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Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi and welcome to Day 2 of the Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop!  Pretty Pink Posh is a proud sponsor of this event!  We’re celebrating our love of crafting and how it’s drawn us closer together. Crafty friends are the BEST!!! If you’re hopping along you should have reached us through Sandra Dietrich’s blog. If you’d like to start from the beginning you can get all the details and start here at Altenew’s Scrapbook Blog!

I love to give flowers to friends and family.. lots of times they are from my garden, and more often they are on cards that I send so they know I’m thinking of them. My crafty friends are like family, they are so dear to my heart. We have the same things in common – we always want to make each other smile.

Altenew is my favorite place for flowers! They’re well  known for their multi stamp floral images, but more recently they have been releasing innovative stackable dies like these Fantasy Floral 3-d dies.  The flowers are three separate dies that you cut from colored paper and stack. They look great light to dark or dark to light. Flowers on my design today are arranged both ways.

The Altenew Crafty Friends stamp set is a must have for cards for your crafty friends.  The sentiments are a perfect way to celebrate your mutual love of friendship and crafting!

The perfect background for these gorgeous floral blooms is an ombre zig zag border from the Pretty Pink Posh Stacked Edges 1 die set.  The individual strips make a lovely accent when a single strip is added, but when you cut several and stack them together the result is breath taking. The stitched detail adds a crisp, rich detail to your design that looks expensive but is so easy to achieve.

My second card features the Altenew Floral Fantasy stamp set. It’s got two gorgeous multi stamped roses and assorted greenery. The flowers look amazing in any of the Altenew Die Ink colors that come in several shades and are designed to be layered.

The background was created with the Pretty Pink Posh Stacked Edges 1 die set.  This set is a real value because the set includes three dies that you can use individually or to create three background patterns.

Pink and yellow is my favorite floral combination.  I stamped the leaves in different shades of greens to give a more natural look.

This sentiment is also from the Altenew Crafty Friends stamp set. I know we can all relate to this sentiment!

A few Pretty Pink Posh Clear Droplets give the flowers a fresh picked look.

Ready for the next stop?  It’s Kymona Tracey! But before you go make sure you leave a comment! There’s lots of prizes up for grabs!

Altenew is giving away a $100 Altenew prize pack to FIVE lucky winners. There are also 13 awesome companies/magazines who are offering the following prizes:

Jennifer McGuire Ink: 1 prize pack of three Altenew stamp sets

Online Card Classes: 3 class spots

Create and Craft TV: £50 gift certificate

My Sweet Petunia: Mini MISTI

Ellen Hutson LLC: $30 gift certificate

Pretty Pink Posh: $30 gift certificate

Simon Says Stamp: $30 gift certificate

Chameleon Pens: 1 pack of 5 Chameleon pens

Tombow USA: 1 pack of 10 dual brush pens

WOW! Embossing Powder: $25 gift certificate

Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 gift certificate

Freckled Fawn: $20 gift certificate

Papercraft Magazines: One copy of each of the latest issues of four magazines

Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine: 1-year subscription

Be sure to leave comments by Friday, October 27th, 2017 at 11:59 PM EDT for a chance to win! 21 WINNERS will be chosen at random from the comments left on all of these blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on October 28th, 2017

Here’s the complete blog hop list for today!

Altenew Scrapbook Blog

Sandy Allnock

Therese Calvird

Scrapbook & Cards Today

Ellen Hutson LLC

Kathy Racoosin

Yoonsun Hur

Create & Craft TV

Sandra Dietrich

Pretty Pink Posh << you are here

Kymona Tracey

Terhi Koskinen

Agnieszka Malyszek

My Sweet Petunia

Tracey McNeely

Butterfly Reflections Ink

Emily Leiphart

Freckled Fawn

Nichol Spohr

Anna Komenda

 

I hope you enjoyed today’s post. Enjoy the rest of the beautiful blog hop!

 

242 Comments

  6. What terrific ideas! I had to buy this stamp, can’t wait to try it

  10. Your cards are beautiful, wish mine turned out like that. I must try again. Thanks for this chance to win such a great prize.

  12. Love, the bright colors on the first card, it just jumps out at you, just beautiful!!!!!

  13. What bright and cheery cards! Especially on a day like today, where it is fairly dark and gloomy outside.

  18. I couldn’t agree with you more about Altenew having the most beautiful floral stamps and dies, and your cards really show just how beautiful they are. Thank you.

  19. I just love these cards. The backgrounds are so fun and unexpected. Thanks for sharing

  22. What cute cards! I especially like the first one with the stackable dies, the colors you chose give a kind of Andy Warhol effect (or maybe I’ve finally lost all my marbles). Thanks for sharing.

  25. Looks like spring time on a card. Thank you so much for sharing.

  26. I’m loving all the striped backgrounds you’ve been creating lately especially the first one here with it’s rich bold colours!

  27. Wow! What absolutely beautiful cards! Those edge dies are also amazing! I love this crafting community and the fact that it can bring people together from all over the world. I have “met” some wonderful friends in places like Florida (USA) and even New Zealand!

