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Altenew Build-A-Flower: Peony Blossom Release (+GIVEAWAY!)

12 Feb

Good morning!  I’m excited to introduce you to the newest Altenew Build-A-Flower set: Peony Blossom!  Lots of possibilities with this set…and the included dimensional dies are really awesome!  I decided to use the stamps and dies and a normally unwanted result of working with yupo paper to my advantage for today’s card! 😉

Always Be Blooming by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Altenew

I haven’t been able to put my alcohol inks down recently but I wanted to try something a little differently for this card.  I’ve been focusing on super vibrant designs and today I wanted to tone it down a bit!  I used LOTS of alcohol blending solution, just a little bit of pink sherbet and shell pink alcohol ink, silver mixative, and silver foil!  You can see a video on how I add foil to alcohol inked backgrounds here!  Once the background was finished I set it aside to dry while I worked on the floral elements!

Always Be Blooming by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Altenew

To create the flowers I blended alcohol inks onto yupo paper.  I used shell pink, coral, pink sherbet, and watermelon alcohol inks for the petals and gunmetal and silver mixative for the leaves.  I deliberately used translucent yupo paper for this project (instead of heavyweight) so that I could easily die-cut the paper.  Once I had all the flower shapes die-cut, I stamped the layers and heat embossed them with silver sparkle embossing powder.  Usually when I heat-emboss on yupo paper I use heavyweight yupo and keep my heat gun moving to avoid warping….but today, I decided to take advantage of that warping and allowed the yupo to curl and warp.  This resulted in much more realistic looking flower petals and leaves!  I love when something that should be a mistake ends up making the card even better than I could have imagined! 😉

Always Be Blooming by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Altenew

I stamped the sentiment from a different Altenew set, Peony Spray, onto grey cardstock and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder.  I trimmed that down to a flag and adhered it to the yupo panel.  Finally I attached the flowers using a mix of regular adhesive and foam mounting tape!

The Altenew Build-A-Flower: Peony Blossom set includes 1 stamp set (15 images) and 1 coordinating die set (8 dies).

The Peony Blossom Build-A-Flower has a slightly different approach than their conventional Build-A-Flower sets. The stamp set has three five-petal flowers accompanied by a shading layer and a center layer. You may use these flowers as is, or layer them to create dimension. The matching dies will cut the flowers all the way to the edge without leaving a border. This will help in shaping the petals to the desired dimension when using a shaping tool (don’t have a shaping tool? You can use the domed end of a pen or pencil [or warped yupo, ha!]!). They also included an additional flower die and stamen dies to help you create realistic blooms!  They named the set ‘Peony Blossom’ since the petals were loosely based on Peony petals, but you can let your imagination run wild and create different types of flowers! 

The Altenew Build-A-Flower: Peony Blossom is only sold as a set, not individually.  There’s also an available ink bundle set!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful rest of the week!!

Altenew is generously giving away a $20 gift certificate to one lucky person who leaves a comment on my blog!  You can also leave comments on the Card Blog and Scrapbook Blog for more chances to win one of four $30 gift certificate!  Leave your comments here by 11:59 PM EST on February 16th and the winner will be announced on February 17th!  Good luck!! 

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  1. Diane B says

    February 12, 2018 at 9:08 am

    This is absolutely gorgeous. Love the colours, love the design. Stunning!

    Reply
  2. Melanie Ayers says

    February 12, 2018 at 9:16 am

    Soooo pretty. You can’t go wrong with Peonies – or those gorgeous colors!

    Reply
  3. Teresa Doyle says

    February 12, 2018 at 9:37 am

    WOW Jessica, this is really beautiful. I haven’t tried Yupo paper yet, heavy weight or otherwise so your tips on it are good to know for when I do. It certainly DID work to your advantage today. Just lovely!

    Reply
  4. hsmom24kids says

    February 12, 2018 at 9:39 am

    Gorgeous card, Jessica! I love the silver!

    Reply
  5. Sue D says

    February 12, 2018 at 9:56 am

    Gorgeous with the silver and the shades of pink.

    Reply
  6. Mary says

    February 12, 2018 at 10:06 am

    Jessica, your card is stunning! Love your choice of colors and layout!

    Reply
  7. Patt H. says

    February 12, 2018 at 10:11 am

    Beautiful card, Jess! I love the colors & that gorgeous silver! This is a lovely set & so nice that the dies cut right to the edge. Altenew is tops at florals!

    Reply
  8. Dana M says

    February 12, 2018 at 10:17 am

    Just gorgeous! I love happy accidents, opens up new possibilities.

    Reply
  9. Vicki F says

    February 12, 2018 at 10:27 am

    I love this pink marbled effect and I am putting that on my list to try today! Love this Jessica!

    Reply
  10. Amy Seech says

    February 12, 2018 at 10:28 am

    This card is absolutely gorgeous!

    Reply
  11. Trina P. says

    February 12, 2018 at 10:53 am

    Beautiful! Brilliant to use the heat tool to warp your die cut flowers. Such a cool set.

    Reply
  12. KarenHTK says

    February 12, 2018 at 11:06 am

    WOW! This IS So COOL!!!! Love the colors you used! Adding the Silver gives it Shine and Elegance! Beautifully done! Great Creative, Colorful, Unique Work of Art! Great Job! Well Done Jessica!

    Reply
  13. Jane says

    February 12, 2018 at 11:26 am

    Wow, just gorgeous and so effective, love love love it Jane x

    Reply
  14. Amy Cooley says

    February 12, 2018 at 11:47 am

    Wow, so stunning and elegant! Love the metallic silver accents.

    Reply
  15. Teresa Godines says

    February 12, 2018 at 11:52 am

    The silver accents are so wonderful. Thanks for the inspiration

    Reply
  16. Chris says

    February 12, 2018 at 11:58 am

    Hi Jessica I love your alcohol ink technique. Thank you for sharing this truly awesome technique accidental or not!

    Reply
  17. Karthikha Uday says

    February 12, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    So beautiful! I love the shimmer! 🙂

    Reply
  18. Dee Earnshaw says

    February 12, 2018 at 12:25 pm

    This card is so pretty – love how you got the petals to curl – very clever:)

    Reply
  19. allycatmy says

    February 12, 2018 at 12:53 pm

    Love everything about this card, awesome flowers!

    Reply
  20. ANDREA HASTILOW says

    February 12, 2018 at 2:49 pm

    Oh Jess this foiled flower is fabulous, such shine in flower and leaf, the silver combined with the red looks fab, try some more colour combo’s and let us see what else you make like the alcohol ink video’s, really enjoyed this one.

    Reply
  21. Shona Chambers says

    February 12, 2018 at 3:02 pm

    Stunning, you really made this new set shine!!

    Reply
  22. Iris M Soscia says

    February 12, 2018 at 3:02 pm

    So pretty – love the silver embossing.

    Reply
  23. Berina says

    February 12, 2018 at 3:08 pm

    This is so pretty!! I love how you’ve made the flowers. Silver on red looks stunning.

    Reply
  24. Gilda (McStamper) says

    February 12, 2018 at 4:07 pm

    Love your wonderful card. The silver is beautiful.

    Reply
  25. mjmarmo says

    February 12, 2018 at 4:21 pm

    Peonies are my faves! This is gorgeous!

    Reply
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