Happy Friday! Welcome to Altenew’s A Year in Review Blog Hop. If you came from the fabulous Kristina Werner’s blog, you are right on track!
To celebrate the amazing year of 2017, today I’m sharing my favorite Altenew cards that I have created this year. If you want more details of a particular card, just click on the photo of the card to go to the original post.
I combined three flower stamp sets to build my own floral arrangement: Build-A-Flower Coral Charm, Remember This, and Beautiful Day. Then I watercolored my images with ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Pens.
To create my own stamped background, I stamped A, F, G letters from the Layered Letters AFG stamp set using four different ink colors: Mountain Mist, Volcano Lake, Lagoon, and Emerald.
I created a one-layer watercolor card using the Enchanted Iris stamps set and Crafty Friends stamp set. These flowers are a delight to color with any medium, and I decided to color them with my favorite watercolors: Mijello Mission Gold watercolor set.
I created a floral one layer card featuring the gorgeous flower images from the Amazing You stamp set. Then I colored my images with Prismacolor colored pencils.
Don’t you love all the layers in different shades of red? I was surprised to see myself being able to color the images beautifully with colored pencils.
I created a one-layer Father’s Day card using ink blending and heat embossing techniques, inspired my own cards, THIS and THIS. I used the cool images from the Best Dad stamp set to create my own heat-embossed background.
I mixed the images from several stamp sets from Altenew: Garden Treasure, Remember This, Beautiful Day to create my own floral arrangement. Then I colored them with Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36 watercolor set using two different watercolor techniques.
I wanted to create a sort of Happy New Year card featuring Happy Dreams stamp set and Bold Alphabet die set , but not using the common greeting “happy new year. Then I came up with my own sentiment, You make it happen! This also can be used for the encouragement card.
To create a one-layer floral card, I stamped the images from the Smile More stamp set and colored them with Copic markers.
To create a bold pattern, I stamped fun fruit images from the Simple Fruits stamp set with Altenew Crisp dye inks: Warm Sunshine, Orange Cream, and Parrot. It took me about 20-25 minutes masking all the orange images, but I guess it paid off.
To celebrate a new release of Artist Markers Set B and Artist Markers Set C from Altenew, I created a floral themed card using the Adore You Stamp Set and the Halftone Hearts Stamp Set.
I wanted to color my images with a unique color combo, without any red colors. I mainly used the flicking technique to blend the colors.
With this Build-A-Flower: Rose, anyone can achieve a realistic look as it gives extra depth to the rose image with six layers. To create my own floral arrangement, I combined Build-A-Flower: Rose with another fabulous stamp set from Altenew: Remember This.
I created a quick and simple winter holiday card using the Halftone Stars stamp set and Happy Holidays stamp set.
I finished off my card by adding some dots with Jet Black marker from Altenew Artist Markers Set A. I just couldn’t stop adding dots to my card. They really added extra details to my card.
I created my own sentiments by stamping the sentiments from the following stamp sets: Smile More, Hug Me, and Halftone Hearts.
Then I stamped the multi-step carnation images, leaves, and a cluster of tiny flowers from Build-A-Flower: Carnation around my sentiments to create my own floral background.
I created a fun card with a stamped background using the Speech Bubbles stamp set. FYI, I stamped speech bubble images with Altenew Crisp Inks: Rouge, Warm Sunshine, and Volcano Lake which is my favorite color combo of this year.
I diecut the floral frame three times using the Layered Floral Cover Die A and adhered them together. Next, I blended some Distress inks on the die cut frame and added some shading using Prismacolor pencils. Then I mounted the colored floral frame on the patterned paper.
Well, there you have it…my favorite Altenew cards of 2017. I was really inspired by my own creations while going through all the blog posts. I hope you had fun revisiting them with me and receiving some inspiration.
If you want to see more of my Altenew cards, please click HERE. If you are more into watercolor cards, please click HERE where I shared 10 floral watercolor card ideas using Altenew stamps.
Giveaways
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- I have ONE $20 Altenew gift certificate to give away. Leave a comment below, I will announce one lucky winner on 12/31/2017.
