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
SUPPLIES
Below you will find links to the products used. Click the icon to start shopping. Compensated Affiliate links are used at no additional cost to you. Your support helps me to keep bringing you new projects and videos. Thank you!
Wow 😍 very beautiful! That mountain scene stencil just gets better and better each time I see a new project. Your cards are absolutely beautiful. I definitely love the For you card the most and would love to try that technique some day.
Your cards are beautiful! I love how you created the last one by stamping the flower image over the stenciled Trellis image- so pretty!
Love your beautiful card creations with these stencils! All are unique and make me want these stencils!
The feather stencil is great and also the geometric one that you used with the glimmer paste. Sold me on these stencils!
Love your examples. The feather stencil looks great here.
The mountain scenes are so pretty. I LOVE the serene look…I need to get out to nature!
WOW! The Purple mountains remind me of the old patriotic song Oh Beautiful for Spacious skies. I haven’t been very motivated with my card making lately, but these inspire me to get back at it, thank you for sharing!
I correct myself, the song is of course America The Beautiful! =)
These are so amazing, Mindy. Thank you for sharing all of these wonderful designs. I love how you used the feathery stencil in different ways.
Just stunning, Mindy! You inspire me to learn & practice so I can be half as good as you. Your mountain scenes are absolutely stunning. I hope I win so I can order those stencils so I have something to pull out when I need to make cards for the men in my life. I think they’ll work well for cover pages in my bullet journal too!
That is my new fav lattice stencil card, I’m gonna try that. I never would’ve thought to do the mts like that but it works well, great idea.
Beautiful cards! I love the feathery stencil.
Such pretty,serene cards. Thanks for sharing!
So very pretty!
Gorgeous cards. The Feathery stencil is one of my favorites, too. Your ink blended backgrounds are beautiful.
Beautiful examples of the new stencils. Your Mountain scene was really gorgeous. Thanks for sharing your inspiration.
[…] Mindy Eggen […]
Wow!!! Your mountain scene card is glorious and majestic. I just love it. I also really like the feathery stencil with the rainbow colors! Thank you.
Gorgeous rainbow stenciling and I LOVE that mountain scene!
I like the first one and then went to the second and third!!!! Beautiful!
I love the rainbow of colors you used.
These are all gorgeous but the Statement Flowers card is sending me into fits of delight!
Mindy your cards are amazing! I really need that Mountain Scene stencil in my life.
The dimension in the card with the trellis stencil is incredible! And i love the use of glimmer paste…very inspiring!
I love these!! I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed stenciling pretty cards and then adding a sentiment!!
Beautiful cards! I really like the leaf stencil background in your first cards. Your colors are lovely and the leaves almost look like feathers to me. And your last mountain and lake scene cards are wonderful and seem doable for novices like me!
Wow! All your cards are beautiful! Your ink blending is on point! The shimmer is an extra bonus.
Love seeing these projects! Simply wonderful. you rocked the release!
Love the rainbow colors for background.
I love all of these gorgeous cards! My favorite is the very first one with that fabulous rainbow blending!
So very beautiful. Thanks for sharing
Beautiful cards!
Wow; what a wonderful set of beautiful cards to highlight the new stencils. Awesome job!!
Beautiful cards. Love the vibrant colors used. And the Mountain scenery looks amazing!
Oh my Goodness Gracious, I am SO IMPRESSED with your cards Mindy!! Love the blending of colours using all five of the stencils. Such inspiration! You were busy & it shows.
The feather stencil work here is vey pretty. The stencils and layouts very eye-catching. Nice layouts and creativity.
Oh wow!! You rock with the stencil backgrounds!! Amazing set of cards, I love them all! <3
Beautiful!
[…] for stopping by today! Your next stop on the blog hop is Mindy’s blog. If you encounter a broken link along the hop you can refer to the complete list posted […]
Your ink blending work is lovely!
I absolutely love what you can do with a stencil. It’s impossible to pick a favorite because I love all of them.
[…] Mindy Eggen […]
Wow! All I can say is WOW! I love your cards and it makes me want to have all these new stencils! I love the mountain scenes, it makes me want to get in my RV and go travel. I love the feather background too, much nice looking rainbow blended colors. Thanks for sharing!
oh my, the stencil through the flowers , so cool
Love how you ink blended the backgrounds and the colours you chose. Thanks for sharing.
These are all so beautiful! I could never pick a favorite!
Mindy, Your cards are stunning! I especially love the mountain scene cards~ so peaceful and tranquil.
BEEEEEEAUUUUUUUUUUUUTIFUL CARDS! Those rainbow color blended backgrounds are so gorgeous!
I really liked your use of the trellis stencil. Very impressive card.
Your use of color is inspired! What a gorgeous collection of cards!