Altenew April 2019 Washi Tape/Embossing Paste Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello Everyone and Welcome the Altenew April 2019 Washi Tape/Embossing Paste Release Blog Hop. I'm super excited and honored to have been invited to participate in this amazing release. Thank you Altenew for having me!

If you have already started hopping, you should have arrived from Marie Nicole'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 your last and final Hop. What can I say, sometimes they save the best for last, lol! Nah, just kidding but I do have to warn you I couldn't stop creating with all these new goodies, so I do have lots to share and hopefully, you will be inspired😉

Washi Tape

For my first few cards, I used washi tape to create my backgrounds.

On this card, I used the Misty Meadows Washi that I adhered to a piece of white cardstock. I then trimmed it to fit onto my card front and inked it up with watermark ink and then added a gold embossing powder edge. Then to finish it off I added the Mega Thanks Die that I had embossed in the same gold embossing powder and then added the Sending sentiment. For fun, I added tiny drops of glossy accents to the centers of the flowers.

For this next card, I used the Botanical Rhapsody Washi tape as my background. Rather than leaving it black and white, I thought it would be fun to add a pop of color to it. The sentiments I used come from the Mega Greetings 3 Stamp Set.

I used Copic Markers to color these in, but since the Washi tape is not very porous, the alcohol ink floated on top of the tape which I didn't mind at all because once it was dry it left a watercolored look behind.

Embossing Paste

For the next cards, I went a bit nuts playing with the Embossing Paste. What can I say, there is so much you can do with it!

I love, love how this card turned out! It has to be my favorite, probably because I'm a little obsessed with rainbows.

To begin I added the embossing paste to a black piece of cardstock using the Flowing Drops Stencil. Once the embossing paste was dry I added a rainbow blend of distress oxide inks starting in the top left corner and working my way to the bottom right corner. The Mega Thanks Die was die cut a few times from black cardstock and then topped off with a white layer to which I added Glossy Accents to, adding some shine. I then also added "you" to finish off the sentiment from the Mega Greetings 3 Stamp Set.

For this next rainbowlicious card below, I began by blending out the distress ink colors onto the cardstock using the Molded Lines Stencil and then all I did was wipe the stencil clean, move it over slightly and applied the embossing paste to cover up a little bit of the colored lines.

The HELLO comes from the Mega Greetings 3 Stamp Set that I stamped onto black cardstock and embossed in white. To finish off the card I added the Mega Friend Die, stacked and glued 3 layers and added glossy accents to it. To embellish the card some more I glued on some rainbow colored crystals.

This next explosive birthday card was also fun and super easy to make. The first thing I did was add embossing paste to the cardstock using the Warp Steep Stencil and just let it dry. Once it was dry I lined up the stencil again over the now dry embossing paste and then blended out the inks using the stencil now as a mask for the background.

I then stamped out the Happy Birthday onto a strip of black cardstock and embossed it in white. For a bit of shine, I filled in some spaces with an explosion of sequins.

For this last card, I added some embossing glitter to the Embossing Paste while it was still wet. Here again, I used the Flowing Drops Stencil. I was too impatient to let it dry on its own so I added the heat gun to it to speed up the drying time. Initially, the Embossing paste puffed up and then it seemed to flatten after it was completely dry. 

To finish off this card I added a black ribbon just across the top half of the card front add secured the ends to the back of the panel and then added the MISS YOU sentiment to front and embellished it with a few crystals.

SUPPLIES

To make supplies easy for you to find, I have linked them here below. If something is no longer available I will link to a similar product. Affiliate links may be used depending on the product linked. By shopping through my links you help keep my blog running at no extra cost to you. So thank you in advance for supporting my creations! Supplies marked with an asterisk (*) were generously sent to me.

*Misty Meadows Washi Shop at: ALTENEW	*Botanical Rhapsody Washi Shop at: ALTENEW	*Embossing Paste Shop at: ALTENEW	*Mega Greetings 3 Stamp Set Shop at: ALTENEW	*Mega Thanks Die Shop at: ALTENEW
*Mega Friend Die Shop at: ALTENEW	*Flowing Drops Stencil Shop at: ALTENEW	*Molded Lines Stencil Shop at: ALTENEW	*Warp Speed Stencil Shop at: ALTENEW	Juicy Ink Shop at: SSS | IO3
Gold Rush Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS | IO3	Arctic White Ultra Powder Shop at: SSS | IO3	Oxide Ink Pad CANDIED APPLE Shop at: SSS	Oxide Ink Pad SPICED MARMALADE Shop at: SSS	Oxide Ink Pad FOSSILIZED AMBER Shop at: SSS
Oxide Ink Pad LUCKY CLOVER Shop at: SSS	Oxide Ink Pad MERMAID LAGOON Shop at: SSS | AMZ	Oxide Ink Pad WILTED VIOLET Shop at: SSS	BLENDER BRUSH Set Shop at: SSS | AMZ | PF	JULY | CRYSTALS Shop at: SSS | SK
SUNNY TOPAZ CRYSTALS Shop at: SSS	AUGUST (SOUR APPLE) CRYSTALS Shop at: SSS | SK	MARCH CRYSTALS Shop at: SSS | SK	JUNE CRYSTALS Shop at: SSS | SK	OCTOBER CRYSTALS Shop at: SSS | SK
SHIMMERING ICE FUSION Shop at: SSS | SK	STUDIO KATIA GLUE Shop at: SSS | SK	Glossy Accents Shop at: SSS | AMZ | SB | HBS

