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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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What a beautiful card! I’m new to cardmaking and am always looking for new ideas like this. The color combo you used is really spectacular. Great work!
Love the gold touches on the card and your card photo is beautiful!
Beautiful card. The color combination is lovely and really makes the pink flower stand out.
Perfect composition! Love the contrast of the colored/die cut flower to the gold embossing. The coloring looks amazing too!
More pretty inspritation!
Beautiful card, love the coloring!
OOOOOH – I love this card! The combo of pink and gray is wonderful. I fell in love with the sweet pea set when it came out and had to have it for myself – seeing how you used it is very inspiring and I may have to steal this idea!!!! Thank you for sharing – LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!!!
Wow! Jessica, this is SO pretty! The pink and black look so amazing together and the card is just perfect!
Absolutely gorgeous card! Love the colors.
Thanks so much for sharing…
What a simply elegant card. So delicate and beautiful. Thanks for being part of the blog hop.
Beautiful!
This is so gorgeous! I love the gold on the gray card stock! Stunning look!
Beautiful card, lovely coloring — (and I loved the “almost first” altenew card from the past). You always do such beautiful work.
I’m not a big fan of pink, but pink on grey is fantastic. Then you add the gold embossing, & oh boy! Beautiful Jess!
Stunning card! Love all the different elements you included!
Your card is STUNNING!!! Love it.
Beautiful! I love the colored flower against the gold outline. Your colored pencil work is outstanding. TFS!
I love the gold against the dark background. Striking!
Beautiful card. Thanks for sharing with us.
What a fantastic idea with the gold outline at the back.
This card is amazing!
Gorgeous card, really stunning with the red sentiment label, beautifully colored pink and gray flower and the gold tinsel EP on dark gray is so elegant. I loved your first card with Altenew Persian Motifs as well, so pretty. Thanks for all your inspiration, you add so much to the paper crafting community creative juices!
Love your card. 🙂
I love how you colored in the flower, it is so beautiful. One of my favorite cards.
the coloring is just stunning against the background!