Altenew October 2017 Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello and Welcome. I am so excited to be part of the Altenew October 2017 Release Blog Hop. You are gonna love it as there is such a GORGEOUS range of Embossing powders and beautiful Our Family Scrapbook Collection :) You might have come here from the awesome Laurie Schmidlin's blog.

This is a long post so grab your favourite drink and relax.

For my projects, I used the " Razzleberry, Fluorescent Green, Rose Gold, Copper, Platinum Crisp Embossing Powders" from the new release. I also used some products from the previous releases :)

It was so much fun playing with these gorgeous embossing powders and combining them with various stamps and dies :) For my first card I used Super Script Stamp Set, Super Script Die set and Layered Laurel Stamp set and Coral Berry Crisp ink. I used Rose Gold, Copper, Platinum Crisp Embossing Powders to different layers of the leaves. It looks so pretty in real and all the 3 metallic shaded match perfectly.

For my 2nd. card, I went a bit mixed media style. I used Sketched Lines Stencil, Beautiful Day Stamp Set, and Fantasy Floral 3d Die, those 3 are my all time favorites :) Along with I used the new Fluorescent Green and Rose Gold Crisp Embossing powders. 

For my 3rd. card, I played with the layered dies and embossing powders. I used the Layered Floral Cover Die A & B Bundle , Super Script Stamp Set, Super Script Die set and Lavender Fields Crisp Ink. I used Rose Gold, Copper, Platinum Crisp Embossing Powders onto the Layered Floral Cover Die B. Again a beautiful mix of metallic shades and really pretty effect. 

The close-up shows the beautiful effect of the embossing powders.

For my last card I simply used the Razzleberry Crisp Embossing Powder for background embossing and used it for the resist technique. I really like the effect. I used Pattern Play Circle and Hug Me stamp and die bundle for this card, but you can get the stamp and die separately too. Cute right?

Prizes:

To celebrate this release, Altenew is generously giving away a $50 gift certificate to SIX lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog by Thursday, November 2nd for a chance to win. Six winners will be announced on theAltenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on Saturday, November 4th.

Prize 2: 

Altenew is generously giving a $30 gift certificate for one of my readers...simply follow my blog and leave a comment here. Please don't forget to check on November 2nd. I will announce my blog winner here on my blog. The next stop on the hop is talented Flora Monika Farkas's blog.

Blog Hop Order

Altenew Scrapbook Blog

Terhi Koskinen

Svitlana Shayevich

Sandra Dietrich

Therese Calvird

Bea Valint

Erum Tasneem

Ashley Horton

Debby Hughes

Enza Gudor

Laurie Schmidlin

>>>Isha Gupta <<< you're here

Flora Monika Farkas

Virginia Lu

Lilith Eeckels

Sveta Fotinia

Kim Jeffress

Yoonsun Hur

Reiko Tsuchida

Dana Gong

Kymona Tracey

Agnieszka Malyszek

Vicky Papaioannou

Altenew Card Blog

FSJ: Traveler's Journal

Hello everyone! Today I have a fun spread in my Bronze Traveler's journal by Fun Stampers Journey. I tried the watercolor notebook insert for the first time and love the paper. It's wonderful to use with techniques and takes the modelling paste without any problem :)

Here is how I created it.

I started by using Lovely Blue Liquid color with water and added it to my pages. This watercolor paper is wonderful :)

I let it dry and then stamped the image using Clear Pigment ink and applied two shades of  blue Pan Pastels.

I then applied modelling paste using the Vintage Screen stencil. Once dry, I flicked some Citrus Cooler Silk.

I then stamped some of the images onto whip cream cardstock using Denim Days ink.

I then stamped the florals from Flower Swirls stamp set using clear pigment ink onto the color splash sheet, embossed using white embossing powder and colored using the color splash pencils.

I then die-cut all the images using co-ordinating dies.

I then die-cut the doily, word "AMAZING" and the tag and assembled everything together.

I actually created a pocket for my tag to go in, so I can write and hide it if I don't want to share it...lol

To do this, I adhered the doily, only from 3 edges and then adhered the photo on the top so the adhesive is only onto the doily part. Now I can easily slide in the tag

Here are a couple more close ups for all the texture.

