Altenew 5th Anniversary Blog Hop Day 4 + Giveaway

Hello and welcome to Altenew 5th Anniversary Blog Hop Day4!

If you arrived here from Anna Komenda's blog, you're right on track. If you want to start from the beginning of the blog hop, please head on over to Altenew Card Blog!

Huge Congratulations to Altenew! Thank you so much for being so awesome !!! It's so exciting to be part of this amazing blog hop, celebrating Altenew's 5th Anniversary with so many talented fellow crafters whom I admire!!!

I love Altenew's monthly Build-A-Flower series. I was so lucky to be invited to introduce Altenew's very first BAF-Camellia and since then I'm in love with this monthly beauty.

For today I chose my favorite Build-A-Flower stamp sets and colored the florals using colored pencils in botanical art style. So I focused more on coloring than the background or embellishment.

My first card is featuring Build-A-Flower: Cattleya set.

I stamped the cattleya image on Toned Gray paper in a pigment white ink. I then colored the gorgeous orchid flowers using Luminance colored pencils. I've been wanting these pencils for so long and recently I finally could get them. They are great to use on colored papers thanks to the opaque covering. 

I searched for some colors of cattleya orchid flowers on Pinterest and chose the coral-light blue-light green combination for my flowers. To make the image pop, I added dark background in payne's gray and prussian blue. I also ink blended the diagonal corners of the panel in white pigment ink to add more contrast. I then let the panel dry.

After the white pigment ink was completely dry, I white heat embossed the sentiment from One Day at a Time stamp set from March release on the colored panel using Pure White Crisp embossing powder.  I cut the panel and foam mounted it on a dark gray cardbase.

My next card is showcasing the Build-A-Flower: Anemone .

I stamped two anemone flowers on a Bristol Smooth paper in Pink Diamond and the leaves in Bamboo. I colored one flower in pink and the other in purple using Polychromos and Prismacolor pencils, drew the stems of the flowers and colored the leaves.

I chose an easy way to color the stamen. I stamped the stamen stamp from the set in Maple Yellow and added a little bit of darker yellow shades using colored pencils. After the coloring was done, I gold heat embossed the sentiment from the same set on the panel.

My first plan was to add the panel on the cardbase as it is, but I changed my mind and ink blended Bamboo and Parrot on the bottom edge of the panel. I left this card also without any embellishment like the first one.

That's it from my side for today! Hope you liked looking my cards.

PROMOTION

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PRIZES

Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners and one Altenew Academy class to 10 lucky winners. There are also 14 awesome companies/crafty friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:

• Altenew: 5 $50 Altenew Gift Certificates
• Altenew Academy: 10 Class Spots
• Jennifer McGuire Ink: 2 $100 Altenew Gift Certificates
• My Sweet Petunia: 1 Prize Bundle(Original MISTI, a set of Creative Corners, a Cut-Align and a bar magnet)
• Pretty Pink Posh: 2 $50 Gift Certificates
• Simon Says Stamp: $50 Gift Certificate
• Scrapbook.com: $50 Gift Certificate
• Ellen Hutson LLC: $30 Gift Certificate
• Blitsy: $30 Gift Certificate
• Online Card Classes: 3 Class Spots
• Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 Gift Certificate
• Seven Hills Crafts: £25 Gift Certificate
• Chameleon Art Products: 1 Pack of 5 Chameleon Pens
• Scrapbook & Cards Today: 1 Copy of Scrapbook & Cards Today Spring 2019 Issue
• WOW! Embossing Powder: $20 Gift Certificate
• Simply Cards & Papercraft: 1 Copy of Simply Cards & Papercraft Spring 2019 Issue

Be sure to leave comments by 4/12/2019 for a chance to win! 33 winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Blog on 4/20/2019.

HOP ALONG
The next stop is amazingly talented LauraJane's blog! Below is the complete blog hop list for Day4.

Altenew
Debby Hughes
Lydia Evans
Nina-Marie Trapani
Laurie Willison
Seven Hills Crafts
Gayatri Murali
Hussena Calcuttawala
WOW! Embossing Powder
Yoonsun Hur
Lisa Fonseca
Terri Koszler
Kelly Latevola
Anna Komenda
TaeEun Yoo --> It's me :)!
Laura Jane
Sandra Dietrich

Thank you so much for hopping along with us!
Wishing you a happy and crafty day!

TaeEun

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