Altenew Love

 #AltenewLove  - I came back from my break away last Sunday and in my mail was the gorgeous Blooming Thanks mini stamp set - a free set from Altenew.   So excited to get this free set.

So yesterday (another HOT day) I headed into the craft room for bit of cool.  And to make a card using the stamp set.   I started by stamping the floral image a number of times and used my Scan'n'Cut to cut them out. 

I used similar colours to yesterday's card but with a much lighter hand.   I got a new Gelli Art stencil called Dot and used the Sea Shore inks from Altenew to make the background panel that was cut with Gina K Master Layout 4.  I made myself a little stencil for the flowers by stamping one and cutting out the flowers.  Used some Buttercream and Warm Sunshine with some Paper Bay ink for the centres.  I used some micro blending brushes to add some of the Volcano Lakes and Lagoon inks for the leaves.   Added a touch of a teal Jasart pencil for the leaves as well.   I cut some teal textured card with Gina L Master Layout 1 and some darker teal for the layering layer.  Added the flowers around the oval and stamped the sentiment from the Blooming Thanks stamp set in Grey Denim ink.  The card base was just under A2 size at 5.25" x 4.25"  Finished with some gold sparkle pen on the flower centres and some silver dots. 

As both the stencil and the stamp set are having their first outings... I'm entering this into the NBUS challenge.  

Today was another scorcher - so after doing the housework in the morning, hubby and I went on a lunch date - to the Bay's Club in Browns Bay for a lovely lunch - Gold Card special $20 per meal.  Your get your Gold Card when you turn 65.  The meals were lovely - Lambs Fry and Bacon for him, Creamy Mushrooms on ciabatta bread for me.   Luckily the breeze picked up a bit in the afternoon and there was a bit of relief.                                              

Altenew weekly challenge - "Acute card"

 Jen Rzasa hosts a weekly Live challenge on the Altenew YouTube channel.  This week's challenge is "Acute" - use triangle/s on your projects.  It can be triangle cut card, triangular stamps, visual triangles of embellishments and so on....  

I made two cards for the challenge. First one was using a focal stamped image using the gorgeous gift stamp that Altenew sent me... and an embossing folder...

The Mod Square embossing looks like triangles with the 3D layers.  (Hope it is acceptable for the challenge!)  I stamped the Charming Bouquet and used my Scan'n'Cut to cut it.  I used Altenew Alcohol Markers from the Pocketful of Sunshine and Green Fields set to colour.  The sentiment is from Altenew Classic Greeting. 

My second card was totally inspired by Jen's video where she did some stenciling to make a background and then trimmed it to add to a card with some embossed triangular shaped embossing.  I actually made 7 panels... Two using Rose Bouquet Stencil... because I messed up part of the first panel and two made by the use of the Floral Garden Stencil - which covers a 4 1/4" x 11" panel and it got cut into the two panel.  This is an older Altenew stencil which you do the first time and then rotate it 180 degrees and ink again.   I didn't use them today so have two lovely panels for future use. 

I inked up the Rose Bouquet stencil - the pink was ink on my blending brush, so not sure of the actual colour.  Used Bamboo and Olive for the leaves.  First go I didn't mask so ended up with some green in the pink and it looked terrible.  I managed salvage some of it... so this second version I did mask off the eaves while doing the flowers and the flowers when doing the leaves.   I then cut the panel down to a 3 1/2 inch square and then trimmed it in half to make my two triangles.   I added them to a 4 1/4 white panel which gave me the space in the middle.  I added a strip of gold card down the long side of each triangle and added a sentiment from Altenew Sentiment Strips 3.  Added my homemade shiny dots in a visual triangle of 3 on each triangle.   Really happy how it ended up.   Doing a square card made it easier. 

I've had a really productive weekend with lots of fun playing with my supplies.  

Love you Slimline Card

Hello all.

It's been an interesting week - we have started demolishing the kitchen.  And then yesterday our son and his mate came to finish off and get the electricals done.  So now NO KITCHEN....until the 26th.   The floor go down on the 22nd. 

While the guys were doing the work,  I had a bit of time in the craft room.  I watched some You Tube videos and made this slimline card.  Time to join the bandwagon. 

I cut my A4 sheet into a 20cm piece and a 10cm.  I folded the 20cm piece in half to make the base and trimmed the smaller panel for the front of the card.   On the panel stamped one of the leaves from "A Study in Watercolour" set by Altenew twice in Blush ink,  My flowers are Altenew 3D - the large flower from Fantasy Floral   and the buds from Floral Virginia Rose using Paint chips again.  I splattered some darker pink ink over the background and finished with a stamped sentiment in black from the Happy Birthday to You set and added a dark pink Paint chip die sentiment from the Treble Love die set.

This morning dawned crisp and clear.  A mere 9 degrees C at 8.30 as we headed out for a lovely walk.  7.1 kms and 1 hour 25 mins latter it 12 degrees and feeling balmy when we got home.  

A stunning early Spring morning...  being positive here!  Look this about 2/3rd of the way round the walk after all the hard uphill bits were done.  

Enjoy your weekend.

Playing with Altenew Best Sentiments

I got two more cards made using Altenew products and the sweet gift of the Best Sentiment stamps.

First is a super quick one...

Literally a two minute card.   I used the amazing Vibrant Spray Die Cut Tape and the sentiment stamp set.  Most time was spent trimming evenly around the stamped sentiment - but all good thanks to My Sweet Petunia Cut-Align ruler

My second one took a bit longer

For this one I used the Floral Garden stencil - doing a bit of partial stenciling using Coral Bliss and Heart Beat inks for the flowers and Sweet Leaf and Just Green for the leaves.  I added some Lucy Little Things - Ice Cube jewels.  The green of the flowers was added with some Aqua Stickles.  I stamped the sentiment with the Heart Beat ink

I'm adding this one to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Fun with Florals

I'm still home alone - hubby due back tomorrow but today is a superbly warm summer's day so I'm off to the the local beach for a swim and some sunbathing. 

Have an awesome day and a great weekend. 

Virginia Rose 3D flowers

Altenew recently has been sending out a little stamp set as a gift to customers.  I was super excited today to find out that I was lucky enough to get one... what fun it was to see the bright yellow envelope in my mail box today.

Isn't it so cute.  Well I couldn't wait to get started...and as Hubby is away on a boy's fishing trip, I got straight into it.  I decided I wanted to use one the the Altenew 3D flower dies.  I chose to use the Virginia Rose dies.

I went with a sort of cream colour way for my rose.  I started by die cutting all the flower parts in cream card stock and then used Altenew inks - Hazelnut, Almond Butter to colour the layers.  I die cut the leaves out some "watercoloured" patterned paper I had on hand.  I added the little sentiment directly to the white card base.  I used the Hazelnut ink to sponge some soft background where the roses went.  I layered the white panel to a cream card base.

I am entering this into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge... "Fun with Florals" and Virginia's Show and Share for January


As this is my third post for the day, please scroll down if you wants to see more of my cards
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