Oh my goodness – two Altenew hops in a week – and this is a biggie! I was super excited to see sneaks of this release on the socials featuring Creativation, and today’s the day I can finally show you what I created with the Altenew January 2020 release. Of course, this is part of a blog hop with prizes, stay tuned for details. All of the stops on the hop are at the end of this post if you get lost along the way.
Before I show you my cards, let’s dive into the new release. Isn’t it a veritable smorgasbord of gorgeousness!?
My first card uses a super fun technique. It’s a great one to use with ombre ink sets and quick and easy, and features the Retro Plantines stamp set and co-ordinating dies.
It uses dies to create stencils for ombre repeat pattern cards. I’ve created a video showing you how I created this card which you can see here or over on my YouTube.
I think the look also goes fabulously with the modern stamps in the Retro Plantines stamp set. I used co-ordinating dies to make a stencil, lined it up on my Altenew mat, and ink blended inks over the top. I then moved my DIY stencil to the right two squares, ink blended a slightly darker coloring and moved on. I used the Cherry Blossom inks for this, and Gray Denim to stamp the focal image directly over the top of my ink blending.
To finish, I added a black strip of card stock on foam tape, with a simple and bold white heat embossed sentiment from the Retro Plantines set.
My next card uses some of the Retro Plantines stamps, and mixes it up with the new Vase Fillers stamp set. I stamped and die cut a bunch of the images – the outline leaves from Retro Plantines in black ink, and the solid silhouette florals and leaves using multi color stamping or ombre stamping – inking up each image on my MISTI with more than one color before stamping. For the yellow/pink, I used colors from Pocketful of Sunshine and Cherry Blossom ink sets. For the blue/green, I used colors from the Deep Blue Seas and Green Valley ink sets. I also threw in some Wisteria from the Enchanted Garden ink set with the pink inks.
Once stamped, I die cut them all out and arranged them onto a panel of striped black and white paper from the Altenew Essentials Rock Collection paper pad, and added a few clear sequins. The sentiment is from the new Watercolor Halftone stamp set, which has tons of lovely ones – I heat embossed it in white on black cardstock.
My final card for today ( and I’ll share a few more this week – I made a LOT!) features more of the Watercolor Halftone stampset. I love this set, I think it’s my favorite from the entire release. To create the card, I stamped the small rose leaf cluster in the darkest ink from the Gentleman’s Gray set, over another black and white ombre panel of paper from the Essential Rock Collection paper pad. I also flicked on some acrylic paint, and some Altenew Antique Gold Spray and set it aside to dry.
I stamped one of the bouquets from the Watercolor Halftone set onto gray cardstock and die cut it out with the co-ordinating die, as well as stamping the rose leaf cluster again in black ink onto white cardstock, and die cut them out. I then adhered it to the top of the panel on foam squares, (slotting the white die cut leaves directly behind onto the paper itself for dimension), and trimmed off the excess. The sentiment was heat embossed on black with gold powder, and I finished it off with some gold and black sequins to co-ordinate for a classy, unusual look.
PRIZES
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog by 1/30/2020 for a chance to win.
They’ll also draw a winner to receive a $20 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 2/2/2020.
The full hop list and all the supplies I used are below. Your next stop on the hop is awesome Nicole Picadura!
Have fun!
Jenny x
SUPPLIES
All of the supplies I used are listed below. If you purchase through my links (here or on YouTube) I receive a small amount of compensation which helps me run my blog and channel to bring you more crafty creations! Thank you for your support.
New Release
Other supplies
Hop List
Altenew Card Blog
Erum Tasneem
Nicole Watt
Nathalie DeSousa
Amber Rain Davis
Therese Calvird
LauraJane
Ashlea Cornell
Kelly Griglione
Maryam Perez
Jenny Colacicco <-YOU ARE HERE
Nicole Picadura <-GO HERE NEXT
Jen Schow
Jaycee Gaspar
Altenew Scrapbook Blog
Laurie Willison
Lorilei Murphy
Lydia Evans
Isha Gupta
Virginia Lu
Svitlana Shayevich
Lilith Eeckels
Agnieszka Malyszek
Keeway Tsao
Reiko Tsuchida
Keren Baker
Norine Borys
Emily Midgett
Kymona Tracey
Teri Wilson
Zinia Redo
Sveta Fotinia
Such pretty card designs!
