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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The black ground really make the pink color look great!
What a beautiful card.
The Aster stamp wasn’t on my radar screen until I saw your card. It is absolutely breathtaking! Thanks for the inspiration and idea.
Gorgeous with the gold embossing, shades of pink and the dark background.
Very glamorous card! I would love to try this card! Thanks for the inspiration!
Jessica, this card is so classically elegant. Using the gold embossing on black sets off these flowers so well. tfs
i love the outlining in black – awesome idea 🙂
Oh my! That gold embossing on black with hot pink! Perfection Jess.
Just gorgeous. Love this card and set.
Oh my gosh, your card is so stunning! I didn’t think I would like it because of the black background but I really do! The gold embossing is what makes the card stunning. It makes the flowers pop! I love the pinky red color you used on the flowers because that also makes them pop. This is a very unusual but stunning card and thank you for showing it to us. Thank you also for giving us the chance to win something.
Wow, stunning card, the black background with gold tinsel EP and amazing watercolored asters are gorgeous! I agree, this set has wonderful sentiments as well as a beautiful flower.
Oh such a gorgeous card Jess….. the black and golden combination is just killer….
Nice work!
So loved your card, so sparkly and such vibrant colours.
I’m so enjoying your creative offerings. Please don’t stop.
I find you such an inspiration.
Cheers
Stunning card. Love the gold on black and the colour feature asters are stunning.
So very much enjoying your creative offerings, I am so inspired by your work.
Cheers
Lisa
This card is lovely! The heat embossing just makes tge flower pop!
I adore asters and these are gorgeous! Love them against the dark background.
Wow, this is stunning!
Your cards are always so colourful and vibrant! This one is nothing less.
Gorgeous card! Love the gold on the black with the hot pink flowers. So beautiful and stunning!
A dramatic and rich looking card. I like how you made the pink Asters stand out so on the gold background.
Beautiful card!!! At first, I was wondering how in the world your colors look so bright on black card stock! Had to keep reading to see how you did it! Awesome!
Stunning card!
Beautiful card. Love this flower set.
This is seriously gorgeous, Jessica!! Thank you for the inspiration!!