Friday, January 1, 2021

Altenew Build-A-Flower: Cora Louise Peony Release Blog Hop + Giveaway


Hello crafty friends, Happy New Year! 

For my first post of 2021, I'm joining Altenew in their newest Build-A-Flower release blog hop! I haven't  done anything for Altenew in almost a year and a half I think, so I'm super excited to have had the time to create something for them again! 

You should have arrived here from the lovely Virginia's blog! I'll also add the full blog hop list at the end of this post for your convenience.

The new Build-A-Flower set is called Cora Louise Peony and it's lovely! Take a look!

You have a few different options to choose from:

I have a couple of cards for you today, showcasing this beautiful new set. I've filmed the process and will add the video down below for you. So instead of writing step by steps on how I created these cards, you can watch the video if you're interested.







Now for the fun part! Giveaway yay!
  • To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 certificate to 1 lucky winner, and a $15 certificate to 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and on each designer's blog post on the blog hop list below by Jan 7/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 11 random winners from the comments left at each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on Jan 9, 2021.
GOOD LUCK!

That's it for today, I hope I could inspire you in one way or another!
I'll be back with lots of projects and videos in a few days! Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

X

BLOG HOP LIST:

Zsoka Marko

Nathalie DeSousa

Jessie Banks

Emily Midgett

LauraJane

Norine Borys

Amanda Baldwin

Erum Tasneem

Dana Joy

Laura Volpes

Tenia Nelson

Teresa Litchfield

Terri Koszler

Seeka

Mindy Eggen

Tina Smith

Preeti Chandran

Svitlana Shayevich

Michelle Short

Agnieszka Małyszek

Christine Pennington

Lilith Eeckels

110 comments:

  1. Zsoka, you 'had me' at grey! Such lovely designs - I especially love the stitching!
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  2. Beautiful cards with ideas for slimline cards!

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  3. Love your rainbows! Thank you for showing us your color charts for using the Altenew inks. I will be borrowing your idea today! Thank you for sharing!

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  4. Umm, I love all the colors with the gray!!! Beautiful!!

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  5. Love all your colored flowers on your slimline cards!

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  6. Your use of the greys is just fantastic. Love both of these cards.

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  7. Love the slimline cards. Both are beautiful. The grey with the colored background is so striking.

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  8. I love your cards! The colors look beautiful. The stitching on the background of the one card looks fantastic!

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  9. LOve, love, love the color stacked card.

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  10. Oh my gosh!! The colors!! The grey!! Just gorgeous

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  11. These colorful cards popped up on my Insta feed and got me to check out the blog hop. I adore the way you used multicolored peonies on your card, I never would have thought of a rainbow of flowers.

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  12. Spectacular! Both cards are showstoppers with the mix of beautiful colors. I look forward to watching and learning from your video.

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  13. Great to see the flower in so many color options. I like the added stitching.

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  14. Absolutely beautiful. Love all the colors you used. Very nice video.

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  15. Your rainbow of peony colors is absolute gorgeous.

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  16. Wow, you did a lot of work! The cards are beautiful.!

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  17. Beautiful cards! Love the colors and the slimline design...
    Thanks for sharing.

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  18. Lovely colorful slimline cards!

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  19. NO WAY! The rainbow one is freaking amazing!!!

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  20. I just love your cards! Wonderful strips and fun stitching. Such beautiful flowers.

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  21. Your cards made me smile. Just beautiful. I always like to get new ideas for slim line style cards, too.

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    1. Thank you so much, glad they made you smile! More slimline inspiration coming here and my YouTube channel on Jan 7 and 8, plus sometime later this month as well X

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  22. Such beautiful cards! I love anything that is embossed, one of my favorite elements. Thanks for sharing your techniques.

