Hello and welcome to the Altenew Craft-A-Flower and Gradient Cardstock blog hop today! You should be arriving here from Jenny Colacicco’s blog and if not, you can simply click back to the beginning of the hop at the Altenew Card Blog and not miss anything!
The products we are showcasing today are the Craft-A-Flower Cistus April subscription die set as well as four more long-awaited Gradient cardstock paper packs: Rose Petal, Red Sunset, New Purple and Coffee Break.
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My first card features the CAF Cistus Layering Die Set. Not being entirely sure what the Cistus flower looks like, I searched images online and found a lovely white bloom from the Rock Rose family with maroon and yellow centers and bright green leaves.
I wanted to try and duplicate that with white and pale grey cardstocks, so I dug through my stash, and ended up coloring white cardstock with the palest shades of grey alcohol markers.
I die cut all the layers of the blooms, leaves and stamens and colored them with alcohol markers to get the exact shades I wanted. I assembled all the layers and arranged them on a card panel to allow a slanted sentiment strip to be stamped between the layers of background patterned paper and flowers.
I used a sentiment from the Sentiment Strips stamp set and heat set with silver embossing powder. At some point I will have to trim off the tip of that top leaf to fit the card in an envelope. Either that, or make a custom sized envelope to fit – which, because that perky leaf is so cute, is not entirely out of the question!
My next card is showcasing the Coffee Break Gradient Cardstock paper pack and I used the Craft-A-Flower: Daisy die set to create the flower and leaves.
To add a bit more definition to the flower petals I drew shadow strokes with the Morning Frost Artist Marker. The leaves are white cardstock die cut and colored with the Green Meadows Artist Markers.
I used another sentiment stamp from the Sentiment Strips 2 stamp set and heat embossed with clear embossing powder over Obsidian Pigment ink. I used the Cistus card above as a design jumping off point, which made this card come together very quickly!
I added some enamel dots from the Green Meadow enamel dot pack and lickety-split, this card is finished!
Your next stop on the hop is Verity Biddlecomb’s blog. If you encounter a broken link anywhere on the hop, you can refer back to the complete hop list at the end of this post.
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 04/13/2021 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 04/15/2021.
Blog Hop Order:
Norine Borys – You are here.
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