It’s time for a new release of Stamps, Dies and all sorts of other goodies! You should be arriving from the awesome Mindy Eggen’s blog. If not, you can track back to the Altenew Card Blog to start at the beginning, or continue around until you loop back here.
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make a statement
This month’s release is full of fabulous stamps, dies, stencils, embellishments and accessories that will help your designs make a statement!
stencils & sequins
The Patchwork Kite stencil will create beautiful, delicate lines filled with any color you can imagine. Go for bold, or go for subtle, or go for a little bit of both like I did! I paired the stencil with some colored pencil detail along with lots of Satin White sequins to accentuate the lines. Of course, Sentiment Strips 2 will be a staple set, so I had to show off three of the sentiments used in tandem on some vellum.
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precious blooms in detail
For my second card, I pulled in the same color scheme, and, again, added in colored pencil detail to really make the blooms pop from the new Precious Blooms Stamp Set. This is a simple one-layer card that really lets the extra detail shine.
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piles of presents
Why not keep the color theme going? Piles of Presents is going to be another staple in your stash. I know I’ll be grabbing it again and again for birthdays, holidays and other celebrations that include gifts! (And, shouldn’t all celebrations include gifts?!) I pulled out some more of these yummy sequins – this time the Satin Gold seemed to be the perfect fit!
adding pencil petail
Let’s add to your Crafter’s Toolbox with a quick tutorial on adding colored pencil detail to stencils and stamps!
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Thanks for sharing your cards and ideas.
I love the gift box card. I need more birthday themed stamps.
Great release! Gorgeous creations, I especially love your Precious Blooms card!
Your PatchWork Kite card is exceptional. One of those hard to think of designs that would work for a man. Thank you!
I love your bold style, it really helps us envision the versatility of these stamp sets!
Wonderful creations, I love your coloring! <3
I love that you used pencils on your cards. Sometimes we forget to use other tools in our supplies. Love your color combinations!
Wow, so many things to put on my wish list!! I love it!
Gorgeous – I love the modern aesthetic and clean look of your cards!
Your CAS style of cards are unique and must try to add dimention with pencils with the stencilling too, thanks for the inspiration and hop !
Thanks for sharing your colouring tips. Great cards!
Love your idea of enhancing stencil with a little pencil work. Very nice!
What great card! I love the colored pencil card. I enjoy working with colored pencil, but haven’t used them in a while. You have inspired me to use them today. Thank you.
Never thought of using colored pencils with my stamps, etc. Thanks for the tips!!
Really liked the effect with colored pencils. I also thought the ‘gift card’ was super cute!!!
Creative inspiration galore!! Beautiful projects!
Lovely cards!
love your style and the designs you created are fabulous
Love your birthday card and the Congratulations card. That one is so different! Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic cards – your designs are fabulous! Love the celebrating you card!
The birthday gifts card is a great masculine option! Cool!!
I love your coloring on the flower and the birthday present card is so fun!
The pencil work was wonderful, something to encourage us to be more creative with our supplies! I loved all your cards! 🙂
Beautiful!
Everything you made was beautiful!
Great projects! I especially love the second card with the colored pencils and that sketchy backgorund!
So unique! Love em! Thanks for sharing your talents with us!
Love your creativity, beautiful projects!
I love what you did with Precious Blooms. I have to get that — love the black lines in the background
I like the details added with the pencils. I like the gift scene.
Love your pencil work. Great idea with stencils and as a finishing tip. Lovely work.
My favorite card is the last one using the pile of presents stamp set. Another great release from Altenew. Thanks for sharing your talents with us.
All of your cards are wonderful! The shading on the Kite Stencil card with the coloured pencil really does give it depth. I’ll have to remember to use my pencils with my inks. It’s really something I’ve never thought of, but it certainly adds to it. I’d have to practice a lot to achieve a good blend though. I am loving this release & my wish list is growing at each hop on this blog.
Awesome cards! Great video, too! It’s amazing how colored pencil can really enhance an image- I need to give that a try!
All very clever designs! Thanks for the inspirations.
What amazing pencil work. I love that element in your projects. I really like the geometry, and clean and simple design. Iam a new fan.
I love your video. Altenew did it again.
Your pencil coloring is amazing!
Wonderful cards!
great coloring techniques with pencil
Oh these are awesome!!! Your color choices are amazing!! I think my favorite is the first card with the stencil and the sequins!!
Love these cards — the colors are beautiful. One of my favorites from this fantastic release is the Precious Blooms set and that card is amazing.
Thank you for showing me how to add the colored pencil to an object. I am fascinated with your technique and have been fairly successful with a past video using lead pencils. All of your cards are great.
Thank you for sharing your video!!! It reminds me of Kathy Racacoosin’s style. But I never knew how she did it. <3<3<3
Thanks for the amazing inspiration! I am totally in love with the new release! Especially the stencils and the gorgeous dies!
Love the precious blooms card – thank you for all your inspiration..
