Hello crafty friends and welcome back to my blog!

I have two projects to share with you today using brand new products from Altenew. Their new Exotic Garden release is packed with the most beautiful tropical stamps, stencils, dies and more – I am absolutely exploding with ideas for all the ways you can use their innovative products! Check out the whole release HERE.

BLOG HOP

This post is part of a blog hop to celebrate the amazing Exotic Garden release. If you’ve been following along, you probably arrived here from Tina Smith’s blog. If you want to start back from the beginning, head to the Altenew Card Blog for the full list of designers.

TROPICAL JUNGLE SYMPATHY CARD

I’m kicking things off today with this gorgeous Tropical Jungle Stamp set. My first inclination was to go for funky bright palette for the tropical vibe. But then I decided to switch it up and create a softer more muted look with peach and moss to make the mood more appropriate for a sympathy card (which unfortunately, we all need to send at times).

To get started, I stamped some of the foliage images dangling down from the top in Moon Rock and Evening Gray inks onto a white card panel. These beautiful warm gray outline images provides some interest in the background and complement the peach tone of my focal point.

The focal point is stamped in Lava Rock (a shade darker) and then colored with alcohol Markers in peach and olive tones. I did this on a separate piece of Neenah Solar White cardstock and used the coordinating die cuts to cut it out. Because this focal point bloom is hanging downward from its branch, I thought it too lent itself nicely to a sympathy card.

I used the same die to die cut a piece of fun foam to nestle behind my focal point and pop it off the card front a bit. Then the card is finished off with a few pearls and a simple sentiment that I heat embossed in white on Moss cardstock. The sentiment comes from the Delicate Primrose stamp set and I love how simple and easy to read these sentiments are.

The whole card panel is matted with more of the same moss green cardstock from my stash and then affixed to an A2 card base and now I have the perfect elegant sympathy card ready to send.

BITTERROOT STENCIL CARD

My second project features the Bitterroot Layering Stencil set. I don’t know if you have been loving these layering stencils as much as I have, but I am hooked! They are so easy and detailed and versatile! Now Altenew is offering coordinating dies as well so I feel you get so much mileage out of these amazing products.

For this card I followed the directions on the packaging to arrange and ink the cluster of flowers exactly as the grouping was intended. I used the Shades of Purple Ink family for the flowers and buds and Parrot and Moss inks for the leaves.

Because they packed sooo much awesome detail onto three stencil panels, I thought it might be helpful to see a video of how these stencils layer up. You can check that out below. I also share some tips and tricks for labeling your stencils to make them easier to align:

Once I had the main image inked for this one-layer wonder, I masked the whole cluster off and inked around it with Warm Sunshine Ink to create a nice glow or halo effect. A few ink splatters in the same yellow and a little white gives some nice texture to the background.

I popped up a simple white-on-black sentiment across the center of the card (from the Sentiment Strips stamp set) and drew a few framing lines with a thin black marker to tie in the black sentiment and frame my focal point. I can’t resist a few crystal droplets to catch the light and then this card is complete!

As I mentioned, this post is part of a blog hop for Altenew – I hope these projects inspired you to try some new techniques or color combinations in your crafting and I’d love to hear what your favorite product of the new release is – let me know in the comments below!

NEXT STOP…

Your next stop on the hop is the lovely Joylita Dsouza – be sure to link over and see what she has created!

GIVEAWAY!

$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 05/10/2021 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 05/12/2021.

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Thanks again for stopping by today and I hope to see you again very soon!

xo,

Tricia

SUPPLIES

Tropical Jungle Card:

Bitterroot Stencil Card: