January just flew right by, and here we are with a new Altenew monthly release, blog hop + giveaway. You should be arriving from Dana Joy’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. It’s a long one, so take your time and enjoy the inspiration over the next few days!
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love & friendship
As you might expect with a theme like love & friendship, this month’s release has a lot of love and friendship type sentiments – wedding sentiments, encouragement sentiments, admiration sentiments… And, of course, lots of unique florals. What you won’t find is a lot of “valentine” stuff. I think that’s a good thing as it makes these sets more timeless – with the ability to use them year round instead of just one day.
painted hummingbird
Painted Hummingbird is a mini set that packs a punch! There are two different birds both with coordinating dies and a small thanks sentiment. I had a pretty easy time in creating this repeating pattern – just adding a few pencil lines to keep me on track. (It was easily erased when I was done). Adding in the contrasting lagoon bird going in the opposite direction helped it to really stand out. Of course, some enamel dots always seem to be the right embellishment!
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modern greetings
I absolutely love the sheer size of the Modern Greetings set. it is a 6×8 set with two HUGE main stamps and a great assortment of supporting sentiments. I was able to take all of the gratitude related stamps and line them up in my Misti and do some repeat stamping in this month’s color combo. It was the perfect backdrop for that bold sentiment in black, with a sentiment strip in contrasting Lagoon, along with enamel dots.
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modern birthday
If those huge sentiment stamps weren’t enough, how about a matching faux letterpress folder? You can use it on its own like II did here – pairing it with the Mixed Media inks. Or, you can stamp one of the sentiments from Modern Greetings and then use the coordinating folder to create a faux letterpress look. They match up perfect without difficulty!
tall foliage
Tall Foliage was made for slimlines! But, if you like, you can crop the images and use them for your A2 size projects too. The two floral images are lovely line images that ink and emboss well. There is also a coloring stencil that will help you add just the right shading with zero effort. I chose to gold emboss over this color blended panel, and then used Obsidian Black with the coloring stencil to add a unique look. And, check out that sentiment – so unique and wonderful!
Thank You!
Time is precious and I’m truly grateful that you chose to spend a few minutes of your day here!
I would love to connect with you on Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest where we have the opportunity to share and interact even more!
Now, about that GIVEAWAY…
$300 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 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 02/08/2021 for a chance to win.
Altenew will draw 12 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 02/11/2021.
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Nicole, all your cards are terrific. I do really like that hummingbird image.
I love seeing your creativity flowing … your cards are beautiful …TFS
I love seeing your creativity flowing … your cards are beautiful …TFS … I especially love slimline cards!
Beautiful cards, love the blending on the slimline card. thank you
Oh my gosh!! I love that you made ONE HUMMINGBIRD fly the opposite direction. He doesn’t have to be like everyone else. He is his own birdie. He is free to fly whichever direction he chooses. This is wonderful!!!!
Great cards…I really like the hummingbird pattern stamping.
Love them all but the tall foliage card is my favorite!
Awesome designs as always Nicole, love the bold colors you chose. There are so many wonderful products available with this release is hard to choose favorites, gotta say one can never go wrong with Birthday themed products, love all your cards, thanks for the inspiration!
Gorgeous cards, love this new release!
What stunning cards. I adore the backgrounds you created on them.
Fabulous release. Great card. Thanks for sharing.
I love the humming birds
I love your colorful hummingbirds. Always great colors in your cards.
Ombré hummingbird background card is incredible!!! Just stunning 🙂
I like the longer card. Nice blend and color use. Great look!
I LOVE the warm colors you used! All are bright and beautiful!
So pretty!
All of your cards are awesome! I love the vibrant color choices! Thanks for sharing
Four different styles. Four great cards. The last one is my favorite. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful cards! Love that last slimline with that gorgeous blending and gold embossing! Gorgeous!
Great cards. I like your hummingbird and the tall foliage cards the best, .the ink blended background on the tall foliage card is amazing.
So many wonderful and eye-catching cards! Great designs and colours! Thanks so much for the great inspiration! Stay safe! 🙂
My favorite is your slimline card. Such beautiful sunset background
I was thinking how you took this release in a totally different directions that was so soft and pretty…then I got to you last card and that is just stunning!
The Tall Foliage in gold embossing powder is really pretty. Did you use the stamp or did you stencil it?
I heat embossed the stamp in gold, then used black with the coloring stencils. So, both!
Lovely cards.
Beautiful! I especially like the tall foliage stamp. So elegant and can be used in so many ways.
I immediately ordered the embossing folders. Altenew’s 3-D embossing folders are amazing!
Love the cards. The humming birds are a nice set and new look. have it on my wish list. Your card showcasing this little fella is bright and cheerful.
So Beautiful cards. I Love the birds stamp card most.
Thanks for the inspiration ❤
Regards,
Miftail Ahmed.
The gold embossed tall foliage is stunning with that blended background. I also really like your simple hummingbird card. Such a clean layout and appealing colors. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love your cards! Love what you did with the hummingbirds!! So clever!
Beautiful cards. Thanks for sharing
Wonderful cards! The colors are great and your blending is amazing.
Lovely cards and very creative. I particularly like the tall foliage card – it is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing your amazing talent and ideas with us. 🙂
So pretty! 🙂
I love your card using the tall foliage stamp! The colours for the ink blending is fantastic
Such vibrant colors! Tropical beauty.
I LOVE all your cards! They are so beautiful! Love what you did with the gratitude card- the sentiments stamped as a background. So clever! Thanks for sharing!
Your slimline card has almost an Asian art fee to it. Very exotic. The background color blending is gorgeous as well.
The hummingbird card is my favourite – great color combos:)
Awesome cards! I love the colors on the slimline- the gold foliage looks stunning!
Beautiful cards. My favorite of this release is the tall foliage and I love how you made your card. Thanks so much for the inspiration!!!
Pretty designs for your cards! Love the hummingbirds!
Beautiful cards!
My favorite is the Tall Foliage card, wonderful job with the ink blending!
Thanks for sharing.
Nice cards.. I love the hummingbirds.
You cards are great…love that ‘simple’ color blending’, stamping and embossing can create wonderful cards….Proving it does not take a ton of supplies to create a moving card.
Your slim line card is amazing! So beautiful. All the cards are great
These are so good! I love that one little renegade hummingbird.
Great design with the hummingbirds. And great background blending for the beautiful tall leaves.
Nice cards. Happy Birthday is my favorite.