  28. These are really beautiful cards today. I am a huge rose fan, so these really appeal to me.

  30. Wow – the colors on these floral cards just pop! So glad you’re participating in the Altenew hop – crafty friends really are the best!

  33. Your card is gorgeous, the clear droplets really make it look like dew drops on the petals. The 3 step dies are something I haven’t seen before, it is so unusual.

  36. I love what you did here! I would have never thought to do that with the floral dies–so cool! Thank you so much for sharing!

  41. Fantastic cards ! It’s great to see the difference between the die cuts and the stamped flowers.

  45. Thank you for sharing your inspiration with us on this awesome blog hop! I appreciate the time you’ve taken to post your project! I enjoyed your cards!

  47. Wow the Fantasy Floral dies are amazing. Great cards, so pretty!

  52. Paulina,
    Your cards are stunning! I love the zig zag and scalloped backgrounds!! Why haven’t I seen those before, I wonder. They are going on my wish list. You did a great job. Thank you for inspiring me almost daily, as I check your blog often. Have a great day!

  53. These dies are so cool! I have seen them but this the first time I have seen a project made using them! Beautiful!

  54. Gorgeous cards! I really like the die cut backgrounds and that stamp “My soul is fed with stamps and ink” is AWESOME!

  55. Gorgeous colors and fun designs, love the sentiments! Thanks for sharing!

  57. becoming a bigger fan of your layering stamps. thanks as always for sharing.

  67. Such beautiful elegant cards. Those backgrounds are great. Great sentiments too.

  69. It is so cool to see all my favorite companies supporting each other!

  71. This is such a beautiful card! Thank you for your inspiration!

  72. WOW!! Jeanne always amazes me. Her cards are so lovely and well put together. I LOVE how she used these flower dies on this!! I have these and need to dig them out now!!

  75. You have given me inspiration to pull out my dies and use them. Beautiful cards!

  77. Oh wow! These are just stunning! Love those floral dies and that first one especially it’s gorgeous! The colors just pop!

  82. Wow both of your cards are so beautiful and fun and colorful! I really enjoyed them!

  85. Beautiful flowers on
    both cards. I love the
    stack able layered
    floral dies! How
    cool these are.
    Carla from Utah

  86. Love your card idea. The die cheveron back ground is an awesome idea!

  87. Absolutely love your use of the dies to create striking and visceral flowers! I can’t wait to try this! Hank you so much for sharing your creativity!

  91. Your vibrantly colored flowers are stunning! The brighter the better in my opinion! Then there is the amazing background! My jaw is on the floor? Absolute perfection! TFS!

  95. Great color choices. Your cards are bright, cheerful and so pretty.

  96. Beautiful cards, I LOVE the bold, bright layered flowers and the edgers background is stunning!

  97. I love these bold flowers. So bright and cheery. The floral fantasy stamps and dies are just awesome.

  98. Love the way you layered the background behind the flowers. So creative!

  103. Love the colors in your flowers and the dies you used for the background. Thank you for sharing.

  105. Wow the colours you used for your flowers make for some stunning cards! The backgrounds on both are fabulous and add some depth to the cards. And I am withh you – my favourite place to go for flowers is Altrnew. Their flower stamps and dies are just a cut above the rest! I love what you did with them here on your gorgeous cards!!

  111. Beautiful cards, both of them! These products go so nicely together! Thanks so much for sharing and inspiring, and for sponsoring the prizes, too!

  118. Wow–love the backgrounds and the colors you used on these beautiful floral cards.

  120. Stunning cards Paulina! Love that card making and scrapbooking brings women together and we make lifelong friends from it! I too am in love with all things Altenew and am headed to a weekend retreat with my dear friends, too! Thanks for the fresh inspiration to get us motivated!

  121. These are absolutely gorgeous!! Love how the colors pop on the first card!!

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  123. Beautiful mix of colours and loving the backgrounds from using those dies. Love the card with the scalloped background in the pinks the most, thank you for having a different twist to floral x

  126. I was so busy looking at the flowers, I almost missed the sentiment! Love it!!!! Thanks so much.

  127. Love the vivid color and the scallop strips on the back! Beautiful card!

  130. Beautiful cards! Love your flowers and the backgrounds. Fabulous!!

  131. What a cool idea, layered dies! Wow. Wonder how it would look with a layer a tiny print, or texture, or glitter paper or … Wow.

  132. I am even more excited that that die set is in my cart right now than I was before.. GORGEOUS…

  135. Altenew always has such gorgeous flower stamp sets, and these two used by Jeanne are no exception. I love the look of using PPP’s Clear Droplets.

  137. I love the bright colors used on the rose cards. The rose dies and stamps are just beautiful. My favorite is the one with the ombre blue background with red, yellow and coral roses.
    I Hope to purchase these soon.

