Hi, hello! I’m excited to be joining Altenew today for their July stencil release blog hop! You should have arrived from the blog of Karin Akesdotter but if you’ve landed here halfway through you can simply start at the Altenew Card Blog and follow from there.
There are so many cool stencils being released this month and you can see them all here. I’ve used two from this release – the Elegant Swirls and the Feeling Dotty stencils.
For the first card I used the Elegant Swirls Stencil and used a stiff stenciling brush to apply inks from the Cool Summer Night color set. Altenew stencils are about 5 3/4″ square amply covering a standard A2 sized card, but I did a partial stenciling to reveal this smaller design hidden within the whole. Then I applied the Altenew Clear Embossing Ink through the stencil and heat embossed with clear powder for some extra glimmer and shine.
I created some “water droplets” with Nuvo drops and combined the Aloha sentiment from the Totally Tropical stamp set to compliment the waves image.
It’s difficult to capture the gleam of the clear embossing powder on camera but you can see a bit of it below.
For my second project, I used the Feeling Dotty stencil and some molding paste mixed with varying shades of Coral Berry and Ruby Red inks and partially spreading it through the stencil in an ombre shading from top to bottom.
Next, I stamped a strip of black and white flowers with the Starry Flowers stamp set and fussy cut along to bottom to layer over top the stenciled texture. I stamped the small flower image from the Crown Blooms stamp set onto vellum and used the Altenew Artist Markers Set A to color it from the backside.
The sentiment is from the Birthday Builder stamp set and heat embossed with white, then layered with a pink strip (colored with the Coral Berry marker to ensure a perfect match!) along the top.
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! All you have to do is leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or the Altenew Scrapbook Blog by Thursday, July 12th for a chance to win. The 6 lucky winners will be announce on the Altenew blogs on July 15, 2018.
As well, you have a chance to win a $30 gift certificate to the Altenew store right here! Just leave me a comment below and I’ll choose one lucky winner on Monday, July 9!
Your next stop on the hop is Heather Hoffman! Should you get lost along the way, here is the blog hop order.
Norine Borys
