Big Exciting News + An Autumn Stenciled Card

I'm so thrilled to be sharing my first reel on my Instagram as part of Altenew's new Crafty Creator Team!  Everyone on this team will be sharing card making reels with lots of tips, tricks, and inspiration!

My reel was all about how I salvaged the stenciled piece after a crafty accident and I thought I would share a bit of that here!

I began by using the Dynamic Duo: Wildflower Bouquet layering stencil set with a beautiful autumn palette of ink colors.

I finished the stenciling and was getting ready to use the coordinating Wildflower Bouquet stamp set to add the stamped details to the flowers.

You may be wondering what is the big deal?  Well, just look at this:

Now you see it, right?!  The lid to the ink pad was not secure and the ink pad landed upside down onto my stenciling!

However, you can't tell it from the other photos because, after staring at it in dismay for a while, I thought to myself, "what can I do to save this?"

First I decided to try a sand eraser.  Well, that helped just a bit.  I didn't want to rough up that spot too much with that eraser.

Next I decided to make the flower a darker shade of yellow.  I got the Wildflower Bouquet stencil out and added a darker more golden yellow.  While that helped, those little spots were light bright glaring headlights to me!

After more thinking, my thoughts were that there are flower petals with dots on them.  So, I embraced those accidental dots by using some Prismacolor pencils to add more dots!  The dots I added are subtle but effective a totally hiding the accidental dots!

The card was saved!

I created the masked blue background with blue splatters.  Then I cut out the flowers with the Wildflower Bouquet die.  The sentiments are also in the Wildflower Bouquet stamp set.

So, my moral here is, don't give up on a card, ever!  I'm quite pleased with how this turned out and hope you've been inspired too!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Altenew December 2023 Inks & Marvelous Monthly Series and More Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 in total prizes!)

 Hello, and welcome to Altenew's December Inks and Marvelous Monthly Series release blog hop!

You should have arrived here from LauraJane's blog.  If you would like to start at the beginning, head over to Altenew's blog.  Your next stop on the hop is Caly's blog.

I'm thrilled to share my card that features these gorgeous new blue inks that are in the Glacier Caves set.  The inks and re-inkers are also available as individual colors.  Click each photo to check them out.

I thought what better way to show them off than to create an ombré background for the flowers that are also colored with the inks.

I used the beautiful Dynamic Duo: Wildflower Bouquet stencils, coordinating die and stamps for my card.  The Wildflower Bouquet is available as a stamp set/stencil bundle or as an Add On Die bundle.  I used ink blending brushes to add the Glacier Caves inks through the stencils.  The leaves were colored with inks from the Green Fields Crisp Dye Ink set.

When I finished coloring the flowers, I cut the image out with the coordinating die.

I added the die cut image to my ink blended background I created with each of the Glacier Caves inks.  As you can see in the photos, I added some white splatters to the background before I adhered the image with foam tape.

I stamped the sentiment with Obsidian Pigment Ink and cut it out with the coordinating die.

I'm in love with these beautiful Glacier Caves inks!!  Thank you for stopping by!  Be sure to leave a comment below for your chance to win one of the gift certificates Altenew is awarding!

Giveaway Prizes

$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 12/19/2023 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 12/21/2023.

*The winner of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog. 

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Altenew September 2023 Marvelous Monthly Series Release Blog Hop & Awesome Giveaway!

Hello, and welcome to my stop on the September 2023 Marvelous Monthly Series Blog Hop.  Be sure to keep reading until the end to hear about the awesome prizes and to leave a comment for another chance to win!

You should have arrived here from the blog of Agnieszka Malyszek.  If you would like to start at the beginning, you can head to the Altenew Blog, or check the list at the end of my post.

Before I get to my cards, be sure to check out the Marvelous Monthly Series!  Just click this image.

Or check out the Dynamic Duo: Wildflower Bouquet bundle here:

I have to say that I have become a huge fan of layering stencils and the beautiful Dynamic Duo: Wildflower Bouquet is now at the top of my favorites!  For my first card, I used cool, soothing colors that I feel worked well with the sentiment.

I used ink blending brushes to add various Distress Oxide inks through the Dynamic Duo: Wildflower Bouquet Layering Stencil Set.  These are the colors I used:  Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Uncharted Mariner, Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness, Scattered Straw, and Shaded Lilac.  Altenew's blending brushes are so awesome to get the smooth blending!

The sentiment from the Dynamic Duo: Wildflower Bouquet Sentiment Stamp Set is stamped in a coordinating blue ink.  I just love the little :) that is part of the stamp!

I went with bright and vibrant colors for my next card.   Don't you think it makes the very same stencil look totally different?  I love the versatility!

This time I used several Crisp Dye inks to blend the colors through the Wildflower Bouquet Layering Stencil Set.  I used Fresh Leaf, Olive, Citrus Burst, Fresh Lemon, Pink Pearl, Coral Bliss, Purple Wine, Cosmic Berry, Volcano Lake, and Lagoon.

I die cut the florals with the coordinating Wildflower Bouquet Add-on Die Set.  I popped it up with foam tape onto a background I die cut with the Grid Cover Die.

This sentiment is also from the Wildflower Bouquet Sentiment Stamp set and is stamped with Obsidian ink and die cut with the coordinating die from the Add-on Set.

Thank you for stopping here along the hop!  Be sure to leave a comment before heading to the next stop!

Check out these awesome Giveaway Prizes!

$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $100 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $40 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 09/25/2023 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 6 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 09/27/2023.

*The winner of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog. 

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