Clean and Simple One Layer Card with a Floral Wreath | Altenew How-To Video

Hello, and welcome to the Altenew November Release 2016 Blog Hop! If you came from the amazing Svitlana’s blog, you are right on track! Today the design team girls and guests are sharing some fabulous projects to celebrate the release of 15 new stamp sets and 8 die sets including the Adore You stamp set I designed.

I created a clean and simple one layer card using the Hello Sunshine stamp set. This set includes many elements that can be used to build your own backgrounds or patterns. So I decided to create a floral frame or wreath to highlight the images in the set.

I made a video tutorial to show you how to create this card. I’m also sharing some special tips in the video you won’t want to miss. You can watch it here or on my YouTube channel:

How to Make a Clean and Simple One Layer Card using Your Own Floral Frame

1. Cut Neenah Solar White Cardstock 80LB into 4.25 x 5.5 using Tim Holtz paper trimmer. (You can stamp your images directly on the A2 size top folding card if you want to. However, I stamped the images on the panel first and adhered the stamped panel to the card base later. Just because I wanted to make sure that my stamping surface is flat so I don’t make any mistakes on stamping.)
2. Draw an oval shape on the paper using a pencil and the oval die from Pretty Pink Posh.(If you don’t have this die, you may draw the oval frame yourself. It’s okay not to be perfect because you are going to erase it eventually.)
3. Stamp the sentiment from the Hello Sunshine stamp set inside the oval with black ink.
4. Stamp the images from the Hello Sunshine stamp set along the oval pencil line using black ink. (If you use Altenew black ink for stamping like I did, make sure to dry your stamped images first before you color them with Copic markers to prevent from ink bleeding. Otherwise, I recommend you to use Memento Tuxedo black ink or Hero Arts intense black ink.)
5. Color the images using Copic markers and erase the pencil line.
6. Adhere the colored panel on an A2 size top folding card using glue tape.
7. Add white dots on some of the flowers using white gel pen and black dots around the foliages using a black pen.
8. Finish off the card by applying some shimmer with Wink of Stella Glitter Clear Brush on the images.

Giveaways: There are two ways to win!

• To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to THREE lucky winners. Leave a comment on the Altenew blog by Monday, November 21st at 11:59 PM EST for a chance to win.

• And there is more! I have a $30 Altenew gift certificates to give away. Leave a comment below, telling me the one thing you are most proud of about yourself. I will announce one lucky winner on Thursday, October 20th here on Tuesday, November 22nd. Good luck!

These are my favorite stamp sets from Altenew November release: Adore You, Happy Dreams, and Hello Sunshine. To see all of the new products from Altenew, please click HERE.

Blog Hop

It is now time to head on over to the fantastic Laura’s blog to see what creation she has to inspire you all. Thanks so much for stopping by today. Happy hopping!

Altenew
Debby Hughes
Wanda Guess
Lydia Evans
Yana Smakula
Amy Gray
Kathy Racoosin
Agnieszka Malyszek
Lisa Spangler
Marika Rahtu
Jennifer McGuire
Therese Calvird
Joni Nina Andaya
Sandy Allnock
Svitlana Shayevich
May Sukyong Park—>you’re here!
Laura Bassen

Giveaway Winner (Edited to add) 

Congratulations, Lucy! Please email Altenew at winner@altenew.com to claim your prize with a subject line : November 2016 blog hop winner from May’s Blog.

Supplies

I have listed the supplies I used below. I participate in several affiliate programs including Simon Says Stamp(SSS), Ellen Hutson(EH) and Altenew(AN). It means I get a small commission at no additional cost to you when products are purchased through links I share here. Thank you for your support.

Altenew Hello Sunshine Stamp Set Shop at: AN	Mini MISTI Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | AZ | EH	Tim Holtz Tonic Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | AZ | EH	Altenew Jet Black Ink Shop at: SSS | AN	Copic Sketch Markers Shop at: SSS | EH
Dahle Self-Healing Cutting Mat 18×12 Shop at: SSS | EH	Wink of Stella Glitter Clear Brush Shop at: SSS | EH	Neenah Solar White Cardstock 80LB Shop at: SSS | EH	Uni-Ball White Gel Pen Shop at: SSS | EH	Scrapbook Adhesives Permanent Tape Shop at: SSS | EH