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Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Buttercup Layering Die Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

May 7, 2021

Hello and welcome back to my blog!

You know that I LOVE to get inky in my craft room (hence my blog name! LOL) but sometimes it is fun to skip the ink and other mediums and work entirely with paper. Today’s project has absolutely zero stamping or coloring – it is all die cuts and paper which is a fun change!

The Craft-A-Flower series from Altenew is a great starting point for this type of card because it is all about paper piecing and layering cardstocks to create gorgeous detailed florals. Take a look at the beautiful Buttercup flower that is featured in this month’s Craft-a-Flower release – isn’t it so pretty!?

BLOG HOP

This post is part of a Blog Hop to celebrate the CAF release. If you arrived here as you are hopping along, you probably linked over from Tina Smith’s site and have already enjoyed all the eye candy along the hop. You do have a few more stops – don’t forget to link over to Nandini Karmarkar’s blog for even more gorgeous inspiration. Of course if you want to see the entire hop list and start from the beginning, head over to the Altenew Card Blog.

MY CARD PROJECT

I looked up Buttercups online for inspiration and all the photos showed buttery yellow blooms, as the name suggests. Of course you could make this any color you like, but I chose to follow the inspiration photos and use soft shades of cream and yellow cardstocks from my stash for my layered Buttercups.

Following the guide on the packaging, I easily assembled the blooms to create a few flowers and buds. I curled and popped up the forward most petal on each bloom for extra dimension. Then I die cut the leaf clusters from two different shades of green cardstock and arranged them around my blooms.

For my background I used the Gradient Stripes cover die cut from dark gray cardstock and layered it over lighter gray panel for a tone on tone background.

I wanted a simple sentiment that did not add too much contrast so I chose the Fancy Hello die and cut it from white cardstock. I layered it three times for some bulk and adhered it right over my dimensional flowers.

To tie in the white from the sentiment, I added some white ink splatters over the entire card (ok, so I guess I did use a teeeeensy bit of ink on this card) and it added just the right soft organic feel to balance out the linear background.

I know that I love to see a video of the card creation process to learn little tips and techniques along the way, so I have created a quick video for you if you feel the same way. You can watch it here or over at my YouTube Channel.

GIVEAWAY!

$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 05/13/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 05/15/2021.

Thanks so much for visiting today! If you liked this post and want to see more of my projects, I’d love to have you subscribe to my blog and be notified when I publish something new. I also love to get feedback and to connect with my fellow crafters, so be sure to say hello in the comments below 🙂

see you soon! xo,

Tricia

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47 thoughts on “Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Buttercup Layering Die Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway”

  10. The two tones of gray in the background really set off the soft yellows you used for the flowers!

  20. This is such a lovely card! I am so enjoying how many different arrangements one can make with this new set. I really like your light yellow with the gray background.

  24. Wow! I love this color combination! I do like the white sentiment- great choice! Thanks for the awesome video!

  26. Another favorite card! Love the “softness” of your blossoms and grey and yellow are colors that can never go wrong. Beautiful work!

  32. Such a beautiful card. I love the soft yellows against the gray and the way you switched up the layers on one of the flowers. Thanks for the helpful video showing how you made this amazing card!

  34. Not sure if my comment posted, but forgive me if it did already. Lovely soft yellows against the gray background. Beautiful card!

  36. The soft colored buttercups combined with the grey background is such a rich look. Thank you for sharing your creativity!

  42. OOOOO I really like the gradiant cover die in gray with your soft yellow hues buttercups! So stunning is your design!

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