Hi everyone! It is time for a new release from Altenew and this one is so … calming! Honestly it’s the first word that popped in my head when I looked through the goodies when they landed on my doorstep. There’s adventure and travel, and serenity baked throughout my cards today, as well as some brilliant sentiments and I can’t wait to share them! Today’s post is part of a blog hop. If you didn’t land here from Erum’s blog, I’d recommend to head on over to the Altenew blog to start at the top! The full list of hoppers as well as details on the giveaway can be found at the end of the post!
My first two cards features the Mountain Builder Die set. These create dimensional shaded looking mountains of different shapes and are perfect for creating landscape cards. I paired my first with corally cardstock and kraft cardstock, overlaying them onto an A2 panel of the new Dreamy Sunset patterned paper – trying to create a look like that amazing time of day ‘the golden hour’ where the mountains look like they’re on fire! I even tucked a sun behind the hills (using the circle die from the set) lightly edged with Pastel Sunrise dye ink.
I kept the card simple and added this beautiful sentiment in white heat embossing on dark gray. It’s from the new Seas the Day stamp set.
My next card uses the Mountain Builder a little differently – I used the Stellar stamp (the main solid stamp) to create the background by smooshing ink onto it and spritzing with a clear shimmer spray and then stamping onto smooth watercolor cardstock (I have a video coming on this soon). Of course I had to choose all the ‘space’ sounding inks. You can see in places where the stamp created a twinkling star in the sky.
I stamped the ‘moon’ (a planet in the Stellar set) in Silver Lake and Gray Denim ink then die cut it out with the coordinating die. I also die cut out the mountains from two shades of gray cardstock, one of which I stamped this fun sentiment in Obsidian Black ink. I mounted them all on foam tape over the sky.
For my next card I’m featuring the Seas the Day stamp set.
I overlaid the Dreamy Sunset paper onto a notecard, flipping it so it looks almost like a hazy ocean horizon. I then created a scene using the Seas the Day boat stamped in Jet Black ink onto Spicy Yogurt cardstock and die cutting it out, along with one of the birds. I also heat embossed a few of the clouds in white embossing powder, and added a tiny little bit of pale blue Polar Bear ink blending onto the bottom to give more definition to the clouds.
I arranged all the elements onto the panel with foam squares. I also stamped this also awesome sentiment (love this!) directly onto the paper background in Obsidian Black ink. Isn’t this so true!
My final card today (and I have more to share later this week!) features the Mighty Waves 3D Embossing Folder. This card is SO easy, but so impactful because of the wonderful dimension on this folder. I embossed it from a deep teal cardstock trimmed to. 4.25 x 5.5. I then very lightly brushed Antique Gold Pigment ink over the top so it lightly brushed the ‘waves’ in varying intensities. Such a fun effect!
The sentiment is from an older set – Courageous You – but I thought it was so perfect for this folder, don’t they now make you think of active protons bouncing around?! I embossed. it in gold embossing powder on a strip of Jet Black cardstock and popped it up on foam tape to finish.
Giveaway
$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 06/09/2021 for a chance to win.
Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 06/11/2021.
Your next stop on the hop is the fabulous Norine!
Jenny x
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Full Hop LIst
- Altenew Blog
- Terri Koszler
- Erum Tasneem
- Jenny Colacicco >>>YOU ARE HERE!
- Norine Borys >>>GO HERE NEXT!
