Good morning! I am so excited to help Altenew celebrate their fourth anniversary today! They’re having FOUR days of blog hops with lots of exciting prizes from Altenew and their exciting sponsors! You can find all the giveaways details at the bottom of my post! Today I decided to play with my alcohol inks to create a birthday card with a moody color palette!
I started by dropping alcohol ink blending solution onto a piece of heavyweight yupo paper. I’ve found that heavyweight paper is the best for heat-embossing. Yupo paper is technically plastic so it warps easily if you apply too much heat but the heavyweight definitely takes heat better. You can find more of my tricks for heat-embossing on yupo here! I used alcohol inks in currant, eggplant, wild plum, and cool peri. I really love the combination of those dark moody colors! I used a few drops of alcohol ink blending solution to get the alcohol ink moving and used my air puffer to blend the colors together. I let it dry completely and then stamped the Arabesque Medallion twice with versamark before heat-embossing it with gold tinsel embossing powder. I deliberately positioned the stamp to follow the lines of the alcohol ink.
I trimmed the yupo paper down and adhered it to a white card base. Then I stamped the greeting from Birthday Builder onto gold cardstock and heat-embossed it with black embossing powder. I trimmed it down and added a strip of black cardstock beneath the gold and then adhered it to my card with foam mounting tape. I love the combination of those colors with gold and black!
Since it’s Altenew‘s Anniversary I decided to share a small gallery of cards I’ve created over the years using stamps and dies from Altenew! They’ve been one of my favorite companies from the very beginning and I am honored to be a stop on the hop today!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ALTENEW!! Here’s to many, MANY more!! 🙂
Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners and one Altenew Academy class to 5 lucky winners. There are also 13 awesome companies/crafty friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:
- Altenew: 5 $50 Altenew Gift Certificates
- Altenew Academy: 5 Class Spots
- Jennifer McGuire Ink: 2 $100 Altenew Gift Certificates
- Online Card Classes: 3 Class Spots
- Simon Says Stamp: $50 Gift Certificate
- Scrapbook.com: $50 Gift Certificate
- My Sweet Petunia: Mini MISTI Stamping Tool
- Tombow USA: 2 Dual Brush Pen Sets(10 Colors) and 2 TwinTone Dual Tip Marker Sets(12 Colors)
- WOW! Embossing Powder: $40 Gift Certificate
- Create & Craft TV: £25 Gift Certificate
- Ellen Hutson LLC: $25 Gift Certificate
- Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 Gift Certificate
- Amy Tangerine: 2 Signed Copies of Craft a Life You Love
- Chameleon Pens: 1 Pack of 5 Chameleon Pens
- Scrapbook & Cards Today: 1 Copy of Scrapbook & Cards Today Spring 2018 Issue
Be sure to leave comments by April 15th, 2018 at 11:59 PM EDT for a chance to win! 30 WINNERS will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew blog on April 17th, 2018.
You should have arrived from Lilith and Agnieszka is your next stop! In case you encounter a broken link here is a full list of all the hop stops today:
- Altenew
- Kristina Werner
- Lilith Eeckels
- Jessica Frost-Ballas –> You are here!
- Agnieszka Malyszek
- Keeway Tsao
- Terhi Koskinen
- WOW! Embossing Powder
- Debby Hughes
- Meghann Andrew
- Mindy Baxter
- My Sweet Petunia
- Laura Jane
- Julia Altermann
- Justine Hovey
Altenew is also offering FREE U.S. shipping with code HAPPY4TH or $5 OFF international shipping with code ANNIV at checkout. Offer valid from April 3rd until April 8th at 11:59 pm EDT. Not valid on prior purchases. Cannot be combined with other promo codes.
Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy the hop!
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I love the elegant look of this card. You’ve elevated it.
love the alcohol inked background with the gold medallion – so pretty!
I love the dramatic look of your card! The colours look fabulous against the gold mandala.
Beautiful card. I love the vibrancy of thise gkrgeius flowers
What a pretty card! The alcohol ink looks great under the embossing.
Beautiful card. Yupo & Alcohol ink sure is a cool effect. Thank you for sharing your talents.
Gorgeous card and I love the gold on the dark alcohol inks! So pretty!
Love, love, love this. And I have the medallion, so I’ll be trying this idea soon!
Your cards are absolutely stunning! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful! Love how the gold embossing shows against the colorful alcohol inks.
Gorgeous card! The Arabesque Medallion embossed in gold is stunning with the deep plum alcohol inks behind it. That’s the kind of birthday card you frame after you receive it!
How enticing to dive into a new I king technique for me! Thanks for the inspiration!
Happy birthday Altenew. you make beautiful cards. thanks as always for sharing.
Beautiful cards. Thanks for the inspiration. Can’t wait to see more.
Awesome job! I love the colors!
I wouldn’t have even tried embossing on Yupo without your tips. (I went to the link, too.) Thanks!
Lovely card! I have never worked with alcohol inks but I love the look. I’ll have to try it sometime soon. Thanks for the inspiration.
Hi Jessica! I was so happy to see your name on this blog hop because I know that when I see your work, it’s always going to be inspiring! I love this card!
Your card is so neat! I haven’t used alcohol inks yet, but I think I may have to jump on the bandwagon and try them out.
Gorgeous card! I need to play with alchol ink more as I love the look.
I need to try blending those colors. This looks so cool!
This Ian gorgeous Jessica! You really know how to rock that bright pink!😍👍
Lovely card! Great technique! Thanks for sharing!
WOW!!! Stunning!! Thanks for the amazing inspiration!