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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Beautiful card, Jess! I haven’t experimented with alcohol inks yet, but I see there are some beautiful techniques that can be done with them. Looking forward to eventually trying them out!
Awesome vintage look to your design!!
What a beautiful card to help celebrate Altenew’s birthday! I love the dark colors of alcohol inks that you used with the gold tinsel embossing powder on the stamped image. The shape you “made” with the alcohol inks is so perfect, it looks like you stamped first (but then the gold tinsel embossing powder would be discolored) At any rate, it is perfectly gorgeous!
Gorgeous cards!
Great card – those inks are so bright – on my wish list 😉
Congrats on the success Altenew!! Lovely card!!
What a beautiful card. I love the look you acheived with the alcohol inks. It really makes the gold embossed medallion stamptv pop!
What an amazing new technique! I love how you used alcohol inks on Yupo! I never thought to use alcohol inks in card making!
I think I need to dig out my alcohol inks again after seeing this beauty! Lovely card. The gold heat embossed medallion is gorgeous on top of the inks. Thanks for sharing.
Very Interesting Technique with the Alcohol inks!! Great job and thank you for sharing all of your Very Pretty Cards!!
So many beautiful cards and I especially love the card with alcohol ink. You are an inspiration to us all. Thankyou.
Gorgeous background. I’m going to jump on the alcohol ink bandwagon yet! lol
The alcohol inks mix to make such beautiful colors. Your placement of the flower over it was perfect. The gold embossing powder works well with the ink colors.
Wow, love those alcohol inks, such vibrant colors. Thank you for the inspiration!
The alcohol inks blend so well – creates a very interesting look for the flower. You placed it perfectly over the shape, The gold embossing powder works really well with the ink colors.
I LOVE the gold embossing with the alcohol inks!! I need to try this!! Thanks for the inspiration!
Stunningly beautiful. Love the gold embossing over alcohol inks😊💕
SO cool how you positioned the stamp to mimic the ink flow!
Love the colors on this card! Wow!
Beautiful inking and
love the design using
the stamps.
Carla from Utah
Your card background is gorgeous. I love the alcohol inks that your chose. Thanks for sharing.
Love your moody colors and the black and gold are perfect with them.
Wild flowers always look so light and lacy. Yours are fabulous.
I love this card , your onkind are just amazing.
I love it! I love the colors of alcohol inks you use. Those are the ones are my favorites! I love the stamp it is the perfect match!