- Vicky Papaioannou
- Jaycee Gaspar
- Seeka
- Amber Rain Davis
- Erin Thompson
- Tenia Nelson
- Natasha Davies
- Bridget Casey
- Karen Brown
- Laurie Willison
- Kelly Griglione
- Agnieszka Małyszek
- LauraJane
- Lilith Eeckels
- Maryam Perez
- Carol Hintermeier
- Therese Calvird
- Amanda Baldwin
- Verity Biddlecombe
- Emily Midgett
- Raquel Bowman
- Sande Woodson
- Nicole Watt
- Anna Mahtani
- Virginia Lu
- Sandhya Iyer
- Michelle Short
- Nathalie DeSousa
- Keren Baker
- Reiko Tsuchida
- Patricia Roebuck
- Mindy Eggen
- Kymona Tracey
- Laura Bassen
- Tania Ahmed
- Zinia Redo
- Vicki Finger
- Joylita Dsouza
- Preeti Chandran
How striking these cards are
Love the sailboat card, reminds me of my Dad☹️
Great cards. Makes masculine cards easier!!!
I absolutely must have the sentiment on your third card. That is what travelling does for me every time. I love it!
Love your cards. I like that this release has a lot of products that work with masculine card designs like your designs here. I don’t usually buy patterned paper but after seeing your cards I think there is one set of pattern papers that will be going into my cart. Thanks for all the great inspiration!
Oh my, I’ll go broke getting all these sets! Love everything you made with the Mountain Builder, the embossing folder and the Seas the Day set.
Love your color choices. Your cards are beautiful.
I like your style. Each card is quite different but with great designs with the stamp sets
I like your Mountain builder cards. They remind me of those sand art windows.
Love the gold ink on the embossed images!
Fantastic cards!!! Really wonderful!!! I especially like the first two cards.
I wasn’t interested in the mountains until I saw your use of them. Must have!
Such absolutley wonderful cards-love the masculine lean.
The boat is a great image…I love the idea of getting on a boat and going wherever…
Gorgeous scenes! Love the desert one!
Beautiful cards, great for men especially!
Love these – and the use of older sentiments, may use the proton on for a grad card
Lovely cards! The clouds card is my favourite!
All wonderful cards and I’m seeing perfect for Masculine cards, which I always have a problem creating! These sets would make them easy!
Lovely cards! Love the designs.
I especially love the first card! It reminds of Death Valley. Let me explain; Death Valley is very beautiful. This card reminds me of the worn, polished stone from water erosion coming down from the mountains.
Fantastic cards as always, love the new release and particularly the Let’s Go one, it’s gorgeous!
So pretty.
Such a fun release with lots of possibilities! Glad to see some non-floral subjects and themes that are good for younger card recipients! Love your bold cards!
Great idea shares from the release. I like the folder coloring and the travel set use.
Beautiful selection of cards, lovely designs and I love all of the colors. Nice inspiration!!
Beautiful cards! I really love that awesome embossing folder with the waves design!
Such great inspiration. I can never have too many ideas to try!
Wow, wow, WOW! I am wondering if the Altenew designers are baseball fans? They sure have knocked it out of the park with this release!
Those cards made with the mountain builder just amazing
super cards as usual!!! – love this release esp the EF
Really Beautiful cards!!! Love the embossed waves!!!
Such wonderful, unique cards. Those sentiments are great.
I love the simple lines & use or color! Fabulous cards!
Awesome cards – beautiful and vibrant! I always appreciate your take on new releases.
Clean, sweet and simple!
Love all cards but specially the first 2, so serene. Loved the colour play on all cards, very different.
Great cards! Thanks for sharing.
Cards number 3 and 4 are so beautiful. Both are simple yet dramatic and would make great masculine cards. TFS
I am loving the collection and your creations. I don’t find this release gender specific and I think that is so useful and refreshing!
Wow! Beautiful cards! I love the gold embossing powder on the ocean waves!
Love the background on the card that says “stellar” on it. All your cards are beautiful
Awesome cards!!
What amazing cards. I especially adore the first two.
Stunning 🤩 collection and beautiful cards!
Wow…what beautiful cards you have made! I love all of the scenes you have created but my fave is most definitely the sailboat one. I love how peaceful it is and that sentiment is beautiful!
Such fun cards! I love the mountain/ sun cards best. Great for masculine card giving.
Just gorgeous! Love the gold accented wave card 🌊