Hello crafty friends, happy Thursday!
Welcome to the second day of the Altenew September 2017 Release Blog Hop!! We have 14 brand new stamp sets, 15 new die sets, and re-inkers in September! If you arrived here from Keeway Tsao’s blog you are on the right track!
For my first two cards, I used the Cotton Comfort stamp set along with the Holiday Wishes stamp set.
I love white on kraft! This is one of my favourite colour combinations for Christmas cards. I stamped the large cotton flower from the Cotton Comfort set on kraft card stock in brown pigment ink, coloured it with white polychromos pencil, and then die cut it with the matching die. For the sentiment panel, I heat embossed the sentiment from the Holiday Wishes set in white, stamped cotton flowers randomly using Tea Dye Distress ink, added white ink splatters, ink blended all edges with Vintage Photo Distress ink.
I tied the jingle bells on the cotton flower because it’s a Christmas card! :D
I randomly stamped cotton flowers from the Cotton Comfort set on watercolour paper panel in brown pigment ink, and then watercoloured the panel using Distress inks and a wet paint brush. I added white ink splatters. For the sentiment, I used the Holiday Wishes stamp set.
For my third card, I made a shaker Christmas card using the Night Before Christmas stamp & die set. I stamped cotton flowers from the Cotton Comfort set randomly onto white paper panel using Silver Stone dye ink, then cut a Christmas tree window on the centre of the stamped panel using the Night Before Christmas die. For the ombré stamped tree, I used the Bamboo, Forest Glades, and Evergreen dye inks.
For my last card, I made a watercoloured flower card using brand new Just Because stamp set. It looks gorgeous in my eyes, haha!! I stamped the flower cluster on watercolour paper in black pigment ink, lightly watercoloured the stamped image using watercolour pencils and water brush, and then fussy cut it. I mounted it on the left side of kraft card using foam tape, and then added white ink splatters.
GIVEAWAY 1!
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to THREE lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Scrapbook Blog by Thursday, October 5th at 11:59 pm EDT for a chance to win. The winners will be announced on the Altenew Scrapbook Blog on Saturday, October 7th.
GIVEAWAY 2!
I’m also giving away a $30 gift certificate to one lucky winner! Please leave a comment on this blog post by Thursday, October 5th at 11:59 pm EDT for a chance to win. I’ll announce the winner in this post on Saturday, October 7th.
BLOG HOP LIST:
Your next stop on the hop is super amazing Marika Rahtu. We hope you have all enjoyed our fun and inspirational blog hop!
Altenew Scrapbook Blog
Kristina Werner
Laura Bassen
Erum Tasneem
Agnieszka Malyszek
Kymona Tracey
Virginia Lu
Keeway Tsao
Yoonsun Hur (Me!!)
Marika Rahtu
Reiko Tsuchida
Therese Calvird
Terhi Koskinen
Thank you so much for stopping by. Happy crafting!!
Keep smiling and be blessed! God bless you all!
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Oh my goodness – I love all your cards! So different from what I usually gravitate towards. I am really blown away by your color combos and the use of non-traditional stamps for Christmas cards. Thank you for the inspiration!!! This release really rocks.
All SO very beautiful!! I live in the south so the cotton bolls are special and I love your unique interpretation! Your work is always inspiring!! Julie L, GA
Stunningly beautiful cards, your watercoloring is amazing as is your fussy cutting of the Just Because bouquet!
Every single one of your cards are breathtaking! I couldn’t choose a favorite if my life depended on it! If I was really pushed to choose one I would say that the Just Because card wins by a hair! Thank you for sharing this gorgeous collection of cards with me!
Love the fabulous cards you created, the Just Because and the Cotton Comfort stamp sets are a few of my favourites from this new release! Great card design!
So, so, so lovely. I agree: white on kraft can’t be beat! I do love the elegance of other combinations, but that one is just so natural and lovely. I am also loving the floral on kraft. The soft colors in the flowers are really accented by the background. And…the jingle bells! I may do that with some of my hand-delivered cards! Thanks so much for a week’s worth of inspiration.
I do love the look of craft and white! Amazing cards!
Such beautifully crafted cards, love the floral bouquet on kraft, it’s stunning!!!
Beautiful card with the Cotton Comfort stamps. Thanks!
The kraft with gold is wonderful. The green tree is gorgeous with its gradations of color. The You are special is magical with the white edges not painted. I LOVE how that white looks!
Simply gorgeous cards! So beautiful!
Yoonsun, you always make me embrace my love of neutrals even more… the addition of those darling little gold jingle bells? Magical touch!!! LOve your brown and red combination [always]
I can see myself loving that Cotton set!
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I really like the use of the browns on your first card and the flowers on the last card are beautiful!
I love the non traditional colours and yet the lovely elegant look of your cards.
Such pretty cards, love them all.
Wow, such beautiful cards. I especially love your Cotton Flower card on kraft paper – lovely.
Your cards are lovely. That first cotton card is absolutely my favorite.
Yoonsun, your designs are absolutely STUNNING!!! Oh how I wish you had a YouTube channel so I could see your creative process!! Thank you for sharing inspiration!!!
All your card designs are so gorgeous! I love the look of the white on kraft too, and the card with the Just Because bouquet combines beautifully both a pop of color and the kraft/white look.
Someone has been busy, beautiful cards, beautiful designs!
Beautiful card with the Cotton Comfort stamps. Love your tree cards, also. Beautiful colors and layouts! Thanks!
your “just because” card is so beautifully colored!
Lovely cards.
Fabulous cards! I especially love your cotton ones and the flower one!
I ADORE your beautiful creation, you are truly versatile and very creative!
So much talent… always love to see what you’ve created….I love the cotton stamps and dies so much.
I love how you used the cotton boll flowers…gorgeous! They make wonderful Christmas cards – who knew? (well, apparently YOU did!!). Thanks for the inspiration!
Love the just because card! So beautifully colored.
Beautiful cards. I especially love the brown one. I love the vintage feel.
I wasn’t sure about the cotton stamp set, but seeing what you did with it, making it the focus of one card, the background in two other, both subltle and bold, has really opened my eyes to it. Great creativity.
Great cards!
What a bunch of Gorgeous cards!!
All of your projects are sooo pretty! Love the cotton set.
What a beautiful cards, nice colours. I love the first one with the Cotton stamp.
Really gorgeous cards. Love how you used the cotton comfort stamp. Thanks for sharing…
Awesome uses of the cotton stamp! I especially love the first card and your addition of the little jingle bells.
Your cards are lovely! This is another wonderful release with such amazing variety. My favourites are the Winter Rose and Just Because stamp sets!
Your three Christmas cards using the Cotton Comfort stamp are drop-dead GORGEOUS! You have certainly shown how versatile this set can be.
These are soooo gorgeous and delicate !
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Really beautiful all of them. My favs are the one in red and “You’re special”
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The card made with the Just Because stamp set is my favorite–absolutely lovely.
Just Because is certainly the hit of the day and my favorite of the release.
Very pretty
Amazing cards, I love the cotton bolls.
All of your projects are amazing and inspiring. Thanks for sharing
These are great. I love that you used non traditional Christmas colors on the first one.
Amazing cards as usual :) this is a great release yet again.
aww Yoonsun I love all your work, the elegance of the tone on tone of the first and the colorful wreath adn everything in between is just awesome