Hi there! Today, Altenew is releasing Craft A Flower: Cistus and some new Gradient Cardstock sets, and we’re celebrating with a blog hop! You should have arrived here from Keren Baker and your next stop is Tina Smith. You can also start back at the beginning at the Altenew Card Blog. I have two projects for you today, so let’s get started with the details!
Each month. Altenew releases beautiful layering dies in their Craft A Flower series. You can purchase them individually, or you can always subscribe to get them sent to you at a discounted rate!
This month’s flower is the Cistus flower, a pretty, feminine flower with lovely open petals. To create the levels of color for each layer, I used the three lightest colors of the Cherry Blossom ink quartet to blend lightly on white cardstock, then die cut each layer using the Craft A Flower: Cistus dies, keeping the largest, bottom-most layer white. I adhered them together using liquid adhesive. I did the same with the Tropical Forest ink quartet for the foliage.
On the deep purple A2 card base, I flecked some silver gouache to create a textured card base. I also die cut the “thanks” from the Simple Greetings sentiment die set, cutting it three times from white cardstock and adhering them together to create a dimensional die cut sentiment.
I arranged all of the die cuts on the speckled purple card front using both foam and liquid adhesive, then added a few iridescent gems for some sparkle!
My second project features the new Rose Petal Gradient Cardstock with the older Watercolor Garden layering die set. These dies are perfect for use with the Gradient Cardstock sets, because they are grouped together to perfectly fit the smaller size of the cardstock, and they work perfectly with the Altenew Mini Blossom die cutting machine! I love creating monochromatic projects, so I even used the darkest color included in the Rose Petal Gradient Cardstock for the foliage.
I adhered all of the layers together using liquid adhesive, then arranged them in a bouquet across the entirety of my A2 card front and adhered them using a mixture of liquid and foam adhesive for lots of dimension. As an afterthought, I used one of the mini blending brushes to blend some Rubellite ink along the edges of the card front to add a white halo around the edges of the bouquet. I added a sentiment from Sentiment Strips, stamped on a thin strip of white cardstock using Obsidian ink, popped up with some foam adhesive, then added a few black gems around the bouquet to add some sparkle.
Well, that’s all for my projects today! Now for some fun giveaway information!
$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 04/13/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 04/15/2021.
Your next stop is Tina Smith. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!
I love the layered flowers and gorgeous cardstock colors!!
Great color combination there. The deep indigo base really pops the pastel pink cistus flowers.
Pretty layered flowers and great choice of colors.
You chose the right background to show off those flowers in your first card!
Gorgeous!
Love the colors in the first one, such pretty layering and pops nice off the blue
Beautiful cards! Love your color choices!
So so pretty! ♥ Great job on your cards. The new cistus flower is gorgeous.
Love love love
Love the white and pink flower best!
OMG what amazing looking cards – LOVE the colors on the first one – they POP
Altenew always comes out with great sets. This is one of my favorites and I really liked your cards.
Ooohh…love the Rose Petal gradient cs and your choice of colors in the 1st card. Thank you!
Such a beautiful color choice in your pink and white card! Perfection!
Beautiful colors and arrangements.
Both of your cards are SO pretty using the new Cistus Layering Flower dies! Love the colors you chose to do them!
very nice
Gorgeous! Gorgeous! Gorgeous! Your first card is absolutely breathtaking, and the second one gave me a refreshing color combination.
Beautiful! The cards look amazing! I love this new set.
Emily, your cards are so lovely. Especially like the cardstock colors you’ve chosen for these flowers. tfs-stay well.
Lovely cards! Color choices for florals are perfect!
Gorgeous cards!
Your color choices just scream happiness! Great work.
Beautiful, vibrant cards!
Beautiful card and coloring layout. Great work. Thanks for sharing your creative coloring talent.
So beautiful!
Your first card is very pretty– unlike the others, you’ve used a warmer lilac for your layer of shadows. it’s really nice.
Gorgeous cards!!! Loving the new cardstocks!!
Such beautiful cards! Both are lovely with the pink colors and some very dark colors, too!
Wow, love the deep red/burgundy.
Wow, amazing color combos! Love this die set!
Great cards especially like the first one!
Your color combos are so tasteful and pretty. Nice 🙂
The colors are beautiful but the pink card has my heart. Lovely.
Love the dark blue background for the flowers.
Oh wow! I love the colors of your first card!!! Stunning! Gorgeous! The bright blue background is fantastic!!! The second card is lovely! Thank you.
Love the blue card…so colorful
Absolutely beautiful cards! I love the vibrant colors!
Love the blue background with the bright pink flowers!
Loving these beautiful pink flowers! Beautiful cards!
Beautiful flowers, Emily. Thanks Altenew for the opportunity to win.
Both of your cards are beautiful! I really love the design and colors on your second card!
Your cards are beautiful! I love the drama of the second card! Thank you!
Perfect color combinations!
Beautiful card
Wow gorgeous cards and the colors just pop!! great job
Beautiful cards Emily, I especially love the first one with the bold background and the pretty flowers. Thanks for the inspiration!
Wonderful color combinations. Great background.
Fantastic cards! I really love the first one with the bright blue background!
These may be my favorite gradient cardstock colors yet. Beautiful
Both of your cards are beautiful, though I think my favorite is the first one because of the contrast between the soft pink flowers and the deep blue background. Stunning!
Those blended pink layers are stunning! I love the soft look of it ❤️
I love your cards! 🙂 So pretty.