Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

Altenew 11th Anniversary Blog Hop Day 2 + Giveaway (over $3,600 in Total Prizes)

Hi friends! After a bit of technical difficulty, I am excited to join my friends from Altenew for their 11th Anniversary Blog Hop Celebration! Month after month, Altenew provides us with exquisite products and equally exquisite inspiration to jumpstart your creativity. I was honored to be part of the Altenew Design Team for several years until life got a bit too crazy and I had to step back. I love joining my sweet friends from Altenew occasionally, though, helping to introduce new products and showcasing some of the fun and innovative new designs that Altenew consistently brings to us! For the Altenew 11th Anniversary Hop, Altenew has brought together our favorite companies for a multi-day blog hop that is chock full of inspiration and prizes to celebrate their 11 year milestone! You can find the full hop list over on the Altenew Blog. I have two projects to share with you today using some absolutely stunning goodies, so let’s get started with the details!

*I have gathered links to all of the products used at the bottom of the post for your convenience, using affiliate links. Thank you for shopping with my links! I truly appreciate your support for my work!*

My projects for today feature the stunning images from an older Build-A-Garden set, called Breezy Petals. I was super inspired by the color palette in the Botanical Brilliance Fresh Dye Ink family, so I used that as my color palette, pulling different colors together to create a cohesive card pair that coordinate but don’t “match.”

My first project mainly uses the stencils from the Breezy Petals product suite, creating an illusion of no-line coloring. I used the gorgeous colors from the Botanical Brilliance Fresh Dye Ink family on some Blush Crafty Necessities Cardstock. This cardstock color is light enough that the ink blending still stands out over the top, but is relatively subtle and gives an almost tone-on-tone vibe. I also used a blending brush to blend the exquisite Blush Rose ink around the edges of the stenciled panel, my favorite from the Blushberry Bliss Fresh Dye Ink family.

Once I had created my background, I die cut a sentiment from some coordinating red cardstock and glitter cardstock (I’m sorry-I can’t remember from which die set this sentiment die comes!), layering the two pieces together with liquid adhesive. To help ground the sentiment and soften the pattern behind it, I trimmed a thick strip of vellum and used my sharp scissors to flag the end. I added a strip of coordinating pearlescent blush cardstock on the end and adhered my sentiment die cut with some foam adhesive to the vellum strip before flipping it over and adding some liquid adhesive behind the solid die cut. This hides the adhesive behind the semi-transparent vellum to keep things neat and tidy! Finally, I added a coordinating blush ribbon bow, tucked beneath the sentiment die cut, for a bit of added texture. Such a pretty and feminine card, I think!

My second card utilizes a similar layout, this time using the coordinating stamp and die set for the Breezy Petals product suite. I stamped the large floral bouquet onto some heavyweight vellum using embossing ink, then used Rose Gold embossing powder to emboss the gorgeously detailed image. I just love the simplicity of the embossing on vellum, but the stamped image is so intricate that it stands on its’ own beautifully! I die cut the embossed image with its’ coordinating sentiment die. On the card base, I blended some more Blush Rose ink on a panel of Blush cardstock, creating a warm, peachy glow behind the embossed vellum panel.

For the greeting, I heat embossed a sentiment from the Breezy Petals stamp set onto some deep red cardstock using the same Rose Gold embossing powder and used the coordinating die and my trimmer to cut them out. I adhered the sentiment pieces to the vellum with foam adhesive, then flipped the die cuts over and added some liquid adhesive behind the solid die cuts before placing them on the center of the blended background. Finally, I added a ruby red bow tucked beneath the sentiment for a bit of extra textural interest!

Well, that’s all for my project today. Now for some fun giveaway information:

Here’s the full hop list in case you get lost:

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Happy 11th Anniversary to Altenew! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!

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  4. Hello! From Enola, PA! Happy Anniversary Altenew! I ADORE the colors! So elegant with the gold!

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  5. Happy Anniversary Altenew! These cards are so lovely! I love Altenew’s Fresh Dye Inks and I think I’m going to have some more colors to my stash!

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  18. Hi from PA! I love how you put together such elegant and stunning creations, making it seem so simple and easy! Beautiful work Emily

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  23. So much awesomeness going on with your cards! I love the ribbon tied around them. Gorgeous flowers and colors you chose as well.

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  25. Woo hoo Day 2! HI from Pocahontas Arkansas! Such beautiful cards love your colors! Happy Anniversary Altenew!

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  34. Hi from PA, Emily! You know yours is ALWAYS one of my most favorite stops on ANY hop. I adore your work. Today: The Breezy Petals might just hop into my basket b/c of your examples. GORGEOUS!
    Lori S in PA

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  36. Hi from Lake Balboa, CA. Both of your cards are beautiful. I love the color choices and the added bow on both.

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  37. Both of your cards are so beautiful! Your color choice is amazing! Thanks for inspiring us all!
    Happy 11th Anniversary ALTENEW!!!

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  38. Hi from Linda Choquette British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
    Love your coral card…very rare to see that color on a card 😍

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  46. Hi from NJ. The designs of flowers to create such beautiful cards and decore, really grabs my attention. The style is just perfection.

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  52. Hello from Oh! Both cards are gorgeous Emily, however the first one is my favorite, the colors are fabulous! TFS!

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  53. These are just so pretty! I am especially fond of the coral tones in the second project. Beautiful!

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  54. Hi there, from Gresham, Oregon…love the beautiful colors you chose to add to this gorgeous stamp set

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  61. Hi from Graham, Washington! Ooooo, I absolutely love your cards, especially the first one!! The colors are yummy!!

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  63. Those are two beautiful cards! I love the sun kissed colors of inks used on that one! Fabulous!!!

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  65. Hello from Western Washington! Congratulations, Altenew, on your 11th Anniversary and what a fun way to celebrate! Awe, the peachy glow on both cards exudes warmth and beauty. Love how you used vellum two different ways, Emily!

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