Hey Crafty People
Today we are celebrating with an Altenew NEW Year-End Celebration Collection Release Blog Hop & Giveaway! 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!
Whimsical Floral Frames
I love the whimsical style of these Daisies, and I cut each piece from different cardstocks that I have in my stash. (I didn’t have two coordinating teal cardstocks, so I cut both layers from the same colour and darkened one layer with a C1 Copic. This is just enough to darken it without altering the colour too much.)
I added a matte gold postage frame die cut and a bold, black sentiment courtesy of my beloved Mega Label Love stamp.
Pastel Rainbow Holiday
This card came together SO FAST! Plus, I absolutely love how it turned out!!!
So i swiped the new Frozen Delights mini ink cubes onto an a2 panel of Neenah 80lb, letting them overlap slightly but keeping to rainbow order so that I didn’t end up with any icky colour surprises.
Once I had filled the left hand side of the panel, I ran it through my Gemini Jr in the Layered Snowflakes 3d Embossing Folder.
The new Fancy Yay die is so much fun and I cut it from some holographic cardstock then stacked it onto two from white heavyweight cardstock. I finished the with a sub sentiment to make this one a holiday card too.
Full disclosure; so I may, or *may not, have needed a whole bunch of Holiday cards, so I may have decided to challenge myself to make Holiday cards out of any & every supply I needed to use. (*I definitely did ??)
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
12/23/2021 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 12/25/2021.
Free Gift
- Get a FREE brand new Year-End Celebration Mini Inspiration Guide with every order from 12/17/2021 through 12/19/2021. Shop HERE!
- Get a FREE brand new Year-End Celebration Stamp & Die Release Inspiration Guide (worth $5.99) with every order of high-value Year-End Celebration Bundles. Shop HERE! *Exclusions apply.
Mixing Floral Elements
I cut one of the Decorative Tags from the same matte gold cardstock that I used in the first card, and stacked it up on top of two white tags. The decorative leaves are really beautiful, but I wanted to add a pop of white, so I used one of the florals from the Flowing Foliage die set (again, I stacked this up two high.)
You might look at these two elements seperately and think that they wouldn’t work together, but the flowing nature of both elements really grounds them together. Plus, each seperate piece is made up of lines that are roughly the same width, which also works to help it seem as though they were made to be together.
TLDR: Don’t be afraid to mix things up and play with pairing different elements together.
the backgriubd is one of the Blends 6×6 papers, and the bow is tied out of some of the gold metallic thread. (Also, it’s not actually a bow, I just wrapped the thread around my fingers, several times, then used another piece to tie around the middle. This gives the illusion of a bow, but with many ‘loops’ that are all equal, which would be incredibly fiddly to do in the traditional method!)
Vellum Is So Cool!
I cut the other tag from 120lb Accent opaque cardstock, and glued a piece of vellum behind the floral cutout. Once the glue was dry I coloured on the back of the vellum with some Copic markers – just one pink and one green marker; no fancy shading required.
The sentiment is from an older mini stamp set that I had in my stash and I stamped it onto the tag in Obsidian ink.
For the background, I just added several strips of the new Gold Stripe Washi tape in a diagonal orientation.
Altenew NEW Year-End Celebration 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 the hop is the INCREDIBLE Tenia Nelson so be sure to head over and see what she has to share with us!!
You should have arrived here from the SUPER talented Terri Koszler however, if not don’t worry! I have the full line up linked below, at the very bottom of the post.
— SUPPLIES —
 MINI MISTI Shop at: Altenew |
 Neenah 80lb Shop at: Altenew |
 Neenah 110lb Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Obsidian Pigment Ink Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Tropical Forest Mini Ink Cubes Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Bone Folder Shop at: Altenew |
 Mega Label Love Shop at: Altenew |
 Foam Adhesive Tape Shop at: Altenew |
 Lovely Ornaments Stamp Shop at: Altenew |
 Layered Snowflakes EF Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Blends 6×6 Paper Pack Shop at: Altenew |
 Gold Foil Pinstripe Washi Tape Shop at: Altenew |
 Satin Masking Tape Shop at: Altenew |
 Decorative Tags Shop at: Altenew |
 Frozen Delights Inks Shop at: Altenew |
 Flowing Foliage Shop at: Altenew |
 Metallic Thread Shop at: Altenew |
 The Best Thing Shop at: Altenew |
— My Basic Supplies That I Use On Every Project —
Affiliate links are usedMINI 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.
Not only are these so pretty, the photography is awesome!
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beautiful creation. thanks for sharing
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lovely thanks for sharing
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Such a great release and I love your projects – especially the last one with the vellum and decorative tag.
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These are all great ideas using these amazing products. Thank you!
A wonderful die collection, love them all! Fabulous ideas Tasha, thanks for the inspiration!
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The pastel holiday card is so pretty!
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Great creations!
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Love the shimmery papers you used! Love the flowers in the first one!
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So beautiful!
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Gorgeous cards! All of them are amazing…
stunning release beautiful card
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Beautiful. I especially like the last 2 cards where you made full size cards with the tags die cuts. So great!
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Gorgeous cards! All of them are amazing…
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I love the YAY! on iridescent cardstock. That sentiment doesn’t need much else!
Thank you! 😀 Me too! I really love that sentiment – I know it will be one of my most reached for!!!
Beautiful designs on all of your cards! I love how you colored the vellum on the last card!
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Great cards showcasing Altenew’s new release. I love stand alone dies.
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Beautiful cards, amazing how different color palettes change the look of the same products
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your cards are gorgeous – so well crafted
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I love all of these, but especially the first two. Divine!
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Way to go Tasha, I love your cards, every one is so cool but different in their own rights. Thanks for sharing & inspiring us! Happy Holidays!
Thank you so much! 😀 It makes me so happy to know that I have inspired! 😀
Beautiful inspiration! Happy Christmas and Joyous New Year to you and yours.
Thank you so much! 😀 Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!! 😀
Love love the Daisy card. Your other projects are fantastic too. Thanks for the inspiration
Beautiful cards! Very creative
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Love the colors you used on those daisy dies, pretty, thx.
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thanks for the ideas…beautiful cards
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Love your inspiration! Beautiful!
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Like the pastel rainbow card
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great cards, love your designs.,
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OMG. That yay! card is my favorite of the whole hop so far. Simple but effective. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you so much! 😀 I’m so glad that I could inspire you!
Pretty projects. so clever to use the die cut flower with the leaf tag!
i love all your backgrounds
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Oh how gorgeous! Love your YAY watercolor card. So light and airy
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I just love your creations. So pretty.
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Beautiful cards and new ideas for me to try! Thank you for the inspo.
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Great project shares. Nice combination for the layers.
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I am usually a traditionalist when it comes to the holidays. However, you may have converted It’s been fun to see your pastel rainbow holdiay card.
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