Altenew 6th Anniversary Blog Hop: Clean and Layered Metallic Accents

 

Hello Crafters! 

With everything that is happening outside in the world today it's nice to have something to celebrate don't you think?

Altenew is turning 6! and there's all kinds of celebrations to be had. 

You should have arrived from my amazing friend May's Blog. If not head back to the beginning so you don't miss a thing! 

Altenew is generously giving away a $50 gift certificate to 6 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:

Jennifer McGuire Ink : 1 $100 Altenew gift certificate & 5 Share Handmade Kindness goodie bags($20 each)

My Sweet Petunia : 1 prize bundle(Original MISTI, a set of Creative Corners, a Cut-Align and a bar magnet)

CiLi in Papers : $100 gift certificate

Craft Stash : £75 gift certificate

Amy Tangerine :Your Brightest Year Yet online workshop (valued at $89)

Online Card Classes : 3 class spots

Simon Says Stamp : $50 gift certificate 

Scrapbook.com: $50 gift certificate

Michelle's Cards & Stamp : $50 gift certificate 

Ellen Hutson LLC : $30 gift certificate

Butterfly Reflections Ink : $25 gift certificate 

Scrapbook & Cards Today : 1 copy of Scrapbook & Cards Today Spring 2020 issue 

Bumbleberry Papercrafts :  £25 gift certificate 

Seven Hills Crafts: £25 gift certificate

Be sure to leave comments by 4/12/2020 for a chance to win one of the prizes!

37 winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs

listed below and will be announced on the

Altenew Card Blog on 4/18/2020.

See what I mean, so much goodness!

I wanted to use some of my favorite products from them. 

I really loved the idea of a black and white card with a POP of color. 

How do you make it extra special? 

Add some metallic accents. 

I started with the Pinstripe background stamping in black on white. This is just such a classic stamp. It's versatility is endless and I adore it. Included in the stamp set is also a stamp of random dots that look a little distressed. I decided to use to add some shine to my card. they act almost like sequins or rhinestones to bring the whole design together. 

The flowers were stamped and colored all the same. Keeping the color to scheme to one color let's it really pop off the background. it also keeps the card from getting too busy with all the layering we have going on. Once the coloring was done I got busy die cutting. 

I die cut out all the colored flowers with their matching dies. I also got out some gold glitter paper to die cut one of my crystal frames. This accent adds another pretty pop of gold without competing with the other elements on the card. The frame draws attention to the sentiment but doesn't take anything away from it. 

Speaking of the sentiment, that was some more heat embossing. This time white on black. I did my heat embossing before die cutting the circle to ensure my sentiment was straight. 

Thank you so much for joining us today! 

The next stop on the hop is the wonderful Soraya Maes

See you again soon! 

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