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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Super cute card! Love it!
Wow! This is a beautiful card! Love the colours and vibrancy of the alcohol inks with the arabesque stamp in gold! Congratulations Altenew and the Altenew team!
This is a really cool technique, all of your cards are so artistic! Happy Anniversary Altenew!
Beautiful card – your color choices are stunning!
Love the colours!!! Thanks for sharing all the cards you have made through time, they are all beautiful and inspirational..
Love your card- love that combo of alcohol inks!
I love how the gold pops off the card. This technique I have not tried yet but it looks fun.
What a pretty but dramatic piece of alcohol ink blending you have used here Jess and the gold embossed stamping over the top goes beautifully, and the complementary sentiment is great too. x
Beautiful card. The gold embossing pops. Didn’t realize there is a heavy weight yupo paper.
Awesome collection of cards too.
What a beautiful card! Thanks for sharing.
Love the look of this card, and that you achieved it with alcohol inks!! Definitely gonna try this during my next crafting time!!
Yummy colors on this gorgeous card!
Such gorgeous colors in your card on Yupo paper! Love the gold embossed image
That is a stunning card! gorgeous Jessica
What a gorgeous combination of alcohol ink colors! You definitely make me want to do some experimenting with mine!!
This card is stunning! Im going to try and create something similar. Great idea.
Side note.. i just read ur post on Merlin. I feel for you, im a hard core animal lover and the paw prints they imprint on our souls are infinite. You gave him a wonderful life and i know u regret him not saying goodbye to his buddy but they know you did what you had to. You and They will will all be together again. Your post made me cry. I recently lost a furr kid and its painful. Just hang in there and remember all the good times. 🐾♥️
Thanks for sharing such great ideas with all of us. I loved seeing all the previous cards too. I have many Altenew stamps and dies and just love their quality.
Just took advantage of the free shipping.
Should have waited until after the hop today.
See more things I need (want).
thanks for sharing abeautiful card.
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WOW, such a beautiful design!!
Thank you so much for more creative ideas and sharing.
Beautiful rich colors and layout!
Love your beautiful card!
Beautiful cards. Thank you for all the inspiration.
Absolutely stunning card. The colors are so deep and bright!
Gorgeous colors! Some day I may get up the nerve to try alcohol inks.
Beautiful birthday card! Love the colors! I need to try this technique. Thanks for the inspiration!