Hey Crafty People
Today I’m taking part in an Altenew blog hop to celebrate the release of the latest Craft-A-Flower: Peruvian Lily.
If you aren’t familiar with the Craft-A-Flower, it is a monthly, floral layering die set series, and it is available as a subscription service.
In honour of complete transparency, I must admit that I’ve NEVER worked with one of these layering die flowers before!!!
So I thought it would be really helpful to create a video tutorial for how these actually work, and show an accurate representation of the first time I’ve ever worked with them.
To celebrate the release of this latest Craft-A-Flower, Altenew are hosting a fun blog hop, the full list is below but feel free to head over to the Altenew Card Blog to start at the beginning of the hop!
Of course there are prizes to be won along the way!
$200 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 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 6/13/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 06/15/2021.
Layering Your Florals
I decided to start by cutting all of the necessary pieces from Neenah 110lb cardstock; this way I would be able to colour each layer myself and it was also a really good way to get a feel for how the pieces layer together before committing to which colour I wanted them to be.
I coloured the florals using Sea Shore inks using my small and large blending tools, and I added that pop of pink using inks from the Cherry Blossom family. I love the way those teals and pinks look together; it’s a personal favourite of mine.
I used Green Meadows inks to colour the layers of my leaves.
It may seem like a daunting task to begin with, but if you follow the helpful layering guide that comes in the packaging, you can tell where each piece fits in and also, which pieces should be the same colour.
Using 110lb cardstock gave me a really beautiful, and sturdy, floral element; this was what I wanted, but it does mean that the final card, well…she thicc.
For my background I used the new Waffled Diamonds 3d embossing powder from the recent Amazing Adventures release, and I stamped my sentiment in Obsidian ink, which I then embossed in clear. The sentiment stamp is from Hello Hydrangea; which is one of my go to sets for interesting sentiments like this.
You should have arrived to me from the amazing Sande Woodson…
Next up on this hop is the uber talented Anna Mahtani and the full blog hop lineup is at the bottom of this post for your information!
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Natasha Davies <— You are here
Love the old color choices!
Oh my goodness — what a bouquet of gorgeousness! Love the aqua one.
Lovely colors, Tasha!
Teel and hot pink combo looks really pretty.
Since I am very good at layering in general but I find Altenew’s Flower Builder layering stamps and dies super easy to use. I am now able to make amazing cards. Thank you Altenew!
Love the unusual color combo you chose!
Beautiful choice of colors!
Love your color combo. Gorgeous card!
Loving those bright cheerful colors! TFS
Live your design and color combo!
Gorgeous card. I love those beautiful, colorful lilies.
Really like the double blooms and color choices. Cute way to fit it all in.
Absolutely love your cards and the colors you chosen!
I love your color choice!! So bold and happy
Love the aqua and hot pink combination!
Your colors made me smile and the card is wonderful. Thank you for sharing with us.
Great job with colors and layer. Very pretty card.
Beautiful and elegant.
Fantastic cards! Thank you for sharing so many variations to get the creative muses going.
Adorable card I love the colors used!
Absolutely gorgeous!
Beautiful tropical look cards!
Beautiful cards. Love all the colors.
WOW! Your colors are spectacular!!!!!!!!!! What a gorgeous work of art!
Thank you so much!!! ???
So bright and pretty! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful color combo and I’m loving that large sentiment
I LOVE the sentiments from Hello Hydrangea!!!! ?
Thank you ?
Lovely, Natasha. Great colors and layout. Loved the video too!
Thank you ?
Your bright colors look really cool. I like.
Very beautiful! I love the gorgeous colors!
Very striking card!!! I love your colors!!!
Beautiful ??
Love te colors you used for your beautiful flowers!
Oh wow!!! These layers are so exotic looking in color…makes me think of a tropical flower ?
Great color mix for the layers. I like the pop of color. I will check out the video in a bit.
Beautiful card! I love the dimension!
Hi Tasha, Your card is very pretty, I love the coloring and layout. Thanks so much for sharing and inspiration.
So in love with this die set! Thanks for sharing your inspiration. Great card!
I think I can do it…. love this lily and it would be my first purchase from this CAF also. I tried for the bundle, but, it SOLD OUT! I guess if you snooze you loose, right? Great job and TFS
Yeah, I think they do sell out pretty quickly! They’ll have it back in stock though at some point, so hopefully you get your hands on it!!! ?
I honestly was a bit nervous heading into it because I had never tried one, but I had so much fun!!! I’m hooked now, for sure!!! ?
Beautiful Card! I totally love the colors you chose. Definitely eye candy!