Hi there! Today, Altenew is releasing their new Paint-A-Flower: Fashion Monger Dahlia stamp set, and we’re celebrating with a blog hop and giveaway! You should have arrived here from Terri Koszler, and your next stop is LauraJane. You can also start back at the beginning at the Altenew Card Blog. This month’s addition to the Paint-A-Flower family is such a beautiful and unique flower-the Fashion Monger Dahlia:

These beautiful stamps are such a fun addition to your floral collection. You can always subscribe to receive them automatically each month! I have a vibrant blended project for you today, so let’s get started with the details.

The Paint-A-Flower: Fashion Monger Dahlia stamp is so beautifully intricate, with gorgeous details and a lovely, substantial size. I began by heat embossing the main image in the center of a panel of smooth white cardstock using gold embossing powder. I made sure that my embossing ink pad was very juicy, to make sure that I captured all of those gorgeous details in the stamp.

Next, I used blending brushes and Midnight Violet and Magenta inks to add lots of bold, saturated color to the card front, using the emboss resist technique to allow the shiny gold embossing to be the focal point of the card. I did a few layers of ink blending to make sure that the color was really vivid and saturated, then spritzed some plain water into my hand and splattered it onto the blended card front with my fingertips, immediately blotting it up with a paper towel. I also added some gold splatters using the Metallic Watercolor 14 Pan Set. So much shimmer and shine!

To create the sentiment, I die cut the Mega Hope die twice from plain white cardstock, then again from the center of the blended, embossed card base. I adhered the embossed die cut together with the plain white die cuts using liquid adhesive. I added the full blended panel to the card base, then adhered the dimensional die cut to the negative space and covered it with some sparkling clear lacquer pen. The change in texture and dimension added to the card front helps the die cut to stand out a bit from the super vibrant background! Finally, I heat embossed a greeting from Mega Greetings 4 onto a strip of coordinating pink cardstock and popped it up on the card front using foam adhesive. The final touch was to add some shiny gold gems!
Well, that’s all for my project 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 07/28/2021 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 07/30/2021.
Your next stop is LauraJane. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!

Such a beautiful card design! The colours are gorgeous!
So cool! Thanks for the inspiration
Gorgeous background! and GOLD!
OMG, gold embossing – how gorgeous is this!
Love the brightness and colors!
Oh my gosh, this is incredible….
Wow bold and stunning!
Unique card! Thanks for sharing.
Stunning card! The colors look amazing. And I love the sentiment.
No words here except for WOW…this is stunning.
Gorgeous card! Love the vibrant colors…
Thanks for sharing.
Wow wow wow! Simply gorgeous!❤️
Wow wow wow! Simply gorgeous!❤️
Your card is stunning. The design is beautiful, the color combo is amazing. tfs-stay well.
Exquisite coloring. Love the sentiment. Always love gold embossing!
Wow, so many great elements to this card: beautiful color, gold embossing, and the sentiment.
Lovely card!
Absolutely stunning card! I love the color combination!!
Such a bright card
Just gorgeous!
I love the bold color of your card. It is refreshing! Thank you so much for your information and guidance for posting my comment here. I am new at this!
Gorgeous colors!
So beautiful!
Wow! Such a vibrant and unusual take on this stamp set. Beautiful!
I love how you die cut HOPE from stamped background and layered it to stand out in the negative space. Stunning color with gold embossing! Thanks for sharing.
Love the gold with the pink and purple!
Great job, the sentiment work is amazing!
Wow-love the colors of your background which perfectly set off the gold embossed flowers. Awesome job!
Midnight violet and magenta are a power couple!
Striking design! Love it! Thanks for the inspiration Emily!
What a stunning card! I love the bright colors!
This is stunning!
How gorgeous! love the wonderful background!! Wonderful inspiration!! Stay safe! 🙂
Beautiful, striking card. Your background is amazing.
Gorgeous effect! Love the colors you used and the embossed dahlias!
Too gorgeous for words! That gold is incredible ❤️
Beautiful. I like the color and embossing.