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
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*The Best Thing Stamp Set
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*Ombré Alpha
Stamp Set
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*Dare to Dream Stamp Set
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*Fancy Greetings Stamp Set
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Strathmore Bristol Pad
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SSS | AMZ |

Mini Misti Tool
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SSS | AMZ | SB | SK |

Embossing Magic Bag
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SSS | AMZ |

Juicy Ink
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SSS | IO3 |

Arctic White Ultra Powder
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SSS | IO3 |

Gold Rush Embossing Powder
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SSS | IO3 |

Crystal Clear Ultra Powder
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SSS | IO3 |

Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad
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SSS | AMZ | SB | HBS |

Zig CLEAN COLOR 60+ 80 SET
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SSS | AMZ |

Oxide Ink Pad WORN LIPSTICK
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SSS | SB |

Oxide Ink Pad MUSTARD SEED
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SSS | HBS |

Oxide Ink Pad BLUEPRINT
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SSS |

BLENDER BRUSH Set
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SSS | AMZ | IO3 |

OCTOBER CRYSTALS
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SSS | SK |

MAY CRYSTALS
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SSS | SK |

SEPTEMBER (SAPPHIRE) CRYSTALS
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SSS | SK |

TRIANGLE TRAY
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SSS | SK |

STUDIO KATIA GLUE
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SSS | SK |

Foam Mounting Tape
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AMZ |

GUILLOTINE PAPER TRIMMER
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SSS | AMZ | SB |
BLOG HOP List
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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