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  23. Hi, Zsoka - I like both the cards, but I LOVE the one with the multicolor peonies vertically down the card. It's STUNNING!! Thanks for generating ideas for us!
    Happy New Year to you and yours.
    Lori S in PA

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    1. Thank you so much, glad you like it! Happy New Year to you too X

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  24. Spectacular cards Zsoka. What a brilliant way to create the rainbow flowers, you had me at the gray card.. The stitching of the vertical lines and the gray flower popping out is my favourite. And also using the embellishment complementing the colors of the flowers is amazing..i got to try this now.. i was amazed when then came on my Insta feed... totally adore it..

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    1. Awww thank you so much, I'm happy you like it! X

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  25. Beautiful cards and
    I love the rainbow
    card.
    Carla from Utah

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  26. Awesome slimline cards with these pretty peonies! Love the colors you used!

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  27. WOW! Such beautiful eye-catching cards. Love them both. Loved the video and watching you create these cards. Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful talent and gorgeous ideas. Happy New Year. :)

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  28. Great cards. Glad to see that others actually sometimes have problems with their cards! 😩

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    1. Thank you! Oh yes, if someone says they don't, they are lying, ha! X

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  29. Really unique and wonderful designs and backgrounds. Stunning!

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  30. Simply stunning! Gorgeous color! Thank you for the inspiration!

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  31. Beautiful cards. Love how you adapted this for slimline designs!

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  32. Fabulous cards. Love both but particularly loved the stitched strips. Like seeing some slimline cards as I'm just beginning to make these. Thanks for the inspiration and technique tips.

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    1. Thanks so much! More slimline inspiration coming your way (if you stop by here or on my YouTube channel) on Jan 7 and 8, plus sometime later this month as well. X

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  33. I love them both, but I think the textures on the grey peony card with the stitching and different solid paper textures is my favorite. I tend to stick with 1 paper texture because I never know who to mix them, but you've shown me a way.

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    1. Thank you so much, glad you like it! I don't care about paper texture haha - that is, I will use any and all, no rhyme or reason. I'm more focused on color, and I don't have every color in every texture. If that makes sense! X

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  34. Glad I'm not the only one who has a few mishaps while in the happy fun of card making. Love your cards and video tutorial. Great cards. Off to more great hopping.

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    1. Thank you! No, you sure are not the only one. I make mistakes every time I touch paper lol! X

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  35. Outstanding video! I love the stitched background! Very clever! Great stamping!

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  36. I love your process, and thank you for allowing us to see your "mistakes." It's reassuring to know that even an excellent designer can make them! your slimline card is breathtaking, I love the rainbow!

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    1. Awww thanks so much! But of course, everyone makes mistakes, I know I do all the time. Never throw away anything, just keep on working with those mistakes - maybe you need to change your original idea, but 99% of the time your project can be saved. My 2 cents anyway X

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  37. I love your choice of colors! What beautiful and happy cards!

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  38. Just amazing! Love them both, the grey is outstanding and love the stitching. Also love all those flowers lined up like a rainbow.

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  39. Beautiful slimline cards! Love the rainbow colors and the stitching detail!

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  40. So clever how one card has peonies of so many colors and the other uses the background for color. Very pretty

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  41. Love these colorful slimline cards combined with grey! Love love love!

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  42. Lovely cards...I love the addition of the zigzag stitching...and the multiple blooms card is fabulous too...love the stamp set

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  43. OH WOW! Just WOW. You really nailed it with these designs! I'm filing these ideas away for later! Thank you!

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  44. 2 Simply Stunning cards, thanks for the inspiration!

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  45. Your cards are gorgeous! I love the white embossing and the stitching! What a beautiful flower!

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  46. Gorgeous cards. I haven't made any slimline cards yet but these beautiful Cora Louise Peonies are perfect for the slimline style.

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  47. Love this stamp set! Your slimline cards are so pretty and colorful.

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  48. Oh my gosh! I adore your skinny cards. Especially the one with the profuse and many colored peonies.

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  49. Your work is gorgeous. Love the white embossing. Have to have this stamp set.

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  50. So pretty! Just started making slimlines, and my favorite is your column of peonies. Pretty as a bouquet! :)

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