Friday, May 7, 2021

Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Buttercup Layering Die Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway


Hi! Hope you are enjoying the blog hop celebrating the release of the Craft-A-Flower: Buttercup. You must have arrived here from Tricia Schaden's blog.

My first instinct was to choose yellow for my buttercups. When I researched the flowers a bit more, I realized that buttercup flowers can also be white, red, orange, pink, etc. So I decided to be really adventurous and use other colors.


Instead of using plain colored cardstock, I opted to use pattern papers from the Wildflower Collection that released earlier this month. You can find the card I made for that release here

First I trimmed the sea-green paper from the 6 x 6-inch pack and die-cut one side with the Creative Edges: Lace die. I adhered some moss green paper to a top folding white card base and popped up my trimmed panel over it with some foam tape. I used the Moss ink and the Sunburst Stencil for a little texture over the panel. I die-cut the flower and bud parts out of different pattern papers from the pack and assembled them. I also inked the bottoms with some Velvet ink. The leaves and the sentiment were cut out of scraps of green paper. 


Once I was satisfied with the arrangement of my die-cuts, I used liquid glue to stick everything in place.  To finish, I added small pearls as flower centers. Here is a look at the completed card.


I really love the way this card turned out. The soft colors remind me of the beautiful Art Deco era.

Shopping:
You can shop for your Craft-A-Flower: Buttercup layering dies set here.



Altenew has also curated a special bundle of dies and papers, available at a discounted price.


If you are a big fan of the Craft-A-Flower series, like me, simply enroll in the monthly subscription plan. o This is a monthly subscription plan for the Craft-A-Flower die set. When signed up, you are guaranteed a spot in the monthly Craft-A-Flower releases and will receive a set each month - at a specially discounted price! ($35.99 →$29.99)




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 05/13/2021 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 05/15/2021.

 

Blog Hop:

The next person in the hop is the talented Helen Kalb. I have included the full list as well for your reference. 

 

Altenew Card Blog

Jaycee Gaspar

Sandhya Iyer

Emily Midgett

LauraJane

Virginia Lu

Terri Koszler

Laurie Willison

Amanda Baldwin

Verity Biddlecombe

Therese Calvird

Linda Westfall

Nathalie DeSousa

Teresa Litchfield

Maryam Perez

Jenny Colacicco

Carol Hintermeier

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Joylita Dsouza

Keren Baker

Michelle Short

Seeka

Tina Smith

Tricia Schaden

Nandini Karmarkar - That's me!

Helen Kalb 

Yoonsun Hur


Love,
Nandini

41 comments:

  1. I am crazy about yellow buttercups, but your card is stunning. This one is a real winner.

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  2. Love this these dies! Also gorgeous with pattern paper like this!

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  3. barbara lassiterMay 7, 2021 at 9:15 PM

    This is gorgeous and using the patterned paper is such a great idea. The flowers are beautiful, plus it uses some of the patterned paper we tend to keep and admire! Lol!

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  4. Really like the pattern paper and also the pinks!

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  5. Such a gorgeous use! tHANKS for the inspiration!

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  6. What an amazing card!!! Beautiful!!!

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  7. Oh how beautiful! I think this is my favorite card from the entire hop --- I just love the colors you used and the fancy die cut edge! So elegant!

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  8. I love everything that's going on in this card and I admire particularly the bold use of patterned paper (which we all have way too much of and never use...)

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  9. I LOVE THE PATTERNED PAPER idea. This looks incredible!

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  10. Ok this is my absolute favorite! I am so loving this!!!!

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  11. Love it. The patterned paper really works.

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  12. Everything about your card speaks to me. I'm a color first person and I love your use of patterned paper for the flowers. The pink & soft blue are amazing together. Well done!

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  13. I love this card! I never would have thought to do anything like this and I love that! Thanks for all the inspiration.

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  14. Gorgeous use of patterned paper! Love it!

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  15. Lovely card, love the choice of patterned paper, adds another design element that makes the card Pop. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  16. OMG! I Love them with pattern paper!

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  17. Marisela Delgado said: Stunning! So beautiful! mariandmonsterd@yahoo.com

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  18. This is definitely one of my favorite cards this hop! Fantastic layers with that beautiful paper of both the petals and leaves. Just a delight to look at, and I would love to make and give a card like this. I can't praise this enough, with the beautiful lace and the entire composition. Perfect!

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  19. Amazing use of decorative papers! This has to be my favorite card!

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  20. Nice use of the pack for the layers. I like the combination with the background and lace trim. Great project idea share!

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  21. Beautiful card. like the color scheme and the complete layout

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  22. I love all the different patterns and textures on your card! It's beautiful!

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  23. Wow!!! The patterned papers gave these flowers so much life!!! Beautiful card!!!

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  24. Cutting the layers out of patterned cs was an amazing idea, and you chose patterns that worked so well with the flowers and leaves. Gotta go check out my stash and see what I can do! Thanks for inspiration.

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  25. I love the pink patterned paper you used for the flowers!

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  26. The flowers are so pretty with that paper you used! And I love your card layout!

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  27. Love the pearls in the center of the flowers

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  28. All I want to say is WOW, I love the card!!

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  29. Love your use of PP for the buttercups. All your details make for a beautiful card. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  30. When I first saw the picture I was impressed by the dimension in the flowers! I was surprised to read that printed cardstock was used! Beautiful

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  31. Beautiful card!! I LOVE the use of PP's for the flowers!!!

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  32. What a unique card. The use of the pattern papers to create the flowers and leaves is an excellent idea..very unique. I like the use of the stencil...adds an extra touch. The use of a die/punch to create the special edge...adds such richness to the card. Very creative, and thank you for inspiring me!

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  33. Ooohhhh...I adore that you made the layered flowers from the design paper!

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  34. So pretty! Love the way you created these beautiful buttercups with the print papers!

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  35. The buttercup details are a showstopper!

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  36. Beautiful card. I love the use of patterned paper to make those lovely buttercups -- genius!

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  37. I never would have thought to use that wonderful pink paper on the buttercup die set; it looks AMAZING!!! SO STUNNING! A brilliant idea to switch it up and really catches the recipient's eye!

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  38. So gorgeous!! I love the effect using patterned paper gives

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  39. Cool idea to use patterned paper!

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  40. Beautiful card!!! I just love the colors

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