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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Not only do you make awesome cards, your photography is on point!
I love the way the reds pop against the black and gold. So pretty and vibrant!
Just love the color with the gold on the black!
Love the card. Really like the Aster set
very beautiful card. love the Aster set
Wowzers! I love your card! I was hoping that someone would do the Aster. It is so mysterious.
Wow! Gorgeous card! Love the colors and especially the gold! Thanks for sharing your inspiration with us 🙂
WOW!! Gorgeous!! Absolutely gorgeous!! The sparkly gold tinsel heat embossing is just stunning against the black. The aster build-a-flower set is one of my favourites from the collection and I love it even more in this red/pink/gold/black combination. To leave some as gold outlines was perfect. The gold splatters give so much depth and I don’t feel that the splatters affect the sentiment at all. Just a striking card!!
Wow, just stunning.
What a gorgeous stamp set and card! The gold is especially gorgeous.
Wow… I just loved the black beauty and the stunning pink flower you made it… lovely….
Stunning card done in the black and gold, love how delicate it looks, thank you so much for sharing this .
Love all the shimmer and bright color, this flower makes me think of fireworks lol Beautiful card! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Absolutely fabulous Jessica! The Build an Aster set it amazing on the black background! So sparkly and stunning!
Sammibug aka Samantha Houp aka Sammi
Your card is beautiful! I really love Altenew’s build-a-flower collection 🙂
Ian so in love with your card! It has all the things I love on it! Black and gold, bold pops of color, Altenew ‘s beautiful BAF flowers and a heartfelt sentiment! TFS!
Those pink flowers just pop against the black, so pretty!
What a fantastic idea to die cut and then add black outside the image. Your card is beautiful!
Gorgeous! I love the pops of color and those gold splatters!
This card is stunning! I appreciate the tips on how to achieve a background with more depth.
If I had seen your version of the Aster I might have bought that instead of the one I bought! Your instructions were so easy to follow and I now know that I can try your version myself on my Stamps! Thank you for taking them time to explain everything to us!
~Laurie
Wow your card is breath taking ty.
I love the pop of color on black!!
Thank you for showing this beautiful card.