Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop Day 1 + Giveaway

Hello everyone and Welcome to the Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop Day 1! I’m so excited to join this hop!  You should have arrived from very talented Dana Gong. If not, you can start from the beginning at Altenew Card Blog.

Today we are celebrating friendships formed through our mutual love of everything crafty!

I always loved handmade, crafty things and tried all kinds of hobbies from jewelry making to bookbinding until I’ve discovered the beautiful world of card making. I can still remember that day when I turned out to cardmaker. It was the first time I had seen a beautiful Vintage Roses layered stamps by Altenew… I was impressed and it became my very first floral stamp set.

I started Instagram a few years ago (if you enjoy my projects, please follow me). This summer I asked myself ” Should I start a blog, maybe?!” I wasn’t sure… but I asked myself again ” Why not? just do it…” So, I started this blog in July 2018 as a place to share my creations. I’m so glad that I did it! Also, I started my YouTube channel several months ago.

I love that my cards can bring joy and inspire others in their creativity. I can’t even explain how thankful I am for all of you who keep coming to see my projects and leaving me lovely comments!

Every day I meet fantastic and talented people, which inspires me so much. I have some friends I made through this hobby. Friends we don’t even live close. Friends we never ever crafted together. The miles between us but sharing the same passion brings us so close. We chat, we inspire each other. Unfortunately, we have never met in real life and maybe never will…But I believe things happen!

So, now it’s my turn to inspire you with several projects I created.

Projects

I love to give flowers to friends and family. Sometimes they are on cards that I send to friends so they know I’m thinking of them. I created three floral cards for you using amazing flowers by Altenew.

Engraved Flowers Stamp

This time I decided to use just one flower from the Engraved Flowers Stamp set. For the first card I did simple coloring and blending using my colored pencils.

I started by stamping the images onto white cardstock using clear inks and gold heat embossed. I then colored flowers with colored pencils, made ink blending using Altenew inks Shade of Purple and stamped a sentiment. To finish off my card I added sapphire crystals.

Also, this would be a great set to use if you enjoy watercoloring flowers. Here is my second card.

I started by stamping the images onto white cardstock panel using clear inks and gold heat embossed. I then made some blending using Altenew inks: Lagoon, Desert Night, Saphire, Persian Blue and Emerald. I added splatters using water and Altenew Lagoon metallic shimmer ink spray.

Next, I watercolored the flowers with Zig Markers: May Green, Light Brown, Peacock Blue and Altenew metallic shimmer ink sprays: Lagoon, Orange cream and Puffy Heart.

I popped up a sentiment, gold heat embossed on white cardstock and added gold sequins.

Inked Flora Stamp Set

I created a floral card inspired by the super talented Kelly Latevola. She is one of my favorite cardmakers. To make it I decided to use these amazing flowers.

I started by stamping the flowers and creating abstract messy watercolored background with Altenew ink sprays and Zig art&graphic markers.

I then colored the images more intensive and added some white dots with a white gel pen and splattered the background with blue and rose colors. I glued the colored background onto blueberry cardstock and then glued it onto a long white side folding card base. I then popped up a sentiment, gold heat embossed on blueberry cardstock and added different sequins.

Supplies

Below you will find links to the supplies used to create the projects. Click on the letters to go to a favorite store: Ellen Hutson (EH), Altenew (AN), Studio Katia (SK), Amazon (AZ). Where available I use compensated affiliate links. This means that I receive a small commission when products are purchased through links I share here (at no additional cost to you). If you like my projects, please consider supporting me by clicking through these links when you shop. Thank you so much!

