Welcome to the Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Sweet Pea Release blog hop. You should have arrived here from Teresa’s blog. Let’s get into the card.
My card today was kept to a simple color palette of black and white. Using this color palette really puts the focus on the Sweet Pea. I stamped the image onto black cardstock with Versamark ink and sprinkled it with white embossing powder. Before I heat set it, I also stamped out a simple happy birthday sentiment to be heat embossed as well.
After I finished the heat embossing, I trimmed down the black cardstock so I could layer it on a piece of matte silver card panel which as a 1/4″ larger than the black panel.
Now it was time to adhere this panel to an A2 card base and add a few matte silver pearls to finish off the card.
As a reminder Altenew has a Paint-A-Flower Monthly Subscription Plan. This is a monthly subscription plan for our Paint-A-Flower. When signed up, you are guaranteed a spot in our monthly Paint-A-Flower releases and will receive a set each month – at a specially discounted price! ($15.99 →$12.99). Let’s not forget about the giveaway. To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 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 12/29/2021 for a chance to win.
Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 12/30/2021.
Okay next on the hop is Juhi. Have a great time on the hop and see you back here soon.
![Hello everyone. I hope you are having a wonderful Thursday. Unfortunately I will not be able to complete my holiday card series this year. The strain of sitting in my craft room for long periods of time is causing my back to endure more pain. In August I had my second back surgery in 18 months and was hopeful that my back pain would be resolved. My healing process has been a LOT SLOWER than I had anticipated and while trying to rush back to crafting, I am not doing my body any good.
With that being said, I am trying to keep my spirits positive and create the best I can right now. That means limiting my time in my room and resting my body. On top of everything I ended up with Covid a month ago and I still have lingering side effects. However I have a strong faith and I know this is just a hiccup in the road of life. Things will be better, my body will heal and I will be refreshed to return to the crafting I have loved for over 20 years. Feel free to catch up on my precious holiday card series in my playlist to keep you going on your holiday cards. Link In bio.
I wish each and every one of you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday and let's bring in the New Year healthy! Until then, stay safe and I'll see you back here soon!
P.S. I did try Amber's @ [17841400753513434:@damasklove] felt holiday wreath while sitting on the couch. Oh SOOO cozy!
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So simple and so beautiful.
Love the simplicity. Thanks for sharing.
I love your card. The simplicity of the black and white is beautiful. Thank you for creating and sharing your beautiful card.
Bold and Beautiful. And a great stamp that it can stand alone and look so good.
I really like the way you used this stamp set. Lovely card.
Black works great with the sweet peas too. I never would have thought of black. Thumbs up!
Wow!
Very elegant card! Thanks for sharing your talent!
Love this Sweet Pea set! Gorgeous coloring! Love the black and CAS design!
Love the white embossing on black
So beautiful!
What an elegant card, very clean and simple style.
Interesting design, love the simplicity. TFS.
the clean look of black and white is just beautiful!
Love the black and white design. Thanks for sharing.
Great project share and look at how to use without coloring.
Very beautiful card
Nice card.
Love the simplicity of your card! Very pretty
Such an elegant card! Thanks for sharing.
Great project share for the image. I like the use of embossing to keep it simple. Sorry if this is a duplicate entry. I wasn’t sure if my first comment went through.
Very pretty in b&w! Elegant look!
Your card is amazing!
The white embossing on black is striking! I like it.
Such a gorgeous card. I love black & white layouts and this wonderful PAF Sweet Pea set is perfect it.
So lovely