wood press plate

Hi friends! I am hopping along with Altenew today to celebrate their newest release for March 2024! You should have arrived here from Amanda, and your next stop is Jaycee. The new release features Altenew’s iconic floral designs, but I was especially entranced by the new layering stencil sets from this month’s Marvelous Monthly subscriptions: Dynamic Duo: Painted Blossoms and Stencil Art: Amorous Dream. I kept the color palettes to a muted and luxurious mauve with lots of crisp white textures to accent the gorgeous floral arrangements. Let’s get started with the details on my projects!

For both of my projects, I paired the layered stencils with the stunning Dried Petals Fresh Dye Ink, with Plum added for the fifth layer of color for those super intense shadows! These spectacularly gorgeous shades of mauve are so elegant and delicate to my eye and worked beautifully with both Dynamic Duo: Painted Blossoms and Stencil Art: Amorous Dream.

For my first project, I blended the Stencil Art: Amorous Dream on some crisp white cardstock using blending brushes with the Dried Petals Fresh Dye Ink and Plum ink combination. This stencil set had a very unique method, utilizing a lightly engraved outline of the surrounding flowers as a guide for where my stenciled layers should be placed! These lightly engraved lines on the stencils allowed for perfect and easy placement. I love these clever innovations that make our crafting lives a bit simpler!

After I had die cut my stenciled bouquet with the Amorous Dream Coordinating Add-On Die, I kept the background quite simple, choosing to add some lovely texture to a panel of letterpress paper with the Essential Textures: Wood Press Plate, then used a blending brush to blend some light pink ink from the Dried Petals family over the center of my letterpressed panel. Adding the ink blending after impressing the texture helps to pick up some of that textured pattern! I adhered the die cut stenciled bouquet using some foam adhesive, then added a dimensional die cut greeting from the Sweet Sentiments die set, with the detail layer cut three times from white cardstock and adhered together and popped on top of a vellum shadow layer. I finally embellished the card with a few Dried Petals Enamel Dots for more texture and shine!

My second project features the same luxurious color combination paired with the new Dynamic Duo: Painted Blossoms. I used the same inks to blend the sumptuous floral swag twice on some white cardstock, then die cut the finished blooms with the Dynamic Duo: Painted Blossoms Add-On Die.

To add some subtle texture to the background of my vivid floral arrangement, I embossed the Rustling Leaves 3D Embossing Folder onto some crisp white cardstock, offsetting the circular medallion in the center to the left side. I arranged the stenciled floral swags around the circular frame, trimming some of the excess off and tucking it amongst the greenery, which creates a fuller floral arrangement. I heat embossed a greeting from the coordinating stamp set from the Dynamic Duo: Painted Blossoms set using Obsidian ink and embossed with pearlescent white powder, creating a pearlescent charcoal greeting. I die cut the sentiment with the coordinating Add-On Die and tucked it amongst my stenciled flowers, finally finishing off the project with some Dried Petals Enamel Dots.

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 03/12/2024 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 03/14/2024.
*The winner of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog.