

Hello there, I hope you’re having a nice day!
Today we’re celebrating the release of the Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Peruvian Lily! If you arrived from the wonderful Virginia Lu’s blog, you’re right on track. If you’d like to hop along from the beginning, visit the Altenew Card Blog. Check the bottom of this post for giveaway information and the full blog hop list.

I love how dimensional the layers of this bloom are. They look realistic to me, even if the colors I chose are not!
I started off by creating two blooms. If you don’t have a lot of color cardstock on hand, consider creating your own by blending or spraying inks onto white cardstock. For my card though, I chose six colors of blue and teal cardstocks so that I could create one bloom that is slightly darker than the other. For my lighter bloom, in the foreground, I used Simon Says Stamp Peacock, The Stamp Market Island, Hero Arts Paradise, and Concord and 9th Aqua, and Hero Arts Arctic cardstocks. For the bloom in the background, I omitted the lightest color and added Hero Arts Adriatic as the darkest color. I adhered the layers together, added anthers cut from Simon Says Stamp Sunshine cardstock, and set the two blooms aside.
Next, I used Post-it tape to mask the borders of an A2-sized piece of white cardstock. Then, I sprayed Warm Sunshine Metallic Shimmer Ink Spray over the exposed area, concentrating the color at the bottom left of the panel and letting it fade slightly towards the top right.
When the panel was dry, I removed the mask and then adhered the two blooms along with a sentiment that I created using a stamp from the Folk Art stamp set (it’s a stamped sentiment on white cardstock, adhered to a piece of black cardstock).
To finish, I adhered the card front to a card base.
Thank you so much for coming by! Please be sure to check out information about the giveaway below before you head on to visit the super talented Laurie Willison!

Giveaway
$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 6/13/2021 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 06/15/2021.
Blog Hop List
- Altenew Card Blog
- Therese Calvird
- Jenny Colacicco
- Jaycee Gaspar
- Bridget Casey
- Virginia Lu
- Seeka <– You are here
- Laurie Willison
- Michelle Short
- Emily Midgett
- Mindy Eggen
- Tenia Nelson
- Amanda Baldwin
- Maryam Perez
- Carol Hintermeier
- Terri Koszler
- LauraJane
- Keren Baker
- Verity Biddlecombe
- Karen Brown
- Victoria Calvin
- Preeti Chandran
- Joylita Dsouza
- Sande Woodson
- Natasha Davies
- Anna Mahtani
I think teal is such a calming color and goes so well with these blooms!
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Amazing depth and gorgeous colors! Altenew’s done it again!
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Hi, Seeka – I love your card. I adore the color choices. I never knew that this was called Peruvian Lily. I’ve always called it alstromeria. You continue to inspire!!
Lori S in PA
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These flowers look so neat in blue tones.
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Since I am very good at layering in general but I find Altenew’s Flower Builder layering stamps and dies super easy to use. I am now able to make amazing cards. Thank you Altenew!
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The layering of these blue tones are beautiful!
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Love the blue tones of your flowers & I am going to give that background technique a try.
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Beautiful color choices and card design!
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Beautiful color choices and card design!
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The colors you used make me just sigh with happiness and the flower dies are wonderful. Thank you for sharing your card.
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Gorgeous Seeka! I love all the shades of cardstock you used making the flowers look very detailed and dimensional. The blue and teal flowers really pop against the background too. So lovely! ❤️
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This is SO gorgeous! it’s always a delight to see your take with your impeccable design sense! Bravo!
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The background really makes the color choice for the lily really pop. Thanks for sharing the details of how you created it. Thank you.
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Beautiful card — your colors are gorgeous. Love this Peruvian Lily!
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This is a gorgeous die set and your card is lovely. I like the color combo you’ve used.
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Hello beautiful colors. Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
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Love the blue flowers against the yellow background!
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Oh I love the stamp set it is one of my favorites, I would love to get this layering die and combine them for a great look.
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Nice background for the flowers. Great looking layers.
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Gorgeous card! Love your color choices!
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The teal and yellow make such gorgeous lilies!
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Bright and beautiful! I love your color choices.
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Beautiful and elegant.
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The teal and gold combo is fab
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Beautiful card I love your color combo!
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Gorgeous color!
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What great shades of blue and teal you used to make this stunning card.
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So elegant.
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Beautiful card! Love your design sense! I really like the yellow in the background. Nice job!
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Beautiful color combo! Love this gorgeous card!
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So pretty!
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just delightful.
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This flower is gorgeous in every color combination. I do love the deep teals that you used.
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Love your colors. So pretty!
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Sooo pretty, love the blues!
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Cheerful card design!
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The blues are very pretty and unusual. Nice
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Beautiful
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Wow!!! Love the bold teals on the yellow!!!! Gorgeous!!!
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Very pretty colors and layout! Thanks for sharing!
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Beautiful!
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Stunningly beautiful card, love the arrangement 💜
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Beautifully done! 👏🏻
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Gorgeous colors! Very inspiring.
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The teal and yellow look beautiful together!
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So pretty! Love this CAF die set and the beautiful colors you used.
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Hi Seeka, Your card is so pretty and colorful thank you for sharing your talent !
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