pics and cheesecake: January 2022

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Feathered Lilies Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Feathered Lilies Release Blog Hop! You should have arrived from the amazing Jaycee Gaspar. You can find the full hop list at the bottom of this post.

Floral beauty and messages of love all in one! The stamp set features a beautiful bouquet of lilies, elaborate leaves, and baroque elements. The minimalist style is a colorist's dream, as it provides plenty of open space to add coloring and shading. Not a coloring enthusiast? Our coordinating coloring stencils make adding color sweet and simple. Finally, we have maximized this stamp set with tons of sentiments so you can stay in touch with your loved ones.

For the first card I stamped the flowers and colored them with the Artist Alcohol Markers Cosmic Garden set.

For the second card I used the Feathered Lilies 3D Embossing Folder and ink blended it by using the coordinating Layering Stencil with Crisp Dye Inks Nature's Wonders and Red Cosmos.

Giveaway Prizes
$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 01/18/2022 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 01/20/2022.

Your next stop is the amazing Michelle Short. Below you will find the full hop list.

Altenew Card Blog

Danielle Dunlop << you are here

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

Saturday, January 8, 2022

Altenew Winner Announcement Year in Review Blog Hop

Hi everyone!

Thank you all for joining in the Altenew A Year in Review Blog Hop. I hope you had lots of fun and picked up some inspiration on each stop. If you missed it, you can find my post with the full blog hop list here.

Now onto the real fun part, the announcement of the winner! Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners and a $15 gift certificate to 4 lucky winners! You can check the Altenew Winners Page to see if you are one of the winners.

I'm also drawing a winner from the comments on my blog hop post.

The winner of a $10 gift certificate is.......Denise Bryant! Congratulations!! You can claim your prize by sending an email to winner@altenew.com by 01/18/2022 with the subject line 'Altenew 2021 Year In Review Blog Hop Winner from Danielle Dunlop's Blog'.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

Friday, January 7, 2022

Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Orion Geranium Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi everyone!

Welcome to the release of a new Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Orion Geranium! You should have arrived here from the amazing Jenny Colacicco, you can find the full hop list at the bottom of this post.

The Orion Geranium is a gorgeous Craft-A-Flower Die set you can create beautiful bouquets with. You can use it with different colors card stock or die cut the different pieces and ink blend them or color them with Artist Markers.

For my card I die cut all the pieces out of white card stock and colored them with Artist Alcohol Markers Cosmic Garden. I find it easiest to put the die cut pieces back in the negative spaces of the card stock sheet and hold them in place with low tack tape on the back. Especially the very small pieces are much easier to color this way. I created a background with the Splatter Hot Foil plate and a rose gold foil and placed my bouquet on top of it. Because of the foiled background I had very limited space to stamp a sentiment directly on it, so I used a small one from the Tiny Sentiment Hello set.

Don't miss out on any new released Craft-A-Flower Die Set and get a monthly subscription, which will save you 17%!

Giveaway Prizes
$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 01/13/2022 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 01/15/2022.

Your next stop on the blog hop is the super talented Jaycee Gaspar. Here's the full hop list:

Altenew Card Blog

Jenny Colacicco

Danielle Dunlop << you are here

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day!

Thursday, January 6, 2022

AECP - Masking Unleashed

Hi everyone!

Today I'm sharing a card for the AECP Masking Unleashed class. I always love the look of masked flowers, it makes it look so realistic.

I used the Build-A-Flower Rose stamp set with Red Sunset Crisp Dye Inks for the flowers and Rock Collection Crisp Dye Inks for the leaves. The sentiment is from this Rose stamp set too and I inked the edges of the base of the card. To finish it of I used some gold and white watercolor splatters.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

AECP - Magical Markers Techniques

Hi everyone!

I'm back today with a card for the AECP Magical Markers Techniques class. Usually when I use Artist Alcohol Markers, I fill up the entire flower and create shadows. This time I wanted to create more dimension by leaving the tips of the leaves uncolored. When I started it looked a little weird, but once the entire flower was done I loved how the flower had become more realistic.

I used the pinks of the Cosmic Garden Artist Markers bundle to color the flowers from the Amazing Things stamp set and die cut them. I covered part of the card up with the Gilded Ombre Washi Tape, stamped a sentiment from Amazing Things sideways next to the washi tape and placed the flowers.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Altenew Vintage Galore Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi everyone!

Welcome to the Altenew Vintage Galore Collection Release Blog Hop. You should have arrived from the amazing Jenny Colacicco. You can find the full hop list at the bottom of this post.

I'm totally hooked by now on the amazing Hot Foil Plates, so for my first card I used the new Whimsical Peony Hot Foil Plate along with the coordinating Whimsical Peony Layering Stencil. I used a teal colored foil with the plate and the Crisp Dye Ink Sugarplums set with the stencil. For the background I used some gorgeous Altenew alcohol inks in the colors Dew Drops and Wisteria that match the teal foil perfectly!

For my next card I used the beautiful Golden Days Stamp & Die set. I stamped the flowers with the Crisp Dye Ink Tranquility set and the leaves with the Nature's Wonders ink set. I die cut all the pieces, created my bouquet and added the top flower with foam tape. The strip at the bottom is an extra strip I had left over from the previous card background, made with alcohol inks in the colors Dew Drops and Wisteria. I finished the card with a sentiment from this stamp set and added gold watercolor splatters.

I got so excited when I saw the Wedding Promises Stamp & Die set, that layering cake is just gorgeous! I used Red Cosmos inks and Prickly Pear inks for the cake and Sugarplums for the plate. For the last layer of the cake I used gold embossing powder. I created the background with the new Cube Builder Hot Foil Plate and a Rose Gold foil. The last background layer is made with Alcohol Inks Pink Diamond and Razzleberry.

For the last card I'm sharing today I used the Golden Days Hot Foil Plate with a Pewter foil. I ink blended the flower with the coordinating layering stencil and Martian Terrain inks. The sentiment is from the Super Script stamp and die set.

Giveaway Prizes

$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 01/10/2022 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 01/12/2021.

Your next stop is the amazing Nathalie DeSousa. If you get lost, here is the full hop list:

Danielle Dunlop << you are here