Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Altenew June 2019 Stand-alone Die Release Blog Hop + Giveaway


Hello crafty peeps,

Welcome to yet another Altenew release blog hop hehe! Today we are showcasing the June stand alone dies!

You should have arrived here from the wonderful Irina Fonina's blog! I'll add the full blog hop list at the end of this post, for your convenience!

I've only made 5 cards with this release (I know right?!) because there's so much going on in my life right now, deadline upon deadline...But I'm sure you see loads of inspiration along the hop! Oh, also, I had a 6th card but guess what...I messed it up since I mixed in some July release dies too, omgosh, where's my mind...So that one I will only be able to share in July!

Anyway, about my projects! First up is the Color Wheel die! This is a rather large die so I decided to only use parts of it. I don't like big cards! All cards but one in this post are A2 top folding cards. The one here on the right side is a bit taller because I absolutely wanted to use this beautiful sentiment in the middle (the sentiment is from the gorgeous Build-A-Flower: Ranunculus stamp set) and also didn't want to crop more off the wheels. 


I grabbed a few shades of pinks, aquas and blues and did a bit of paper piecing. This takes time but I always love the result! There's an extra big circle die in this set, so you can die cut the wheel two ways: directly in the panel like I did on the left card, or if you use the extra circle, you will have the color wheel completely cut out. Now I'm thinking I could have made circle cards too!


I stamped the sentiment in black Versafine ink so it's nice crisp. I just felt I was missing something. I went through my enamel dots stash and pulled out all colors I thought would fit. And then totally went overboard...I can't help it... I finished off both cards by adding some gold paint splatters.


On my next cards I used the the Dainty Blooms cover die. Honestly, I am always only planning to make one card...Here, that was the one in the middle. But then I hate throwing anything away! I'm sure a lot of you can relate to this. Especially with paper piecing, if I want to use more colors, I have to die cut the whole panel several times and I have a bunch of perfectly good die cut panels...However, since piecing back all pieces takes a long time, I tried to use the rest in different ways.


On the left card I just stacked up two die cut panels and attached them to a white card base. Easy peasy. I then gold heat embossed the sentiment (from the Folksy Florals stamp set) on vellum so I didn't cover up the die cut background so much. For a little something something I added some ribbon and a button.

Sentiment on the card in the middle is again from the Build-A-Flower: Ranunculus stamp set.

For my last card I trimmed off the top part of the die cut panel, adhered it to a white card base, did some paper piecing, stamped my sentiment (from the Folksy Florals stamp set) and added a twine bow at the top. Oh and some gold ink splatter on all 3 cards! Because after two years of searching I found 2 bottles of my fave gold ink (in Malaysia for all places!) and now I don't have to be so stingy with it anymore hehe!


And now the fun part...Giveaways, yay! Read on to find out how you can win! Good Luck!

Prizes: 
1. 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 06/24/2019 for a chance to win. 

2. Altenew will also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from comments on each designer's blog in the blog hop list.

All winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 06/27/2019!

That's it for today guys! I apologize if this post is full of mistakes, I'm writing it after just 2 hours of sleep... You know the feeling when you wake up in horror to remember that today is blog hop day and you haven't written your post. No? Me neither, it's a first lol! Alright, back to bed!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope I could inspire you in some small way!

Have an awesome day!

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41 comments:

  1. Oh my!!! I'm in love with your color wheel card!!! Everything is just beautiful!!!

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  2. Wow! I love the color wheel ones! Awesome texture :) And the floral ones are beautiful :)

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  3. Your color wheel card is my favorite one so far in the blog hop! The coloring through the die is nice, but the textured cardstock that you used makes a very striking card! And the same goes for the cover die cards! I LOVE them!

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  4. I love the way you used every piece! I also adore the enamel dots. They totally make the color wheel cards!

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  5. Your 'Thanks for being so sweet' card is especially lovely; all of them are beautiful.

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  6. beautifully done paper piecing and inlay - so much work but wonderful results!

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  7. The texture on those color paper cards is so beautiful, very nice job!

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  8. Your COLOR WHEEL ones are SOOOOO AWESOME! I love them!

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  9. Love the colors and sentiment on your Color Wheel Die inlay project

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  10. What beautifully designed cards. Great new products.

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  11. I could sit and look at your cards all day!! So beautiful! This has been my favorite release by far! Thanks for hopping along to show your creativity!

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  12. I love how you used the Dainty Blooms die to create some beautiful cards. Your creativity and talent is inspirational!!

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  13. Love the texture in the color wheel

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  14. WOW! Your cards are beautiful!!! I love the paper piecing and the look textured paper gives your project. Thank you for sharing!!!

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  15. Love the use of dots and veluum. Such pretty cards.

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  16. Awesome job using the different pieces from the Dainty Blooms to make 3 different cards. I always keep those extra bits and pieces...and then find them in a pile on the corner of my desk months later and wonder why I kept them. This...because of just this!

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  17. Paper piecing is such a great technique - love your cards!

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  18. gosh - these cards are so pretty- thanks for the ideas

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  19. Your color wheel cards are fabulous but I am in love with all three of your Dainty Bloom cards.

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  20. Marisela Delgado said: What beautiful cards. mariandmonsterd@yahoo.com

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  21. Pretty color wheel die card! It reminds me of a board game.

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  22. I love your cards. I think those cover dies are my favorites from this release. Beautiful work.

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  23. I love, love your paper pieced/die inlaid projects!! They look amazing!!

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  24. Love the two variations on the dainty flower die - thanks for the inspiration!!!

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  25. Love making paper piercing, great look( even if it takes some time Lol) Tfs x

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  26. Oh my goodness..these are fantastic!! I love your color wheel cards and that paper piecing looks so good!! This release is awesome and I need these sets. :)

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  27. Your work is so amazing, Zsoka! The color wheel cards are just the best...I love the matching enamel dots! I also really love what you did with the Dainty Blooms cover die...so creative! Thanks for all the wonderful inspiration!!

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  28. Beautiful cards! Love the colors you used on the color wheel one.

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  29. Your color wheel piecing is AWESOME! Love the soft yet bright colors, and all the yummy texture! I especially love how you split the one in half. And thank you, THANK YOU for showing three cards using the same paper piecings. I often make cards with the cover dies but never know how to creatively use all the pieces. No more! Great inspiration for me here today!

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  30. Absolutely beautiful, Zsoka. I love that you used textured cardstock for your die-cutting. =) Tracie

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  31. Beautiful creations! I'm in love with those awesome color wheel cards! Gorgeous!

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  32. I enjoyed reading your post and your cards are fabulous and so creative.

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  33. Wonderful cards! I love how you used textured paper for your paper piecing. It just adds a little extra pop. Thanks for sharing!

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  34. Fabulous! I love seeing these down in cardstock only- they really turned out awesome! That color wheel die may have to come to my house...

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  35. Wonderful cards. I love the way you used the Color Wheel die. It's beautiful.

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  36. Great color combos! Awesome cards! The color wheels look fabulous!

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  37. I love ALL 3 cards you made with the Dainty Blooms cover die! Your paper piecing is beautiful!

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  38. Love all of your cards!! The Color Wheel is one of my favorites of the new release and you made some beautiful cards with it. I love the colors!! Thank you for sharing!!

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