  138. I love the pink scalloped background, it is so pretty, and I love your pop-up card idea in your next post.

  140. Gorgeous cards in amazing colors! So happy to see you here! Loving this crafty friends hop!

  143. Can’t get tired of seeing this die used on so many cards. Your scalloped layered card is a WOW. So glad I ordered the die.

  146. I love the chevron and scalloped backgrounds. I like the dimension of the flower dies.

  147. Wow! I have no words to describe how much I like these cards!! Gorgeous!

  149. Wowza Stunning love the flowers with that colors
    and love the DIES on the BG too
    your card with DIES are adorable as can be
    hugs
    Monika

  150. WOW…another Altenew die set to put on my wish list…stunning; loved the color combo’s.

  151. Wow! This is a cool new way of doing cards; multi-dimensional layering. Thanks.

  155. I love the bold colours you’ve used on your cards – just beautiful!

  157. I justlove these dies! I didn’t realize that they had anything like this.
    You made an awesome card with them, thanks for inspiring!

  158. Beautiful cards. I especially love the vibrant colors on the first card.

  159. These are wonderful! I love the bright colors and die-cut backgrounds!

  161. Paulina, these cards are so colorful and eye catching. I have that flower die so your card designs have truly inspired me to be colorful with it! tfs

  163. Both of your cards are lovely – but I really love the first. Those bright, vibrant colors!

  166. Love the bold colors, really nice cards. Thanks for sharing

  167. So pretty! I want that 3-D die as soon as it’s back in stock. Thank you so much for supporting the Altenew Crafty Friends hop. Also love the Zig-Zag edge from the Stacked Edges 1 die set by Pretty Pink Posh. Makes a great background to show off the die cut flowers!

  168. Beautiful cards…now my head is swimming with toooo many ideas. TFS

  169. Beautiful cards! Love the awesome colors & the gorgeous stacked dies backgrounds!

  172. Beautiful cards from an amazing release. I really love how you have done the backgrounds and will be totally giving that technique a go soon!

  180. What BEAUTIFUL cards, love them, and the colors are amazing, I agree that pink and yellow are a great combo especially for flowers. AWESOME !!

  181. I love that stacked edge look – I’m going to have to try that. Your card is beautiful , nice and bright.

  182. Your cards are both so amazing! The colours are so bright. I like the backgrounds you have created for these gorgeous blooms.
    Thank you so much for sharing! :)

  185. Love the layering dies.
    the flowers are fantastic.
    thanks for sharing.

  190. Beautiful bright and colourful cards ! Thank you for the inspiration.

  192. These are gorgeous!! I love the bright colors of the flowers (both the die cuts and the stamped images) against those fun, graphic backgrounds!

  195. LOVELY layering with your border dies combined with the fantasy 3D floral:)

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  197. I love how you create this beautiful background with these amazing dies. From the flowers to the waves, how fun!

  201. Oh my! Those stackable dies. A whole new dimension to the layered stamps! Your creations look great with PPP background dies. Very clever.

  202. Beautiful! I love the colors used for the flowers… so bright and pretty. I really like the idea of the stacked border dies to create a background… thanks for sharing!

  204. Beautiful cards! Love the stunning backgrounds. Thanks for sharing.

  206. These are awesome! Love the colors and the dies you used to make the backgrounds!

  209. The backgrounds?!?!?!?!? The dies are amazing!!! Thank you for sharing your wonderful creation. <3

  210. What gorgeous cards! Love the die cut backgrounds and the roses are stunning!

  211. What a great lovely cards. I am a person who loves bright colours like yuo used on your cards. Great background idea!
    Thanks for showing and sharing.

  212. What great cards. I liked the bold colours on the first card The scallopped edge looks great as a background.

  213. Really enjoyed looking at your beautiful flowers. The background was so fantastic on the card and I loved the look you achieved. You are very talented. Flowers are about my favorite thing to color and add to my cards.

  215. The word “sweet” comes to my mind when I see these cards. I love the color combination you chose for the flower “bouquets” , but, those border die backgrounds are genius!!!

  219. Love the wonderful color combinations and the background made with the dies.

  220. I totally agree with you that Altenew is the place for flowers. And what you’ve done with the dies today is amazing. That first card with all that bold color (reminds me of Andy Warhol) stole my heart!

  224. I love💚❤️💛💙 these backgrounds!!! The color combinations are gorgeous too!! Thank You!!😊

  228. Altenew is definitely the place to go for flowers. These stackable flower sets are neat.

  229. Beautiful cards. I love the layered die cut flowers! Beautiful choice of colors in both cards.

  230. What beautiful cards. Love the colors and fabulous backgrounds.

  235. Wow! Totally loving the pop these flowers give to their backgrounds! Beautiful!

  236. These cards are beautiful. I recently purchased the dies used on the first card and I can’t wait to use them.

  239. Wow!! Absolutely gorgeous!! The colours are just so rich and cheerful and such a lovely combination of colours!! And I agree, that background is perfect!!

  241. Wow those flowers look amazing and vivid against the scalloped background.

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