Hello and welcome to my stop on the Altenew 3rd Anniversary blog hop! I am excited to be sharing in the celebration! Make sure to check out the Altenew blog for links to all of the hoppers today - and all of the rest of the days this week! You should have arrived here from Vera's blog.
For my card today I used one of my favourite Altenew stamp sets: Peony Bouquet. I love the large florals in this set and really enjoy colouring them using various colouring mediums.
When I stamped my flowers I knew I wanted to manipulate the stamped lines and make them a lot bolder and darker so I completely covered each of the stamped images with Distress Oxide inks, not worrying that I was really muting the lines.
Once I had the ink down, I used a water spritzer and added water to all of the images to give them a distressed look. I love the added texture and dimension that you get when you add water to these inks. Once I had them all inked and they were dry, I used a 0.5 black Copic Multiliner and traced over all of the flower and leaf lines added thicker lines in various places to really make the black inking the focus of the flowers.
I added a black and white striped paper piece to the side with a strip of sparkle silver cardstock and then I adhered the flowers and leaves to the card base. I stamped and adhered the label sentiment over top with foam adhesive and finished it off with some sparkly gems that I picked up from my local craft store.
Special Offer at Altenew for their 3rd anniversary:
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Prizes:
Altenew is giving away $50 gift certificates to FIVE lucky winners. There are also 12 awesome companies who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:
- Spellbinders: Three $100 Gift Certificates
- Online Card Classes: Three Class Spots
- My Sweet Petunia : Mini MISTI
- Pretty Pink Posh : $30 Gift Certificate
- WOW! Embossing Powder : $30 Prize Pack
- Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L : $30 Prize Pack
- Tombow USA: 1 pack of 10 Dual Brush Pens
- Chameleon Pens: 1 Pack of 5 Chameleon Pens
- Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 Gift Certificate
- Ellen Huston LLC : $25 Gift Certificate
- Freckled Fawn : $25 Gift Certificate
- Simon Says Stamp : $25 Gift Certificate
Be sure to leave comments by Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 11:59 PM EDT for a chance to win! 21 WINNERS will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew blog on April 28th, 2017.
The next stop on the hop is: My Sweet Petunia
Happy Hopping!! ;)
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292 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 292 of 292I love my Peony Bouquet set as well, and Distress Oxides are my new favorite go-to inks whenever possible! Great project!
Beautiful card. I love the use of the Distress Oxide ink. Thanks for sharing.
This is a wonderful flower set and the colors you chose are so pretty. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
OH I love the colors you chose for your flowers!! And the stripe down the side is such a nice touch!!
So pretty!
Your black and whit border is so effective bringing out the beautiful flowers!
Love your choice of colours. That stamp set is an essential :)
Pretty. Really like the layering.
Nicely done!
Beautiful cards!
Such a fun surprise to click on to see the pretty colored flowers. Would not have thought of the black and white striped edge-love it!
Peony flowers are such beauties, aren't they? I keep seeing what artists like you do with Distress Oxide Inks & would so like to have them. Your peonies are prizewinners!
I enjoy your graphic design
I just purchased some Distress Oxides and haven't even open them yet! Now I want to try this. LOVE the colors you chose.
Love the color choices!
Very pretty.. Love the colors.. Sping :)
The flowers on your card are so simple yet so very pretty. You're work is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
So pretty! Love the unusual colors on those beautiful blooms!
I always enjoy seeing what you create! Such beautiful cards and ideas. Thanks so much for sharing on this amazing blog hop!!
Sweet design.
Gorgeous. Love the idea of darkening the outline. Really makes the flowers pop.
The beautiful colors of the flowers look great beside the stripes down the side.
Nice card.
So pretty!
Isn't it amazing how adding a simple striped piece on the side can be such an eye catching embellishment. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful card! Love it!
Great card. Love the color pop.
Beautiful flowers. Nice idea with the black liner, makes it go nicely with the striped left border!
