Foiled Marble Washi Tape and Red Sunset Slim Washi Tape Set is the star of these two cards. Check out the NEW GOODIES at Altenew! You are going to fall head over heels with the Love & Friendship Release. Make sure to follow along the Blog Hop filled with inspiration from DT and Guests. I have the full List of creators at the end of the post. For your convenience, I have FEATURING lists, for each card, of all Altenew products used. NEW products having * in front of them. Let's get going with the projects I have for you today! Love & Friendship Full Release Bundle Love & Friendship Full Release Bundle It's never to early or late to say I LOVE YOU. These new Washi Tapes make it easy to create cheery cards for those you love. To make the card: I layered all four of the *Red Sunset Slim Washi Tape Set onto a 4x3.5 inch piece of paper cut the 3.25 inch heart from panel stamp and cut several of the Halftone Hearts stamp with black ink and heat emboss sentiment with Clear EP Die cut sentiment Cover a 3.75x5 inch panel with *Foiled Marble Washi Tape Layer all elements together and adhere to an A2 cardfront colored with the coordinating Artist Markers Featuring: *Foiled Marble Washi Tape *Red Sunset Slim Washi Tape Set Halftone Hearts Bundle Artist Markers: Velvet, Crimson Obsidian Pigment Ink Crisp Inks I created a second card using the scraps and negative from the die-cut Heart used in the card above. Getting a two-fer is always good! *******For the next card I paired the *Our Friendship Blooms Stamp & Die Bundle and *Organic Linen 3D Embossing Folder for a quick card. To make the card: Heat emboss *Our Friendship Blooms Stamp in the middle of A2size white CS using Antique Gold Crisp Embossing Powder Die cut Bouquet with coordinating die, set aside bouquet Ink blend Northern Shore Crisp Dye Inks onto the negative space of the above cut CS, set aside Tap ink from Northern Shore Crisp Dye Ink onto the inside of *Organic Linen 3D Embossing Folder, for a faux letterpress look. make sure to wipe ink off the Embossing folder Place 110 lb white CS inside folder and run through die cutting machine with appropriate sandwich for Embossing Trim Linen 3D embossed panel to 4x5.5 inches and adhere to A2 cardbase pushing the long edge up to the folded/horizontal line of cardbase Layer the top of the Blue ink blended panel onto the Linen Embossed panel Place diecut bouquet, like a puzzle piece, into the groves of the Blue panel, remove the lower half of the blue CS Trim .25 inches from ink blended panel and glue that at the bottom of the card Stamp the sentiment and add Sequins Featuring: *Our Friendship Blooms Stamp & Die Bundle *Organic Linen 3D Embossing Folder Northern Shore Crisp Dye Ink Mini Cube Set Antique Gold Crisp Embossing Powder Obsidian Pigment Ink Sequins ******* Not wanting to neglect the Our Friendship Blooms Simple Coloring Stencil , I moved on to this sweet SLIMELINE card. I always add the Simple Color stencils to my card when they are available. They really are handy for quickly adding color to the coordinating stamps! To make this card: Quickly stamp with the lightest ink, Buttercream, the *Our Friendship Blooms outline Bouquet twice onto white CS Use the *Simple Coloring Stencil and blending tools to add color to each flower and leaves Add more details with the Artist Markers and Fine Liner Pens Die cut each Bouquet with coordinating die, set aside Cut a 8x3.25 inch slimline panel from whit 110lb CS Emboss lower end of panel with *Organic Linen 3D Embossing Folder adhere to a slimline cardbase Cut 1 vase of Versatile Vases 2 Die Set from white CS Wrap neck of vase with Metallic Thread Set Add handmade tassel...I'm still fiddling with how best to make this. Note to self, study more on this fun embellishment Stamp sentiment onto Handmade Tag Assemble the two colored Our Friendship Blooms bouquets behind the vase, trimming off the lower stems Featuring: *Our Friendship Blooms Stamp & Die & Coloring Stencil Bundle *Organic Linen 3D Embossing Folder Versatile Vases 2 Die Set Handmade Tags Die Set Metallic Thread Set Obsidian Pigment Ink Ink Blending Tool - Small Crisp Inks Artist Markers Fine Liner Pen Set *******How scrumptious is the new *Slim Deco Cover Die Set?!? I had to create a stained glass window looking card featuring the intricate dies! To make the card: For the stained Glass: Vellum paper with drops of Alcohol Ink re-fills and regular alcohol to move the color around smoosh embossing ink onto colored vellum add Translucent Pearl Crisp Embossing Powder and heat set for a yummy texture Cut both *Slim Deco Cover Dies from Gold Foil Cardstock, In hindsight I should have added the Double-sided Adhesives Sheets behind the gold paper before cutting the DECO dies Adhere the Gold DECO dies to the vellum, trimming excess vellum off edges Cut smaller DECO die from white CS and stamp sentiment in the center piece and place on the vellum panel, set aside ink up *Painted Hummingbirds Stamp with several crisp inks using tiny sponge daubers and die cut them out add a kiss of sparkle to the wings with EP adhere Humming birds to the stained glass panel, bending out the wings for a bit of dimension Layer onto a slightly larger panel stenciled with the Leaf Drops Stencil Place onto the Slimlione card base Finish with Sequins Featuring: *Slim Deco Cover Die Set *Painted Hummingbirds Stamp & Die Bundle Alcohol Ink re-fills Translucent Pearl Crisp Embossing Powder Leaf Drops Stencil Crisp Inks Gold Foil Cardstock Obsidian Pigment Ink Sequins ******* And for my last card, which was the first card I made from this release....The *Tall Foliage Simple Stamp & Die & Coloring Stencil Bundle is so graceful in it's design. I'm sur that I will be reaching for this set as filler for many projects in the future. To make the card: I started by stenciling a few of the the *Tall Foliage Simple Coloring Stencil onto a white slimeline cardfront using Northern Shore and Nature's Wonders Crisp inks Stamped several of the Tall Foliage onto a separate piece of white CS Die cut them out and adhere to the stenciled panel creating a wlidflower posy Ink up and cut out the roses from *Sweet Love Stamp & Die Bundle add roses to the posy color the Bold Thanks Die YELLOW layer onto Spring Garden Stenciled cardbase Embellish with Pocketful of Sunshine Enamel Dots Add final sentiment strip Featuring: *Sweet Love Stamp & Die Bundle *Tall Foliage Simple Stamp & Die & Coloring Stencil Bundle Spring Garden Stencil Northern Shore Crisp Dye Ink Mini Cube Set Nature's Wonders Crisp Dye Ink Mini Cube Set Bold Thanks Die Set Pocketful of Sunshine Enamel Dots ******* I hope you enjoyed my creations as much as I LOVED making them! See you next time :) Your next stop on the hop is to Jaycee Gaspar Giveaway Prizes $300 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 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 02/08/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 12 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 02/11/2021. Blog Hop Order Altenew Card Blog Laura Bassen Kelly Griglione Emily Midgett Tenia Nelson Virginia Lu Terri Koszler Lilith Eeckels Michelle Short Laurie Willison Amanda Baldwin Svitlana Shayevich LauraJane Jaycee Gaspar <