Blossoming Creativity Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 in Total Prizes) 

Hello everyone and thank you so much for joining me. You should have arrived from the blog of my fellow New Englander, Amy Hill. If you want to start at the beginning or lost your place on the hop, head to the Altenew Card Blog.

I’m so excited to share this card with the amazing new hot foil plates to coordinate with the previously released Build-A-Flower: Wild Rose.  The touch of Altenew Enchanted Gold foil is the perfect accompaniment to the  Peach Perfect and Coral Bliss flower with Minty Mint leaves.  A piece of Navy card stock was 3D embossed with the Deck Planks 3D embossing folder.  My sentiment is from the amazing Versatile Greetings hot foil set.  

I continued with my love of Navy card stock for my next card from this amazing release.  I started with a piece of Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80# card stock.  The plant image was stamped in the lower left hand corner with Pure Graphite ink.  I used this because I knew I wanted to use the artist markers.  For coloring I used the Tropical Forest Family, Arctic, and Dew Drops.  Under the vase I added a bit of Limestone for a shadow.  I stamped the sentiment with the same Pure Graphite ink before using a deckle trimmer to cut my panel to 4 x 5 1/4.  The deckle panel was adhered with Instant Dimension Foam Tape.

This is one of my absolute favorite stamps from this release.  For the Cherry Blossoms Bunch image I used Martian Terrain and Natures Wonders.  For my flower centers I used my Gold Must Have Gel Pen.  The sentiment is another from versatile greetings using Altenew Enchanted Gold foil. ​

Triangle Madness was another super fun puzzle set.  There are so many ways you can use these dies to create different looks.  I die cut all three dies from Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80# card stock.  I added “thanks” from Versatile Greetings, this time with a beautiful rainbow foil. ​

I had so much fun putting this card together!  It reminded me of the hours of my youth dedicated to Tetris!  The Tessellation Puzzle die set is years of fun!!  I used the following cardstock to create the image: Warm Sunshine, Turquoise, Orange Cream, Hydrangea, Forest Glades, and Velvet.  I added foam tape to the back of each of the individuals images and adhered onto the panel.  I used another sentiment from Versatile Greetings with Enchanted Gold hot foil.  Can you tell that is one of my must have sets?  ​

For this project I used the beautiful Sunshine Blossoms 3D EF with Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80# card stock. I added a trio of sentiments from Versatile Greetings with rainbow foil. Sentiments can be the focal image!

Gracious Peonies is one of my top ten favorites of 2022, maybe of all time. And as a super fan of Altenew, I know what that means! I used the Starry Patterns 3D embossing folder for my panel. My florals used: Martian Terrain, Pocketful of Sunshine, Northern Shore and Natures Wonders. All of my favorite colors!! I added a hello from Versatile Greetings with Enchanted Gold hot foil. That and the Rose Gold are my faves!

My final card showcases the beautiful Swallowtail Butterfly die set. This set allows you to create three different Swallowtail Butterflies. I used two different families of alcohol ink for my butterfly and my background. Butterflies: Sugarplums and Fall Harvest – Background: Sea Shore & Tropical Forest. To finish my card I used two more of the Versatile Greetings with Enchanted Gold hot foil.

Can you pick my faves from this release? As you know I love it all — especially sentiments ❤️

Giveaway Prizes:

$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 11/03/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 11/04/2022.

Thank you for sticking with me until the end of this amazing hop!

Until next time, happy crafting my friends!