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Emily Midgett

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Altenew Craft A Flower Cosmos Blog Hop + Giveaway!

Hi there! Today, Altenew is releasing their latest Craft-A-Flower die set: Craft A Flower: Cosmos! These floral layering dies are so very fun to play with, because you can use all different manner of techniques to create the colorful layers… colored cardstock, markers, ink blending… whatever you have on hand to create a set of three gradient cardstock! You should have arrived here from Amanda Baldwin and your next stop is Christine Pennington. (You can also check out the Altenew Card Blog to get the full hop list…. and an extra card that I made!) I have a card and tag project for you today, so let’s get started with the details!

When creating with these beautiful layering dies, I tend to do a bunch of die cutting and a bunch of assembling, many times leaving me with an abundance of blooms sufficient to create multiple projects. I created several blooms by blending the Enchanted Garden ink quartet on white cardstock, then die cutting the individual layers from each individual color. I thought I’d allow these pretty purple Craft A Flower: Cosmos pop on a lightly textured white background.

This first project is a “mini slimline” size, (3.5″x6″) which is relatively new but I find to be a lovely size for florals… just long enough to have some florals climbing up your card front without having too much space to fill! I trimmed my white card base down, then used Hydrangea ink with the Woven Stencil to blend some light texture on my background.

I arranged my floral die cuts to be climbing up my card front and adhered them with a combination of liquid and dimensional adhesive for lots of texture.

I added a sentiment from Sentiment Strips on a strip of white cardstock using the same Hydrangea ink, then added a few gems for some sparkle!

I used the same supplies to create a pretty tag, as well, this time using the Terrific Tags die set for my base. I die cut the tag base, stenciled lightly, then added my leftover Cosmos die cuts using dimensional adhesive. Finally, I added some white raffia to create the loop.

Well, that’s all for my project today! As always, Altenew is having generous giveaways to celebrate their Craft A Flower: Cosmos release:

$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $15 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 02/12/2021 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 02/15/2021.

Your next stop is Christine Pennington. Thanks so much for stopping by, and happy hopping!

Honey Bee Stamps Bee Bold Release, Day 4!

Good morning! I’m back today for Day 4 of the Honey Bee Stamps Bee Bold Release! We’ve shown you versatile dies, darling bears, lovely sentiments…. now today we are showing sneak peeks of several new sets, including hmy favorite set from the release: Cosmos. These flowers are just gorgeous and SO much fun to color… I can’t wait to delve in with other mediums! I paired them with a gorgeous new sentiment set called Grateful. I can’t say enough good things about the Honey Bee word dies. They’re just so beautiful! Let’s get started with some details!

I’m sure you’ve noticed by now that no-line coloring is my new obsession, particularly with my Polychromos pencils. This stunning Cosmos set was just begging to be colored with my pencils. I started by stamping the florals and some of the foliage from Cosmos onto some white card stock using a very pale blue ink. I then used my Polychromos pencils in shades of lilac and deep purple to color the images and die cut them with the coordinating dies.

Yellow has been in my mind’s eye quite a lot recently, particularly with this release… I love mustard paired with plum and lilac. It is in the realm of fall colors, but just bright enough that it still hints of summer. I decided to pair my penciled Cosmos with a mustard hexagonal frame cut from the Hexagon stack. I placed the frame on the card front, then arranged the flowers on the side of the frame and used Press ‘n Seal to pick them up so that I could add adhesive without losing the arrangement I’d so carefully crafted. I use this method frequently with no trouble, but for some reason the slight pattern on the Press’n Seal lifted some of the pencil and added some texture…. I contemplated trying to repair it, but I decided that I liked that extra bit of texture enough to leave it.

After I’d popped up the main images with foam adhesive, I added a die cut grateful using the new Grateful dies cut from some deep purple card stock, then popped up some sentiment labels from the coordinating Grateful stamp set. The final touch was a few Twilight Rhinestones to add some sparkle.

Well, that’s all for me today! Remember, all of the products that we have been sneaking this week will be available for purchase tomorrow night, August 2, at midnight central time! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and be sure to come back again later this week to take part in the Bee Bold Release blog hop for a chance to win some very generous prizes!