Hi there and happy August!
Today we’re celebrating Altenew’s Build-A-Flower: Bellflower* release! If you arrived from the Altenew Scrapbook Blog, you’re right on track. If you want to hop along from the beginning, visit the Altenew Card Blog. Check the bottom of this post for the full blog hop list!
This gorgeous layering set is available as a stamp and die bundle, and also as a bundle that includes ink cubes in colors that coordinate perfectly together. You can also subscribe to reserve your monthly Build-A-Flower set and make sure that you never miss out!
For my first card, I started by stamping the three blooms in four shades of teal and blue. I used Sea Glass, Ocean Waves, Teal Cave, and Starlight and just love how they turned out! Then I stamped their leafy bases in Lime and Fresh Leaf. I used the coordinating dies to die cut the stamped blooms and also die cut some additional pieces of blank cardstock so that I could layer and adhere the die cuts together to create a chipboard-like piece. I stamped the stems in Fresh Leaf and die cut those as well.
For the background, I blended Coral Bliss ink onto an A2-sized piece of Strathmore Bristol Smooth cardstock, concentrating the color at one corner. Then I splattered some blue and white gouache over the panel, concentrating the splatter in the same corner.
I used black ink to stamp the sentiment, which is from the Build-A-Flower: Japanese Mum stamp set and then adhered the stems and blooms. To finish, I adhered the card front to an A2-sized card base.
For my second card, I repeated the stamping and die cutting, this time using Rose Quartz, Puffy Heart, Rubellite, and Midnight Violet inks for the blooms, and Olive and Moss for the leaves and stems.
I adhered these to a white-on-white background that I made with the Layered Plaid Cover Die B die. Rather than letting all the fallout pieces fall out, I kept them in place using paper tape across the back of the panel.
I stamped a sentiment from the Build-A-Flower: Sweet Violet stamp set in black ink onto a piece of cardstock and then used foam tape to adhere it to the card front. To finish, I adhered the card front to an A2-sized card base.
Thanks so much for visiting! Please be sure to check out the giveaways below before you head on to visit Caly Person!
Giveaways!
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog for a chance to win.
Altenew will also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 8/10/2019.
Blog Hop List
Altenew Card Blog
Svitlana Shayevich
Therese Calvird
Virginia Lu
Sveta Fotinia
Laurie Willison
Altenew Scrapbook Blog
Seeka <– you are here
Caly Person
LauraJane
Mindy Eggen
Nenette S. Madero
Jaycee Gaspar
Ashlea Cornell
Jenny Colacicco
Cheryl Espie
Amber Rain Davis
Lovely! I really like the pink card with the use of the cover die.
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Lovely Cards. I like the colour contrast of the first and the colouring for the second.
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Hi Seeka! I love your cards especially the second one. 🙂 The idea of using both negative and positive diecut pieces is ingenious!!! ❤
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I love both of your cards. Using the pink background makes your flower just pop out .Very beautiful art work.
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Bice cards
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Nice cards oops before
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Very creative use of the plaid cover die. It adds a nice touch to the lovely bellflower stamp.
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How beautiful are both of these! The card designs just emphasize the beauty of the flowers in this set.
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The coral background adds so much to your card. Very nice!
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I love the background color with this flower set. Absolutely beautiful. This is my style.
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You came up with two really cool looks with this set, I love both equally. The coral background and the geometric background highlight this delicate flower beautifully
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I love this new Bellflower set! I also love your beautiful card designs!
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Simply Georgeous!
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Gorgeous flowers and cards!
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My favorite is the geometric background but both are awesome.
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Wow! Love both these cards!! The first one is gorgeous with that awesome background, it highlights the flowers so well! The second one is super pretty! 🙂
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Gorgeous cards!!
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Love your bold blues and pinks on these two cards! This bellflower is so versatile! Love how you created your card base on #1 with the ink blending and splatters. And thanks for another tip on using the plaid cover die—-that card rocks!
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Beautiful cards!! Love the second one… the bright floral colors on the white embossed background is the perfect combination.
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Stunning background in the first card! Love the splatters and the blue bluebell!
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I especially like the pink flowers as a change. The shading on the first card was very nice.
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Gorgeous! Love the use of the teal color family!
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You cards are stunning-The backgrounds set the bellflowers off perfectly. Thank you so much for sharing your inspiration.
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I’m not sure which one I like better! Both are so pretty. Love the pink background – the flowers pop off the page!!
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The pinks on that background is lovely.
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Lovely cards. 🙂 I really like how the blue flowers stand out on that pink background.
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Beautiful cards! I like the way you grounded the flowers with color for your first card and the novel way you used the plaid cover die for the second one. I’ll definitely be looking at that cover die a bit differently from now on. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Lovely card! I love the stunning blue Bellflowers with the coral background! Gorgeous!
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yeeey, you made 2 beautiful cards
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Beautiful cards-thank you so much for the inspiration!
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Love your simple card. Beautiful ink blended background that lets the wonderful, detailed stamp design shine. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Both cards are lovely! Great use of the Layered Plaid Cover Die B!
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Both cards are lovely. I really like the first one with the blended background. Those colors look great together.
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I loved the color choice on both the cards a lot ! The softly blended coral.colors makes the blue flowers pop beautifully on first one .Nothing can go wrong with tone-on-tone texture ! The second card is perfect example !! Beautiful cards.
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The flower speaks for itself, but I love the backgrounds that you chose.
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I’m going to have to try the color combination from the second card! Beautiful work Seeka I’m so glad you’re on this hop!
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Beautiful cards! Love your color combos, and the textured background design on your second card!
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stunning cards – the color choice is fabulous
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Ok, I love the flowers. But I am also amazed at how you used that plaid background die. It really makes me regret giving it away!
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Two gorgeous cards! Especially love the pink one!
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Both of your cards are beautiful! These flowers are so pretty, and I love how you ink blended the background on the first card, and used the layered plaid cover die on the second card. 🙂
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Gorgeous cards! I love both the designs and the colors.
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Gorgeous cards! I love the plaid white on white background on your second card!
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Gorgeous – I especially love how those beautiful blue flowers stand out against that soft inked pink background!
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Pretty card.
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Both cards are beautiful. I love th3 background on you4 first card
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Both cards are so gorgeous! Love this stamp set…
Thanks for sharing.
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