Your cards are amazing! I love the design and color combinations.
Beautiful coloring images. I love all of cards that you have showed here. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful penciling, almost makes me want to give it try…thank you
The little presents are fun!
Awesome cards! Really loving the Piles of Presents set!
Beautiful cards, thanks for sharing.
Love your Precious Blooms card! Fantastic look!
Great inspiration. I especially like the Precious Blooms card. The coloring with pencils is impressive.
Stunning cards! I especially like the Precious Blooms card. The colors really pop!
Fabulous designs Nicole! Love the pencil detail added to your stenciled designs, and those gorgeous Precious Blooms images. Thanks for another fabulous installment of Crafter’s Tool box.
Nicole!!! your pencil coloring is to die for… lovely lovely .. The precious bloom cars is just beautiful and the simplace CAS card with the little presents in blue is such a great card for a lttle boy!!! XOXO
Beautiful cards and love the pencil colouring.
You have been busy creating magical cards. They are awsome.
I love how you added pencil crayons to your stencils, it really makes that background on the first one come to life! Your pencil crayon colouring on the floral is beautiful, you captured so much detail while still creating an artiste look.
Love your wonderful cards. Thank you for the pencil tips. I love to add pencils to my stamps too. The presents card is so precious.
Fantastic and creative designs! I love the sketchy feel and wonderful colors.
Stunning cards!!! I love that you used coloured pencils for added effect and depth!
Such amazing cards! Thanks for sharing your creativity…
Thanks for the video full of tips about adding colored pencil! You know I really didn’t care for the patchwork kite stencil until I saw your card. What a difference adding the colored pencil details made. Love the masculine look you achieved. Thanks for sharing!
How another artist thinks about creating is SO helpful to me! I never thought of combining stencils, ink and PENCILS!! You’ve added another idea to my bucket list.
Great release. Love love love your floral card and the gray and black background simple but amazeballs
Amazing!! I love your coloring with pencils!!
Great job on your cards!
Interesting grey card! So many possiblities! Thank you!
Beautiful cards! Thanks for the tip of adding colored pencil to other mediums. I have a tendency to just use inks and not add detail. I’ll remember that when I think that something is missing from a card.
Love the blues in all your cards. I love the way you shaded the Precious Blooms.
You are a fabulous teacher. I love the content, presentation and the tips. I never thought of using pencils nor did I know how to add the depth to inked stamping using those pencils. I always go away from your videos with at least on nugget of information if not more. THANKS! I enjoy your work immensely.
I love your cards – such different looks but they are all awesome.
Awesome cards! The Bday Gift would be great for men’s cards. So many things I want in this release! Thanks for all the inspiration!
Such an unusual and striking palette! Love it.
How charming! While everything is lovely, I’m really enjoying the birthday card with the Pile of Presents stamps. Thank you for sharing your lovely creations!
I thought when you added the draw lines around that flower image was really nice. I have never done that before. It sure looks like you hand drew the flower now that you added those lines. I would have never even thought of that. I will have to give it a try. Thanks for sharing. I am new to blogging. Tonight is my first night. It is quite fun an informative. I will have to do this more often. I got a lot of extra time of my hands these days to give more things a try. I am new to art new too. So this is very exciting for me. Thanks for putting together this blog. I bet you guys worked so hard on it. It is truly inspiring me. I have made over 109 cards this past week but you have give me much more inspiration to do some more. Maybe I can get another 109 done. I am sending them all over our country to rest homes. If you have any places I can send cards to please let me know. I wanted to actually send some to the nurses and doctors but I wasn’t quite sure how to do that. Do I just pick a hospital and send them to a hospital to get them to the medical staff? I ran across a website that was telling me the addresses that wanted people to send cards to the elderly which is how I got involved in sending out cards to rest homes. But I can’t figure out how to send them to medical staff. Do you know? Thanks a bunch. I hope I win one of these certificates because I want to try some of these products out so bad but can’t really afford to invest right now if you know what I mean.
I love that you incorporated pencil into the stenciling and stamping !
Wow your coloring is phenomenal on these new releases!!. So beautiful.
I hope one day to have mine look this good too.
I love your samples!
Thank you for the colored pencil techniques- I love the lines behind the flowers making it look like you drew the flowers too! Wonderful!
Love what you did with the colored pencils, really brought out detail to the stencil. Interesting video!
Gorgeous! I love the flower card the best!!!
I really appreciate your video as I admire your cards. Creating the stencil card by the shading that you did…clever. I look forward to seeing more of your work.
Like how you used colored pencils on these.
Love how you used the colored pencils for your images. Beautiful projects. Thanks for sharing
Really love the addition of pencil which to me makes it outstanding for a masculine card (minus the flowers maybe… maybe not). Thanks for the inspiration and please be healthy,
Wonderful cards, love the blue and gray color combo.
Beautiful cards! Love this release!
Loved all the cards and ideas – very unusual