Altenew May 2019 Stamp/Die/Stencil/Ink/Enamel Pin Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello Everyone and Welcome the Altenew May 2019 Stamp/Die/Stencil/Ink/Enamel Pin Release Blog Hop. I'm so happy to be a part of this amazing release. Thank you Altenew for having me once again!

If you have already started hopping, you should have arrived from the super talented Virginia Lu's Blog, but if you didn't, don't worry you can find the complete list at the bottom of this post. You also may just want to start at the beginning at the Altenew Card Blog since I am towards the end of the Hop. So let's get started!

CARD DETAILS

For my first card, I began by stamping out the Everlasting Happiness florals onto a piece of Bristol Paper using watermark ink and heat setting the lined in white. I then used Zig Brushes to loosely watercolor the background panel. Once the panel was dry I trimmed it and attached it the card base.

The sentiment I added to the center comes from the new Best Things stamp set that I stamped and heat embossed in black and glued onto a background piece of paper that I colored in using the same background colors. I then just popped up in the center of the card. As for little embellishments, I added some green crystals to the centers of the flowers.

Since Mother's Day is just around the corner I thought I would use the same Everlasting Happiness florals to create a Mother's Day Card.

To do this I first I lined up the Everlasting Happiness floral image in my stamping tool to stamp on the top half of the card panel and then just flipped the paper to stamp again on the bottom half of the panel, creating a reverse image on the bottom. This time I used gold embossing powder to heat set the lines.

I then stamped out the letters for Mom using the Ombré Alpha Stamp Set in the middle of the card using Worn Lipstick Oxide Ink and then set it with clear embossing powder.

To add a touch of color I used worn lipstick to blend around the outer edges of the card panel and then added a few clear pink crystals to the fower centers. Trimmed the panel and added it to the card base.

For this last card, I drew on my Portuguese roots as Inspiration. If you have ever visited Portugal I am sure you would have seen similar hand-painted tiles because they are everywhere. They were used in many wall and flooring projects in the 16th and 17th centuries.

This card may look hard to make but it actually wasn't very difficult. I began by lining up the stamps 3 across and 2 down in my stamp positioner. I then stamped out 2 card panels using the Mustard Seed Oxide ink first and set the panels aside to dry. Once the panels were dry I placed one of them back in the stamping tool. I then moved the cleaned off stamps around and repositioned them to stamp directly over the previously stamped ones but using a different design. I used a powder tool over the panel first to ensure the ink was dry and then used Blueprint Sketch Oxide ink to stamp over the yellow layer. I then repeated the same process with the other piece of paper I had stamped in the previous step. Before the blue ink dried I added clear embossing powder to the ink and heat set it to give the blue ink a gloss/tile like effect.

 I then just used a paper trimmer and cut images into tile-like squares. I then arranged the pattern onto my card base and popped up the pieces using foam tape. For extra pops of blue, I added some crystals here and there onto some of the tiles.

The sentiment I used comes from the Fancy Greetings Stamp Set that I also stamped out in Blue and then just fussy cut around the edges.

I hope you were inspired by my cards today, I had fun playing with these new sets and making them! 

SUPPLIES

*Everlasting Happiness Stamp Set Shop at: ALTENEW	*The Best Thing Stamp Set Shop at: ALTENEW	*Ombré Alpha  Stamp Set Shop at: ALTENEW	*Dare to Dream Stamp Set Shop at: ALTENEW	*Fancy Greetings Stamp Set Shop at: ALTENEW
Strathmore Bristol Pad Shop at: SSS | AMZ	Mini Misti Tool Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SB | SK	Embossing Magic Bag Shop at: SSS | AMZ	Juicy Ink Shop at: SSS | IO3	Arctic White Ultra Powder Shop at: SSS | IO3
Gold Rush Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | IO3	Crystal Clear Ultra Powder Shop at: SSS | IO3	Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SB | HBS	Zig CLEAN COLOR 60+ 80 SET Shop at: SSS | AMZ	Oxide Ink Pad WORN LIPSTICK Shop at: SSS | SB
Oxide Ink Pad MUSTARD SEED Shop at: SSS | HBS	Oxide Ink Pad BLUEPRINT Shop at: SSS	BLENDER BRUSH Set Shop at: SSS | AMZ | IO3	OCTOBER CRYSTALS Shop at: SSS | SK	MAY CRYSTALS Shop at: SSS | SK
SEPTEMBER (SAPPHIRE) CRYSTALS Shop at: SSS | SK	TRIANGLE TRAY Shop at: SSS | SK	STUDIO KATIA GLUE Shop at: SSS | SK	Foam Mounting Tape Shop at: AMZ	GUILLOTINE PAPER TRIMMER Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SB

BLOG HOP List

Altenew Card Blog
Altenew Scrapbook Blog
Laurie Willison
May Sukyong Park
Nathalie DeSousa
Agnieszka Malyszek
Ashlea Cornell
Lydia Evans
Maryam Perez
Zsoka Marko
Zinia Redo
Laura Volpes
Nicole Picadura
Jeanne Jachna
Therese Calvird
Kathleen Graumüller
Norine Borys
Kim Jeffress
Caly Person
Lilith Eeckels
Lisa Spangler
Enza Gudor
Mona Tóth
Sandra Dietrich
Isha Gupta
Erum Tasneem
TaeEun Yoo
Sveta Fotinia
Kristina Pokazanieva
Virginia Lu
Ilda Dias → You are HERE 👋

Marie Nicole
Svitlana Shayevich
Anna Komenda
Reiko Tsuchida
Vicky Papaioannou
Kymona Tracey

SHOP NOW→ May RELEASE

GIVEAWAYS

Prizes:

To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog by 5/15/2019 for a chance to win.

A winner from this blog will also receive a $20 gift certificate from the comments left in the comment section below. So let me know what was your favorite card from my post and what you liked about it! All winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 5/18/2019.

Thank you for stopping by 😊

Until next time... Happy Hopping👋

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