Engraved Flowers Stamp Set Shop at: AN | EH	Ranger Archival Ink Pad, Jet Black Shop at: EH | AZ	Tonic Comfort 8.5 Inch Guillotine Paper Trimmer Shop at: EH | AZ	Tim Holtz Tonic Mini Snips Shop at: EH | AZ	Zig Art & Graphic Twin Tip Marker, Set of 84 Shop at: EH | AZ
Hero Arts Embossing Powder, White Shop at: EH | AZ	X-Press It High Tack Double-Sided Tape Shop at: EH | AZ	Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock Shop at: EH	Neenah Cardstock Shop at: EH | AZ	Ranger Emboss It Ink Pad Shop at: EH | AZ
Hero Arts Embossing Gun Shop at: EH | AZ	Ranger Ink Blending Tool Shop at: EH | AZ	Ranger Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam Shop at: EH | AZ	ZIG Watercolor BrusH20, Large Shop at: EH	Scrapbook Adhesives 3-D Foam Squares Shop at: EH | AZ
Neat & Tangled Sequins Shop at: EH	TONIC STUDIOS Tim Holtz Stamp Platform Shop at: AZ	Altenew inks. Sea Shore Shop at: EH	Altenew inks. Shades of Purple Shop at: EH	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue, 0.88 oz Shop at: EH | AZ
Altenew Ink Cubes, Glacier Caves Shop at: AN | EH	Altenew Ink Cubes, Cool Summer Night Shop at: AN | EH	Altenew Embossing Powder, Antique Gold Shop at: AN | EH	Be creative Tape Shop at: EH	Powder Tool Adhesive Deactivator Shop at: EH | AZ
Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils Shop at: EH | AZ	Saphire Crystals Shop at: EH	Inked Flora, Altenew Clear Stamp Set Shop at: AN | EH	Puffy Heart Metallic Shimmer Ink Spray Shop at: AN	Orange Cream Metallic Shimmer Ink Spray Shop at: AN
Lagoon Metallic Shimmer Ink Spray Shop at: AN

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 12 awesome friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:

• My Sweet Petunia: 3 MISTI stamping tools(Memory, Original, and Mini)
• Jennifer McGuire Ink: Altenew $50 gift certificate & 10 handmade cards
• Online Card Classes: 3 class spots
• Create and Craft TV: £50 gift certificate
• Ellen Hutson LLC: $30 gift certificate
• Chameleon Art Products: 1 pack of 5 Chameleon Pens
• Stamp & Scrapbook Expo: $25 gift certificate
• Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 gift certificate
• Simon Says Stamp: $25 gift certificate
• Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine: 2 copies of Scrapbook & Cards Today Fall 2018 issue
• Scrapbook.com: $25 gift certificate
• Tombow USA: 1 pack of 10 Dual Brush Pens

Be sure to leave comments by Sunday, December 9th, 2018 for a chance to win! 37 winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on all of these blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on December 15th, 2018.

Giveaway

I will also choose one lucky winner from comments left on this post who will receive a $20 gift certificate to Altenew online store.  Leave a comment below, sharing a story about your crafty friends. I will announce the winner on 12/9/2018.

Blog Hop

I hope you felt inspired today! The next stop on the hop is Stamp & Scrapbook Expo

Check out the full list below:

• Altenew Card Blog
• Jennifer McGuire
• May Sukyong Park
• My Sweet Petunia
• Kathy Racoosin
• Norine Borys
• Chameleon Art Products
• Svitlana Shayevich
• Kristina Pokazanieva
• Raquel Bowman
• Keeway Tsao
• Butterfly Reflections Ink
• Virginia Lu
• Laura Jane
• Simon Says Stamp
• Lilith Eeckels
• Dana Gong
• Alex Syberia ***YOU ARE HERE***
• Stamp & Scrapbook Expo
• Zinia Redo
• Jessica Frost-Ballas
• Zsoka Marko
• Meghann Andrew
• Kay Miller

Special Offer

FREE U.S. shipping with code CRAFTY18 or $5 OFF international shipping with code FRIENDS18 at checkout. Offer valid from 11/29/2018 at 12:01 am EST through 12/1/2018 at 11:59 pm EST. Not valid on prior purchases. Cannot be combined with other promo codes.

In addition, these ongoing promotions and new releases are worth checking out! Have you seen the Altenew November 2018 releases?

Enjoy the great deals up to 45% off on select items in the Sale collection from now through 12/2/2018

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Don’t forget to leave a comment for the giveaways!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alex