Altenew Plentiful Patterns Stand-alone Dies/Stencils Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 in total prizes)

 Hello crafty friends!  I'm so honored to be joining the blog hop to celebrate Altenew's Plentiful Patterns Stand-alone Dies/Stencils release!

You should have arrived from the awesome blog of Anna Mahtani.  If you need to start at the beginning, head on over to the Altenew Card Blog!

There are so many gorgeous stand-alone dies and stencils in this release!  Here is just a sample of what you will find over in the Altenew shop:

Okay, now on to my card!  I absolutely love the Bountiful Butterflies collection (5% savings with the bundle)!  There are so many possibilities in the colors and where to feature it, as I did here, with the Itty Bitty Flowers die set!

I began by die cutting the Grid Cover die from some 80# Neenah and adhering it to a top-folding A2 card base.  I just love the white-on-white backgrounds!

Then I die cut the Itty Bitty Flowers dies with three shades of purple card stock for the flowers and some green card stock for the stem.  When you see all of the little pieces, you may feel totally lost as to how to assemble them.  However, I followed the included layering guide (see the next photo), and I didn't find it difficult at all!  I adhered the flower pieces with glue and added them to the stem.

Next I pulled out the awesome Bountiful Butterflies stencil set.  Something to note:  I found it much easier to die cut the butterflies first with the coordinating Bountiful Butterflies dies.  Keep them in the negative space, add some tape to the back, and then stencil.  I tried to die cut my first butterfly after I stenciled it and found that I had not placed the stencil correctly!  I used three of the Shades of Purple inks and some Puffy Heart ink to color my butterfly.  Then I used the stencil to add some clear glitter paste to the butterfly.  I love how sparkly it is!

When the butterfly was dry, I added foam tape to the back of it and the Itty Bitty Flowers stem and adhered them to the card.  I also popped up the sentiment that I stamped using the Birthday Builder stamp set.  I added some pink enamel dots from the Cherry Blossom Enamel Dot set.

Thank you so much for stopping by!  Be sure to leave a comment for your chance to win before heading to the next stop.

Your next stop, after commenting, is the blog of awesome Keren Baker!

Giveaway Prizes

$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 08/30/2021 for a chance to win. 

Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 09/02/2021.

Blog Hop Order:

Altenew Blog

Vicky Papaioannou

Laurie Willison

Kelly Griglione

Dana Joy

Jaycee Gaspar

LauraJane

Emily Midgett

Michelle Short

Virginia Lu

Joy Baldwin

Nathalie DeSousa

Therese Calvird

Jenny Colacicco

Tenia Nelson

Sandhya Iyer

Maryam Perez

Seeka

Reiko Tsuchida

Verity Biddlecombe

Terri Koszler

Daniel Diaz

Amanda Baldwin

Erin Thompson

Natasha Davies

Tina Smith

Anna Mahtani

Carol Hintermeier <<< that's me!

Keren Baker

Linda Westfall

Nenette S. Madero

Joylita Dsouza

Keeway Tsao