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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Wow, these colors are just gorgeous! Love how you embossed on top the alcohol inks too!
Love how you used the alcohol inks! Such a pretty card. Thanks for sharing!
I need to get my alcohol inks out and play, wonderful colors with the gold embossing
thanks for sharing
Wow! Your card is so regal looking with your color choice and gold embossed medallion! Stunning!!
Happy 4th Anniversary Altenew. You are one of my favorite companies, among many others, but you can usually tell just by seeing the stamped image, mostly flowers, that it is an image by Altenew.
Thanks for the blog hops, you have great people representing and doing this hop, as well as many other company give aways. Yay us!!!
Thanks Jessica, I always love your work, and the rich jewel colors you used on this card,.
Nice card
Gorgeous card. Love this technique.
Love the way you used the alcohol inks !
Lovely effect with the alcohol inks.
Wow, I am impressed with this card. I have to try it. Thanks for sharing . I love alcohol inks and that stamp you used is awesome.
Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing and inspiring us.
Oh, what a stunning look! I love an alcohol ink background, but I really like how limiting it to one part of the card front adds to its impact. This is absolutely gorgeous. Thank you.
Great colors and a very pretty card.
What a beautiful card! It’s a double bonus that it includes alcohol inks. Their vibrant colors and the heat embossing really make this card pop!
Beautiful cards! Thanks for sharin
Your card is so elegant! I feel inspired to try alcohol inks, thanks for the wonderful ideas.
Wow , that’s an impressive card design !
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Beautiful cards!You represent the creativity of AlteNew. Love your use of color!
Such a lovely card! I love the alcohol ink background. The embossing of the medallion is so pretty.
Your colour combo on the Yupo made the finished embossed image look stunning.
So gorgeous!! The colors look so amazing!! All of your cards are stunning!! Thanks for the amazing inspiration!!
Your card is very beautiful Jess and I love that Arabesque medallion, such a versatile set 🙂
What an elegant look! Great idea for a stunning card…
I love this medallion stamp and and love what you created with the alcohol inks. So pretty!!!
Beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration!