I’m thrilled to be joining Altenew for the November 2019 Gradient Cardstock Release Blog Hop! I was super excited to create with their first cardstock release. These sets coordinate with their first ink release and the cardstock is sized at 3″ x 6″ to fit perfectly in Altenew’s Mini Blossom Die Cutting Machine. The small size makes Altenew’s cardstock affordable to try and easy to work with.
My first card features Red Cosmos, Summer Afternoon and Green Meadows Gradient Cardstock with the Garden Picks 3D Die Set and sentiments from Build-A-Flower: Hibiscus.
First, I cut 1/4″ strips of Red Cosmos Gradient Cardstock and used one of the MISTI Creative Corners to line up the strips on an angle. I adhered them with liquid glue and trimmed off the overhanging pieces. Then I assembled all the die cut layers for the Garden Picks 3D Die Set.
Before adhering the die cut flowers, I placed the panel in my MISTI stamping tool and stamped the two part sentiment in Permanent Black and Grapevine.
As I was adhering the assembled florals to the panel with glue dots, I die cut white “shadows” to place behind the flowers so they wouldn’t blend into the coordinating diagonal strips.
To create my second card, I first used the Sketched Lines Stencil to dry emboss a pattern on the panel. Then I stamped florals from Frosted Garden using Mountain Mist and Volcano Lake inks.
I partially die cut the inside portions of the florals and applied foam tape to those portions so they would pop up after the panel was adhered to the card base.
My third card was so much fun to make. I used the Cherry Blossom Gradient Cardstock to cut letters from the Simple Alpha Dies and adhered them to fun foam.
Then I used Cherry Blossom Oval Inks and life changing blending brushes to create the background.
Again, using the Cherry Blossom Oval Inks, I stamped the foxes and balloons from Hug Me. Before adhering any of the pieces to the panel, I moved all the elements around to gauge their final positions.
There was a lot of maneuvering to get all these pieces just right! With the help of a design ruler, I was able to position the letters perfectly – or at least near-perfectly. 😉 I just love how these Cherry Blossom Gradient Cardstock colours look with the coordinating Cherry Blossom Oval Inks.
My last card for this release hop features the Layered Floral Elements Dies and a sentiment from Floral Arrangement Dies, cut from Shades of Purple, Summer Afternoon and Green Meadows Gradient Cardstock.
It was so much fun die cutting all of these beautiful pieces using the Layered Floral Elements Dies from so many shades of gradient cardstock.
I used a combination of liquid glue and glue dots to create the clusters and adhere all the pieces to each other and to the panel.
I stacked some of the glue dots two and three high to create texture and visual interest. To finish, I adhered the die cut sentiment from Floral Arrangement Dies, trimmed off the overhanging pieces and attached the panel to the card base.
Jennifer McGuire
Ashlea Cornell
Jen Schow
Kelly Griglione
Jaycee Gaspar
Keeway Tsao
Lilith Eeckels
Svitlana Shayevich
LauraJane
Nathalie DeSousa
Therese Calvird
Altenew Scrapbook Blog
Virginia Lu
Emily Leiphart
Norine Borys
Maryam Perez
Vicky Papaioannou
Kymona Tracey
The Hedgehog Hollow
Laurie Willison
Mindy Eggen
Thanks so much for hopping along with us!
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Beautiful cards! I'm really excited about the Gradient Cardstock! I have trouble coordinating colors, so this is a perfect solution! Great for layering and die cutting!
Lovely cards! and love the idea of the gradient card stock!
Gorgeous cards – I especially love the complementary diagonal stripes you added behind the flowers of your first card – fabulous graphic accent!
I love your cards. Especially the Hello one. So many uses for the gradient card stock!!
What a wonderful design on each card, so different, love the colour choices.
Faith
Great use of the colors and showing us a variety of ways to use the paper!
I love all your cards, but that first one – I love the bright colors…and SO creative basically making your own patterned background from the strips of cardstock! I'd never think of that, but now I want to try it!
That thank you card is da bomb!!! I am especially loving everyone's use of the Sea Shore pack and you are no exception.
Wow! I love the amazing inspiration! The new paper packs look terrific. I recently bought some 3D dies and these are perfect with them!
These cards are so lovely! The new papers look so fun.
So beautiful! Love the colors and the designs. Thanks for sharing.
Emily I'm thrilled beyond words to see a post in my inbox! Gorgeous creations – as always! I love that Altenew has created a collection of papers to match those inks I love so much!
I'm in love with this first creation – but thanks, too, for reminding me to use those stencils for dry embossing!!
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I really like your use of color on these cards. The pink tones are especially pretty.
Lovely cards! I can't wait to get this paper and start using it!
These are amazing! I’m so excited for the Altenew colored card stock!
Your cards are so beautiful. A wonderful array of cards.
I love the birthday one! The Thank you gradient is sooooo cool too!
WOW! Gorgeous colors and Gorgeous creations!
Such gorgeous and unique cards!
The stripes are great and I love the sea shore colors.
Your cards are very pretty.
wow, gorgeous cards, I love all the color combos and my favorite is the crafty birthday card, brilliant!
Four totally different cards and styles. I especially loved the stripes and roses together. Great usage of the new Gradient papers.
These pages make for
beautiful die cuts!
Love the many colors
on your cards.
Carla from Utah
All such beautiful cards! What great products too!
Gradient cardstocks make it so easy to color coordinate your projects and for die cutting! Love the size, too!! Beautiful projects!!
Oh so pretty. I love the striped background.
Your cards are really great!!! Love that you also showed ways to use the gradient cardstock without using the 3d dies!!! So creative!!! TFS
I love the idea of the gradient cardstock strips in the corner of the card in the same colors as the flower diecuts. Beautiful!
Awesome cards! Especially love your first one!!
Ooh these are so beautiful! I love the design on the first floral one a lot! <3
All your cards are inspiring but the first one – oh, it’s wonderful. Lifting the idea:-)
Love the striped cardstock background of you first card but they are all so pretty. Thank you for sharing on this blog hop.
Your cards are all so lovely and pretty.my fav is the first one with the stripes in different colors. This is something I see buying to make it easier to choose colors for die cutting.
Very nice cards. I live the crafty Birthday one.
Wow! What a gorgeous variety of cards! I love how you used the Simple Alpha dies to make your own gradient sentiment!!
Your cards are fantastic! I think the first one with
the diagonal panel is my favorite,
Very pretty cards~
All of your cards are just beautiful. I love the varied techniques you used and that shows off the versatility of all the new colors of cardstock. Thanks for all this inspiration!
Pretty and cute variety!
Beautiful cards! Thanks for sharing your creativity.
Simply gorgeous!
All your cards are beautiful. This new gradient cardstock is so wonderful and the colors are gorgeous.
Love them all but especially love the strips of color. Great cards!
Beautifully simple cards, but bright and colorful with the use of this new cardstock. Thanks!
Lovely cards! The gradient paper packs takes the guesswork out.
Gosh, girl, you are rocking these cards!!!! So clever in so many different ways! Love the letters and all those roses!! Many beautiful ways to use these fabulous new Altenew additions!!
Wow! Thanks for all these unique uses!!! Fantastic! Thanks for inspiring me 🙂
lovely cards…great inspirations…
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