Altenew Craft A Flower Cosmos

 I wanted to make some thank you cards recently so I used the new addition to the Craft A Flower range from Altenew the Cosmos. This is a layering die and I used the tonal paper packs Altenew do for the flowers and leaves and some scrap card for the centers. The background is one of their stencils and I blended some of the lightest ink from the Red Cosmos ink collection. Finished off with a sentiment and some gems. I kept it all flat as I was posting. 

Products Used:

Altenew Craft A Flower Cosmos die set

Altenew Gradient Cardstock Red Cosmos and Green Meadow

Altenew Frosty Pink ink

Altenew Watercolour Stripes Stencil

Clearly Besotted Fancy Saying stamp set

Gems from stash

Yellow card from stash

Sizzix Floral Layers die series

 Back again with another card made using the Floral Layers die from Sizzix. This time it was cut from a paper pad using different tones of Pinks and Greens. I backed it with a Altenew die mounted on some Kraft card and added a sentiment. 

Products Used:

Sizzix Floral Layers die

Altenew Watercolor Stripes die

Crafters Companion 12x12 Sunflower Tones and Warm Tones pad

Sweet Dixie Double Sayings stamp set

Kraft Card from stash

Lisa Horton Postage Slim dies

 Good moring, today I have the third card from a recent kit using the Sizzix Floral Layers die. This time I went with a landscape DL sized card. Slimline cards are really trendy now but the american slimline dies are not the same as our DL size. Lisa Horton has brought out a range of different edged DL slimline dies and this one is the Nested Postage set with apertures. For this card I just used the outside edge and the stitched inner one. I had some fabric looking card I brought at a show years ago, so I teamed that up with some Kraft card. Again I die cut the flowers in White card and inked them all in different shades of Pinks,Greens and yellows. Its finished off with a sentiment from Creative Expressions . I have another card I will be posting soon using the apertures, but I need to wait for the recipients to get it in the post before I blog it .  

Products used:

Sizzix Floral Layers die

Lisa Horton Nested Postage Slims dies with apertures

Altenew Inks Coral Berry, Ruby Red, Bamboo, Parrot, Citrus Burst

Creative Expressions Birthday Wishes die set

Creative Crafting World DL card blanks 

Sympathy card

 I needed to make a sympathy card at the weekend. When I have set up all the Altenew layering stamps from a particular set I tend to stamp lots in different colours. It's just easier, you have gone to all the effort of matching it all up, so do lots of different colourways before you clean the stamps and put them away. I then keep them in a folder until I need them. I always do some in grey tones as I know they would be useful for sympathy cards. I love this stamp set its called Floral Art and the black leaves comes from Wallpaper Art. I used two of the grey inks for the flowers and the lightest one for blending in the background. The sentiment is from an old Paula Pascual set. I added a few Nuvo drops to finish.

Products used:

Altenew Floral and Wallpaper Art stamp sets

Presscut Stitched Rectangle die

Paula Pascual Extra Large Everyday Sentiments

Altenew Inks: Limescale and Silver Stone 

Nuvo Oyster Grey 

Altenew Peony Dream

 Happy Sunday, I hope you are enjoying the bank holiday weekend. Not sure what's happening with the weather as its blimin freezing, looking forward to the hot weather returning next month. Today's card uses quite autumnal colours, although it wasn't planned as I made it weeks ago. I dug out some different tones of orange and green card and made the flower up using the Peony die. The background is a Altenew stencil and I found a splatter stamp in my stash to make the dots. Finished off with a sentiment and some more orange card as a mat on the back. 

Products used:

Altenew Peony Dream die

Altenew Classy Stripes stencil 

Altenew Birthday Builder

Altenew inks Firebrick and Rouge 

cardstock from stash 

Splatter stamp from stash 

Balloon card

 Something abit different for today's card. My aunt was 90 on sunday, so I made this stand up balloon card. I was inspired by a friends card. We both loved some stamps that have come out from the Greetery, which is a relatively new US stamp company. Unfortunately, they arent in a position to trade in UK yet so we looked at stamps in our stash to try and come up with something similar. The balloon dies are from Sue Wilson and where coloured with distress oxide inks. I then found some very old Paula Pascual stamps, that had tiny flowers on them. If you have any tiny Cardio stamps and want to give it a go, they would work well. I didn't have any patterned paper for the bottom that was suitable to I made my own background using the same stamps. The little white bits are from the waste of a flower die, you could draw them with a white gel pen.