I’m headed to my craft room to try your first example! Thanks for the inspiration!
The ombré look is simple and stunning. Thanks for the idea. What do you do when you want the entire release?
LOL! BUY IT ALL! 🙂
Love the ombre on your cards, especially that last monochromatic card. It’s so pretty!
I love the modern feel to all your cards and I love the dark tones of the last card – so elegant and sleek!
Love the retro plantines cards you have created. thank you
Thanks for the amazing inspiration. I love the ombre card. It is gorgeous!
Lovely projects!
Amazing projects…such incredible creative inspiration!
Absolutely stunning creations!
Every last one of your cards is outstanding. Great job.
Lovely cards! The last one is so very elegant.
WOW… I love your style and the varied techniques you used on your cards. TFS the video. I’ll give it a try!
Awesome cards, Jenny!
Then stencil video was helpful to understand the inking of the card. I like the dark variation of the halftone set.
Great Ombre stamping technique. Love your cards.
I really like your last card. It’s so textured with the different shades of black and gray, and the flowers themselves are textured. Gorgeous!
Thanks for the video on the ombre stencil technique, and for the inspiration!
What a cool stamping technique in the first card! I LOVE them all! Just stunning!
I can’t wait to try your ombre technique on this set from Altenew’s Jan. release!!
So pretty. Love that you used colors that weren’t traditional.
Everything in this release is amazing, love the new dies but it is really hard to avoid falling in love with the stamps too! Thanks for the fabulous inspiration Jenny!
Lovely works – I love everything ombré.
Gorgeous cards and inspiration!! Love your Watercolor halftone especially!! Really stunning!!
Amazing cards. Very nice.
The modern vibe of all your cards for this hop is fabulous, Jen!
My favorite is definitely the layered pink stamping card. So fun! and I like the gray defined stamp to finish the card. I love that retro stamp set. One of my favorite so far!
Very nice. I especially love the second card with the lovely sherbet colors against the charcoal stripes.
Thanks for the inspiration. LOVED the Ombre card!
Already ordered the Retro Plantines! They are so versatile! Love what you did with them!
Beautiful cards. I love your ombre stenciling technique.
These are so lovely 🙂
Wonderful ideas.
Lovely cards, and I am in LOVE with the Retro Plantine set – what a beauty!!
Great work! Love the Ombre!
Beautiful cards. Love that black and gray with the gold splatters.
These are so pretty! Love the new release!
beautiful work – love your arty talents:)
Fabulous cards. Loved the idea of the ombre in the video. Looks stunning.
Dramatic and elegant designs.
Love that you used stencil to create card front. Sooo colorful and beautiful!.
Beautiful cards and I subscribed to your YouTube, really enjoyed your latest video!
Thank you so much!
love that hot pink
Oh so fun!! Ombre stenciling, this I must try!! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful cards! Thanks for the tip on using the die cut negative as a stencil. Fantastic idea!
Love your fun, contemporary style! Great cards!
Awesome cards! I especially like the gray stripes under all the stacked plantines and vase fillers! Lovely!
Beautiful cards, love the ombre look and the last card with the Watercolor Halftone set is my fave. Thanks for sharing this stenciling technique using dies, and for another awesome video. I LOVE this release!
Fabulous cards, loved your video technique, Thanks for sharing.
Oh what striking cards! Beautiful and creative designs – awesome inspiration.
Ooh super pretty!! I love your ombre effects! <3
Great projects! Love the hombre stencil technique and video! Thank you!
These are all beautiful, but I LOVE that last one!! So gorgeous!
Beautiful cards! Love the colors!
Beautiful projects. Thanks for inspiring me today
The half tone set in the black with the gold accents, oh that is marvy! Genius I say. All great cards, but that one is my absolute fav! Thanks for inspiring us!
I love your cards designs and all are beautiful. I must confess that the first card you created using the die to create a stencil is my favorite. That is a wonderful technique and the card is amazing!
Pretty cards. I like your use of grey.