Altenew Educators’ “Secret Card Recipe” Blog Hop & Linky Party + Giveaway

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Hello Crafty Friend!

I’m here to show you the card I created for this blog hop. This time we are each sharing a “secret recipe” or “secret trick” which we love to use when card making.

My trick is to make my own patterned paper as I don’t always have the exact colour of coloured cardstock to match the flowers or other elements in the card so I will show you what I do. It takes a little longer but the end result is always great and it’s a money-saving hack too!

Altenew is hosting the blog hop and you can start the hop over at the Altenew Card Blog. The complete hop list can be found at the end of this post.

Prizes:

$130 in total prizes! Altenew is giving away a $20 gift certificate to 3 lucky winners and a $15 gift certificate to 4 winners! To win, please comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 10/30/2022. 

There’s MORE! Join our party! We have included an Inlinkz at the Altenew blog for you to enter your beautiful, Altenew “Secret Card Recipe” creations. 

We will pick one of our favorite handmade creations from those who joined the linky party, and they will receive a $10 Altenew gift certificate!

Altenew will draw 5 random winners from the comments left on each blog hop stop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 10/31/2022.

Now let me show you the card I created….

I created a rainbow of roses using the Craft-a-Flower Layering Die Set. There are 4 shades of each of the 8 colours and I don’t have all those exact colours of cardstock so I made my own. Here is how I did that.

For each flower I used a set of Altenew Inks which have 4 shades and the die set has 4 layers for the rose. I simply dragged the ink cube directly over some scraps of cardstock in areas big enough to fit each die layer.
I then followed the layering guide which comes with the die set and die cut each layer from the hand-made coloured cardstock.
The lightest layer is the bottom layer and the darkest layer is the top layer which creates shading and depth to the rose.
I used the Altenew glue runner to adhere each layer. I then sprayed the roses with Altenew Iridescent Spray to add some shimmer.
I followed this “secret recipe” for each of the 8 roses I created in rainbow colours. SO PRETTY!!! I followed the same process for the leaves but only required 3 shades of green for these.

Here is another look at the completed card. I added a black cardstock border behind the roses before adhering them with foam tape and the leaves with liquid glue. The card is a slimline size of 4″ x 8 1/2″ A bold black and white sentiment finishes off this card

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Blog Hop List:


Altenew Card Blog

Laurie Patterson

Irene Mejia

Roteja Galvan

Virginia Lu

Pam Boedeker

Neha Aggarwal

Nancy Souza

Helen Kalb

Rachael Shedeed

Rosie Neustaedter

Nicki Baxley

Joylita D’Souza

Lana Taber

Bridget Casey

Nandini Karmarkar

Teri Duncan

Eva Bussom

April Leithner

Amy Hill

Jennifer Leonard – you have come from here

Annemarie Caister – you are here

Natasha Davies – your next stop

Anna Patricia Mahtani

Fiona Duff

32 thoughts on “Altenew Educators’ “Secret Card Recipe” Blog Hop & Linky Party + Giveaway”

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  3. Jennifer Leonard

    Hello Annemarie!

    Great tip on making your own color cardstock! I definitely need to remember this for the future! Lovely Card!
    Jen

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  12. Carmen Schiavone

    I like the color layering, it does not quite define the flower, but you can still tell what flower it is.

  14. Stacy Buller

    I never think to use my ink to create papers to match my needs. I don’t know why…it’s a wonderful solution to match your needs.

  15. roxanne tellini

    I sometimes even change the colors on my patterned paper to match a project. You can also color washi tape with alcohol markers.

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