My Top 10 Favorite January Posts

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I hope that you are having a great day.

Small Die of the Month from Spellbinders

Since it's the last day of the month, I thought it would be good to have a review this month's posts. 

 I chose my top 10 favorite post and listed them below.

Please feel free to click on the one that you are interested or have missed.

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January Show & Share Winner Announcement

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It gives me great pleasure to announce January Monthly Giveaway.

Each month, Altenew offers TWO monthly giveaway to my loyal blog followers who comment and support me and my blog. It is the last day of each month and it's time to announce the winners.

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Time to announce my monthly giveaways! 

The two lucky winners of February are....
from this post:  

Linda W. (ScrappinBari) said...

Two beauties with that heart die, Virginia! I love the deep colors of the center heart on card one with the embossed duo behind! And the stargazer lily parts stamped behind the heart on card two look amazing!!

January 20, 2020 at 10:06 AM

and from this post:

MadeByMeghanK said...

Really gorgeous coloring on this poppy!

January 23, 2020 at 9:51 AM

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This month's of Show & Share is a success! We had 59 entries in total!
 I had so much fun checking out everyone's creation and left each participant some blog love!
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 The Altenew Watercolor Doodles (valued at $15.99) will go to.....
#42 Janis G. Spear
Congratulations, Linda W, MadebyMeghan and Janis G. Spear! 
Please e-mail me at virginia@altenew.com asap to claim your prize by Feb. 10th.

BIG thanks to those who entered Show and Share.
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I appreciate your support.
I totally enjoyed seeing your creations and be sure to come back for more on Feb. 9th.

Penny Black Feature and A Card with Small Dies

Hello friends!

I am sharing a simple card with small dies.
For a change, today's card has nothing to do stamping.

Red Roses

I took out the dies and just inked them up with Distress Oxide and Oxide Spray.

It was easy to create as the pieces are quite small. 

I left the pieces in the bow in tact.This way, the bow also helped secure the bouquet.

Once I gathered the roses, I popped them up in thin strips of foam tape.

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Matching Dies with Washi Tape

Hello friends!

I am popping with a post about Watercolor Halftone Die and Fantasy Washi Tape

Let me tell you, this is likely the easiest way to create elaborate watercolor cards!

You see, the die coordinates with the Washi Tape! This set is one of the many new release from Altenew. Today's card has little stamping (sentiment only). 

I created two cards over my Intagram. You can see them under the highlight.

I added the Fancy Frame Die underneath the floral diecut.
Then I embellished the card with strings and sequins. 

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Another Take with Halftone Watercolor

Hello friends!

 (my first card for the release blog hop)

I am popping in with another post about the new Altenew Watercolor Halftone.

As you may have noticed.... this set has everything you want in a large, medium and small bouquet.

It is all beautifully arranged. It can be stamped all in one or multiple colors.

I love to stamp in COLORS and can't help myself stamping it in richer tones this time.

 

 Can you believe that all the colors were inked? The splotchy design comes with the build-in etched details and this mimics the watercolor look. Hence, it's called Halftone Watercolor.

After stamping the image, I decided to create a subtle background with the Illusion Spiral Stencil.
As the stencil name says it all. It gives the focal point an illusion of light coming through.
Love that effect! 

I am loving the various colors in the bouquet and this really packs a ton of details.

I love that this set allows you to create the watercolor look so effortlessly.

Also, do you know that this set is based on the Painted Fantasy Washi Tape? 

Yes, I have more to share about that. Please stay tuned. 

Here's another card from the release blog hop. You can see my use of the smaller image from the set

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Keeping It Light and Fresh

Hello friends!
 I am sharing a happy and uplifting card.

 Beloved View
Today's post title is one of the things that I remind myself when I started stamping back in 2009.
At that time, my daughter Stephanie was in university, Back in those days, I asked her advice about what kind of cards that will appeal to her. She told me to stay away from "old ladies' cards".

I didn't know what she meant what "old ladies' cards" meant and asked her to elaborate.
She said to keep the design "light and fresh" and not to pile on all kinds of "stuff" on it.
Noted.


I took notes on that and ever since, I have tried to do just that.

Ding--->About the stamp set Beloved View, you can use the heart balloon with the scene stamp (like I did in this post). OR you can use them separately! For the balloons, you can stamp multiple balloons for Valentine's Day, Love/Anniversary, Thinking of You, Congratulations ...etc.

If  you have never tried scene stamp like this, I highly recommend this one! Imagine all the cool sky background (beyond the fence) that you can create.... ?

For this card, I colored it all with Distress Oxide Ink. 

With this type of card, it definitely helps with a MISTI. The repeated stamping helps a great deal when you can go back to stamp the same area  with various colors.

I hope that you like this light and fresh approach and my idea on using this cling stamp set in many very creative ways. Thanks for stopping by!

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Stamp Focus: Mod Vases

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Warning: photo-heavy post

It is my turn to share Stamp Focus with you over Altenew Card Blog.

Are you loving the new release yet? I am excited to share some in-depth projects with Mod Vases from yesterday's release. Altenew is well-known for stunning floral stamps and the new Mod Vases are your new must-have for all of your floral designs.

I love that this set offers so many shapes and sizes of vases. The designs and shapes are absolutely modern and trendy! All products used are affiliated listed at the end of the post.

With my projects, I hope that you will see how VASE-rtile this stamp & die bundle is! I am using the lovely complementary Vase Fillers Stamp Set for all of my sample cards.

Let's start with the larger vase in this set. I love the two-tone option (Mountain Mist and Sea Glass) from the stamp set and created a colorful vase.

To take it up a notch, and I stamped one of the fern stamp in Tide Blue (Vase Fillers) onto the vase. I then stamped the fern over the vase. This is the so-called "Stamp-kissing".

You can, however, stamp a floral image directly over the vase and will still achieve the similar result.

 The popped-up flower arrangement look fabulous over the stenciled background (Feeling Dotty Stencil).

My next card is all about the masking. With the coordinating masks from Mod Vases, I applied Silver Stone first and then Sunray, Wisteria and Arctic.

Next, I stamped the flowers over the tall vase and this was easily done thanks to the masks. When stenciling, do take the advantage of the positive AND negative side of the masked stencils. To add some shine, I decided to emboss the the edges of the panel in Antique Silver Embossing Powder. 

 The sentiment from the dainty Framed Thanks Die is perfect for this!

For my 3rd interpretation for the Mod Vases, I created a delicate vase by using the new Ornate Cover Die.

I started out with inking the vase with a gradient of blue. I placed the Ornate Cover die over the vase and ran the vase die through the Mini Blossom Die Cut Machine.Voila! A blue delicate vase was created!

With this intricate vase, I arranged all of my stamped and die cut pieces from Vase Fillers.

For the background, I added vellum over the fern to simulate pressed leaf effect. Isn't this fun?

 As you can see, I can go on and on with the Mod Vase Stamp & Die and Mask Stencils. I have included one extra card that I created for yesterdays' release. The Tartan Background Stamp compliments the stamped floral design so beautifully.

I can't wait to see your versions of floral arrangements that you come up with! I would really appreciate that you leave me your comment over Altenew Card Blog if you have a chance!

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