Products used:

Paula Pascual Filled with Flowers stamps ( flowers)

Altenew Peony Bouquet stamps ( tiny leaves)

Sue Wilson Balloon and Itty Bitty bow dies

Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry and Cracked Pistachio

Wood effect paper ( old stash) 

sentiment stamp  ( old stash)

Fine liner Brown pen

Brown cotton 

Nuvo White PVA drops

Tonic Windsor alphabet dies

Altenew Floral Art

 Another Altenew card today using the Floral Art stamp set and dies, teamed with the Dotty Art stamp set. The flower uses the Blush, Rouge and Crimson inks from Altenew. For a change I stamped the "happy" in a colour ink and the "birthday" in Black. The rectangle layer has been die cut with a stitched rectangle die.

Products used:

Altenew Floral Art stamp set and die

Presscut Stitched Rectangle dies

Lawn Fawn Happy Happy Happy stamp set

Altenew Inks Blush, Rouge, Crimson 

Versaclaire Black 

Keep cool it's going to be hot today! 

Altenew and Pink Fresh Studio collaboration Celebrate Us

Altenew have just collaborated with Pink Fresh Studio to celebrate the both of them reaching their 6th year in business. They have designed a range of stamps, dies, papers and embellishments called Celebrate Us. Today's card uses one of the Celebrate flower stamp and die. I have used Altenew inks to colour the flower. The background is one of Altenew big stamps called Faceted Stars. I stamped it with Versamark ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. I then run it through my die cutting machine with a stitched rectangle die from my stash. I took the lightest pink ink and blended part of the rectangle, to make the stamp design show through a little. My card blank is top folding and measures 3 7/8" x 5 3/4"  and I attached the panel with foam pads. The flower was then attached in the middle again with foam pads and I added a die cut and stamped sentiment.

Products used:

Celebrate Us stamp and die

Altenew Faceted Stars Background stamp

Lawn Fawn Happy Happy Happy stamp and die

Altenew Inks : Pink Diamond, Coral Berry, Bamboo and Citrus Burst 

Versaclaire Nocturne ink and Versamark Ink 

Wow clear embossing powder

Stitched Rectangle dies from stash

I hope you are keeping well and staying safe

Altenew Floral Art

Happy Saturday, it's the weekend and the weathers back to be sunny again. I have a card today using the Altenew Floral Art stamp and die set. The background has been foiled using a Spellbinders Glimmer foiling plate in silver. I stamped some of the leaves in pink that come in the set but I added some leaves from the Wallpaper Art set and those are in black. Finished off with a sentiment die cut and birthday stamp that comes in the Simon Says stamp set.

Products used:

Altenew Floral Art, Wallpaper Art stamp and die sets

Altenew Inks in Frosty Pink and Pinkalicious 

Versaclaire Nocturne

Simon Says Happy 3x4 stamp and die set 

Spellbinders Glimmer Silver hot foil

Spellbinders Glimmer foiling plate Modern Lines

Black card from stash 

Peony Dream

Happy Monday, today I have a card using the Altenew die Peony Dream. I used card from my stash to cut each layer and I used foam pads to raise the middle section of the flower. The background die is from my stash and has been cut twice , then glued together instead of using foam pads to raise up. Finished off with a sentiment stamped on some of the lightest card.

Products used:

Altenew Peony Dream dies

Altenew Birthday Builder stamp

Lattice die ( from stash and thrown packaging sorry)

Archival Black ink

Card from stash

Sympathy card

Today's card is one of those you dont want to make, unfortunately I lost my uncle last week , this is the card I sent to the family. I have the Rock collection of inks from Altenew so I went a few of those colours and the Floral Art stamp set from Altenew. I made the frame from two sizes of stitched rectangle dies. Whilst the stamps were out and all lined up I inked and die cut some more images and made a birthday card in a similar layout.

