Playing with Altenew.

 Over the weekend I had some time to play with some stamps and dies from Altenew.   

This was inspired by a card design I saw on Pinterest.   And the colours were inspired by a couple of the samples on the stamp set insert.  Just changed them up a bit. 

I started by making my background panel.  I used Altenew's Leafy Border die and used some grey card to back it.  Next up were the Altenew Build A Flower Coneflower.  I die cut two flowers and then used the negative cut  as a template to stamp the outline and the layers.   The red one used Pink pearl, Coral Bliss and Velvet and the orange one used Orange Cream and Autumn Blaze.   The leaves were stamped with Marshland and Mangrove Root.  Love the greens - so rich looking.  And with the fancy die cut and the two flowers I decided that simple sentiment was called for.  Altenew's Birthday Builder stamp set has a lot of lovely different fonts and sizes so chose this sweet simple font.  A few black gems finished it.   It was such fun just playing for fun.