Altenew Educators “Favourite Old/New Altenew Stamp” Blog Hop and Linky Party + Giveaway

Next I ink blended a background for my flowers using the large blending tool; I chose the Sea Shore family of inks and made an ombre panel with the ink fading off to white.

It’s so easy to blend a full card panel with the large blending tools and I find that achieving that soft, gradual fade to white is effortless with these!

I added some white shimmery splatter using the Metallic Watercolour Set and set it aside to dry.

I haven’t got the coordinating die, so I fussy cut my vellum flowers and I adhered them to the background panel with tiny dots of glue behind the embossing.

Vellum will show any glue through, so adding it behind the embossing is the perfect way to conceal it.

For my greeting, I stacked up 3x thanks die cuts from the Simple Greetings set, and added some Satin white sequins as accents.

I went back to my tried & true ink swiping for my next card; still keeping to the same colours and an ombre effect. I created swipes of each of the inks, going horizontally across the panel, but adding a wave into it rather than a straight line.

I also added more than one swipe to get more colour onto the stripes than one swipe would afford me.

I used one of the golds from the Metallic Watercolour Set, adding a single stripe across each of my ink swipes.

SUPER simple and easy background idea, and the gold elevates it so much!

This time I embossed the flowers in Gold onto vellum and fussy cut them again.

This time I centred the image more and attached in the same way as before.

I went for a stacked Hello sentiment for this design, and more of the satin white sequins. To be sure that the flowers couldn’t go anywhere, I additionally added dots of glue behind the sentiment and sequins.