I hope that you are enjoying the Holidays! Today’s post is part of a hop looking back at favorite Altenew projects from 2016. More on the hop below. I’ve linked all supplies at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used.
YEAR IN REVIEW
Original posts from top left: here, here, here, here, here and here
Here’s a look at some of my favorite Altenew cards from the year. It seems that I like two distinct styles – soft, elegant watercolor and clean, modern graphic!
FOUR TOP FAVORITES
In no particular order my four top favorites are ….
This was the card that I created when I first found out I was joining the Altenew team. I loved creating this card. I pulled out the Peony Bouquet set that I’d been meaning to play with for a long time and spent some quiet, quality time with my watercolors. The sentiment is from Persian Motifs which appropriately was one of the first Altenew sets I ever bought.
From soft and elegant to clean and graphic. I fell for the Simple Flowers set big time as soon as I saw it. Here I combined the lovely graphic blooms and leaves of the Simple Flowers set with the Wood Palette Background.
Time for tea? My answer to that is always yes LOL so the Vintage Teacups set was guaranteed to be a favorite of mine. I do love using random cups and containers to holding things too and what better than a Beautiful Day bloom.
Finally my last top four favorite is this card with gold embossing highlighting the elegant lines of the Adore You flowers set on a puddle of watercolor.
BLOG HOP
Hopefully as part of this hop you’ve arrived from Natalia’s blog but if not then a great place to start would be the Altenew blog to catch up on all the hop information and start from the beginning of the hop.
Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners – selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop. You have until Wednesday, January 4th at 11:59 PM ET to enter, and the winners will be announced on the Altenew blog on Friday, January 6th.
In addition I will be choosing a winner from comments left on this post by Wednesday, January 4th at 11:59 PM ET and I will mail to them the ‘You’re So Beautiful’ card shown above.
I’m the last stop on the hop, but here’s a list of the full hop order if you missed anyone :D
Altenew
Yana Smakula
Sveta Fotinia
Erum Tasneem
Jennifer McGuire
May Sukyong Park
Virginia Lu
Hussena Cal
Laura Bassen
Svitlana Shayevich
Laura Jane
Therese Calvird
Isha Gupta
Marika Rahtu
TaeEun Yoo
Anna Kossakovskaya
Kristina Pokazanieva
Natalia Zubkova
Debby Hughes – you are here!
Altenew is running a special shipping promotion now through Friday. Make sure to enter the code at checkout to take advantage of this special deal!
Enjoy FREE U.S. shipping on all retail orders with code GOODBYE2016 at checkout and $7 OFF international shipping on orders over $17 with code WELCOME2017 at checkout. Offer ends Friday, December 30th at 11:59 pm EST. (Retail orders only. Not valid on prior purchases. Cannot be combined with other coupon codes.)
SUPPLIES
You can find links to the supplies I’ve used below; click on the picture or wording to get taken directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. You can read my affiliate and product disclosure here. I truly appreciate your support.
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Wonderful cards, I love your soft, elegant looking cards!
Love the Happy Birthday card the most, but goodness, all are beauties!!
So many beautiful cards! Thanks for sharing them!
Love seeing what you create with stamps…so beautiful!
Your cards are amazing. You have no idea how honored I would be if I were to receive one of your cards. I’m such a big fan and follower of yours. Thank you for sharing your talent and amazing inspiration.
Great designs and what fun you must have making these cards. I enjoy the time I spend making cards for others & especially like to hear the comments they send back to me. Thanks for sharing your talents.
Lovely cards! Thanks for sharing!