Celebrating the Altenew 10th Anniversary Blog Hop!
Hi friends! We’re delighted to join in the celebration of Altenew’s 10th anniversary with this special blog post! If you’ve come from CraftStash, you’re in the right place! Please join me in welcoming Caly Person as a guest writer on our blog today to share her special make in honor of Altenew’s milestone!
My card today uses the latest Craft Your Life Project Kit. The Splendid Bouquet project kit comes with a stamp, die, stencil set, and 3D embossing folder. I’m going to use it all! Anytime I stamp and stencil, I emboss the image. I stamp with a crisp black pigment ink and seal that ink by embossing it with a clear embossing powder. That keeps a crisp outline that won’t dull with ink-blending.
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Next, I ink-blended the image using the stencil set. There are 5 stencils so it took some time, but I love the thoughtful way each layer lends to details that bring this image to life.
Since I die-cut the image before ink-blending, the next step was to use the embossing folder. I lined up the image, closed the embossing folder and ran it through my die-cutting machine. The 3D-embossed image just takes it up a notch with its wonderful texture.
For the background, I used the same colors I used on my flowers to ink-blend a soft color gradient from corner to corner. I also splattered it with some watered-down pink dye ink. I smooshed the pink ink pad onto my glass mat, added a few droplets of water and mixed it with a brush to splatter. After attaching the image over the background, I added an embossed sentiment. To finish, I added a few Altenew Clear Enamel Dots. I hope you enjoyed this project! Thanks so much for visiting today! ~Caly
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Thanks for stopping by, and thanks to Caly for this gorgeous inspiration! Your next stop on the hop is the amazing SathyaKala Sankaran!
Art Journaling with Shari Carroll: Two Ways to Use Coordinating Stencils
Welcome, everyone!! It’s Shari here with another entry in my circle journal! I’m welcoming Spring with this bold and beautiful Folk Art stamp and stencil set from Hero Arts. Hero Arts are celebrating 50 years in the craft industry! How fabulous is that?! We would like to wish Hero Arts a very Happy Anniversary and Best Wishes for many more years to come!
I’ve used the back of the stencils to get the watercolor effect for the background. Then, I used them as intended for ink blending and coloring the image.
This is the 4th entry I’ve made in this journal, and using these bright colors of Spring makes me happy.
Check out my video below to see how this was created. Enjoy!
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NEW Tim Holtz Sizzix From the Vault Collection
Hi friends! We’re excited to share the second edition of super fun From the Vault Tim Holtz Sizzix dies! Shipping NOW! New to Tim’s Vault series? Learn more about the concept below!
Celebrating 15 years with Sizzix, Tim Holtz is bringing his favorite designs back from the vault and better than ever! The classics have been reimagined with Tim’s creative approach to combine different design elements that all work together. These curated sets feature new sizes and different die technology offering something new both to makers who have the original dies, or makers who missed them the first time around.-Sizzix Marketing Team