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Emily Midgett

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Altenew Craft-A-Flower: African Daisy Release Blog Hop + Giveaway 

Hi there! Altenew is releasing their latest Craft-A-Flower set today, and we’re celebrating with a blog hop! You should have arrived here from the Altenew Card Blog, and your next stop is Jaycee Gaspar. The new Craft-A-Flower: African Daisy is a lovely new addition to the Craft-A-Flower family. These layering dies are always so fun to play with, and you can create so many unique looks depending on your color and cardstock choices! Here’s a peek at this month’s Craft-A-Flower:

If you love layering dies, you should definitely subscribe to the Craft-A-Flower series to receive each month’s die set at a discount! I have a crisp, white on white project to share with you today, so let’s get started with the details!

I began by die cutting the layers of the daisy flower from white cardstock and layering them together using liquid adhesive. I cut the foliage and stems from some minty green cardstock for some bright, contrasting foliage to help emphasize the different layers of cardstock of the daisies.

For the background, I die cut the beautiful Dotted Tile Debossing die from some more white cardstock. The subtle stitching creates a lovely textured background for the sweet daisies!

I adhered a white oval Create A Wreath die cut to the stitched card front using some foam adhesive, then arranged the daisies and foliage to be kind of exploding out of the frame, adhering them with some more foam adhesive. I added a greeting cut from the Thank You for Being My Friend, cut from both vellum and black cardstock. Finally, I added a few iridescent white pearls for some sparkle!

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

$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 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 04/13/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 04/15/2022.

Your next stop on the hop is Jaycee Gaspar.

Stamptember with Honey Bee Stamps!

Hi there! I have the pleasure of helping to introduce the next collaboration set for Simon Says Stamp’s Stamptember celebration: On My Mind with Honey Bee Stamps! You can purchase the stamp set or stamp & die combo right now, and these exclusive stamp sets have been selling out quickly- once they’re gone, they’re gone, so be sure to get your order in lickety split if you are at all interested!

For my project today, I used the beautiful new On My Mind stamp set with my Luminance colored pencils to create this somber sympathy card. You can never have too many sympathy cards on hand, and the sentiments in this set are beautiful and poignant.

I began by stamping the main wreath image from On My Mind onto some Pitch Black cardstock using Simon Says Stamp’s White Pigment ink. I then used my Luminance colored pencils to do some no-line coloring. The Luminance pencils blend beautifully on the black cardstock, and they remain amazingly vibrant on the dark background. I added a few dots here and there with a white gel pen for accent.

I heat embossed one of the sentiments on some more Pitch Black cardstock using white embossing powder, then fussy cut them using some very sharp scissors. I trimmed the colored pencil panel down slightly so as to be able to mat it on an A2 panel of Hero Hues Mustard cardstock. I added the greeting to the card front using foam tape for extra dimension.

The final touch was to add some pretty black gems with an autumnal iridescence for a bit of added texture and subtle sparkle.

Well, that’s all for my project using On My Mind, today’s collaboration set from Simon Says Stamp and Honey Bee Stamps! As I said, these sets have been selling out super quickly, so don’t hesitate if you love this set. Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a marvelous day!