this new release is that pomander stamp set!
Beautiful cards! My favorite is the Wallpaper set
Such a great variety of cards you’ve created Emily! The 2nd & 3rd ones are my favourites as they are soft & feminine & so very appealing. I must say the boldness of the 4th card using my favourite set from this release is Wow! Thanks!
These are such great cards…love the dark background!
Beautiful cards and gorgeous coloring! Love the gold frame you drew on the thank you card. It really adds a great touch. Also like the idea of using the stencil to color the vase. I think I would achieve much better shading that way than I would trying to color the water with markers. Thanks for all the great inspiration!
Such lovely cards! Thanks for sharing!!
I like the card you made with the Book Club stamp and die…the gold embossing and beautiful coloring
Lovely cards today!
Fantastic cards are beautiful coloring.
Beautiful cards..
Beautiful projects! Thanks for the inspiration! That wallpaper art stamp set is definitely on my wishlist!
Absolutely gorgeous
Beautiful cards, Emily! I love how you die cut the sentiment out of the Watercolor Doodle background and then backed it in black. I like one layer, easy to mail cards. My favorites from this release are the Rennie Roses and the Watercolor Doodles.
Gorgeous! My favorite is the last card. So dramatic and special.
Lovely cards Emily. I am in love with the versatile vases. Such a great addition to my stash. Love your work.
Beautiful colors. Love them!
Wonderful cards! My favorites of this release are the vases and the doodle flowers.
Your cards are truly beautiful, but the last one knocked my socks off!! The contrast between the dark background and the softly colored anemones is simply stunning. Really, really gorgeous card!
I love your choice of colors. Each of the cards is beautiful. I can’t pick a favorite because the are all wonderful.
Love how you used the flowers in the Versatile Vases set — thanks for inspiring me!
These are so pretty! That last one is my absolute favorite, I just love the contrast of the flowers against the background!
I’m impressed. Every card was gorgeous. So pretty.
Wow Emily, great cards today….I think my favorite is the Wallpaper Art Stamp set…it is just what I love to work with. So pretty….I also really love the Book Club set…..this release is awesome! Thank you so much for sharing …
Love the new wallpaper flower set and your card is absolutely gorgeous!!
Your black and pink wallpaper card is BEAUTIFUL! I jumped through the blog just to find this one. I wish there was a video of how you created it.
Such beautiful projects! I love your use of the Book Club set!
Love the card with the dark background! How unique!
My favorite is the Wallpaper Art set, but I also love the Vases! Great release, and beautiful creations.
Beautiful cards! I love how the light pink flowers pop against the dark background on the last card.
oooh!! the black card is a stunner!! Bravo!!
Such beautiful cards!
Thanks so much for sharing…
Fabulous contrast between the light and airy looks and the intense emotion of the last card.
These are all so beautiful!! The Wallpaper Art set is my favorite of the release and I love the two different cards you made using it.
These are all lovely, but the Wallpaper Art stamps against the deep green background has to be my favourite. 🙂 Thanks for the inspiration!
I seem to be drawn to the black background cards in this blog train. Love how the bright colors stand out. Lovely cards you have created.
Gorgeous cards, Emily, as usual! Yikes, I’d panic using a t-square and gold marker to create a frame but you’ve mastered it.
I really like the vases, but I think the one that surprised me the most from this release was the Rennie roses. I didn’t think I would want them, but I’ve loved all the projects I’ve seen with them. Thanks for sharing your lovely cards with us!
Love the wallpaper art card. It’s so vibrant and dynamic. Awesome job. Thanks for sharing your creativity!
Oh, I absolutely love the card you made with the Wallpaper Art stamp. Gorgeous! My favorite product in this release? The new ink colors. Can hardly wait to get my hands on them and play.
Beautiful cards and the wallpaper art stampset card looks so lovely.
Very lovely cards!
Such gorgeous cards highlighting this fabulous release!
Beautiful projects! Especially love the black & pink!
Your cards are so elegant with black on them . Amazing coloring .. Pretty cards
Love your designs with these beautiful stamp/die sets! My favorite? Renee Roses and Bookclub. 🙂 Thanks for the great inspiration.
Oh what lovely and beautiful card designs! The green background is insanely stunning!
Wow gorgeous crratiocr!
I meant creations.
All the cards are lovely but my favorite is the last one
Beautiful cards – I am in love with the card with the lovely, soft, big blooms on the dramatic black background!
Dear Emily
the cards are a work of art. You hv created them using the watercolor Doodles stamp set, mega friend die, book club die and stamp set, Thank you builder stamp set beautiful peony stamp set ,versatile vases stencils as well as the wall art stamp set from the latest of Altenew March release.
They are beauties , real creations of art. This is what is called talent. You are super talented. Tks for sharing. tc stay blessed always.
luv the dark card showing a great use for the masks
Lovely cards. I especially like the wallpaper stamp on the dark background. So striking!
Beautiful cards. I love the styles and your colors and coloring are amazing.
Fabulous cards! Your card featuring the Wallpaper Art set is absolutely stunning!!
Your soft colors and beautiful color combinations create some stunning cards, and love those designs, too! This release is fabulous, and you have done it proud! Thanks for sharing your amazing talent with us here.
Your cards are so beautiful! Thanks for explaining how you made each one. I especially liked the technique you used for adding the word friend to the first card….I LOVE that idea!!
So many lovely cards…especially like the wallpaper flowers on the dark background. tfs
These cards are absolutely gorgeous! My favourite is the last one. Love the delicate pink flowers against the dark background.
Fantastic cards! I love your thank you card – gorgeous design!
Gorgeous line up of cards here Emily, showcasing this awesome Altenew release. I love it all (your cards and this release hehe). Thank you for sharing all of these and for the always amazing inspiration!! (mardy14@bellsouth.net)
Beautiful cards
Beautiful set of creations! 🙂
This new way of masking and using the stencils with the stamp and die combo is amazing!! Your work is gorgeous and am in awe of the gorgeous vivid cards! Love that this really helps with the masking steps! Can’t wait to try these! Your cards are amazing with these new releases but the beautiful Wallpaper Art with the black bg is stunning using the masks! Such gorgeousness!!
Beverly Jordan
@jordanbev5
Your cards are stunning. I just love that watercolor one. Your coloring is fantastic and I love the pinks against that dark green background. I like the frame behind the book club stamp. It gives a very elegant look to this image and your base of flowers is very pretty. Wonderful job! Thank you so much!
Gorgeous coloring! Thanks for the inspiration!
Wow! All of your cards are beautiful! I certainly did see spring. The colors in the Book Club card are so amazing! Great combination. Thanks for the inspiration!