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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!
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This is a super awesome creation!
I love the pop of color over the background flower. Classy & elegant.
love the contrast between dark, metallic, and a brighter color
Love, love, love this card. It is so elegant and classy. Thanks so much for sharing your art.🐧
Jessica…so pretty! I love pink and gray and would not have thought to add gold…stunning!
Beautiful – love the contrast between the lipstick red and slate color stock and single stem on top of the gold embossing… great composition…
Gorgeous card. I love the gold embossing you did. It makes the card a little more sophisticated. It is sure to make someone smile when they receive it.
Very beautiful
WOW!! Your sweet pea is stunning. Amazing coloring! The gold on gray looks fabulous!
You are so talented 😍
Stunning card ! Loved the no line coloring with pencils.
Love the card! The combo of gold embossing and no-line colouring looks absolutely gorgeous. Sweetest Peas is one of my favourite sets and at the top of my wishlist!
Simply gorgeous, Jess!
Gorgeous card! Love your colouring! Thanks so much for sharing! 🙂
Oh Jessica, I think this is one of my new favorites! It’s so pretty!!!
Always been a fan of the dark background and the pop it gives. Lovely layout too!!
H.ow sophisticated. I love the gold embossing and thank you for the tip about the water & embossing powder.
This is such an elegant card! Your flower is just beautiful and I love the gold embossed background!
Your no-line coloring is gorgeous! I love your creations.
That’s a really lovely card Jess. Thanks for sharing the tip with the water drops and embossing powder.
Stunning!
Whoa Jessica, this is a stunner! Love the Sweetest Peas set and you have certainly brought it to life. Simply STUNNING!
pretty in pink!! lovely
wonderful, the colors are just perfect with the coloring you did. Thanks for sharing your designs
Gorgeous card. Love the bright flower
on the dark background. The gold
embossing is great. thanks for
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