Hey Crafty People
Today we are celebrating the Folktales & Stories collection release with a super fun blog hop! I will have the person you should head over to next at the bottom of this post. Or you can head over to Altenew’s post to start from the beginning.
The hop will be packed full of awesome inspiration using the products in this release! If you’re already in love with what you’ve seen you can head over to the new collection page here!
I will have links for the individual products that I’ve used below!
Geometric Free-Range Stamping
I loved this stamp set as soon as I saw it, and I just knew I wanted to create fun, vibrant backgrounds! The stamp set consists of a large square stamp which gives you the outline of the design, then you get lots of smaller stamps that you can use to fill in the image. So you really get to create whatever look you want using as many or as few of the stamps & ink colours as you’d like!
This was the perfect opportunity to get a little free-range stamping practice – a.k.a stamping with an acrylic block. I’m sharing some of my best tips for free range stamping with confidence over on my YouTube. (Check out the link below.)
Altenew Folktales & Stories Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway
$300 in total prizes!
$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 03/10/2022 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 03/12/2022
Changing Up The Layout
I decided to create two cards with the panel that I stamped in my video and this design was definitely inspired by the wonderful Jennifer McGuire.
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No Colour Needed
You don’t have to go bright and bold with the Geometric Botany set; here I stamped the outline design in a pale grey onto an a2 panel of Neenah 80lb to give me a soft & subtle background.
The two leaves are from the new Rosy Blooms stamp set; I stamped them in embossing ink and added gold embossing powder. Once heat set, I die cut them and positioned them on the panel, along with the sentiment band on some Instant Dimension Foam Tape. (The sentiment is from the Rosy Blooms stamp set too, and I stamped it in Obsidian.)
Light & Airy Watercolour
The floral image from the Endless Florescence set really is an absolutely HUGE image! I have it stamped onto an a2 panel of watercolour cardstock here, and as you can see the whole image doesn’t fit on.
Once I heat set the Obsidian ink, I added some light colour using a wet in wet technique. That just means that I wet the image first with clean, clear water and then added my pigment into that. (Using several Crisp Dye Inks, which I just smooshed onto a glass mat and then picked up with a watercolour brush.) I didn’t want to get a vibrant colour down because I wanted to give a base colour and then add details with colouring pencils. I really like the finished look that gives, plus it’s such a calm & relaxing technique.
Fairytales & Stories Collection Release Blog Hop
Don’t forget to leave a comment to be entered into the Giveaway; I’d love to know which of the cards I made for this release is your favourite?
Next up, on this month’s hop is the lovely Svitlana Shayevich!
You should have arrived here today, from the super cool Reiko Tsichida but if not, and you want to see the whole hop order then I have the full line up linked below, at the very bottom of the post.
— SUPPLIES —
 Altenew Obsidian Pigment Ink Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Sea Shore Mini Ink Cubes Shop at: Altenew |
 Red Sunset Inks Shop at: Altenew |
 Green Meadows Inks Shop at: Altenew |
 Cherry Blossom ink Shop at: Altenew |
 Gentleman’s Grey Shop at: Altenew |
 Pocketful Of Sunshine Shop at: Altenew |
 Warm & Cosy ink cubes Shop at: Altenew |
 Fine Mister Shop at: Altenew |
 Tiny Sentiments Hello Stamp Set Shop at: Altenew |
 Tiny Sentiments Hello Die Set Shop at: Altenew |
 Endless Florescence Stamp Shop at: Altenew |
 Geometric Botany Shop at: Altenew |
 Rosy Blooms Stamp Shop at: Altenew |
 Rosy Blooms Die Shop at: Altenew |
 WOW Ultra Slow Drying Ink Pad Shop at: WOWUK | WOWUSA |
 WOW Gold Rich Shop at: WOWUK | WOWUSA |
 WOW Dual Speed Heat Tool Shop at: WOWUK | WOWUSA |
— My Basic Supplies That I Use On Every Project —
Affiliate links are used MINI MISTI Shop at: Scrapbookcom | PBP | SBP | Trinity |
 MISTI – Original Shop at: Scrapbookcom | PBP | SBP |
 Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive Shop at: Scrapbookcom | SBP |
 Gemini Jr Shop at: Scrapbookcom |
 Tim Holtz Trimmer 8.5inch Shop at: Scrapbookcom |
 Tim Holtz Scissors 7inch Shop at: Scrapbookcom |
 Tim Holtz Mini Snips 5inch Shop at: Scrapbookcom |
 Tidy Tray Shop at: Trinity |
 Pick Up Stick Shop at: Trinity |
 Reverse Action Tweezers Shop at: Scrapbookcom | SBP |
 We R Trim & Scoreboard Shop at: Scrapbookcom |
 Pressure Tool Shop at: Trinity |
*Affiliate links are used, where available; this means that I may get a small commission if you purchase using one of these links, at no extra cost at all to yourself. A huge thank you goes to anyone who does purchase using my links, it is so highly appreciated.
Altenew Vintage Galore Collection Release Blog Hop
Natasha Davies <— You’re Here! 🙂
Love all your cards, especially the soft look of the last one. Thank you for the tips on freestyle stamping in the video. For those of us who came to card making through die cutting, they are very helpful.
Thanks so much! 😀
And I’m so glad that you found it helpful! That makes me very happy! 😀
Love the subtle leaves on the geometric background
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Lovely!!
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Beautiful cards! I LOVE the backgrounds!
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Great cards! I love the stencling so that stencil has to go in my Cart tonight!
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I’m loving the Geometric Botany stamp set!
Yes, it’s fabulous isn’t it?! 😀
Wonderful cards!
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Great cards!
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Love all your cards . the last one is beautiful… great job and tyfs 🙂
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Lovely cards!
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Love the geometric botany background. Your cards are lovely.
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Your blog is rather confusing to be honest. But your art is AMAZING. Thanks for the wonderful Altenew inspirations.
Thank you 🙂
I’m curious though, please could you tell me why it is confusing? Maybe this is something that I could change?!
Thanks you!
These projects are beautiful. I love the colors and variations on the Free Range Geometric stamping cards.
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Beautiful card, Natasha!
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These are beautiful!
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Wow, what a bunch of fabulous cards!!
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I love floral cards, always, so it is difficult to choose a favorite, but I will say No Color Needed because you showed me a new idea: pale ink for a subtle all-over background with stand-out foreground images. Thank you!
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Fantastic cards. The first card is my favorite.
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Great video! I love your ideas using a busy background! Fabulous cards!
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Nice project shares. I like the idea for changing the layout.
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So cute cards.
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Geometric Botany for the win!
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I am mesmerized by the Geometric Botany image. Just love your colored design!
Thanks so much! 😀