Welcome everyone! I’m excited to be a part of the blog hop with Altenew celebrating their newest release. I had a lot of inky fun so I have lots of pictures to share!
One of my favorite new products is the Feathery Stencil. Since there are some fine areas, I made to spray the back of my stencil with Pixie Spray. This is a low tack adhesive that will help keep my stencil in place while I ink blend.
My first card I ink blended a rainbow of colors from Altenew including Coral Berry, Orange Cream, Sunray, Firefly, Aqualicious and Lavender Fields using a blending brush.
I heat embossed a sentiment from the Bright Blossoms stamp set onto Black cardstock with White embossing powder. Then trimmed it down to a thin strip and added to my card front with foam squares.
Altenew is also releasing these fun Enamel Dots in a variety of colors. I added some from the Shades of Purple and Warm & Cozy collection. They already have adhesive on the back so you can just add them directly to your projects.
I have another card using the Feathery Stencil but this time including with Autumn Blaze, Sunray and Sunkissed inks. I started light in the middle and got darker as I worked my way towards the outside edges of the card.
For the sentiment, I die cut the Fancy For You from Holographic cardstock. I also die cut the sentiment 3 more times from white cardstock and layered together with liquid glue to add dimension.
It’s quite subtle but I added some enamel dots from the Warm & Cozy collection around my sentiment. This just adds a bit of interest to the card.
Now I’m coming in with the Geometric stencil. For this card I ink blended Aqualicious, Sunray and Coral Berry inks. While still in place on my cardstock, I wiped the stencil down and then added Moonstone Glimmer Paste over the top. This gave my background tons of shine!
Once the panel was completely dry, I trimmed it down to 3 3/4″ x 5″ and layered 3 pieces of cardstock behind that were the same size. This adds dimension and support to my background.
Once again I added the Fancy For You die to the front but this time diecut from Gold Foil cardstock.
I also added some enamel dots to the front of my card using the Sea Shore, Shades of Purple and Tropical Forest collections. They actually stick really well to my textured background, I was quite impressed.
Moving on to other products in the release we have the new Cloud Scene and Mountain Scene Stencils. Wow! Talk about realistic and very easy to use!
For the clouds I used a very soft blue ink (sorry don’t remember which one!). To stencil on the mountains I used Lavender Fields and Soft Lilac.
I added a lake under my mountains by ink blending Sea Breeze and Turquoise inks and for the trees I used Grassy Fields and Shadow Creek.
Doesn’t this look like it should be a painting on a wall? So cool!
I finished it off with a sentiment from the Crafty Greetings set.
My next card is again using the Cloud Scene and Mountain Scene Stencil.
This time I used Silver Stone and Industrial Diamond for the mountains.
I ink blended the lake with Dew Drops and Aqualicious and for the trees I used Grassy Fields, Shadow Creek and Mountain Pine inks.
This time I paired the Fancy Greetings with my card by stamping in black ink.
My last card for today is featuring the Trellis stencil. I started by ink blending the stencil on white cardstock with Aqualicious and Firefly inks. I made sure to not blend all the way to the edge but make it fade off.
Then I stamped the Statement Flowers image over the top in black ink.
I finished off with a heat embossed sentiment and a few enamel dots from the Sea Shore collection.
I hope you enjoyed today’s inspiration! I absolutely had a blast creating these cards.
GIVEAWAY
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog or/and Altenew Mixed Media Blog by 7/23/2020 for a chance to win.
We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew Winners Page on 07/26/2020.
BLOG HOP
You’re next stop in the hop is the amazing Ashlea Cornell!
- Altenew Card Blog
- Vicky Papaioannou
- Amber Rain Davis
- Amanda Baldwin
- Therese Calvird
- Kelly Janes
- Laurie Willison
- LauraJane
- Norine Borys
- Mindy Eggen
- Ashlea Cornell
- The Hedgehog Hollow
- Altenew Mixed Media Blog
- Elsie Robinson
- Virgninia Lu
- Terri Koszler
- Lydia Evans
- Audrey Yeager
- Tania Ahmed
- Amy Hill
- Nikki Kehr
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Wonderful cards! I really like your two scene cards, which show two different looks. My fave is the last one! Love that trellis and that flower stamp with it! Besautifuil! Thanks for sharing with us today!
Beautiful cards! I especially love the trellis card. Thanks for sharing.
Nice cards
I like each project you made from these products.
Love your Mountain Scene stencil cards! It’s on my wish list for sure.
You got me with that rainbow blended card with the stencil! I have been itching to try this technique, and love how yours turned out ❤️
Fabulous designs Mindy! Love the different stenciled backgrounds, thanks for sharing , have a wonderful day!
The rainbow effect with the stencil is absolutely incredible!
Your cards are fantastic. I think the one with with the Statement Flower may be my favorite.
Such beautiful works with the stencils, particularly.
I love the shine of the “for you” card. stunning.
Beautiful cards! I love the feather stencil and that statement flower on top the stencil is stunning.
Wow, I just love all of your cards and the colours you have used for them all x
Gorgeous cards with these beautiful stencil designs! Awesome colors and details! Your first card with the Feathery Stencil really caught my eye!
Great projects. Love the cards with the pastels. TFS
Beautiful cards and I love how you used the stencils.
Wonderful colors and love the mountain scenes.
Gorgeous cards, my fave is the first one, I just love that colour combo and the striking design.
You may have used Statement Flowers on the last card, but all of your cards definitely make a statement! Very nice!! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing!
Nice ideas for the stenils. I like the color mix.
WOW Mindy!!! You’ve been one beautifully busy Lady! Your cards are awesome! Thanks for inspiring me 🙂
So beautiful. I really like the holographic paper.
wow, absolutely stunning!