Products used:

Altenew Floral Art stamp and dies

Altenew Limestone, Silver Stone, Industrial Diamond, Mountain Mist and Misty ink ( last two for birthday card)

Archival Black ink

Stampin Up Stitched Rectangle dies

Taylored Expression Simply Strip stamp and die (sympathy card)

Altenew Birthday Builder 

Fabulous Florets

Happy Sunday, hope you are all well and enjoying the weekend. Definitely not sitting outside weather, so I hope you are fitting in some crafting time. I have spent ages this week putting all my finshed cards with envelopes into cello bags and stamping sentiments inside. Taken me forever but its finally done, I need to at least do the sentiments inside as I make them. Today's card I made using some more of the washi tape roll I brought recently. This design of washi is just a geometric frame design and comes in a couple of colourways on the roll. I stuck the frame image onto some white card and using my Cricut spatula I pressed any air holes and creases out so its was nice and smooth. I picked out some matching inks from my Altenew collection and stamped the Fabulous Florets flower stamps and leaves which I finally received recently. This stamp set is from a Altenew collection a few months ago, mine just got held up with everything going on post wise. As the washi tape has a gold element to it I stamped and embossed my flowers and leaves outline stamps with gold embossing powder rather than black ink.  I used some matt gold cardstock for the layer behind and the sentiment strip. Finished off with some Nuvo drops.

Products used:

Pinkfresh Studio Adorable frames washi tape

Altenew Fabulous Florets stamp and die set

Altenew Birthday Builder stamp set

Altenew Blush, Rouge, Bamboo, Parrot, Sunkissed and Orange Cream ink pads

Gold embossing powder

Nuvo Mustard Gold crystal drops

Black Stazon Ink (for sentiment)

Gold card from stash

Pink Fresh Studio Floral Cluster

Hope you are having a great weekend. Today's card is another from the washi tape roll I brought recently. My last post was the wreath design and today's the floral cluster.  The washi tape was attached to some white card and then cut out with the matching die. I have trimmed some off  one side and I picked some cardstock that matches to make the strip. I blended some ink around the edge of the flowers, not showing brilliantly in the photo.  I stamped the sentiment before I attached the flower piece and I have attached with foam pads. Finished off with some Nuvo drops.

Products used:

Pink Fresh Studio Painted Florals Washi Tape, Floral Cluster Die

Stampin Up Fresh Fig cardstock

Stampin Up Blushing Bride Ink

Nuvo Drops Vintage Purple Basil 

Altenew Birthday Builder Stamp set

Birthday Wishes

Hope everyone is doing ok, looks like it's going to be another scorcher! I have been spending sometime in the evenings colouring. I have used this new stamp from Altenew before with watercolours, this time I used the Altenew alcohol pens. They also do striped paper pads and I used the one of the green sheets to match the pens. This is a big stamp so doesn't need much else besides a sentiment.

Products used:

Altenew Statement Flower

Altenew For the Love of Stripes Set A

Altenew Artist Markers Shades of Purple,Tropical Forest and Warm Grey

Memento Black ink

Sweet Dixie Big Sentiments stamp set

Kraft cardstock from stash

Watercolour card

Happy Sunday, hope you all having a lovely weekend. Today's card is made with the new Statement Flower stamp from Altenew. This time I have heat embossed it with clear powder after stamping it with a black pigment ink on watercolour card. I used the Altenew watercolour paints to colour and added a sentiment. I am still practicing with these paints, having previously used the Zig Pens to watercolour. This card is completely flat and measures 5 3/4 x 4 3/4" .

Products used:

Altenew Statement Flower

Altenew Watercolour Paints

Simon Says Happy 3x4 stamp set 

Versaclaire Black ink

Wow Clear embossing powder

Watercolour card from stash  

Altenew Magazine

Today's card uses the stamps, dies and stencil from the new Altenew Magazine. I used the stencil for the background, by blending some ink through one of the leaves and rotating it. I stamped and die cut three of the flowers. I added some of the papers from one of the stripes pad. Finished off with a sentiment strip.

Products used:

Altenew Magazine kit 1 available here 

Altenew Inks Red Sunset collection and Forest Glade ink

Altenew For the Love of Stripes B paper pad 

Taylored Expressions Simple Strips background stamp and die

Fun Folds : Card no. 7

                                                                        

A version of stepper card today, but this time it has a support in the middle to help it stand up better. My card is a Limetree DL adaptable measuring 16 1/2" x 3 7/8". You could use a piece of A3 , Craft Uk that make the most popular card blank packs sell it, link in products used. 

Its scored at: 1 5/8" , 3 1/4", 8 5/8" fold on the 8 5/8" score line and butt the fold up against the left hand side of your score board ( this is just so you can get the rest of the card on your board) carry on scoring at 5 3/8", 6 3/8" and 7 3/8".

Burnish all the remaining folds. The first two folds make the front stepper and the last three score lines make the support in the middle. There is a small tab to stick your tape or wet glue to the bottom of the front panel.

