Hi there! Today, we are hopping along to celebrate Altenew’s June 2023 Stamp & Die Release! You should have arrived here from Agnieszka Malyszek, and your next stop is Virginia Lu. You can also start at the beginning at the Altenew Blog. This month, we’re traveling to Morocco with products inspired by the shapes, sights, and architecture of that exotic land!
While the inspiration for this month’s release came from a country known for its intense colors, smells, sights, and sounds, I chose to take a more delicate route with my projects, creating lots of layers of white-on-white with pops of muted mauve and peach florals.
My first card features a frame created using the negative space created with one of the new Ornate Nesting Dies, which feature an incredibly unique shape that takes the elegance factor up a notch! I cut the shape from the center of an A2 card front, reserving the die cut itself for another project. To create texture behind the framed window, I ran another A2 panel of white cardstock through my die cutting machine using the Cupped Blossoms 3D Embossing Folder, which added some lovely texture and foliage to my crisp white panel.
To accent my simple framed window, I die cut several of the new Plum Blossoms dies from some muted mauve and peach cardstock, as well as some lovely sea green foliage and arranged them in a swag around the edges of my die cut window. I added some sparkling stamens cut using Bronzite glitter paper from the Golden Sunrise Glitter Paper pack. I heat embossed Elegant Sayings in a coordinating shade of Rose Gold embossing powder, die cutting the larger script sentiment. I popped up all of these individual elements with foam tape. With sympathy cards, I find that sometimes less is more, so keeping the color palette simple keeps the overall tone of the card from being too much.
Now, what to do with the leftovers from the die cut window created with our Ornate Nesting Dies? Use it on another card, naturally! I popped the crisp white die cut up on an A2 card base using foam adhesive, then arranged some (also leftover!) Plum Blossoms die cuts around the top in an elegant swag.
For the greeting, I die cut the “thank you” from the Encouraging Sentiments die set three times from more white cardstock. When working with tone-on-tone, it’s important to make sure that there are lots of different heights and textural elements to keep things from being visually boring. I adhered the dimensional die cut greeting in the center of the Ornate Nesting Die die cut using liquid adhesive. The extra height helps make the white die cut more visible on the white background!
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 06/08/2023 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 06/10/2023.
*The winners of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog.
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Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!
My favorite kind die cut cards! I love your useof the frame die, both popped up, giving visual texture. Altenew has some beautiful dies, the embossing folder behind the first card–chefs kiss!
Both cards are so lovely. I really enjoy how you’ve used the frames to feature the flowers.
I love the size of the Plum Blossom die cuts! I have some flower dies that are so big I have a hard time figuring out how to use them. These are the perfect size! Love what you did with them.
I love these elegant cards! Gorgeous flowers!
Lovely cards and color combo Emily! Thanks for the inspiration!
UGH! So elegant Emily! I love them!!! The gold glitter on the flowers is perfect!
Those are beautiful cards! And I love the sentiment set. This plum blossom set would also be great for a Christmas card.
The use of a frame to set off your flowers is a really clever idea for your beautiful card.
Love that card with the white and green leaves.
These are so gorgeous!! Love the flowers!
Awesome job on both cards!
Beautiful cards – love the simplicity of the white on white backdrops! Love how you added dimension and interest with the the ornate nesting dies.
Love the soft colors of your cards!
Beautiful cards! Love the colors and layers!
So beautiful
Gorgeous cards with these beautiful plum blossoms!
Gorgeous cards! So pretty and elegant!
Very elegant ❤️
love the positive and negative use of the dies. Thanks as always for sharing and all the inspiration.
Love all the layers in the first card. Both are just so pretty and elegant.
Love the arrangements of
the flowers. Beautiful cards.
thanks for sharing.
Wow! Beautiful cards! I love how the muted colors look against the white textured backgrounds!
Love the color combos! Pretty cards!
Your cards are absolutely gorgeous! Love the white-on-white — so elegant!
Such wonderful cards. The flowers are beautiful
Your floral cards are lovely! Those plum blossoms are truly delightful — my favorite from this release, and I love how you’ve used them in these projects!
Beautiful cards! The layout of your sympathy card is my favorite!
What a beautiful idea to use white as a background. It really makes the flowers pop.
Ah, two cards with one cut, love it.
Especially love your Thank You card. Just beautiful.
Really Beautiful!!
Beautiful 😍 my style is also using white on white with a simple pop of colour. Love how you used the negative, thank you
Both cards are gorgeous! Great designs.
Thanks for sharing.
The white on white sentiment looks so elegant.
Lovely Cards!
Oooooh, these are lovely and very classy with the white on white, the soft rose and sage colors. Very nice cards I’d be proud to have made.
Lovely cards! The white backgrounds are perfect for the sweet flower colors.