Welcome to the Altenew August 2022 Bold & Beautiful Release Blog Hop & Giveaway. You should have arrived here from Tania’s blog. Be bold, and be beautiful! This release includes fabulous florals, a geometric background, and even a set of sentiments perfect for the bibliophile in your life! We know you will love creating all kinds of inspiring projects with the stamps, dies, stencils, and embossing folders in this release. It’s time to get crafty!
This release was really fun to play with so let’s get into the cards. I made a load of cards today so I’ll start with the one I made the tutorial for. This card I’m featuring the Altenew Linear Lines. A beautiful background stamp that makes any card look marvelous. You can heat emboss, stamp or make a simple watermark on a card with this great stamp.
Within the tutorial you will see how simple this card came together with just a bit of gold embossing powder. A simple sentiment from the stamp set along with the Altenew Just Leaves dies really finished off this card nicely.
You can watch it here or over on my Youtube channel. Affiliate links have been used at no cost to you. (Some items were substituted in the product links are some products were no longer available.)
Next let’s take a look at the card I made using the new Altenew Arch of Flowers stamp set and coordinating die. I absolutely LOVE this stamp set. As you can see from below I made three cards using it.
This card made using the Altenew Arch of Flowers stamp set and Altenew Alcohol Makers on pink cardstock. Starting out by stamping the image on pink cardstock in black ink, I then colored the image. Using pink cardstock my background color was already there. Make sure to use marker colors that won’t look muddy or won’t look good with an undertone of pink. I die cut the image again and colored just a few flowers and leaves.
By fussy cutting out just a few of the flowers and leaves, dimension was added when I popped them up on the card. Soft pearls and faux white stitching using a white gelly roll pen was a small addition I thought the card needed. Keeping a clean sentiment was perfect for this card and a simple white card base.
For my next card, I used the coordinating Arch of Flowers Simple Coloring Stencil with my Altenew inks. For a dramatic shading, I used the markers close in color to draw a thick outline around the flowers and leaves. Again I used the coordinating Arch of Flowers die to I could pop the flowers. To keep the card simple, a stenciled card base using the Altenew Mighty Corners stencil in a light warm gray on a white card base made the flowers really stand out. A simple hello was all this card needed for a sentiment.
Now for this card. I REALLY wanted to see what this would look like on black watercolor paper embossed in gold. And oh my WORD!!! I used metallic watercolors and I have to say, this is my favorite card. The sentiment is from the Altenew One Go Birthday Greetings.
And for my final card, the Altenew Intricate Mandala stencil was used with shades of pink, yellow and aqua inks. Adding a top layer of sparkle paste set these colors nicely. Next it was time to fussy cut this mandala out and place it on a black card panel. A simple birthday greeting from the Altenew One Go Birthday Greeting stamp set with the coordinating die was placed on top of the mandala. I added white dots around the mandala and at the top and bottom of the cardstock. I placed this onto a white card base and added just a few gems to finish off the card.
Let’s talk about the giveaway. To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! That’s a total of $300 in prizes. Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 08/10/2022 for a chance to win.
Altenew will draw 10 winners randomly from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 08/11/2022.
Thanks so much for stopping by today for the Altenew August 2022 Bold & Beautiful Release Blog Hop + Giveaway. Have a great time on the hop. See you back here soon.
Such a talent! Your techniques really stand out in your artwork.
Beautiful cards!
Dana,
Your cards with the dark backgrounds are like drama personified!! I’m loving the contrast between the dark and colorful parts of the cards. Beautiful!!
I love what you did with the flowers and the mandela! Great colors!
The blue and gold look GORGEOUS!!!!!!
I absolutely loved all the cards you created. All beautiful and inspiring!
Love your linear spiral card. So pretty.
Amazing designs Dana! Love them all, thanks for sharing!
Gorgeous!
I truly love your blue and gold birthday card. The leaves work perfectly.
Beautiful cards
Love all your cards. Great to see three very different colorings of the Flower Arch. Always nice to see the versatility of a stamp set and your results are so cool.
Beautiful cards. The one with the Mandela looks amazing.
All your cards are gorgeous! I love the first one using the linear spiral stamp set as it is one of my favorites from this release. All the cards using the arch of flower are fantastic too b/c it is another of my favorite sets in this release. Thanks for all the inspiration !
Gorgeous examples! I really like the black embossed WC paper.
So pretty!! Love th rounded corners on the pink card with the flower arch! Your cards are all amazing
Beautiful. Thank you for the inspiration.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful cards! The black watercolor card is amazing.
So beautiful!
Your cards are absolutely gorgeous! I love blue and gold card on your video!
I really like your ink blended spiral card. It’s so cool looking.
Hard to pick a favorite! Love them all!
All your cards are beautiful but the one with the black watercolor and the metalic water color is amazing.
Thanx for sharing.
Black watercolor with gold is stunning.
What marvelous and creative cards! Beautifully done. Thank you for sharing!
So many wonderful cards–from elegant to whimsical–love them all! What a terrific new release!
Wow, you have shared so many amazing projects! LOVE them all, but your card with the linear spiral background stands out as being particularly chic and wonderful. Awesome work!
Lovely cards! Beautiful designs and coloring. Thanks for sharing,
Gorgeous cards. I really love the ones made with the Arch of Flowers set.
Lots of variety in your cards-thanks for sharing a video!
Beautiful creations!