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Altenew May 2022 Dreams Come True Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 in total prizes)

Hey Crafty People

Today we are celebrating the Today Is The Day 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!


Stretch & Mix Those Supplies

The gorgeous main image from the new Sentimental Flowers is so beautiful and dainty and I decided to play around with it a little bit. (You can see what I did in the video I’ve got linked below.)

I love the look of alcohol ink coloured images with beautiful metallic embossed lines but I just don’t want to risk my precious markers by colouring onto an embossed image. So I decided to ‘hack’ this a little by stamping out my image in Permanent Black ink, using my MISTI, and then colouring that image in using the Water Garden Artist Markers.

Once coloured, I added the panel back into my MISTI and stamped the image again in embossing ink; this is one of the HUGE benefits to using a tool like MISTI, because as long as you leave the stamp in place you can repeat stamp with confidence that you have perfect placement.
I added Platinum Superfine EP from WOW, and heat set. (I also stamped out one of the sentiments with the same ink and embossed in Platinum.)

Getting the glittered backdrop is easy by tracing around the die and then fussy cutting with a little extra to allow for gluing in place. (You can see this process in my video below.)


Stretch Those Supplies



Altenew Dreams Come True 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 06/09/2022 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 06/11/2022


Floral Canopy

The new Climbing Leaves stamp and die is fabulous because the die allows you to get a beautifully delicate image with lots of open space. (It’s also 6x6inches so it would be great for larger cards too.)

After stamping with Permanent Black and colouring with a variety of green Copic markers, I die cut the panel and trimmed it down to a2 size, then using little pieces of Instant Dimension foam tape I popped the die cut up over a panel of tan cardstock from my stash.

I stamped, coloured & die cut lots of the small floral images from Sentimental Flowers and adhered them across the panel, with a stamped & matted sentiment.

For extra detail, I added small white highlights using a gel pen, then added Satin White sequins.


  • Get a FREE brand new Today is the Day Mini Inspiration Guide with every order from 06/03/2022 through 06/05/2022. Shop HERE!
  • Get a FREE brand new Today is the Day Stamp & Die Release Inspiration Guide Ebook  (worth $5.99) with every order of high-value bundles. Shop HERE! *Exclusions apply.
  • Get a FREE brand new Online Cardmaking Class with every order from the new Today is the Day Stamp & Die Release Collection from 06/03/2022 through 06/09/2022. Shop HERE!

Today Is The Day 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 Reiko Tsuchida

You should have arrived here today, from the super cool Michelle Short.
The full hop order is published on Altenew’s post.


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— SUPPLIES —

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Altenew Obsidian Pigment Ink
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Gilded Glitter Cardstock
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Water Garden Artist Markers
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Alcohol Marker Starter Set
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Dotted Tile Debossing Cover Die
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Satin White Sequins
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Must Have Gel Pen Set
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Permanent Black Crisp Dye Ink
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Climbing Leaves Stamp
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Climbing Leaves die
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Sentimental Flowers stamp
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Sentimental Flowers die
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Neenah 80lb
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Neenah 110lb
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Copic YG41
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Copic YG17
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Copic YG41
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Copic G000
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Pick Up Stick
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Trinity

Reverse Action Tweezers
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Scrapbookcom | SBP

— My Basic Supplies That I Use On Every Project —

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MINI MISTI
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MISTI – Original
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Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
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Neenah 80lb
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Neenah 110lb
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Gemini Jr
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Tim Holtz Trimmer 8.5inch
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Tim Holtz Scissors 7inch
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Tim Holtz Mini Snips 5inch
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Tidy Tray
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Pick Up Stick
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Reverse Action Tweezers
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We R Trim & Scoreboard
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Pressure Tool
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Mini Trimmer
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9.5 inch Shears
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Bone Folder
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Self Healing Mat
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*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.


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