It’s a busy day with two companies releasing new products! Click here to see the new Cherished release from Simon Says Stamp.

This second post of the day looks at the new Altenew release of stamps, dies and embossing powders. This post is part of a blog hop (more details below) to celebrate the latest release. The new release is available now at both Altenew and Simon Says Stamp. There’s more information on the blog hop below, but for now let’s take a look at what’s in the new release.I’ve linked all supplies at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used.

ALTENEW MAY 2017 RELEASE

From beautiful blooms to cats to lovely letters and embossing powders, there’s so much to inspire and excite. I’ve got two projects to share today, one using the Enchanted Iris set and secondly the Modern Cats set.

ENCHANTED IRIS

The Enchanted Iris set has two lovely flower stems to create your floral scenes as well as several leaf images too. I stamped a selection of the images in Versafine Onyx Black ink on Arches cold pressed watercolour card and watercoloured before die cutting with their matching dies. I added a few white gel pen and glitter pen accents and then put them to one side while working on the rest of the card.

I loosely watercoloured a light blue background on more Arches card and pressed paint through the Halftone Stencil in places to create extra interest. While everything was drying I die cut the ‘thanks’ from the die set from Gold Mirror card. Now it was a case of simply foam mounting all the elements on to the watercoloured panel and then tying twine around with a bow. I added a sprinkling of sequins and then mounted the card on an Ivory card base.

MODERN CATS

How adorable are these kitties from the Modern Cats set! I stamped the two cats, one in Sand Dunes ink and one in Silver Stone ink and then stamped the details (face, paws etc) in Versafine Onyx Black ink. I also stamped the wool ball in Puffy Heart ink and then stamped again with Purple Wine ink just on the lower part of the image. I ran all the three images through my die cutting machine with the matching dies and then added stripes and extra details to the cats with coloured pencils before setting them to one side while I worked on the background panel.

For the background I blended Mountain Mist ink over the lower part of a piece of Neenah solar white card and then stamped the sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black ink before mounting the cats and wool ball with foam adhesive. I added a couple of sequins and then foam mounted the finished panel to a Pale Gray card base.

BLOG HOP

As mentioned above this post is part of a blog hop to celebrate the latest Altenew release. Hopefully you’ve arrived here from Therese Calvird but if not then a good place to start is the Altenew blog. As with any good hop there are prizes!

• • To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to THREE lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew blog by Thursday, June 1st at 11:59 pm EDT for a chance to win. The winners will be announced on the Altenew blog on Saturday, June 3rd

  • In addition I have a $30 gift certificate to giveaway from comments left on this post by Wednesday, May 31st at 11:59 pm EST

Now it’s time to hop along to …

Carissa Wiley!!

Altenew
Jennifer McGuire
Virginia Lu
Lilith Eeckels
Nina-Marie Trapani
Svitlana Shayevich
Laura Bassen
Raquel Bowman
Joni Andaya
May Sukyong Park
Lydia Evans
TaeEun Yoo
Kavitha
Marika Rahtu
Lisa Spangler
Nicole Picadura
Yoonsun Hur
Amy Sheffer
Therese Calvird
Debby Hughes
Carissa Wiley
Flora Monika Farkas
Erum Tasneem
Keeway Tsao
Eunyoung Lee
Sveta Fotinia
Agnieszka Malyszek

SUPPLIES

You can find links to the supplies I’ve used below; click on the picture or shop icon 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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Summary of the project which gives all the views of the card in one photo :D I’d love if you pinned and called by on Pinterest :D