All the products used are by Fun Stampers Journey

Bronze Traveler's Journal
Traveler Notes Refill

Stamp and Dies: Flower Swirls Bundle, Remember Today Bundle, Media Artist, Doily Die Set, Everyday Tags Die

Stencil: Vintage Screen

Cardstock:  Journey Splash Sheets, Whip Cream, Denim Days

Ink: Clear Pigment, Denim Days, Lovely Blue Liquid Color

Journey Modelling Paste

Journey Black Licorice Thread

Day Notes Sticky Script

Pan Pastel: Confectionary Days, Rich Sorbets

Journey Tape Runner

Journey tape: Simply Gold, Sweet Romance

FSJ Amaze Machine

Have a fun filled day and happy crafting!!!

FSJ: One Stamp Two Ways

Hello everyone! Today I have two mixed media cards for you using the same supplies from Fun Stampers Journey. I used this beautiful branch die and the Hexagon stencil.

Card 1: I took the watercolor paper and used Journey modelling paste through the stencil and let it dry. I then die-cut the branch using watercolor paper and added color to it using the Journey splash and water. I die-cut one more branch using vellum. Once the mat layer was dry, I stamped the sentiment and adhered the branches. Finally I adhered the layer to the Lemon Drop cardbase.

Card 2: I took this card up a notch. So I created a light background wash using Journey Splash and water onto watercolor paper. Let it dry. I then added some Journey Splash to the modelling paste and applied it to the mat layer. Once dry I adhered this piece to the Oatmeal Cookie cardbase. I die-cut the branch and flicked the same Journey splash. Layer the branch using vellum branch and adhered it to the card. 

Supplies:

All the products used are by Fun Stampers Journey

Stamp: Tag Elements

Die: Branched Teardrop Die

Stencil: Vintage Screen

Cardstock: Lemon Drop, Oatmeal Cookie, Journey Splash Sheets

Ink: Black Licorice

Journey Splash: Watermelon Fusion, Sweet Berry, Citrus Cooler, Pineapple Smoothie

Journey Vellum

Journey Modelling Paste

White Liner Tape

FSJ Amaze Machine

Happy WCMD/ Merry Christmas

Happy World Card Making Day to all my cardmaking friends from around the Globe :) 

I’m joining Simon Says Stamp today to share some WCMD happiness. The lovely Susan from SSS, invited card makers from around the globe to make a Christmas/holiday card for the Simon Says Stamp blog to celebrate WCMD! 

And you can join us too! Make a holiday/Christmas card and enter the challenge HERE. 10 random winners will be chosen to win $50 gift cards to the Simon store. And one winner will get one subscription to Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine.

I made two card today. For my first card, I went with CAS almost one layer card for easy mailing. This is fun and easy to mass produce too. I used, 

SSS (Merry Christmas Stamp set); Die: Memory Box (Silent Snowflake Frame); WOW! Gold Embossing Powder; Nuvo Glitter drops (Ruby Slippers); Distress Ink: Salty Ocean

For my 2nd. card, I went with mixed media style. Love the whimsy of the poinsettia :)

Stamp: SSS (Winter Flowers, Christmas Toys); Die: SSS (Stacked Stars), Winnie&Walter (Katherine Cutaways); Ink: Distress Ink (Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers, Twisted Citron), Versafine Onyx Black; Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers; WOW! Gold Embossing Powder

Below you will see the list of designers participating in this awesome event and the countries each will represent. I suggest checking out all these blogs.

Australia – Gayatri Murali

Belgium – Laura Sterckx

Canada – Sarah Moerman

China – Scarlet Liu

Colombia – Bibi Cameron

England – Jo Nevill

Germany – Maria Fischer

Greece – Vicky Papaioannou

Italy – Barbara Schiassi

Malta – Lorraine Aquilina

Poland – Marzena Ziuziakowska

Russia – Svetlana Pavlova

Scotland – Debby Hughes

South Africa – Anna-Karin Evaldsson

South Korea – Marge Yoon

Spain – Amanda Korotkova

Switzerland – Isha Gupta

Ukraine – Svitlana Shayevich

USA – Barb Engler

Have fun! 

