Good morning! I am so excited to join Altenew to celebrate one year of their amazing Build-A-Flower collection! Each month Altenew releases a new flower stamp and die bundle and after a year there is a veritable garden of gorgeous florals to choose from!
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We are celebrating with a huge blog hop with tons of giveaways AND a chance to win a giant prize valued at over $120! All giveaway info can be found at the bottom of this post! 🙂 Today I chose to use the beautiful Build-A-Flower Aster set for my card!
Isn’t that flower stunning?!
The Build-A-Flower Aster set also has beautiful sentiments that are perfect for your crafty friends and coordinating dies for each of the images in the set. The flower and each leaf has three layers: a solid, an outline, and a shading layer so it can be easily stamped with coordinating colors or colored. I decided to use the outline image and play with my zig clean color real brush markers for the first time in forever! 🙂
I started by stamping the aster outlines on watercolor paper with versamark and heat-embossed them with gold tinsel embossing powder. Then I used zig clean color real brush markers in wine red, geranium red, and pink on the center of the flowers and peach pink and light carmine on the outer petals. I blended the together with a damp paintbrush and added more layers of color to build dimension and depth in each flower. Once the flower was totally dry I die-cut it with the coordinating dies and then went over the die-cut border with a black zig marker. I didn’t want the white outline to show to keep the color palette to a stark gold and black with the bright pop of pink! I repeated the process with a second flower.
Next I stamped the outline of the flower and leaves onto a piece of black cardstock with versamark and heat-embossed it with the same gold tinsel embossing powder. I also stamped the sentiment and heat-embossed it with regular gold embossing powder. Then I spritzed the panel with gold shimmer spray and added larger flecks with a paintbrush. I let that dry for a few seconds and then blotted it off with a paper towel. Then I did it again but this time I let the spray dry completely on its own. This resulted in varying shades of gold on the background which gives the panel a little extra depth. Finally I arranged my flowers over the black and gold panel and popped them up with foam mounting tape. Unfortunately a little of the splatter got on my sentiment and it’s bright in the photo but when you actually hold the card in your hands you can read the sentiment with no problem. It doesn’t bother me but if you ever get splatter where you don’t want it you can either dull it down by blotting it with a paper towel or remove it with a few dabs of a barely damp paper towel.
I feel like this particular card is appropriate for any season but you could easily use the same layout but with black, silver, and blues for a winter card, or gold, black and reds for an autumn card. Or you could do it on white with a rainbow of colors! 😉 Rainbows make everything better!
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful rest of the week!!
There are several awesome giveaways to celebrate the Build-A-Flower collection! First, place an order for any flower in the Build-A-Flower collection between February 26th, 2018 and March 2nd, 2018 and you will automatically be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a big prize! One lucky winner will be chosen to win a prize pack valued at over $120 including one Original MISTI stamping tool, the Artist Markers Set C, and the Soft Pastel 6 Mini Cube Set. No minimum purchase needed! A winner will be announced on March 4th on the Altenew Blogs. I recommend the Aster! 😉
Altenew is generously giving away a $20 gift certificate to one lucky person who leaves a comment on my blog! And each stop on the hop is also giving away a $20 so the more comments you leave, the more chances to win! 😉
You can also leave comments on the Card Blog and Scrapbook Blog for more chances to win one of SIX $30 gift certificates! Leave your comments on my blog by 11:59 PM EST on March 2nd, 2018 and the winner will be announced on March 3rd here! Good luck!! Your next stop on the hop is Reiko Tsuchida! Here’s a list of all the hop stops:
- Altenew Card Blog
- Kristina Werner
- Therese Calvird
- Lilith Eeckels
- Kathy Racoosin
- Jessica Frost-Ballas –> You are here!
- Reiko Tsuchida
- Laura Bassen
- Kristina Pokazanieva
- Jennifer McGuire
- Altenew Scrapbook Blog
- May Sukyong Park
- Alice Wertz
- Virginia Lu
- Kymona Tracey
- Dana Gong
- Svitlana Shayevich
- Hussena Calcuttawala
- Donna Mikasa
- Erum Tasneem
- Zinia Amoiridou
- Agnieszka Malyszek
- Rubeena Ianigro
- Lydia Evans
- Marge Yoon
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Oh my…..that black background is so unexpected and stunning!
love everything about your card, Jess – the colors and design are wonderful!
Jess the colors you chose are striking!
Oh my gosh, I love, love, love this!! It’s so amazing!! Stunning!!
Just lovely!! The bright pinks and sparkly gold against the black takes your breath away! Just hoping I could come close to this look myself.
WOW! Gorgeous….simply gorgeous. LOVE ♥
Love this beautiful Aster card. It’s gorgeous.
Love the embossing and
sparkle on your beautiful
flower card!
Carla from Utah
Amazing card. Thanks for sharing…
I was staring at this trying to figure out how you got such vibrant colors coloring on black. But you didn’t! 🙂 That color really pops against the black! Absolutely gorgeous!
Awesome card!
Stunning. Love, love, love the black background.
Simply stunning. Those colors and the cold are perfect.
What a splendid line of stamps Altenew has going. I love most all the Build A Flowers. So glad they will keep them going! Cant wait to see what they’ve come up with..
Love the colors in your card!
Absolutely pretty!!!
So much sparkle against the dark background. Elegant.
Wow, what a stunner! Love the black background and gold embossing.
WOW! Your card is gorgeous!!!
Gorgeous Aster flower card!
Such a stunning card! The black and gold with the pops of pink flowers is gorgeous!
Your layer stamp are amazing! Especially the build a rose 🌹set! Even though I wanted to buy the layered stamps, they just looked too hard to use. Then I saw the Misty stamping tool and I’m ready to take them on after a long hiatus from stamping due to depression!
Dramatic color combo! Love your design. Thanks for the inspiration to use dark cardstock as a base which I forget to do.
Oh my, that is so stunning embossed in gold on the black paper.