Hello friends! I'm so happy to be a part of Altenew's Blog Hop to celebrate their amazing February 2025 Release.
By leaving a comment below, and on each stop of this hop, you will be entered to win an awesome prize! Keep reading for the details below. If you would like to start at the beginning, please head over to the Altenew Blog. There are so many talented creators on this hop, so please go visit them all! I have the list below.
For my card today, I've used several new products including the gorgeous Craft-A-Flower: Bearded Iris! Bearded Iris are one of my most favorite flowers and my colors are inspired by a variety I have grown in my garden!
Can you believe that I colored these gorgeous Bearded Iris with ONE ink color and ONE Detailed Blending Brush?!! It is true! I used a size 10 Detailed Blending Brush (angled) and Midnight Violet Fresh Dye Ink to color each petal of the Craft-A-Flower: Bearded Iris.
By turning the angled Detailed Blending Brush and just using the tip of the angle, you can get some amazing effects with your ink blending! To get more coverage of ink at the base of the petals I used a Mini Blending Brush.
I colored the leaves with three of the inks in the Tropical Forest Fresh Dye Ink collection and a Mini Blending Brush.
I added these gorgeous flowers to a background I made with a panel of Deep Iris Crafty Necessities Cardstock. Have y'all tried the new Shimmer Relief Pastes? If not, let me just say that these pastes are truly the best because they spread like butter and have so much gorgeous shimmer!!
I used stencil 3 in the Patterned Petals Builder Stencil Set and spread Pearl Shimmer Relief Paste through it with a pallet knife. Once the paste was dry, I used a Mini Blending Brush with Deep Iris ink and the stencil 4 Patterned Petals stencil to add more detail. Then I blended more Deep Iris ink around the edges of the panel
I used glue and Instant Dimension Foam Tape to adhere the Bearded Iris flowers and leaves to the card. The stencil is from the Craft Your Life Project Kit: Garden Whispers stamp set and stamped with Obsidian black ink. I cut it out with the coordinating die.
I hope you've seen some inspiration at my stop for using this beautiful Craft-A-Flower: Bearded Iris set! Be sure to comment here and at each stop along the way to increase your chances of winning one of these fabulous prizes!!
Giveaway info:
$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $100 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $50 gift certificate to 4 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by February 13th for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 5 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on February 15th, 2025.
The winner of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog.
Blog Hop List:
Wow! I’m in love with the purple! And the depth you created is so lifelike!
ReplyDeleteStunning card! The flowers are expertly colored.
ReplyDeleteYour card is GORGEOUS! That Bearded Iris is spectacular! Makes me long for Spring! Fantastic Release!
ReplyDeleteHello, Carol! You have a way with purple, my friend! Magnificent make!
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Dear Carol -
ReplyDeleteYour work is a master class in sophisticated papercrafting. Wow! Dazzling!
Lori S in PA
Fabulous card with that amazing Bearded Iris Craft-A-Flower set! So pretty in purple!
ReplyDeleteOMG - this card is simply amazing and gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteYour irises (is that the right plural?!) are so lush and gorgeous!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card!! I too have those purple irises in my garden every year! You did an amazing job inking the flowers up! The only pastes I currently have are the lunar pastes from Simon Hurley. I definitely want to get some of the shimmer pastes in this release!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card, the purple is stunning!
ReplyDeleteThis card is beautiful! And I love the shimmer paste!
ReplyDeleteIris are one of my favorite flowers. And these are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful card! The iris is my favorite new product!
ReplyDeleteThe iris flowers are spectacular! Gorgeous card!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely STUNNING! I LOVE the purple iris!
ReplyDeleteMarisela Delgado said: Beautiful card and color 💜 mariandmonsterd@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteYour iris is gorgeous. Thanks for the great details.
ReplyDeleteThe whole card is stunning. I love the depth of the design. ❤️
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards with beautiful products you did an awesome job on the Iris! So pretty!
ReplyDeleteYour Iris card is amazing!!!
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty card!
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty card with the irises.
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful card!
ReplyDeleteStunning card. I love the way you colored the flowers.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card--love your ink blending! Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteknow many purple card lovers who would adore this card
ReplyDeleteSuch a spectacular card! Love how you layered the irises and the ink blending is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteLove the colors! So beautiful!!!
ReplyDeleteYour card is so lovely...such vivid colors!
ReplyDeleteYour iris card is stunning! The flowers pop from the page and the background is perfect to set off the flowers!
ReplyDeleteWhat gorgeous colors and petals! Fantastic card.
ReplyDeleteYour ink blending is just WOW!
ReplyDeleteYour card is stunning Carol, thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteIris are one of my favorite flowers and yours are beautiful
ReplyDeleteYour Irises are so pretty! I love the colors. They perfectly compliment the cardstock. Stunning!
ReplyDeleteYour card is so pretty! Inspired!
ReplyDeleteCarol, this is absolutely gorgeous! This CAF is by far my favorite product from this release. TFS!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card! :)
ReplyDeleteYour coloring on the iris is unbelievably gorgeous! Thanks so much for sharing!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful design for the floral set!
ReplyDeleteThis is just stunning, purple's my fave.
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