Welcome back! There’s another big release with Altenew this month, and we’re here to inspire you with some amazing proejcts! You should be arriving from Vicky Papaioannou’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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a wondrous world
A wondrous world is filled with things that delight the senses – texture, color, shape… this release has all of that and more! Stencils, embossing folders, dies, and embellishments. There’s a little something for everyone!
celebrate – collage style
I’m continuing on with my chosen color combo for the month – Ruby Red, Coral Bliss, Sunkissed & Lagoon, so you’ll be seeing variations on this combo throughout my projects. This first one is a collage of all sorts of great new products from this month, plus an amazing bonus detail!
You should notice the Red Sunset slim washi tape from earlier this month – and, maybe you see the Foiled Marble washi? We’ll talk about that in a minute.
In the forefront, is the new Fancy Celebrate die – add this to your collection of “fancy” dies – which now includes, Celebrate, For You, Peace, Thanks and Hello! The little floral stems behind are from the new Branches and Berries die set, and the enamel dots are from the new Tea Party collection.
Ok, so back to that gorgeous frame… You can see it even better here in the closeup. I covered a piece of white cardstock in the Foiled Marble washi, then, diecut it with the Sweet Friend die, which coordinates with the new Baroque Frame 3D embossing folder. I took the diecut and matched it up to the frame in the embossing folder and ran it through my machine. It is simply stunning and looks like a real marble frame!
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rainbow floral lace
The Floral Lace die will make slimline cards effortless! There are so many ways you can use the die, but I opted for a pretty simple (but stunning) example. I created a rainbow smooshed background on some watercolor cardstock and then diecut the Floral Lace die.
Instead of placing it right on the card base, I diecut a rectangle from the Nesting Slim Rectangle die set to pop it up. I added in a sentiment from Label Love and then added coordinating enamel dots from the new Tea Party and Green Meadows enamel dots sets.
joyful tulips
Why are these tulips so joyful? Well, that’s simple! It’s because they were sooooooo EASY to make!! All you need is the Tulip 3D Embossing Folder, some inks (I used Ruby Red and Sunkissed) and blending brushes. You can have this look in literally a matter of minutes!
I finished off the card with a little watercolor experiment using the Rows of Squares 3D embossing folder, sentiment label from Best Sentiments and some Tea Party enamel dots.
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smooshed modern squares
The Modern Squares 3D Embossing Folder is soooooo amazing! It has amazing depth in all of those little stacked pyramids! The bonus is that you can use it either way – where the pyramids build, or where they sink down. That’s what I did here!
The main panel with the Lagoon watercolor smooshed on it has the pyramids building. Then, I took another piece of embossed watercolor cardstock and added both Sunkissed and Ruby Red to the side where the pyramids sink down. I cut out a whole bunch of the squares and then adhered them to the card. You can see in the detail photo below how cool they look, stacked opposite and popping off the page! A simple sentiment from Best Sentiments is the perfect finishing touch!
Thank You!
Time is precious and I’m truly grateful that you chose to spend a few minutes of your day here!
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Now, about that GIVEAWAY…
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 02/22/2021 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 02/25/2021.
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Wow, fabulous cards, Nicole!
great inspiration here, Nicole. thank you for sharing. so many new products to choose from!!!
Amazing designs Nicole! Love the new Tulip embossing folder and the Florar Lace die. The color combo is striking, thanks for the inspiration!
Did I miss the video? The cards are lovely and certainly inspire me.
Love these cards, especially the modern squares embossing folder…the way you popped up some of the squares to make even more depth is amazing! Thanks for the tutorial!!
So many pretty looks. I like all of the colors…
So pretty, love those embossing folders
Love your card with the floral lace die! Beautiful colors!
I like the light dusting of colour on the tulips embossing folder.
Love the texture and I just want to touch them all
beautiful card. Love the tulips.
Loved the tulips! Great for Spring!
Great cards! Love the tulips.
Gasp! The frames DO have dies to match??? That is wonderful news! Thank you so much for sharing Nicole!
Love the card with the Floral Lace 3D Folder!
Right?! What a brilliant idea to have dies match the embossing folder frames !!!
Beautiful cards! These new 3d folders are so pretty! Love the tulip and that frame… the floral lace die is gorgeous! Thanks for the inspirations!
Your cards are wonderful as is this new release
Your cards are so lovely. I love the floral lace 3D folder- !! Thank you for the inspiration!
Love the diversity in your cards – such a variety of inspiration. Can’t wait to get started creating.
Beautiful work! I like all the different techniques you used!
Beautiful work! I like all the different techniques you used!
Beautiful cards!! I love that tulip embossing folder!
Loved the embossed/die cut frame. So beautiful
Such beautiful work! I absolutely love the tulips card!
My favorite is the tulip card. I am so ready for spring and you captured that beautifully. Thanks for sharing such interesting techniques. I can’t wait to try them.
Beautiful! Loving this new release!
Beautiful! I especially love the Joyful Tulips card. Thank you for sharing.
Lovely cards, love how you colored the tulips, soft and pretty
Beautiful cards. I really like that tulip card- what a cool embossing folder!
Your ‘joyful tulips’ card looks so warm and nice…reminds me of spring …and your collage style card seems like it belongs to ‘mixed media’ rather than a card
Using the marble washi tape for the frame was perfect. Love that ,look. I forget to use my washi tape in that fashion. Thanks for the reminder.
