Hi there! We are hopping along today to share inspiration using the brand new Marvelous Monthly collection for April 2023. You should have arrived here from the Altenew Blog and your next stop is Mindy Eggen. This release features some fun new Dual Tip Pens and a new series, called Dynamic Duo, in addition to the series regulars that we know and love! I have two projects to share with you today, so let’s get started with the details.
The new Dynamic Duo: Treat Yourself features some fabulous layering stencils and a small stamp set that you can use to create quick and fun blended birthday cards! I began by ink blending the sentiment from the Treat Yourself stencil set using Midnight Violet and Pinkalicious inks. I also blended a bunch of fluttering balloons around the sentiment, adding in some Dark Night ink to add a touch of drama.
I also blended several flowers and foliage using the same inks, then cut them out with my sharp scissors. I stamped a sentiment strip to coordinate with the happy birthday sentiment using the Dark Night ink, popping all of the individual elements up with some foam adhesive to make them stand out from the background. I also added a few gems to help add some sparkle! I love that this card was made almost entirely from ink blending… such a different look from my normal meticulously colored projects, but definitely a fun way to create a cute birthday card!
My next card features more of my traditional crafting techniques, this time using the beautiful new Spark Joy: Festive Flowers. The Spark Joy series focuses on hot foiling, and comes complete with a set of layering stencils to make adding color to your hot foiled images a breeze. I, however, prefer to use my favorite coloring mediums to add lots of vibrant color and shading to the images. I began by hot foiling the Festive Flowers image onto some white cardstock using Altenew’s Brass hot foil roll. I colored the images using the Mystic Garden Alcohol Markers. The lilies in the arrangement worked beautifully with the colors of the Mystic Garden set.
After I’d finished coloring the image, I used a blending tool to blend some Dark Night ink around the edge of the panel. Allowing the white to remain around the image itself while the edge of the card is dark and vibrant creates a kind of halo around the image, highlighting it.
For the greeting, I added a hot foiled “hello,” created using more Brass hot foil and Versatile Greetings hot foil plate + dies. I also heat embossed a sentiment strip using the Thinking of You stamp set. I popped both of these sentiment pieces up with some foam tape, finally adding a few more shimmering gems to add one last textural element to the card front.
Well, that’s all for my projects today! Now for some fun giveaway information:
$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a *$100 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $20 gift certificate to 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 04/24/2023 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 11 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 04/26/2023. *The winner of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog.
Your next stop is Mindy Eggen. Here’s the full hop list:
Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!
GORGEOUS Flowers! I love the orange and blue! Your pink and blue is fun too!
Simply gorgeous! Love the colors on both!
Wow, Emily!!!! Your cards are beautiful. That orange and blue could not be any prettier.
Love these! The happy birthday card is my fave!
Both cards are beautiful, but that Hello card is absolutely stunning!!
There’s something about the blue and orange color combination that just draws me in. I love your hello card!!! Beautiful!
Gorgeous cards, Emily! I love them both! The pink, purple and navy card is so cheerful and happy, and your orange floral card is really spectacular! Delightful coloring!
Emily, your cards are fantastic. I love the color combo you used for the flowers card.
Awesome projects! I really love the “halo” effect you created on your second card… a beautiful background for the vibrant floral arrangement.
Beautiful cards! I love the purple/pink/blue combo.
Love your cards! they are so vibrant and colorful, particularly the more traditional one with the dark around the edges. Great technique!
The Festive Flowers card is so colorful!
Fun Stenciling set and gorgeous florals. Your inspiration pieces are so pretty.
I love the bright and bold colors!!! Your flowers are Amazing!!!
The colorful flowers and that blue haze are incredible!
Beautiful blue and orange flowers! Gorgeous!!
Lovely cards! I really like the new floral stamps set and the beautiful colors you used!
Love that hello, thinking of you card, man those colors are fantastic, they just pop off the card.
The blue and orange looks so pretty
Love your colors on the lilies. Absolutely beautiful.
Both your cards are so beautiful and in gorgeous colors!
I love them both!
I love your ink blending. The birthday card is so bright and happy! I really like the ink blending around the edges of the hello card. I always forget to do all the little extras. Thanks for the reminder!
Your cards are stunning! I especially love the Festive Flowers card! So vibrant and beautifully colored!
Gorgeous cards
Festive Flowers hot foil plate is my fav from this collection. Such a beautiful card.
Beautiful florals ❤️
Amazing cards, and particularly that Spark Joy Set is fabulous .
Your birthday card is lively and fun. Your color work on the other card is stunning. You really took a beautiful set and ran with it!
Love the color combinations on both cards.
The Festive Flowers card is beautiful! And
Brass foil??? Going to need to try that! The new markers are gorgeous! Thank you for sharing!
Both projects are SO incredibly beautiful!!
Hola, Emily! Girl, these are gorgeous! Stunning colors, my friend. 😍😍😍
These are so beautiful! I love the colors!
Fabulous cards Emily. I absolutely love the second card, you might have just nudge me to add it to my shopping cart!
Both the cards are beautiful. I really love the bold color combo on the second card.
Gorgeous florals!
Your cards are so different but both are great!
The flowers are truly beautiful as are your cards, Emily
Love the wonderful purple lettering
in the first card. the flowers in the
second card are gorgeous. thanks
for sharing.
I love the sparks joy festive flowers,it reminded me of Indian flowers during festival season-bright colors. Your coloring is amazing with these ink pens !
You hit another home run! These are beautiful!
Gorgeous cards! Love the flowers and the colors.
Thanks for sharing.
Wow! Two gorgeous cards!
Nice color combinations.
Hi Emily. I love the Pink and purple colors you chose for your first card. I just makes me smile. Your second cards flowers so vibrant. It’s a beautiful card.
Wow, beautiful cards! The orange and blue just pop! Can’t wait to try these new pen colors.
Gorgeous I love the blue and Orange flowers
Wow!! Beautiful cards!!
OOoh lovely cards, love the vignette look to the second one too!
Your cards are beautiful! I especially love the color combo of the first card.
Beautiful creations! Love the colors used on 2nd card, thanks for sharing!
Love those cards. The first one is so fun and the second one so beautiful! The colors are stunning!
Pretty cards! I love the first card with the flowers and balloons, and your second card with the lovely floral design!
love the flower colors are beautiful
I love the birthday card. All the colors coordinate between the balloons and flowers.
I love how the HB stencil came out. That one looks like so much fun to use.
Beautiful release as always. Can’t wait to see what the DT created and shared with us.
These are so beautiful! I especially love the first one with all those purples!
I love the beautiful cards you made and the colors are amazing!
Beautuful bold colors! Love the card!
Fabulous cards! I love the ink blended background on the floral card!
Gorgeous cards! I love them! The flowers a x the colors you chose are so pretty.