Hi friends! Altenew has released a gorgeous new collection for July 2023, and it’s chock full of utterly scrumptious new products, including new additions to the Fresh Dye Ink family. Hooray! We are hopping along to share lots of inspiration with you today; you should have arrived here from Agnieszka Malyszek and your next stop is Jaycee Gaspar. You can also start back at the beginning at the Altenew Blog. I have two totally contrasting projects to share with you today, so let’s get started with the details!
My first project features some super saturated ink blending paired with intricate, tone-on-tone die cuts! I began by blending Ride the Wave, Easy Breezy, and Berry Cool inks on two panels of plain white cardstock. The blend between these three colors was so beautiful and reminds me so much of the beautiful jewel-bright waters of the Caribbean!
After I’d finished blending, I die cut the new Fragrant Flowers die from one of the blended panels and twice more from some more plain white cardstock. I layered all three die cuts together using liquid adhesive, which created an incredibly intricate and beautiful dimensional die cut! I adhered this dimensional die cut to the center of the intact blended panel, which adds marvelous tone-on-tone texture to the saturated background.
For the sentiment, I die cut a greeting from the new Versatile Greetings 2 from some beautiful royal blue glitter cardstock in the Blue Crystals Glitter Gradient cardstock pack. I also die cut the outline layer from some heavyweight vellum and adhered it with some liquid adhesive. Adding the vellum outline behind the detailed layer helps to differentiate it from the colorful, textured background. I popped up the sentiment die cuts with some clear foam adhesive to give them a little extra height and help them pop even more from the card front. The final touch was a few shimmering blue gems for one more hit of sparkle!
My second project is an homage to the new Fresh Dye Ink additions! I used the Golden Sunset and Green Fields inks with the Build-A-Garden: Pristine Peonies stamps, stencils, and dies and some stark black accents to create this striking card! I started by stamping and heat embossing one of the large peony clusters from Build-A-Garden: Pristine Peonies using Obsidian Black pigment ink and clear embossing powder. I then used the Golden Sunset and Green Fields inks with the coordinating stencils to create some beautiful sunny yellow peonies. Once I’d finished ink blending, I used a black alcohol ink marker to outline the images. I wanted to make sure that the white outline on the die cuts didn’t detract from my crisp black background that I had planned out in my head!
To accent the stenciled peonies, I die cut the Swallowtail Butterfly dies, cutting the base layer from white cardstock and the detail layer from black glittery cardstock. I blended the Golden Sunset inks on the white base layer to add some lovely yellow and orange color, making the butterfly look almost like a monarch butterfly!
For the background, I die cut a panel of intense black cardstock using the Dotted Swirls Cover Plate Die, which adds a beautiful pierced pattern to the background, creating subtle texture on your card front. I also heat embossed a greeting from the Monstera and Quotes stamp set onto a strip of black cardstock using some sparkling gold embossing powder. I layered all of the die cuts on the card front using a single and double layer of foam adhesive for extra height on the butterfly, then added the sentiment strip with more foam tape so that it would pop from the peony die cut. The final touch was to add a few coordinating matte gold pearls!
Well, that’s all for my projects today! You can check out the full July 2023 release HERE.
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 $40 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 07/12/2023 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 6 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 07/14/2023.
*The winners of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog.
Here’s the full hop list in case you get lost:
Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!
Absolutely GORGEOUS cards Emily !!! but I have come to expect nothing less from you, You and your cards never disappoint.
Another beautiful duo of cards, Jaycee – we are just welcoming the Monarch’s back to our garden, so that one won my heart today!
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SORRY EMILY!!! I lost my mind there for a moment! lol
Wow!!! Gorgeous cards!! I love that butterfly!!!
Beautiful colors and designs!
I absolutely love the blue monochrome look!
Such a beautiful use of sparkle! 😍
These are both stunning! I LOVE the blue!
Such beautiful cards! Love the colors.
Thanks for sharing.
Wow… they are both stunning 😍 Awesome release… I love the flowers and sentiments 😍
Beautiful cards! I love the ombre tone on the first card and your butterfly is gorgeous!
Beautiful! Loving butterflies and flowers! Just my style!
Oh my goodness, Emily! Your cards are gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! So beautiful! The colors for the blue card are simply fantastic! You’re awesome, girlfriend!
Gorgeous!!! I love the perfectly blended colors on the first card. The second card is equally stunning!
Very beautiful cards. The second one is my favorite!
love you build a garden card. like the new colors too. Thanks as always for sharing and all the inspiration.
Beautiful cards! I love the first one with all the different colors of blue.
Beautiful blues! And the butterfly card?!?! Gorgeous!
The fragrant flowers are so beautiful. That one goes on my wishlist for sure. That butterfly is too gorgeous. I waited for it to fly off the page… lovely job and TFS
Both cards are lovely. The first one’s colors is right up my alley. It’s stunning. The second one is also beautiful. Love the dramatic color difference between the yellow and the black. The butterfly is gorgeous.
Lori S in PA
Such gorgeous cards!! Beautiful color and love the pretty butterfly!!
wow your cards are stunning – I especially love your butterfly card – really POPS!
Both cards are awesome!
Stunning cards Emily, love the bold color combinations. Thanks for the inspiration!
Beautiful cards! The first one is my favorite with those ocean colors! I have been eyeing that die! I have seen a few different examples now using it and I need it now! Lol
Love the blue card, so gorgeous!
Both of your cards have such great dimension and glittery sparkle! The blue card is my favorite though. I just love the colors! Thanks for sharing!
Wow! Gorgeous cards! The black and yellow together look stunning and the butterfly looks so real!
Gorgeous cards….
Beautiful blues tone on tone and black and gold elegance. Love both designs.
I love the monochromatic color in the first card–nothing I would have thought to do with that die cut. The second card is absolutely stunning!
I love the colors on the first card. The second card is my favorite. The butterfly!
Beautiful Happy Birthday card. Love the colors.
2 gorgeous cards Emily!
Gorgeous cards. Yellow is my favorite color so the flowers are so pretty and appeal to me. I’m really loving the ombré background on the other card as well.
I love that fragrant flowers die and the beautiful card you made with it. Wonderful ink blending!
Beautiful designs and colors! Loving the Fragrant Flowers die, and the peonies and butterfly card is just gorgeous!
Your cards are amazing. Thanks for sharing.
I really like your limited colors schemes. Sticking to just a few colors is great!
Gorgeous cards! Beautiful color blend on #1.
Beautiful cards–love the butterfly!
The blend on the first card is fab, so pretty in the ombre palette. The yellow and black is simply stunning!