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Good morning! I’m so excited to be a stop on the Altenew Crafty Friends blog hop! This is such an amazing community and I am honored to be part of it! I’ve been crafting since I was a kid but blogging and crafting “publicly” since 2014! I discovered Altenew shortly after I started blogging and I fell in love with their gorgeous floral designs, layering stamps, and ink pads! You can find one of my very first Altenew cards here! 😉
For today’s card I decided to do a little no-line coloring with my luminance colored pencils! Here’s what I created!
To start I stamped the flower from Sweetest Peas with barely beige ink and colored them with luminance pencils. I used a variety of pinks for the petals and warm greys for the stem. After I finished coloring I used the coordinating dies to die-cut the image. I stamped a sentiment from the same set onto red cardstock with versamark and heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder. Then I trimmed the cardstock down to an angled label.
Next I stamped more of the flowers onto dark grey cardstock with versamark and heat-embossed them with gold tinsel embossing powder. I used a trick from Debby Hughes and splattered a little water on the panel and sprinkled the drops with the same gold tinsel embossing powder. As long as you don’t let too much time go by the embossing powder will stick to the water just the same as versamark or versafine! I love the look of that gold embossing powder on grey! I adhered the sentiment label with regular adhesive and then used foam mounting tape for the flower for a little more dimension!
And that’s it!
There are tons of prizes for today’s (and tomorrow’s) hop! Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners and one Altenew Academy class to 5 lucky winners. There are also 12 awesome friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:
- My Sweet Petunia: 3 MISTI stamping tools(Memory, Original, and Mini)
- Jennifer McGuire Ink: Altenew $50 gift certificate & 10 handmade cards
- Online Card Classes: 3 class spots
- Create and Craft TV: £50 gift certificate
- Ellen Hutson LLC: $30 gift certificate
- Chameleon Art Products: 1 pack of 5 Chameleon Pens
- Stamp & Scrapbook Expo: $25 gift certificate
- Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 gift certificate
- Simon Says Stamp: $25 gift certificate
- Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine: 2 copies of Scrapbook & Cards Today Fall 2018 issue
- Scrapbook.com: $25 gift certificate
- Tombow USA: 1 pack of 10 Dual Brush Pens
Be sure to leave comments by Sunday, December 9th, 2018 for a chance to win! 37 winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on all of these blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on December 15th, 2018.
I am also giving away a $20 Altenew gift certificate to one random commenter! Please leave comments by Saturday, December 8th, 2018 for a chance to win and the winner will be emailed on December 9th!
You should have arrived from Zinia and Zsoka is your next stop! You can find the full hop list on the Altenew blog!
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Amazing card and so different than what I’m used to seeing.
Absolutely beautiful. Great colour combination and very nice colouring!
Such a dramatic card…love it
I am in love. Your card is so elegant.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful card.
This is awesome and that you used colored pencils! Amazing!
Love your work.
The lovely contrast creates a striking card! Well done.
Beautiful card, thanks for sharing!
I just ordered dark gray cardstock! I really love the colored pencils and gold heat embossing. This is one classy card!
Love the coloring of your pink flower. It looks fabulous against the neutral background!
Wow! Love this card. Thanks for sharing.
Jess, this is such a beautiful card. Thank you for sharing.
I like that you used unusual colors on your cardstock. The coloring is spectacular!
This is such a beautiful design! I have this stamp set and struggle to use it because the stems are so wiggly – this is such a great layering idea – can’t wait to try it!
wow, that is stunning!
Simply gorgeous, Jess!
Very unique colors – grey and gold! I wouldn’t have thought of it but you make it work beautifully. You’ve reminded me of things I must try. Thank you for the beautiful card.
Your card is beautiful! I love the bright colors those pencils seem to give.
Great color combination, thanks for sharing
So lovely and unique!
I LOVE the colors you chose!! The way you colored the flower is STUNNING!!
So pretty. I never thought to use grey and gold together.
I love the look of the gold on the grey too. It softens it somehow. I really like the “shadowing” of the focal flower in the gold.
Such a dramatic card. The coloring is beautiful!