Welcome to Day 2 of
Altenew's Crafty Friends Blog Hop! I'm so honoured to be joining Altenew and its line-up of amazingly talented crafters, awesome companies and magazines for this special hop to celebrate our love of crafting and blogging. I've been making handmade cards as far back as I can remember. My mom always insisted on handmade cards, never store-bought. About seven years ago, when I knew I was going to be a stay-at-home-mom for a few more years, I started blogging and then I ventured into publications, which seems like a whole lifetime ago. Does anyone else really miss the tangible paper crafting magazines?! I would definitely count some of the crafty friends I've met in blogland as my best friends. There are a few that I text with
every day, not just about crafting but anything and everything. Yup! I love them, they're awesome and I don't know what I'd do without them.
In honour of
Altenew and this celebration of crafty friends, I made a trio of cards using six different Altenew stamp sets and three coordinating die sets. The moment I saw the
Sweet Friend set, I knew I had to have it. I love frames and I knew that I wanted to pair it up with the foxes from
Hug Me.
For the first card, I heat embossed the frame in gold, then created a custom sentiment using two different sentiments, one from
Crafty Friends and one from
Coffee Love. I just changed the period into a comma using a Copic multi-liner.
The spoon, teacup and saucer are also from the
Coffee Love set. I created an ombre effect for the second line using
Rose Quartz and
Puffy Heart inks.
For all of the frames and foxes, I used the same distress ink colours which are all listed below. It's the difference in embossing powders that changes the look of the frame.
The second card is the only one with a coloured background and I chose the green to coordinate with the watercolours in the images since the frame was so pale. I loved playing with the positions of the foxes in the frames!
The sentiment on this card was created with a line from
Hug Me and a partial sentiment from
Crafty Friends.
This last card is my favourite of the three. The frame was heat embossed with clear embossing powder over gray pigment ink. At first, I thought it looked dull but the watercolours seem to pop the most of the three frames. Plus, it has a nice rustic, antique look.
I love the three foxes hanging out together - something I always look forward to with my local crafty gals - and the sentiment is so perfect for the setting and this blog hop!
Once again, I used
Volcano Lake and
Lagoon inks to create the ombre effect on the two-line sentiment, created using phrases from
Crafty Friends. It's a must-have stamp set with endless possibilities!
Altenew is giving away a $100 Altenew prize pack to FIVE lucky winners. There are also 13 awesome companies/magazines who are offering the following prizes:
Be sure to leave comments by Friday, October 27th, 2017 at 11:59 PM EDT for a chance to win! 20 WINNERS will be chosen at random from the comments left on all of these blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on October 28th, 2017.
There's more! I will also draw a winner from my blog to win a $20 gift certificate to the Altenew store. Please leave a comment on my blog by Thursday, October 26th at 11:59 p.m. EST for a chance to win. The winner will be announced on my blog on Friday, October 27th.
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