I'm thrilled to be joining Altenew for the November 2019 Gradient Cardstock Release Blog Hop! I was super excited to create with their first cardstock release. These sets coordinate with their first ink release and the cardstock is sized at 3" x 6" to fit perfectly in Altenew's Mini Blossom Die Cutting Machine. The small size makes Altenew's cardstock affordable to try and easy to work with.
My first card features
Red Cosmos, Summer Afternoon and
Green Meadows Gradient Cardstock with the
Garden Picks 3D Die Set and sentiments from
Build-A-Flower: Hibiscus.
First, I cut 1/4" strips of
Red Cosmos Gradient Cardstock and used one of the
MISTI Creative Corners to line up the strips on an angle. I adhered them with liquid glue and trimmed off the overhanging pieces. Then I assembled all the die cut layers for the
Garden Picks 3D Die Set.
Before adhering the die cut flowers, I placed the panel in my
MISTI stamping tool and stamped the two part sentiment in
Permanent Black and
Grapevine.
As I was adhering the assembled florals to the panel with glue dots, I die cut white "shadows" to place behind the flowers so they wouldn't blend into the coordinating diagonal strips.
To create my second card, I first used the
Sketched Lines Stencil to dry emboss a pattern on the panel. Then I stamped florals from
Frosted Garden using
Mountain Mist and Volcano Lake inks.
I partially die cut the inside portions of the florals and applied foam tape to those portions so they would pop up after the panel was adhered to the card base.
My third card was so much fun to make. I used the
Cherry Blossom Gradient Cardstock to cut letters from the
Simple Alpha Dies and adhered them to fun foam.
Then I used
Cherry Blossom Oval Inks and life changing blending brushes to create the background.
Again, using the
Cherry Blossom Oval Inks, I stamped the foxes and balloons from
Hug Me. Before adhering any of the pieces to the panel, I moved all the elements around to gauge their final positions.
There was a lot of maneuvering to get all these pieces just right! With the help of a
design ruler, I was able to position the letters perfectly - or at least near-perfectly. ;) I just love how these
Cherry Blossom Gradient Cardstock colours look with the coordinating
Cherry Blossom Oval Inks.
My last card for this release hop features the
Layered Floral Elements Dies and a sentiment from
Floral Arrangement Dies, cut from
Shades of Purple,
Summer Afternoon and
Green Meadows Gradient Cardstock.
It was so much fun die cutting all of these beautiful pieces using the
Layered Floral Elements Dies from so many shades of gradient cardstock.
I used a combination of liquid glue and glue dots to create the clusters and adhere all the pieces to each other and to the panel.
I stacked some of the glue dots two and three high to create texture and visual interest. To finish, I adhered the die cut sentiment from
Floral Arrangement Dies, trimmed off the overhanging pieces and attached the panel to the card base.
PRIZES:
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog by 11/20/2019 for a chance to win.
We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 11/23/2019.
Thanks so much for hopping along with us!
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