Hello, and welcome to the Altenew May 2015 Blog Hop! If you came from the Altenew’s blog, you are right on track! Today the design team girls are sharing some fabulous projects to celebrate the release of Crisp Dye Inks, and here are what I came up with:
To highlight the gorgeous ink colors, I created a one layer card with stamped background. I started by drawing some guide lines along the edges of my card base using ruler and pencil. Then I stamped the sentiment from Ori Kami set at the bottom of my card with Jet Black ink.
After masking off the edges with sticky notes, I first stamped big flowers and then filled in the gap with small flowers from Vintage Flowers set. Once I was done stamping, I erased the pencil lines to finish it off.
This is a close-up of my card. I used the Coral Berry ink and Ruby Red ink for the big flowers. Don’t you love the crisp colors? They look so beautiful in real life! Today Altenew releases twelve dye inks, and I already can’t wait to get more ink colors. 🙂
For my second card, I created another stamped background using different color combination. This time I used the Caramel Toffee ink and Paper Bag ink for the big flowers. FYI, I stamped the leaves from Lacy Scrolls set and the dots from Striped Flowers set to complement the stamped background.
It took me long to stamp all the images in various colors, but I love how my cards turned out. What do you think? Hope you loved the cards and got some inspiration.
It is now time to head on over to Jocelyn’s blog to see what creation she has to inspire you all. I am sure she has something amazing made up. Thanks so much for stopping by today. Happy hopping!
Giveaways: There are two ways to win!
To celebrate this release, Altenew will draw three winners who will each receive a $30 gift certificate to their online store. Please leave a comment on the Altenew blog by Friday, May 22 11:59pm EST for a chance to win. The winners will be announced on Saturday, May 23.
And there is more! I’ll randdomly choose one winner from comments left on this post, and the prize will be a $30 gift certificate to Altenew online store. I will announce the winner in this post on Thursday, May 21. Good luck!
Giveaway Winner (Edited)
Congratulations, Barb Macaskill! Please contact Altenew at winner@altenew.com to claim your prize.
Jill Sharp
Lovely cards and great colour combinations.
May . 18 . 2015Galachko
Beautiful patterns)
May . 18 . 2015Sue Fisher
This would be a lovely general purpose card with just the stamped background and no sentiment. It’d make a nice gift set too with several colour variations!
May . 18 . 2015Mimi H.
Beautiful cards. Great way to use most of the stamps and showcase the colors of ink.
May . 17 . 2015Jennifer - Caffeinated Papercuts
Love the cards and the colors! Definitely worth the effort.
May . 17 . 2015pinkheelscreative
Love the cards and the different colors. They look so feminine and soft!
May . 17 . 2015Zelda
Beautiful! I love that you did the same card in different color variations. A great way to see the different combinations! Thank you 🙂
May . 17 . 2015amyrmccue
Your cards are just beautiful. I love both color ways.
May . 17 . 2015Sandy M
Wow, these are absolutely gorgeous! Those new inks are amazing! But then again so is the artist 🙂
May . 17 . 2015Heather
I love your color combinations! So beautiful, thank you for sharing!
May . 17 . 2015Larissa Heskett
LOVING LOVING LOVING these!! Such FUN New INKS!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
May . 17 . 2015Pat
These two cards look great in both colour ways. These are both a background and focal image in one especially with the lovely added sentiment. x
May . 17 . 2015laura mm
Lovely projects & inks 🙂
May . 17 . 2015Agnieszka
Beautiful, colorful cards. Thanks for sharing.
May . 17 . 2015Janet K
Your cards are awesome!! I love the Vintage flowers sets!
May . 17 . 2015Ashley Santiago
I love this background you created.
May . 17 . 2015chitapet
Beautiful cards! Love the gorgeous backgrounds you created.
May . 17 . 2015Hanne
I love those inks! They make everything look so vibrant!
May . 17 . 2015cheriweston
Incredible stamping and results! I don’t know that I would have the patience for this, but the results are certainly worth it.
May . 17 . 2015Patti G
The time it took to stamp this was totally worth it , just amazing!
May . 17 . 2015Mirra`s mom
Oh May! I really adore your stunning stamped backgrounds! You know, you are really my Muse 😉
May . 16 . 2015J Fowler
I love your stamps. Getting ready to order my first one! The inks look great as well!
May . 16 . 2015Barbara
I love your cards. The colors are wonderful.
May . 16 . 2015Kat
such a cute set of cards!
May . 16 . 2015helenbrendan
These new inks are simply gorgeous, You”Verizon shown them to their greatest advantage as your cards are lovely!
May . 16 . 2015