Altenew Build-A-Flower: Wild Rose Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($200 in total prizes)

Hello everyone! I am honored to be a guest designer for the Build-A-Flower: Wild Rose release! Like many of you, I think I have a favorite Altenew stamp set and then, a new amazing set is released!

Before we get to the crafty business, I just want to make sure you arrived from the correct place. You should have arrived from my dear friend Amy Hill’s blog. If you did not, and you are following the blog hop, please head back to Altenew to start your crafty adventure.

How can I get my own Build-A-Flower: Wild Rose Layering Stamp & Die Set?

• Build-A-Flower: Wild Rose Layering Stamp & Die Set
• Build-A-Flower: Wild Rose Layering Stamp & Die Set & Ink Bundle (5% off)
• Build-A-Flower Monthly Subscription Plan (14% off)

For my first card I went slimline! I don’t make these as often as I would like to. I always seem to grab an A2 sized panel and go…as you will see with my next card, lol!

My obsession with Martian Terrain continues! I used all four colors, but not on each floral. I used Pastel Sunrise, Canyon Clay, and Mahogany Bark on one; the other rose was stamped with Pastel Sunrise, Burnt Red, and Mahogany Bark. For my yellow tones, I used one of my absolute favorite new (maybe just new to me) combos: Buttercream, Mango Smoothie, and Pumpkin Pie. I love how these yellow tones compliment my peachy tones from Martian Terrain. I absolutely adore the leaves that came in the set, but I was inspired to pull out my Just Leaves die set. I have adored these dies since they came out and once in awhile a project SCREAMS for me to use them…this is what happened here. I started by die cutting all of the dies from a strip of white card stock. I left the die-cuts in place and secured them with some Mint tape. I flipped them over and began ink blending. I keep a set of blending brushes specifically for Martian Terrain as I feel it is a unique color family in the Altenew line-up of colors. I started by just blending with what was left on the large blending tool. When my ink was super, super light, I dipped into the Mahogany Bark and started blending. I wasn’t careful where I applied it, I just tried to keep some lighter areas and darker areas. When I finished with the ink blending it still felt like it was missing something. Iridescent shimmer spray to the rescue! I splattered liberally — love the look! It looks a little different on each color. I love a product that gives me lots of looks for minimal effort.

While my leaves were drying I decided to work on my background panel. A piece of Spicy Yogurt was cut to 3.25 x 8.5. I love the indentation you get from the sides of the folder. It adds another little touch and looks fabulous!

I added strips of gold fold washi to my card base at the top and bottom. My card panel was backed with foam tape before adhering to my card base. I then started playing with the arrangement of florals/leaves on the front of my panel. I was careful to keep an odd number of elements on the panel and to create triangles within my arrangement. Our eyes are picky, picky, picky! But, in the end — so happy with the outcome!

To begin this card I started with Moon rock card stock for my base panel. This and Spicy Yogurt are two of my ALL TIME favorite card stocks from Altenew. I love the flecks that are in the card stock. Adds just that perfect touch of somethin’, somethin’!

I had stamped many of the florals when playing with the set. I created this floral as indicated above using Pastel Sunrise, Canyon Clay, Mahogany Bark, Buttercream, Mango Smoothie, and Pumpkin Pie.

I really love the leaves in this set. I think I will use these leaves on projects that I create with other sets. I wanted to do something a little different, so I stamped just layer B3 with Industrial Diamond ink. Because I used the Moon rock card stock, it wasn’t as stark of a difference where the card stock shone through. I stamped my sentiment with the same Industrial Diamond ink before adhering my floral with foam tape.

I really hope this technique inspires you to look at your stamp sets in a different way. Altenew gives us all of the tools (layers) to create beautiful projects, but it doesn’t mean we have to use them on every project. It all depends on the look you are going for. Change it up with ink colors also — it is amazing how changing your color palette can effect your final product.

Giveaway Prizes

$200 in total prizes! 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 09/07/2021 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 09/09/2021.

Blog Hop Order

Altenew Card Blog

Erum Tasneem

LauraJane

Nathalie DeSousa

Verity Biddlecombe

Jaycee Gaspar

Seeka

Emily Midgett

Jenny Colacicco

Terri Koszler

Tenia Nelson

Amanda Baldwin

Michelle Short

Lilith Eeckels

Daniel Diaz

Laurie Willison

Erin Thompson

Reiko Tsuchida

Amy Hill –> Arrived from here, welcome 🙂

Bridget Casey –> You are here

Sandhya Iyer –> Up next!

Joy Baldwin

Colleen Balija

Joylita Dsouza

Kelly Griglione

Natasha Davies

Nenette S. Madero

Preeti Chandran

Rosie Neustaedter

Ishani

Thank you so much for joining me today! It has been super amazing to share this virtual crafty time with you! I always love sharing crafty time ❤️ I am so sad to see you go, but Sandhya Iyer is super excited to have you stop by!