Hi everyone and welcome to our first Craft Your Life Project Kit release of 2022 – Feathered Lilies! It's Jenny here, and today I'm going to show you how I combine the new kit with Alcohol Ink for a gorgeous, flowing look to match those petals. Today's post kicks off our inspiration blog hop and giveaway showcasing the new release, and there are 10 gift cards up for grabs!
Craft Your Life Project Kit: Feathered Lilies

Floral beauty and messages of love all in one! The stamp set features a beautiful bouquet of lilies, elaborate leaves, and baroque elements. The minimalist style is a colorist's dream, as it provides plenty of open space to add coloring and shading. Not a coloring enthusiast? Our coordinating coloring stencils make adding color sweet and simple. Finally, we have maximized this stamp set with tons of sentiments so you can stay in touch with your loved ones.
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Project Inspiration
I've created two cards today that both feature alcohol inks, two different ways. The cards are both really quick to pull together, so I encourage you to play with the ink and have fun creating your inked panels.

Materials:
I used alcohol ink cardstock for my cards – you could also use other glossy cardstock such as Yupo paper (but not the heavy kind as this doesn't dry emboss too well). I also used an alcohol ink blending solution (you can also use isopropyl alcohol for similar effects). I'm using three colors from the Altenew Artists Markers Alcohol Ink Refills – Fresh Lemon, Puffy Heart, and Arctic.

Basic Technique:
I added some of the solution to the cardstock first, then dropped my colors in, adding more solution to help them blend out. I also pushed them around with air (I used a dust cleaner puffer but you can use a straw). The Puffy Heart and Fresh Lemon blended together in areas to make little orangey colors. The ink dries very rapidly but you still get plenty of time to push it around to get rid of any hard lines and create lovely, wispy colors.

Add Foil:
On the pinky background, I also pushed some of the ink together to have a darker line to which I touched some gold deco foil which adheres to the ink and leaves a pretty sliver of metallic sheen in the ink.
Dry Embossing
I used the Feathered Lilies Embossing Folder in the Project Kit and ran it through my die cutting machine with the yellow panel. I then trimmed out the outline of the image on one edge (which is easier than it looks, the embossed cardstock pulls away as the scissors touch it in most areas). Next, I adhered it to a white notecard with Instant Dimension Foam Tape. The sentiment was stamped with Obsidian Pigment Ink onto the notecard. To tie in with the ink and brighten the background, I splattered a little Warm Sunshine Metallic Ink Spray and adhered a few yellow iridescent gems.

Heat Embossing
For the second card, I heat embossed the entire Feathered Lilies image in Antique Gold Crisp Embossing Powder on white cardstock, then die cut it out. As it is such a large piece, I trimmed it and overlaid it onto the background to create an almost bouquet look. The sentiment was heat embossed with Pure White Crisp Embossing Powder on Jet Black Cardstock and popped on top. To finish, I added a few Antique Gold Sequins.

You can see more details on how I created this in my video over on the Altenew YouTube channel:
GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 01/18/2022 for a chance to win.
Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 01/20/2022.
Your next stop on today's hop is Vicky Papaioannou!
BLOG HOP LIST:
Altenew Card Blog – You are here!
Enjoy the hop!
158 comments
What a beautiful card kit with my favorite flowers. Love the cards!
I love the gold embossing power for the outline! Beautiful!
Love making and sending cards. Your florals are stunning!
Hi, a beautiful card kit
thank you for sharing,
Kindest Regards Marie 🌼🐝
Pretty great release.
I love these complete card kits and would love to win a gift card. Wish me luck.
Beautiful!
This looks fun
Especially like your second card.
I love your cards! I ordered this kit and can’t wait u til it arrives!
Wow!! Another wonderful floral set. I love that there are EF and stencils as well as dies to go with these beautiful flowers. A great addition!
Your foiling is beautiful!
Love lilies and roses, so I would love to try these materials out! Would love to win this. Thank you!
Oh what a stunning collection of products – so beautifully and cleverly designed. Amazing inspiration projects.
WOW what a fabulous hop and new flower! Just gorgeous as usual! I LOVE the gold and sequins!!!
Gorgeous cards! I love this new set!
I am loving these 3D embossing folders and matching stencils. Create beautiful cards.
So many beautiful cards!
Love the look of this! Such a great card!
This is such a versatile stamp set with stamps, dies, stencils and embossing folder. The blog hop projects really illustrate the many ways the set can be used.
Love your use of alcohol inks!! I have them but don’t play with them enough. You inspired me!!!
Love the different techniques.
Amazing products!!!!!! I don’t belive,tnks
Absolutely gorgeous stamp kit. Love all the fabulous ideas!
As always, a stunning kit from Altenew
Your cards are so pretty! I love the way you snipped the flower to make a different arrangement!
Such a big beautiful bouquet! I love how one of the blooms was easy to cut and layer on top! Such a great set!!
What a beautiful CYL set!!!! So many ideas!!!
ANOTHER AMAZING RELEASE!
Being retired my funds are limited but would totally love to be a winner at this point. Love all the ideas everyone comes up with. I just got started with this card making and totally loving it, Just as being a quilter this also peaks my creativiity!!!
What a gorgeous bloom spray! So many possibilities with this kit!
This is a gorgeous kit! I will enjoy using it to make cards for our church!
Such a beautiful card & technique
Lovely cards. This is a fantastic kit!
I never tire of seeing what you come up with! Love this set. It’s so complete! And the sample projects? Gorgeous! Thank you!
Looking forward to seeing more of the kit and some project ideas for use.
Just beautiful. Love how life like these look and the colors chosen are simply the best.
This is an amazing kit! I think getting this kit is so wonderful because EVERYTHING needed to make amazing cards is here! I especially love the embossing folders, and with the stencils and dies and stamps, there’s no limit to creativity!
I absolutely adore your cards and all the sentiments in this kit are amazing
Wow, thank you for such an amazing blog hop. Your DT are all amazing
This kit is so beautiful! The number of sentiments in the stamp set offers so many options. This alcohol ink technique on glossy makes a delicate effect, perfect for these lilies.
So beautiful…thank yu for sharing and using our Deco Foil!
My friends love getting my hand made cards.
Oh, how pretty! Love the kit, especially the matching 3D embossing folder! Lovely samples… especially with the alcohol inks. Thanks for the inspirations!
Such a unique look to this card! I was so intrigued to see how you got the mixture of gold colors on it. Just beautiful!
Love these craft your life kits
Stunning lilies, perfect for spring!
Love both of these cards. I have yet to use alcohol inks but now after seeing yours, I have to try them.
Beautiful card inspirations. Lillies are one of my favorite flowers.
Beautiful kit