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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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Wonderful! Using the red cardstock as the base for the sentiment really makes it stand out. I always love a beautiful pairing of gold on black!
Your card is beautiful! Your coloring is fantastic and the gold embossing adds a gorgeous touch of elegance. Thanks for sharing this!
This is an exceptionally beautiful card… very sophisticated and clean in its details. Love it!!
one of my favorite cards to make is sweetest peas on black background. like your addition of the colors
Love your card!
Wow! How elegant! I’ve gotta try that water tip, thanks!
I love the gold flower stamped in the background with the other gold elements and your beautifully colored flower on top
thanks for sharing
Wow! Your coloring is stunning and I adore the gold embossing on the dark card base. What a great trick with the flecks if water! Definitely going to have to try that.
What a gorgeous card Jessica! I’ve only recently found Altenew, and have fallen in love with their floral stamps/dies! Thank you for the great tip of water and embossing powder. I will give that one a try for sure. Thanks for the chance to win.
Amazing card…
Stunning card!
There is so much to love about this card! Your fabulous no-line coloring, the gold embossing on the grey (including the water spots! Debby Hughes is fantastic!), the red sentiment banner, using grey for the stem, I could go on and on. Thank you so much for the inspirations!
Wow Jess, this is breathtaking, love the awesome colouring on your flower and the gold on the dark gray background, it’s stunning. The splatters of gold are realy a great finishing touch. Thank you so much for this great inspiration.
Love your card! Thanks for the tip of using water.
Great card and pretty color for flower
your card is so unique, Jessica – love the colors you chose, the design and especially your lovely coloring.
Wow Jess! Such a bold and beautiful card…it’s gorgeous! I love the color palette and the composition! Thanks for the inspiration 🙂
So beautiful! I love the contrasting colors!
Very beautiful card. I love the gold on black.
I had never heard of the water/embossing technique. Thanks for sharing!
wowzers! This is so stunning I love the gold stamped background with your beautifully colored popped up flower!
I love the grey background with the bright colored flower! And the gold embossing gives the card a nice pop! So pretty!
Beautiful card! I loved the gold embossing on the gray and I didn’t know that I could sprinkle water and then add the embossing powder. Very creative!
What a beautiful card! I love the coloring on your flower, and the pop of gold in the card design is super eye-catching.
What a gorgeous card. The flower looks so velvety, and I love the grey stems to go with the grey background. I’m really enjoying seeing what products you designers choose when you don’t have to go with a particular release. Thanks for sharing!