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It is now time to head on over to the fantastic Anna Komenda’s blog to see what creations she have to inspire you all. Wishing you a Happy New Year filled with much happiness and creativity!
Supplies
I have listed the stamps, dies, coloring mediums 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 Adore You Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Happy Dreams Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Beautiful Day Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Amazing You Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Smile More Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Simple Fruits Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Hug Me Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Best Dad Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Enchanted Iris Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Crafty Friends Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Layered Letters AFG Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Halftone Hearts Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Garden Treasure Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Remember This Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Speech Bubbles Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Build-A-Flower Coral CharmShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Build-A-Flower: CarnationShop at: SSS | AN |
Altenew Build-A-Flower: RoseShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Halftone Stars Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Happy Holidays Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Bold Alphabet Die SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Layered Floral Cover Die AShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Artist Markers Set AShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Artist Markers Set BShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Altenew Artist Markers Set CShop at: SSS | AN |
Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36 Color SetShop at: SSS | EH |
Mijello Mission Gold Watercolor SetShop at: SSS | AZ |
Copic Sketch Markers Shop at: SSS | AZ | EH |
ZIG Clean Color Real Brush 36 SetShop at: SSS | AZ | EH |
Prismacolor Colored PencilsShop at: SSS | AZ |
Karen Quinn
Your cards are beautiful, thanks for all the wonderful inspiration!
Dec . 23 . 2017Luana Stark
Love your water coloring..Thank you for sharing.. Have a wonderful holiday season..
Dec . 23 . 2017Gin K.
Loved seeing all of your year in review projects, your cards are beautiful! Thanks for sharing. ~Gin K.~
Dec . 23 . 2017Liron Alush
I love the coloring!
Dec . 23 . 2017Wendy O'dell
I know why they are your favorites, they’re BEAUTIFUL. I fell in love too. Especially with the florals. I love florals that are colored right and yes Ma’am, you do know how to color florals. Thanks for sharing your talent❤
Dec . 22 . 2017Kathy Ferguson
Loved all your 2017 card projects. Your water coloring is sensational! Thanks for sharing.
Dec . 22 . 2017Linda
Love your cards.
Dec . 22 . 2017Dawn Spengler
WHO DOESN’T LOVE ALTENEW!!
Dec . 22 . 2017Norine Mueller
Your cards are just beautiful
Dec . 22 . 2017Shar
Beautiful water coloring on the iris!
Dec . 22 . 2017Connie Tiner
So Pretty. I can’t pick a favorite because I love all of them.
Dec . 22 . 2017Carol K
Thank you for a year full of inspiration! You have shown us some beautiful work.
Dec . 22 . 2017Starr Patrick
Oh may these are such lovely cards i love them all
Dec . 22 . 2017Linda BL
So nice to see all of your pretty cards together. Your card with the sentiment ‘Live in the moment’ is so very pretty!
Dec . 22 . 2017Christine H
Your talents with stamps and layouts is amazing. Thanks so much for sharing.
Dec . 22 . 2017Bev W
Your talent is amazing and always inspiring May!
Dec . 22 . 2017Heather Nelson
Beautiful florals!! I love your coloring!!
Dec . 22 . 2017mandalj
Your skills with colouring, design, choosing colour schemes, everything are awe-inspiring and just inspiring! It must have been hard to choose your favourites!
Dec . 22 . 2017Cindy K
So many beautiful cards made with Altenew products. I think my favorite is the one made with the Layered Floral Cover Die.
Dec . 22 . 2017Cassandra C
Your coloring is so beautiful!
Dec . 22 . 2017maria c
I love your work.
Dec . 22 . 2017Denise Bryant
Enjoying all the year in review projects! Beautiful cards!
Dec . 22 . 2017Lynda
I love the layered flower dies because they are great together or separately.
Dec . 22 . 2017geri S.
So beautiful! So much fun! Thanks for the inspiration!
Dec . 22 . 2017barbaramacaskillbarb macaskill
Your cards always leave me breathless! Your coloring, placement of images and layering are always spot on! TFS!
Dec . 22 . 2017