Hi friends! Today, Altenew is celebrating their December “super release” with a blog hop! You should have arrived here from Caly, and your next stop is Agnieszka. You can also start back at the beginning at the Altenew Blog. I have four projects to share with you today using the beautiful new Build-A-Garden: Blossoming Freesia and the stunning new Kaleidescope of Colors Fresh Dye Inks! Let’s get started with the details.
I began my first project by stamping the outline image of the beautiful new Build-A-Garden: Blossoming Freesia twice on my A2 card panel using very pale pink ink from the Rose Petal Fresh Dye Ink bundle. I used the layering stencils included with the new Build-A-Garden: Blossoming Freesia with the Rose Petal Fresh Dye Ink bundle, Buttercream, and Lagoon inks to create these lovely, vibrant, cool pink blooms on my card front.
After I had blended all of the images with the layering stencils, I used the included mask stencil to cover my images so that I could do some blending for the background. I placed the mask over the top of the image and blended Icy Water ink in the background, adding some touches of pale pink around the edges of the card front to create an ethereal effect. I also splattered some shimmering pink watercolor from the Metallic watercolor set to add even more ethereal magic to the card front!
For the greeting, I heat embossed a sentiment strip from the Build-A-Garden: Blossoming Freesia set in silver on a strip of white cardstock. I also die cut the included “friend” die from some coordinating blue glitter paper from the Fairy Dust Glitter Cardstock pack, backing it with a die cut vellum bubble layer. I popped up the greeting pieces using foam adhesive, then added a few iridescent gems for sparkle!
My next trio of cards is an homage to some of the absolutely stunning new additions to the Fresh Dye Ink line. The new Kaleidescope of Colors Fresh Dye Inks feature some older color families in the new Fresh Dye Ink formulation, and there are also four new color families to add to your ink collection! I love ink blending with embossing folders; I think it is such a simple way to make a huge impact with your card front, so I pulled out lots of different holiday products and some beautiful inks to create a trio of simple Christmas cards.
My first project is an homage to the new Glacier Caves Fresh Dye Ink bundle. I started this icy project by ink blending the beautiful blues in this Fresh Dye Ink family around the edges of a white A2 cardstock panel, then running the blended panel through my die cut machine using the Starry Patterns embossing folder. To enhance the embossed pattern on the card front, I swiped the Cloud White pigment ink over the raised areas, allowing the snowflakes to stand out a bit from the colorful blue background, also adding some iridescent white shimmer watercolor splatters. I stamped the greeting from the Joyful Greetings stamps and die set using the darkest blue from the Glacier Caves Fresh Dye Ink bundle, heat embossing over the top of it with some pearlescent white embossing powder. I added a few glittering snowflakes cut using the Layered Snowflakes 2 die set from Dazzling Diamond glitter paper. A few sparkling white gems finished it off!
My second card features the brand new Dried Petals Fresh Dye Ink bundle, one of the four new color families in this release. I blended a beautiful pink ombré down the front of my A2 card front using the Dried Petals Fresh Dye Ink bundle and ran the panel through my die cutting machine using the Poinsettia Cluster embossing folder. These large blooms make such a statement on your card front with so little extra work required! I ran my Rose Gold pigment ink pad over the top of the raised areas, highlighting them and adding some luxurious metallic accents, then splattered some rose gold metallic watercolor over the entire panel. I die cut a greeting from the Christmas Season die set using Rose Gold metallic cardstock, which I adhered to a strip of vellum. I folded one edge of the vellum behind the card panel and added some super strong double sided adhesive tape, then added tiny dots of liquid adhesive behind the solid die cuts. Some shiny pink gems finished it off!
Finally, I used the Sugarplums Fresh Dye Ink bundle to create this unique diagonal blended background. Blending the colors on the diagonal reminds me of a purple Tiger’s Eye gemstone! After blending the Sugarplums inks on my A2 card panel, I ran the piece through my die cutting machine using the Festive Greenery embossing folder. I swiped the raised areas with my Antique Gold pigment ink pad and splattered the entire piece with more metallic gold watercolors. I heat embossed some images from Winter Florals onto a piece of heavyweight vellum using gold embossing powder, then snipped the individual berry clusters off of the long branch to create a custom arrangement. I die cut a deep plum greeting from the Christmas Season die set and arranged all of my die cuts on my blended and embossed background. Finally, I added a few coordinating sparkling gems!
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 $50 gift certificate to 4 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 12/19/2023 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 5 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 12/21/2023.
*The winner 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!
OMG! These are incredible! I LOVE the embossing folders! JUST WOW!
Your cards are breathtakingly beautiful, seriously! Your first card was exactly what you said, MAGICAL. The metallic colors used along the blended background was perfectly laid out. I actually thought eh florals were die cut until I reread and saw that you stamped it…WOW! The dimension is unreal!
Your other cards are no match for your first. I appreciate that you explained the steps to your process. It was very informative for me. I really enjoy reading a blog and taking something away from it and in this case I did just that! Thank you Emily.
I’m always confused if my commented was posted bc I never see it. Here I go again… If I see it posted twice I will know there is a delay in the future.
Emily, I love your cards. They are all beautiful! Love your chosen colors and technique incorporated on your first card. Lovely result!
For other cards, I especially enjoyed your tips on how to use embossing folders with ink and it was very informative for me. All gorgeous but different! Thanks for sharing.
Stunning cards!
Emily, you are just so talented! Love your cards!
Beautiful cards as usual. Love the use of color.
So beautiful! I love the freesia set!
Emily- the Freesia card is so beautiful! And the ink blending with the embossing folders is stunning 😍
Hola, Emily! Wow, your cards are always spectacular! So beautiful! 😍😍😍 Feliz Navidad, my sweet friend.
Your cards are always so elegant and stunning! I love them all!
Your cards are so beautiful! Love the colors!
Your Freesias are my favorite!
Beautiful cards! I love the Sugarplum and gold combo.
Beautiful releases in this set. I have my eyes set on a few of them
I love your Christmas cards! The colors, the choice of products and how they came together so beautifully. The plums and gold go so well together!
The snowflakes, the flowers….these cards are so pretty
Gorgeous cards. I love the new inks.
WOW Such pretty cards. The purple card with the poinsettia is soooooooooooo pretty … tyfs 🙂
These cards are spectacular!
The first card is stunning
Your cards are absolutely stunning! Love the set of 3 cards. The colors are so beautiful and vibrant!
I like the color choices for the fressia.
Beautiful cards as always… The Freesias stamp and stencil leave me wanting more….
Gorgeous colors and beautiful cards!!
Love your cards! The one done with the poinsettia embossing folder and dried petals ink is my favorite, beautifully done!!
Gorgeous in blue! love the Peace, Love and jOY
The touch of blue in the background sets off the freesia flowers beautifully.
All of your cards are fantastic Emily, but my favorite from this array is the one with the Freesias. The textures created with the 3D EFs are fabulous! Thanks for the tips and inspiration!
Gorgeous cards! I love the beautiful freesias and the fabulous holiday cards too! The colors and designs are awesome!