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 fabulous job the design team did with this kit. Everyone is just spectacular!!
The yellow card is stunning!
Oh my gosh, I love this new Feathered Lilies kit, just outstanding it will be my next purchase, I have to have this to add to my other beautiful Altenew products.
You’re cards are exquisite! I love how the colors blended together. They are just absolutely gorgeous!!!! Thanks for sharing.
Love these kits
Simply stunning. Live the color palettes.
Beautiful use of alcohol inks!
I love all the sample cards plus easy instructions given by altenew.
Love the gold embossing! Looks so elegant with the pink background.
I just love the craft your life sets. They are always so beautiful 😍.
Another BEAUTIFUL stamp set by Altenew! So many beautiful cards just waiting to happen!
Such a pretty kit!
What a beautiful set! So many possibilities! Love the embossing!
Very pretty flowers this month. And so many sentiments as well always a good thing. Now on the beautiful blog hop I am sure.
This release looks awesome and I can’t wait to get it.
Great to see different ways to use the new Project Kit – both cards have the wow factor! I can’t wait for my kit to arrive.
Thanks for a chance to win too.
Love this kit, it’s so pretty!
I have absolutely fallen in love with card making after reading through these blogs!
Lillies always remind me of my grandmother who chose Lily as her “english name”. I love that gold embossed card!
My is delivering Wednesday so excited
This is a beautiful set. Lovely catds!
This kit is beautiful. I love your pairing with the alcohol ink background.
Gorgeous cards!
The card is so Pretty I am Loving the Embossing Powder and the Alcohol Ink
Beautiful cards!
Wow! this kit is gorgeous!
Two lovely cards with opposite designs. One bold and one obscure!
Two lovely designs, one detailed and one obscure!
Such pretty creations! Love the use of alcohol inks!
Beautiful cards!
I’ve always wanted to try your products, beautiful cards
What a beautiful kit! Love all the designs too! I will be purchasing this kit!
Such fabulous ideas—you’re ,asking me eager to get inky!
I love seeing what you create!
This is real interesting. I like the gold embossed one the best. I havent done alot with alcohol. Think I’m afraid of it. Love the lilies!
Absolutely beautiful
Very pretty and cheery.
I’d love to win. The 3D embossing folders are fascinating and coupling them with stencils is just magical!
Beautiful set!
Oh my gosh, the Feathered lilies are just gorgeous, will have to be my next purchase, I just love Altenew products, always look classy AAA+++ all the way, just beautiful.
Beautiful! Great technique
Beautiful floral set!! Love your florals!
Lovely cards! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for all the beautiful inspiration and cool ideas!
This is such a beautiful set! Love, love, love it!
Wow!! So many talented creators, stunning cards and projects and a ton of inspiration for this amazing kit!
A beautiful set. This one will sell out fast.
Beautiful cards, Jenny! I’m glad for the tips on using alcohol inks.
Gotta love a blog hop. Thanks for sharing!
Another great kit! Love lilies.