BLOG HOP List:

Altenew Card Blog
Nicole Picadura
Therese Calvird
Laurie Willison
Galina Filippenko
Lilith Eeckels
Amanda Baldwin
Virginia Lu
Nathalie DeSousa
Lydia Evans
Maryam Perez
Vicky Papaioannou
Agnieszka Malyszek
Alex Syberia
Kymona Tracey
Zsoka Marko
Altenew Scrapbook Blog
Svitlana Shayevich
Olga Moss
Erum Tasneem
Hussena Calcuttawala
Sandra Dietrich
Anna Komenda
Sveta Fotinia
Kathleen Graumüller
Norine Borys
Mona Tóth
Jen Schow
Reiko Tsuchida
Kelly Janes
Marie Nicole
Ilda Dias ← Yay! YOU Made it to the very end!

I hope you were inspired by all the cards I shared here today, as you can tell I had a blast making them! 

SHOP NOW→ April RELEASE

GIVEAWAYS

Prizes:

To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog by 5/1/2019 for a chance to win.

A winner from this blog will also receive a $15 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 Card Blog on 5/4/2019.

Thank you for stopping by 😊

Until next time... Happy Hopping👋

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Happy BEE Day Release Blog Hop | Day 1

Happy Fri-YAY my Crafty Peeps and welcome to Day 1 of the Honey Bee Stamps 4th Birthday Bash Blog Hop! 

Today I have another rainbowlicious card to share featuring some of my favorite new goodies from this release.

CARD DETAILS

To begin, I blended tumbled glass distress oxide ink onto a piece of Bristol paper leaving white space around the top left side of the panel where eventually the sun would go. Once the ink was dry I die cut the paper using the largest SCALLOP A2 CARD FRAME. I then applied Golden Crystal Glimmer paste over the new RADIANT BACKGROUND Stencil to add the sun rays onto the background and set it aside to dry while I die cut the rest of the pieces.

The pieces I used on the card front all come from the RAINBOW WISHES Honey Cut set. I die cut them all out of white heavyweight cardstock and then used Copic markers to color in the rainbow arches and also die cut the cloud inserts using white felt. To the circle die cut pieces for the sun I also added the same gold glimmer paste to the top layer.

Before gluing down the rainbow and the clouds to the card front, I stamped out the "sending you" sentiment from the RAINBOW WISHES stamp set in the bottom right corner. Then just glued down the pieces using foam tape to add dimension.

To the inside of the card, I also stamped this fun sentiment from the RAINBOW WISHES stamp set and then just used the same Copic colors I used on the front of the card to color in the rainbow.

SUPPLIES

To make supplies easy for you to find, I have linked them here below. If something is no longer available I will link to a similar product. Affiliate links may be used depending on the product linked. By shopping through my links you help keep my blog running at no extra cost to you. So thank you in advance for supporting my creations!

Rainbow Wishes Shop at: HBS	Rainbow Wishes | Honey Cuts Shop at: HBS	Radiant | Background Stencil Shop at: HBS	SCALLOP A2 FRAME  Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	GOLDEN CRYSTAL PASTE Shop at: SSS | AMZ | HBS

Here is more inspiration using products from the Happy BEE Day Release that I have shared this week. Click on the links below if you are interested in seeing more details about each card.

Day 1 Peek

Day 2 Peek

Day 3 Peek 

Day 4 Peek 

Day 5 Peek

BLOG HOP DETAILS

If you'd like to start at the beginning of the HOP click→ HBS Blog If you have already started you must have arrived here from the amazing → Jana Millen's Blog, and now you should be off to the very talented → Nichol Spohr's BLOG.

GIVEAWAY
Honey Bee Stamps is doing a HUGE giveaway today and tomorrow, so all you have to do is hop along and leave comments along the way to win. I'd love to know what are your favorites from this release?

PROMO FOR CUSTOMERS

Purchases of $35 get a freebee stamp.  Purchases of $75 get the free bee stamp and die.  Purchases of $100 or more get the free bee stamp, die AND the bee enamel pin. The enamel pins are not available for sale. Only a gift with purchase!

SHOP → HAPPY BEEDAY Release NOW!

I hope this Rainbow Wishes card inspired you today. Rainbows make me feel happy and I hope they do the same for you all! Have a wonderful day, thank you for stopping by... Until next time, happy hopping 👋