Hi Everyone! It’s time for a new Craft-A-Flower release from Altenew today and this one is so cool – not just a floral but it a gorgeous Lilac paired with butterflies so you can create a little Butterfly Bush scene! You should have been sent my way today from the Altenew Card Blog as part of today’s inspiration blog hop – there are prizes to be won so stay tuned to later in the post, as well as for the next stop on the hop.
I dove in to my gradient cardstock to create my card, using the Red Sunset collection for my lilacs (why not!) Each lilac has 3 layers, and the Red Sunset set has 4 layers – for my base two layers I used the two reds in the set. Then for my top layer, I used the remaining two different colors one on each floral, creating two lilacs for my card. I also cut the leaves using green scraps from my scrap drawer and kraft for the stalks.
The butterflies were die cut from white cardstock, and I then ink blended Baby Pink, and Pastel Sunrise on the tips of the butterflies’ wings and added some gold gel pen detail by hand.
My background is created using Moonrock cardstock, dry embossed with Organic Linen embossing folder. I adhered the main flowers at an angle with foam tape, then adhered the stems and leaves with glue, trimming off any excess.
For my sentiment, I used a scrap of cardstock colored with Pastel Sunrise for my sentiment. I heat embossed a sentiment from the Magnificent Branch Build-A-Garden in Antique Gold embossing powder and popped it up in the top right. The butterflies were popped up on the flowers and I finished with a few Antique Gold Sequins here and there.
Giveaway
$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 05/13/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 05/15/2022.
Your next stop on the hop is: Cheryl Espie!
Jenny
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Beautiful!
The butterflies are the perfect touch.
Love all those layers and the color combination. Thank you for sharing.
Love the bi-color buddleja bush paired with the organic look of the Linen EF. Beautiful card Jenny! Thanks for the inspiration!
Nice use of this set!
Beautiful!! This is such a great set!
What a beautiful card! I really love all the texture and layers and colors. A perfect card!
Very pretty card with lots of detail!
Love the colors that you used, very pretty.
Beautiful butterfly bush! I love your colors and textured background!
Gorgeous design Jenny and I love the added Gold touches on the butterflies.
The texture makes me want to touch it! Beautiful!
Love this set and your color choices!
Oh, Jenny! Such a creative way to highlight the different colors of the flower. And what beautiful colors. The embossed background is perfect. Doesn’t detract.
Craft a flower is one of my crafty subscription’s. I received this in the mail yesterday & made 4 blooms BEAUTIFUL! Off to make cards with all of this blog inspiration.
Really Beautiful colors!!! What a Wonderful card!!!
love the beautiful colors and layering, Gorgeous!
Lilacs are sooo beautiful! my mom’s fav and I love butterflies!!
great die set!!
I love all the texture on your card- so pretty!
Beautiful Cards!
Love using multi-layers, your colors are gorgeous!
Perfect. Butterflies love lilacs.
The butterfly addition is stunning
Love the gold details on the butterflies!
I love the beautiful butterfly bush! Great colors and background for your card!
What an interesting use of this set. I would never think to use a different color like that. I really like it!
Pretty colors and I like the textures.
Stunning card!
Thanks for sharing your beautiful card!
Beautiful, awesome butterflies
Beautiful card.love the linen embossing for the background with this die. Very pretty.
I love anything with butterflies.
Using a non-traditional color palette and adding the gold gel accents is something I wouldn’t have thought of.
Such a pretty card and I love the colour combinations you’ve chosen!
I like how the flowers are slightly different from each other. So pretty!
Wow! I am in love with all of the texture on your beautiful card! TFS 🙂
Such a pretty card!
Nice card share. I like the combination of color for the flower bunches. Great arrangement.