So pretty and beautifully bright!
love this card, this was my first Altenew stamp set and I love it
Using complementary colors adds pizazz! Maria B
This card was so wonderful and your coloring is really amazing. The silver glitter and the black and white stripe is absolutey fantastic.♥ Many thanks for your inspiration.
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Angela
I haven't purchased distress oxide inks yet but seeing fun projects like this definitely tempt me. Thanks for sharing such a pretty card!
Love the coloring with the oxide distress inks. It really adds to some very beautiful flowers.
Nice card! I love these flowers!
Love the colors on your flowers.
Sweet card!! Love how you used the oxide ink to color the flowers!
Such pretty flowers!
The heavy black lines make the flowers so dramatic, Stephanie.
Beautiful card. Like the way you used the oxide inks on the peonies and the black and white strip paper really makes the flowers pop.
Gorgeous! Love the colors of your peonies and the effect of the Oxide inks. That you traced over all the lines is super impressive and really makes the images pop.
BEAUTIFUL card!
LOVE the colours of your flowers, LOVE your ELEGANT design!
Love the unusual colours you've used for your peonies!
What a fun color combo! Congrats to Altenew on their 3rd anniversary!
Love the vibrant and contrasting colors on the flowers! Thank you for sharing!
Pretty card! Beautiful colors.
Beautiful card ! Great tip about making the lines thicker with the multiliner; thanks !
Happy Easter Greetings from Belgium.
Thanks for sharing this cool technique! I really like the bold, graphic look of your flowers (and love the addition of the little black and white striped paper strip: perfect!).
Beautiful card! Just got my oxides & have not played with them yet. Thanks for the inspiration!!
Beautiful colors! I love the combination and the strip of striped paper.
Beautiful card!
Very pretty, I love the dark black line
Very pretty! I love the look of the distress oxides.
I love the peony stamp set, such a lovely card. The distress oxide inks worked well on this card. Thank you for sharing!
Fabulous card. Love the colours you chose.
This is a very pretty set and love the bold colour you used.
Great card idea!
I love the set too!!! Great combination of colors and the border rocks!
You are so talented.
Beautiful card.
Can't wait for my oxide inks to arrive! Very pretty card!
Love your elegant design !
Very pretty card.
Beautiful design!Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful card - I can see why that stamp is your favourite!
I have everything I need to make this card. No shopping? Dramatic card.
What a cute card. Thanks for taking time to share it with us all
I love the peony set, too. Your card has such pretty colors. The black outlines really stand out!
Love how you used the oxides - will have to give it a try. Thanks for the inspiration!
The peony is my favorite. Gorgeous card.
Sheer beauty Stephanie, love these new inks! TFS
Thanks for the inspiration. Like the bold outline
beautiful flowers
beautiful coloring
and lovely Design
Awesome card you made..
Very pretty - love that you used Distress Oxide ink for coloring !
Love the colours and the distress oxide look of the flowers. Lovely stamp set.
Beautiful cards, love these colors, so soft and pretty!
Gorgeous color combo! Beautiful flowers!
Love the sentiment set you used, they look so great in a card
Gorgeous card. Love the colors.
Awww!!! Simply stunning!!!
nice card, thank you
A very bold card. I love the repetitive use of black. Very beautiful.
I love this! You did an awesome job!
Thanks for Sharing,
Sandy Hentzel
Fabulous card! I love how you used the black to really let the florals shine.
beautiful card!
Very beautiful. Love the flowers.
This looks so pretty on the flowers!
Such a unique color combination for your beautiful peonies, Stephanie. I'm afraid I'd screw up my card tracing the lines after coloring them, but looks like no worries for you. The touch of silver strip really adds to the bling.
Pretty & vibrant card!
I like the color combo you used. Great shading too.
Stephanie,
I love the way you used the black stripped paper on the side to really make the card come "alive". Beautiful!
Gorgeous colors on those flowers!! Beautiful card. :-)
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