Beautiful projects! Love the 3D embossing folders!
Gorgeous cards, love this release!
Great 3D embossing folders! I really like that fancy celebrate die, it fills the front the perfect amount.
Beautiful cards! Lots of variety in this release!
Love your first card. The card with the frame is so elegant!
I love all of the cards. Just like last month, the washi tape was already sold out when I placed my order. Rats!! I really love the 3D embossing folders.
I love the oranges and blue in the frame. Great video today as well, I am looking forward to using these geometric embossing folders
You have offered one creative idea after another.
Wonderful cards. I love the washi tape on the first one. Love the sentiment on top of the colors of squares also. They are all lovely and so detailed.
The tulips are just gorgeous.
My “must buy” list just got longer….. great cards!
I love the Spring colors used on the embossed flowers on the YOU ARE THE BEST card! Lovely!
I’m so happy to see so many embossing folders and stencils. These are such a great new trend!
Such an interesting way to use the lace die.
Great idea shares for the release. I like the washi frame.
Beautiful cards!
Beautiful cards. Love your card using the tulip embossing folders
Thank you for the inspiration, I’m gonna try watercolors!
Your collage style ‘celebrate’ card looks so mixed-media-ish to me?
Beautiful cards! Loving these 3D embossing folder designs! Love the card you created with the tulips! Awesome colors!
Gorgeous, gorgeous, GORGEOUS! Love your rainbow floral lace, and the bright wonderful colors! Thanks for some great inspiration!
Gotta Love those 3D embossing folders – Just excellent coloring, awesome Tulip card! Thanks, Denise
Holy Cow!! Absolutely wonderful card projects using some of the products in the new release! WOWza!
Great presentation of the new release!
Great cards! Amazing what can be done with just an embossing folder.
Beautiful!
I love your beautiful cards and especially the techniques using the embossing folders.
Stunning cards!!
Love this new release and your cards are simply beautiful!! The tulip embossing folder is calling my name!
Dang girl!! You have some mad skills!!! I love your color combo for the month and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for making that frame!! I had no idea that the die and folder worked together (although now my gotta have it list just got bigger!) The smoosh 3D cut outs and “water color experiment” are so inspiring… and gorgeous <3 Thanks!
The 3D folders are awesome!
Great examples of all the wonderful new supplies! The fact that there is a die that works with an embossing folder is fabulous. I love the frame you created that way.
Love your technique on the tulip embossing folder and the fun colors!
Wow! Fabulous cards! I love the tulips!
Loving the new Altenew release! All of your cards are SO pretty and use the new product fabulously. I especially love your embossed tulips card!!! It might have to come to my craft room to live forever. 😉
Such great card designs…I especially like the one with the embossed tulips!!!
Such gorgeous cards! Love the colors… what a wonderful release from Altenew.
Thanks for sharing.
Oh beautiful cards!
Loving the Washi
and the fancy dies.
Carla from Utah
Wonderful wonderful cards! They are so pretty. I especially like your cards using the tulip embossing folder and the lace die cut.
Great cards. TFS
It was so clever of you to create a marble embossed 3D frame by using the washi tape. Way cool!
Stunning cards, Nicole! I love these new embossing folders with all the gorgeous detail. Love your rainbow die cut Floral Lace! Thanks so much for the wonderful inspiration! Stay safe! 🙂
Beautiful! Great inspiration
gorgeous cards – so creative
Great cards, love all the layers and detail here! Those tulips are gorgeous!
Very creative, thanks for sharing,
Beautiful cards!!
Beautiful cards! Great job!
Beautiful colors and cards!
Your cards are so pretty. I like how you used the embossing folders to color the paper. You are sharing some really nice ideas and I’m thankful for that!
Beautiful cards Nicole, love them!
Beautiful cards!
The tulip card is gorgeous, but that frame… WOW! Thank you for the great idea
Beautiful cards.. I love the tulips one especially.
That 3D frame is amazing
Love the tulip embossing and the inked lace die. Very pretty!
Really like the abstract Modern Squares 3D card. All beautiful for sure. Such a great release.
Love the Celebrate die!! and your tulip card is beautiful
The blending brushes give a lovely, soft finish to the embossed card. Love it!
Love all of your cards.
Love love love the colors. Thank you.
Wow—your cards are beautiful! This release is sooo versatile. I can’t help but want it all!!! 😉
Wonderful use of color! The embossing folders are the bomb!
Nicole, I’m really loving this month’s color palette. It reminds me of Hawaiian sunsets. I might have to case this project. 😉
I just bought the tulip embossing folder! Thank you for the inspiration on how to use it! ❤️
Fantastic cards!
My favorite is the Tulips , just beautiful!
Thanks for the inspiration, I really love all of the 3 D embossing folders in this new release!
The tulip embossing folder is so beautiful! A must-have for Mother’s Day cards! Thanks for sharing!
I just love those warm sunset colors you used on the tulip embossing folder and the lace die!
I’m loving your colour combo. It looks stunning on the lace die cut! Love your creativity.
Wow. So many great cards. Great idea to use washi tape with the baroque frame embossing folder. Great to know that coordinates with the Sweet friend die as well. Thanks for sharing your amazing work!
Love the embossed tulips! I have so many embossing folders I really need to start using them with this technique!