Altenew March 2015 Blog Hop

Hello Everyone!

EDIT: You can see the winner of the giveaway here.

Today I'm participating Altenew March 2015 Blog Hop to celebrate the release of Dies and Antique Trims. You probably just came from Jocelyn Olson's blog, if not please start from the beginning at Altenew blog and see what other members of Altenew's design team have come up with. 

Within this release, Altenew brings coordinating dies and some lovely trims into their selection. I played a little with my copics, Lacy Scrolls stamps and dies and the new trims from Altenew. 

Stamps and dies used: Lacy Scrolls and coordinating dies, 
Wood Pallet Background and Birthday Greetings.

I started by cutting a circular window mask and then stamped the wood grain from Wood Pallet Background with grey ink. I added a little bit of shading with black ink to get more defined edges. Then I stamped the flowers and leaves from Lacy Scrolls with light lilac (flower) dye ink and light green ink on to a white card stock. I added shading with my new (yey!) copics and die cut the flowers and leaves with the coordinating dies. I adhered the elements onto a card front and stamped the sentiment with black pigment ink from Birthday Greetings.

Stamps and dies used: Lacy Scrolls and coordinating dies,
Wood Pallet Background, Label Love.

Inspiration for this card comes from sauna. Well, sauna is very very important part of Finnish culture and way of living so when I saw the wood grain I immediately thought of sauna. During midsummer, when the sun shines during the night, flowers bloom and fresh scents of early summer are mixing with mist... just sitting and relaxing on your front veranda after sauna. Just love summer! Techniques used in this card are the same as in the first one. 

For the third card, I was inspired by Altenew March Challenge. This month's theme is From places Abroad: Masjid Sheikh Zayed, Abu Dabi. I was drawn into those beautiful, repeated patterns and designs in the photo and used them as my inspiration for this card.

Here is one of the inspiration photos for this
month's Altenew monthly challenge. 

Stamps and dies used: Lacy Scrolls and coordinating dies,
Label Love and new Fenstone Decorative Element.

I started with stamping the flower from Lacy Scrolls with light grey ink onto a white card stock and added shading with my copic markers and a little bit highlight with clear glitter pen. I stamped the curls from the same set and the sentiment from Label Love with Versamark onto a craft card stock and heat embossed using white embossing powder. I adhered all the elements with liquid glue and foam tape onto black card stock. At the end, I added a few golden and white sequins in order to get some details.

Supplies: 1st and 2nd card

Stamps: Lacy Scrolls, Wood Pallet Background, Birthday Greetings, Label Love

Dies: Lacy Scrolls coordinating die set, a circle die - manufacturer unknown

Inks: Memento Lulu Lavender and New Sprout, Black Soot Distress Ink, Versafine Onyx Black and Smoky Grey

Card Stock: Neenah Solar White 80lb, Canson Vivaldi 185g/m2 Black

Copic Markers: RV91, RV93, RV95, YG91, YG95, YG97, W1, W3, W5

Copic Multi-Liner 0.1 and 0.3 Black

Card Base: Papermania A6 300gsm

Supplies: 3rd card

Stamps: Lacy Scrolls, Label Love

Dies: Lacy Scrolls coordinating die set

Card stock: Neenah Solar White 80lb, Canson Vivaldi 185g/m2 Black

Inks: Memento London Fog, Versamark

Copic Markers: W1, W3, W5

Copic Multi-Liner 0.1 and 0.3 Black

White Gelly Roll Pen
Clear Wink of Stella Pen 

Embossing Powder: Opaque Vanilla White by WOW!

Embellishments: Neat and Tangled Pixie Dust Mix- sequins and Fenstone Decorative Element

Card Base: Papermania A6 300gsm

Tools:

Acrylic blocks

Ranger Mini Blending Tool

Paper trimmer

Papermania Basics Heat Tool

Tomboy Multi Liquid Glue

Scotch ATG & tape

GIVEAWAY:

To celebrate this release, Altenew will draw three winners who will each receive a $30 gift certificate to their online store. Please leave a comment on the Altenew blog by Friday, March 20 11:59pm EST in order to have a chance to win. The winners will be announced on Saturday, March 21. 

And there is more! I will randomly choose a winner from comments left on this post and the prize will be $30 gift certificate to Altenew online store. Please leave a comment on this post by Friday, March 20 11:59pm EST for a chance to win. I will announce the winner here at my blog on Saturday, March 21. 

GET HOPPING!

Your next stop will be very talented Yana Smakula. If you encounter a broken link, please go back to Altenew Blog.

I hope you have fun! See you soon!

Marika