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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Great colours! I’m going to have to get some of those alcohol inks!
Gorgeous alcohol ink card, love this medallion! Your gallery of Altenew cards is stunning too, so many beautiful cards, thanks for your inspiration.
I’m going to have to try Yupo paper!
This is simply stunning! I haven’t tried alcohol inks yet…might have to invest!!
Stunning, I love what you did with the alcohol ink and than stamped and heat embos that gorgeous Arabesque Medallion! I love the versatility of so many Altenew products. Thanks Jess for your time and effort to show us all the beautiful examples you made for Altenew. Altenew, Happy Anniversary.
Wow. This looks great. These alcohol inks are beautiful.
I love the art deco feel of this! Such a clever use of the alcohol inks underneath the stamp- my alcohol inks barely see airtime, but you’ve got me re-thinking that. Thanks for inspiring!
That is a gorgeous card! I love the alcohol inks, they are so vibrant! Thank you for the inspiration!
Love the technique you used. I will definitely have to try that! The colors you chose remind me of jewels. Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing. Happy 4th Altenew!
Such a great technique – gotta try it!
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WOW!! What a unique way to design a card — putting the alcohol ink down then placing the stamp image — so clever and very lovely. I loved looking at all your other cards also. Very pretty designs!
Thanks for help in learning how you emboss on Yupo paper! Your card is just amazing – it look like richly colored stained glass! Thanks for sharing in the blog hop today. Happy Birthday, Altenew!
Gorgeous alcohol inking! I love the embossing over top!
I love your card! It looks so different from things I have seen. I don’t own any alcohol ink and yeah, that’s so bad for me, isn’t it? LOL I love how they look on your card but have never known how to use them or if I even needed them. Now I am thinking maybe I need to get some and do what you did. I’ve also never heard of that Yupo paper either. I am amazed at what can be done with card making and how many different things people do that I had no clue I could even do never mind that I ever thought of. Your many cards that you showed us are so pretty and creative and colorful and thank you for showing them to us. Thank you also for giving us the chance to win something.
How cool!!! I love learning something new–your card is stunning!
Thanks for the tips about yupo paper. Your card is stunning. I think adding the black strip behind the gold sentiment was genius. I’ll have to try that one myself.
What a gorgeous combo of colors. No wonder it’s one of your favorites! And I love how you matched up the edge of the medallion with the edges of the inks. It’s all just so cohesive and gorgeous. I kind of want pillows that look like that in my room now. Thanks for sharing not only this card, but some of your other Altenew cards! I love seeing what designers pick to share as some of their favorites.
So pretty. I love this technique. Thanks for inspiring me today
Wow, what a beautiful card! I love the gold with the dark colors, thanks for the inspiration.
Oh wow I’ve never seen that background technique. Stunning!
The gold embossing powder really makes your beautiful colors pop! This card is wonderful & now I will have to try the alcohol ink technique! Thank you for your beautiful card!!!
Wonderful cards! Love your alcohol ink technique. So beautiful.
Stunning card…thanks for sharing..
Gorgeous card, and thanks for the gallery of your previous Altenew creations – they are wonderful as well!
That embossing powder makes it all pop – I’ve never seen that one before. Love it.