Altenew September 2017 Release Blog Hop Day 1 + Giveaway

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Hello, crafty friends! Welcome to the Altenew September 2017 Release Blog Hop Day 1! It's Dana here and I'm so honored hopping along with you today. I hope you are from Lilith's blog, but if not, please check the full blog hop list in the bottom of this post.

*Giveaway 1*
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to THREE lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog by Thursday, October 5th at 11:59 pm EDT for a chance to win. The winners will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog on Saturday, October 7th.

*Giveaway 2*

I'll draw one lucky winner who will receive $30 gift certificate. Winner will be announced on my blog on October 6th.

Ok, it's time to getting to my 6 cards. Let's get started!

[ Altenew With Gratitude Stamp Set ]

To start, I stamped maple leaves from Altenew With Gratitude Stamp Set onto white card stock using various dye inks. I firstly applied inks to solid stamp using mini daubers and then stamped it on the paper and repeated this process to another layer, too. Line stamps are gold heat embossed on vellum. I then die cut all my leaves using Altenew With Gratitude Die.

I stamped sentiment from same stamp set onto beige card stock and cut it like tag shape using trimmer and scissor. I slightly sponged distress ink on the bottom of my sentiment tag.

For my background, I stenciled tree ring from Altenew Tree Ring Stencil using texture paste on A2 sized grey card stock. After dried it completely, I ink blended outside the tree ring and edge of the panel using distress inks.

I finished this card off by adding hemp cords and popping up the elements as shown in the picture using foam adhesive.

[ Altenew Just Because Stamp Set ]

In my second card, I featured Altenew Just Because stamp set. This stamp set contains two beautiful flower bouquets and I used bigger one today.

First, I white heat embossed flower bouquet on A2 sized watercolor paper. I then watercolored them with distress inks. I used Seedless preserves, Peacock feather, Broken china and Wild honey. To create more dreamy autumn floral background, I splattered same distress inks with water using paint brush.

I white heat embossed the sentiment from same stamp set and foam mounted it.

To finish, I brushed left side of card and sentiment with gold drawing ink and splattered this gold ink here and there. It's beautifully sparkling and I love the result.

[ Altenew Halftone Stars Stamp Set ]

Yay, another halftone series is revealed! As a fan of halftone stamps from Altenew, I have so much fun time using this Altenew Halftone Stars stamp set and I made 2 cards with it.

For this card, I stamped stars from big to small one using dye inks onto A2 sized white card stock. I traced outlines with some blank space using pencil and ruler. I then colored outside of stars with Altenew Artist Marker S (black). I stamped sentiments from same stamp set with black pigment ink.

Next, I trimmed a piece of woodgrain paper strip and wound it up with bamboo cord. It needed my patience but I love how it turned out perfectly as a part of my own blackboard.

To finish, I mounted star panel and my strip on A2 sized white card base using glue.

My second card using Altenew Halftone Stars stamp set is more easier to make.

I die cut single stars and star frames from silver glittery paper using Altenew Halftone Stars Nesting Die. I stamped one of halftone stars with dye ink and glued it with big star frame.

I then watercolored cloudy background using Peerless watercolor paints and stamped sentiment from same stamp set. I placed my stars where I wanted them and added some beads on a big star as shown in the picture. To finish, I mounted watercolor panel to A2 sized white card base.

[ Altenew Happy Holidays Stamp Set ]

My last project today is holiday cards! These are 4-bar sized cards that I tried for my first time. 3 1/2' X 4 7/8' size is so cute but not too small and I'm in love with them!

Altenew Happy Holidays stamp set consists of holiday sentiments and tiny images and I made my own Christmas tree with them.

I stamped 'season's greetings' sentiment first and then stamped tiny images to triangle shape onto watercolor paper. I then applied watercolor paints from Gansai Tambi over the stamped images. After dried it completely, I splattered white acrylic paints with water to watercolor panel.

To finish, I die cut small star from gold glittery paper using Altenew Halftone Stars Nesting Die and foam mounted it on the top of the tree.

I made next card to graphic style using only sentiments from Altenew Happy Holidays stamp set. Sentiments of brown shade colors are stamped using Altenew Crisp Ink, Caramel Toffee and Paper Bag. I added hemp cord ribbon and mini jingle bell and finished this card off.