Hello, crafty friends! Welcome to the Altenew’s 4th anniversary blog hop. If you are coming from the fantastic Simon Says Stamp’s blog, you are right on track!
- Column 1: You are precious, Love, You inspire me
- Column 2: Hugs & Kisses, Beautiful, Live in the moment
- Column 3: Celebrate, Hope, XO
It’s been my pleasure to be designing for Altenew since I joined the Altenew card design team in 2015. They have amazing products – stamps, dies, inks, stencils, markers, and more – which are worth checking out HERE.
These are some of the stamp sets that I’ve illustrated for Altenew. Do you own any stamp sets from above? What’s your favorite stamp set from Altenew? Make sure to check out My Stamp Designs page to see all of the products I designed for last four years.
For my first card, I started cutting down my panel into 4.25″x5.5″ out of Altenew Spicy Yogurt Cardstock using my Tim Holtz paper trimmer. Then I stamped the sentiment from the Crafty Life stamp set with Altenew Permanent Black Ink on the center of my A2 size panel.
I chose the images from the Wildflower Garden stamp set as the solid images in the set are perfect for background stamping and easy for customization. I stamped the images using several Altenew Crisp Dye ink pads and here is the list of ink colors I used for my stamping:
- Coral flower: Rouge, Coral Bliss
- Yellow flower: Maple Yellow, Honey Drizzle
- Mint flower: Volcano Lake, Lagoon
- Purple flower: Lavender Fields, Deep Iris
- Stems & Leaves: Olive, Moss
- Center of the flower: Lava Rock
- Leaves: Morning Frost, Evening Gray, Moon Rock, and Lava Rock
When it comes to creating my own stamped background, I always start stamping larger images first and fill in the gap with smaller images later. And it’s very important to stamp your large images in the right place as they help balance the rest of your small images.
As you can see above, I applied some darker color toward the bottom of each image to add some depth and interest to my stamped images. I love that the natural grains in the Spicy Yogurt Cardstock give it a beautiful earthy texture. What do you think? Do you still love the white card base?
Video Tutorial
I made a video tutorial to show you how to create my floral cards from start to finish. You can watch it above or in HD on YouTube. This video includes:
- How to choose a color combination for your projects
- How to start stamping to create a balanced background
- How to add shades to your stamped images
- How to customize your clear stamps
- Several projects featuring a dot technique
- Behind-the-scenes of my craft desk – I hope you relate to my messy desk!
I created another card using the same stamp sets and ink colors. For my second card, I only used one ink color for each image to achieve a simple stamped look.
Could you recognize where I customized the stamps? I illustrated the Wildflower Garden stamp set to allow you to mix and match flowers and stems for creating your own garden of wildflowers.
With 10 different flowers of various sizes and plenty of corresponding leaves and stems, you will be able to make endless floral backgrounds with the Wildflower Garden stamp set.
On my second stamped background panel, I add some dots between the images using the fine tip of Altenew Artist Marker: Mango Smoothie and Arctic. You could use a tiny solid circle stamp if you want to. If you are looking for an easy way to dress up your stamped background, this dot technique will give your card more finished look.
Prizes
Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners and one Altenew Academy class to 5 lucky winners. There are also 13 awesome companies/crafty friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:
- Altenew: 5 $50 Altenew Gift Certificates
- Altenew Academy: 5 Class Spots
- Jennifer McGuire Ink: 2 $100 Altenew Gift Certificates
- Online Card Classes: 3 Class Spots
- Simon Says Stamp: $50 Gift Certificate
- Scrapbook.com: $50 Gift Certificate
- My Sweet Petunia: Mini MISTI Stamping Tool
- Tombow USA: 2 Dual Brush Pen Sets(10 Colors) and 2 TwinTone Dual Tip Marker Sets(12 Colors)
- WOW! Embossing Powder: $40 Gift Certificate
- Create & Craft TV: £25 Gift Certificate
- Ellen Hutson LLC: $25 Gift Certificate
- Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 Gift Certificate
- Amy Tangerine: 2 Signed Copies of
- Craft a Life You LoveChameleon Pens: 1 Pack of 5 Chameleon Pens
- Scrapbook & Cards Today: 1 Copy of Scrapbook & Cards Today Spring 2018 Issue
Be sure to leave comments by April 15th, 2018 at 11:59 PM EDT for a chance to win! 30 WINNERS will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew blog on April 17th, 2018.
Special Offer
FREE U.S. shipping with code HAPPY4TH or $5 OFF international shipping with code ANNIV at checkout when you shop in the Altenew store. Offer valid from April 3rd until April 8th at 11:59 pm EDT. Not valid on prior purchases. Cannot be combined with other promo codes. Click HERE to shop now!
Blog Hop
It is now time to head on over to the amazing Laura Bassen’s blog to see what creation she has to inspire you all. But I’ve got the entire hop list for you below. Thank you so much for stopping by. Happy hopping!
Altenew
Simon Says Stamp
May Sukyong Park(you’re here!)
Laura Bassen(your next stop!)
Kristina Pokazanieva
Kathy Racoosin
Enza Gudor
Erum Tasneem
Nicole Picadura
Svitlana Shayevich
Chameleon Pens
Kelly Latevola
Flora Monika Farkas
Dana Gong
Vicky Papaioannou
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 Wildflower Garden Stamp Set Shop at: AN | SSS | EH |
 Altenew Crafty Life Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Crafty Friends Stamp Set Shop at: AN | SSS | EH |
 Altenew Spicy Yogurt Cardstock Shop at: AN |
 Neenah Solar White Cardstock 80LB Shop at: SSS | EH |
 Altenew Rouge Ink Shop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Volcano Lake Ink Shop at: SSS | AN | EH |
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 Altenew Lagoon Ink Shop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Lavender Fields Ink Shop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Deep Iris Ink Shop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Olive Ink Shop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Moss Ink Shop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Lava Rock Ink Shop at: AN | EH |
 Altenew Permanent Black Ink Shop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Glue Tape Shop at: SSS | AN |
 Original MISTI Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ | EH |
 Altenew Coral Bliss Ink Shop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Artist Markers Shop at: SSS | AN |
 Tim Holtz Tonic Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | AZ | EH |
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