The paper mats are: for the front 3 3/4" x 1 1/4" and for the back 3 3/4" x 5 1/4"

The flower stamps and dies are from the new Altenew Magazine kit. In the kit you get a magazine, papers, a stencil, dies and stamps, for this card I used just the stamps and dies.

I used a Creative Expressions sentiment die , cut three times in black card and layered together. I added some gems as the little dots on top of the i's were so tiny. The papers are from one of the Altenew Stripe pads.

Products used:

Altenew Magazine kit 1 available here

Altenew Cherry Blossom and Green Fields ink sets

Altenew For the Love of Stripes A pad 

Stampin Up So Saffron, Crushed Curry ink

Creative Expressions Birthday Wishes die

Gems from stash 

Craft Uk A3 card available here 

Limetree adaptables available here 

Statement Flower

Good Morning, hope you all had a lovely VE day yesterday. I'm having a break from fun fold cards for a little while. I have sent a few more different ones out to people, but with the post taking a lot longer at moment, I'm not sure if they have them yet. This week I brought one of the new Altenew stamps from their latest release. Its a large stamp and it's called Statement Flower. For this card I used my Zig watercolour pens on watercolour card. It's just been stamped with black pigment ink and definitely worth using a stamp positioner , so you can make sure you get an even stamped image. The background is the watercolour stripes stencil that I have gently blended ink through, but not all over. There is a die for this stamp, I dont have it, but it's easily cut out.  I have put foam pads on back and finished off with a sentiment.

Products used:

Altenew Statement Flower

Altenew Waterbrush stencil

Zig Clean Colour Pens in Yellow, Light Brown and Light Green

Altenew Vanilla Cream Ink 

Versafine Claire Nocturne Ink

Clearly Besotted Say It In Style stamp set

Have a lovely day, weather is gorgeous

Fun Folds: Card no.6

Today's card is very tall and thin, it fits a DL envelope. It's similar to yesterdays card , but this time the stopper is at the top and for a change I used a bow. I had a piece of card that I had foiled and I used that for the middle topper. 

I used some Altenew stamps for the embellishments. The sentiment has also been foiled. My card blank measures 16 1/2" x 3 3/4" and is scored at 8 1/4" and 4 1/8" . If you dont have the Limetree adaptables you can use either some A3 card or you could do it in two pieces and add a tab to attach at bottom of the back. My middle piece is 5 7/8" x 2 3/8" you could make it slightly wider if you wanted. Mine just happens to be the size of my foil stamp. Again I just added a small foam pad under the bow to make the stopper. 

Products used:

Altenew Peony Bouquet stamp set

Altenew Leaf Canopy stamp

Altenew Ink: Forest Glade, Cherry Blossom collection

Creative Expressions Itty Bitty Bow die

Spellbinders Modern Lines and Everyday Sentiments II foiling plates 

Spellbinders Silver Foil

Taylored Expressions Simple Strip die

                                    Craft Sensations Pink Paper Block ( from The Range )

Limetree adaptables 

Stay safe

Fun Folds: Card No. 5

An upside down "Z" card today, using my Orchid Expressions stamp and die set from Papertrey Ink. My cardstock size measures 11" x 4 1/4", scored along the long side at 5 1/2" and 8 1/4" fold as in photo.

The patterned paper sizes are :

5 1/4" x 4 1/8" for the back
2 5/8" x 4 1/8" for the bottom

The flap inside measures:

9" x 2 3/4" ( you can make this wider, I just did it to fit my stamped image) score at 4 1/2"
Mat of white card on front 4 1/4" x 2 5/8"
I stamped my sentiment before I attached it to back.
Stamp a circle sentiment and punch or die cut with circle dies. You could use some patterned paper or a flower to make this stopper. It doesn't have to be a certain size, you just need to remember to only add foam pads to the bottom of the circle.

When you ready to stick together only attach flap part on the back, the front opens up to reveal message. Make sure the foam pad part of the stopper just touches the bottom of the opening flap, then as the card stands it will still hold it in place. Again make sure you burnish score lines well , as this will help it stand up better.

Products used:

Papertrey Ink Orchid Expression stamp and die set

Altenew Frosty Pink, Coral Berry, Ruby Red, Parrot, Olive, Hazelnut and Almond Butter inks

Personal Impressions Essential Circles stamps
Sweet Dixie Double Sayings stamp 

1 3/8 and 1 1/4" circle punches

Stampin Up Old Olive cardstock

Craft Sensations Pink Paper Block ( from The Range )