Altenew April 2022 Spring Garden Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 in total prizes)

Hi there everyone! I hope your day has gotten off to a good start, and that we can make it a little bit brighter today with our inspiration blog hop for Altenew’s new Spring Garden release. This new release has all sorts including new Hot Foil plates – wooo! You should have been sent my way from Mindy Eggen‘s blog. Or, you can head on over to the start of the hop on the Altenew Blog. I have a bunch of projects to share today, with lots of hot foiling!

For my first project, I’m definitely in keeping with the Springtime vibe. I’ve never tried pencil coloring a hot foiled image below, and I thought the Morning Blooms plate would be perfect. It also comes with a co-ordinating coloring stencil which I could use to lay down a base color of ink first, before using my pencils.

I first hot foiled the plate using my hot foiling machine (I use Spellbinders Glimmer System) using Matte Silver Glimmer hot foil. I then used the Morning Blooms Simple Coloring Stencil and laid down some ink in yellows, pinks and greens, (and gray for the bird). I kept it very light as I was coming in with the pencils to add more depth.

I used Altenew’s Woodless Coloring Pencils, and used two or three shades on each of the images, trying not to overlap the foil (although it wasn’t a problem if i did go onto it). I didn’t cover up all the ink blending, and just added shadows with the pencils.

When complete, I stamped the ‘missing you’ sentiment in Obsidian Pigment ink (from the Castle Garden stamp set), and added a few Antique Silver Metallic Ink Spray splatters, as well as a few clear confetti sequins to finish.

My next card features the Lacy Doily Die – this is a super intricate die and I wanted to dry emboss it – something I love doing with detailed dies (it also saves you a lot of time popping out the pieces!). I trimmed a panel of Gold Mirror cardstock to A2 size, and ran it through my die cutting machine, with die face up, then the cardstock, then a tan mat, then an embossing plate. I had secured the die in place with thins trips of Satin Masking Tape to make sure it was lined up where I wanted it.

For my sentiment, I heat embossed the ‘Congratulations’ from the Castle Garden set in Antique Gold on white and trimmed out the strip, adhering it under the dry embossed doily with a strip of foam tape. I embellished the doily with matte gold gems to finish.

My next two cards feature the Chevron Background Hot Foil plate. This is such a fabulous versatile background – I think these go with everything and you can make them as bold or as neutral as you like. For my first, I hot foiled the plate in Black Glimmer Hot Foil onto Jet Black Cardstock for a tone on tone look. I trimmed it down on the long sides and adhered to a white notecard.

The die is from the new collection and is called ‘Antique Blossoms’. I die cut it twice, once from super hot pink cardstock from my stash, and once from Gold Mirror cardstock, then adhered them together, leaving them a little bit offset so the gold peeped through. I adhered it directly over the Chevron panel and trimmed off the excess on the sides.

I used a paintbrush to create splatters using the Antique Gold Ink Spray. The sentiment (from Castle Garden) was stamped in Obsidian Pigment ink and I sprinkled it with Translucent Pearl embossing powder and heated it, to give a little shimmer. I finished with a few Antique Gold Sequins.

My final card shows that you can overlay hot foiling. I first hot foiled the Chevron Plate in Black Glimmer hot foil on Glossy Black cardstock. I then overlaid it with the Morning Blooms plate and hot foiled again using Matte Gold. Isn’t that cool?

I added a simple ‘Hello’ sentiment cut from Gold Mirror and Vellum, and overlaid on a messy next of gold thread before adhering with foam tape. I also scattered a few black crystals here and there to finish.

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 05/01/2022 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 05/03/2022.

You can check out more inspiration on today’s blog hop: your next stop is Katrina Howe!

Have a wonderful day!

Jenny

Supplies

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Full Hop List

Jenny Colacicco >>>YOU ARE HERE!

Katrina Howe >>>GO HERE NEXT!

Reiko Tsuchida ***Note: Due to strict regulations in Japan, you might not be able to leave a comment on her blog post.

36 Comments

Stunning cards!

Your cards are beautiful! I love the layered foiling idea and the use of black-on-black for the chevron is not something that I would have thought of. Wonderful!