Pinkfresh Studio Stamp & Die Release Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Pinkfresh Studio September Release bloghop. 

Love love love this release as it has stamps and dies to create for every occasion including Christmas. I am sure everyone has already going to start making Christmas cards soon :). You might have come here from the wonderfully talented Elena Roussakis's blog. 

It's gonna be a long post so please bear with me :)

Card 1

I used the "Houseplants" Die. This is such a pretty die, which cuts beautifully. I die-cut the plants using watercolor paper. Then I sponged some distress inks and flicked some gold ink. The result really gave me a smile, hence I stamped the sentiment from the "Playful Animal Friends 1" stamp set. Finally to ground the image I used a stripe of paper from the "Escape the Ordinary" paper pad.

Card 2: Since I really loved this "Houseplants"die, I created another card and instead of adding gold flick, I simply added a little bit of Clear Sparkle Embossing powder. Love love the result. It looks pretty and delicate.

Card 3: Since I took out the "Playful Animal Friends 1" stamp set, I looked at the "Playful Animal Friends 2" stamp set too AND I have to say these two are must have sets for all the fun, whimsical, cute cardlover's :) I was in the CAS cardmaking mode :) I made a few cards using these sets but those are for the next time lol

Card 4: Finally, I decided to do some no-line coloring and this Santa image from " Simple Joy" stamp set was just perfect. There is also a Coordinating "Simple Joy" die to make die-cutting so easy! I like how he is reading all the letters so seriously :) Maybe I will also get a gift or two from him...lol. I used some patterned papers from the "December Days" paper pad. I also cut out a few elements from the same paper pad to add to my scene.

The next stop in the hop is  super talented and sweet Laura Contoni-Bassen's blog. 

Now on to the even bigger fun part of the blog hop (Apart from getting to drool over amazing new products and creations):

Pinkfresh Studio  is generously giving away stamps/dies from the entire release to one winner. The winner will be randomly selected and the only requirement is that you have to leave a comment on each Blog in the Hop. FUN!!!! Comments will close at 11.59pm CST on Monday October 2nd 2017.  

Winner Announcement : Monday October 9th 2017

Blog Hop Line Up

Pinkfresh Studio Blog 

Amy Tsuruta

Rebecca Luminarias

Elena Roussakis

>>> Isha Gupta <<<

Laura Contoni-Bassen

 May Sukyong Park

 Julia Stainton

Amy Kolling

Carly Tee Minner

Grab a cuppa and enjoy the wonderful inspiration along with a chance to win some AWESOME goodies !!!

Here are the products I used today:

FSJ: Hello Friend

Hello everyone! Today I have a mixed media card for you using this pretty butterfly image from Fun Stampers Journey. 

To create this card, I fist cut a white mat layer using the whip cream cardstock. I then stamped the tiny flowers from the Media Artist stamp set using River Stone ink. I stamped these using the 2nd. generation technique so the florals are light in color.

I then stamped the tiny splatters from the same set using Lemon Drop ink. Then I stamped the fun brushstrokes. Now to mute this a little, I applied a bit of whip cream paint here n there and let this dry.

Once dry, I added some splatters using Cosmic Grape silk.

Then I stamped the butterfly from the Beautiful Wings stamp set using black ink. Then I stamped one of the wing layers using Cosmic Grape ink. Once stamped I fussy cut the butterfly and applied Sparkle Silk generously all over the butterfly. Let it dry. 

Finally, stampe the sentiment and assemble everything together.

Supplies:

All the products used are by Fun Stampers Journey

Stamp: Brush Stroke, Media Artist, Greeting Trends, Beautiful Wings

Cardstock: Whip Cream

Ink: Lemon Drop, Cosmic Grape, River Stone, Black Licorice

Journey Sparkle, Cosmic Grape Silk

Journey paint: Whip Cream

White Liner Tape

FSJ Amaze Machine