Blossoming Creativity Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 in Total Prizes!)

Hey there, crafty friends! Lydia here! Get ready for more creative projects coming your way! I'm so excited to share with you this month's Blossoming Creativity Blog Hop and Giveaway (with a total of $300 in prizes!) featuring stunning new items from the Just Imagine Collection!

This month's release is filled with gorgeous and must-have paper crafting supplies, so read on to see more products in action and enjoy project inspirations. We're bringing you MORE ideas with these new products to get your creative juices flowing.  Make sure you hop along and leave comments on each blog hop stop for more chances of winning in the giveaway!

Just Imagine Collection

Just Imagine: delicate cherry blossoms, abundant peonies, and elegant greenery. This enchanting release encompasses all of these and more! We have fallen in love with the floral products, but have not forgotten to include modern geometric elements and versatile sentiments. There are also a few craft room basics/essentials in the mix, with all you need to create your own sentiments or page titles and oh-so-versatile labels and tags. Are you ready to get crafty? Just imagine all that you can create!

Blossoming Creativity Blog Hop Project Inspiration

Today, I'll be sharing a fun technique to give a faux sketched look to kickstart the Blossoming Creativity Blog Hop for this month.

I started by stamping the large image from the Cherry Blossoms Bunch Stamp Set repeatedly onto a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2″ panel of white cardstock using Vanilla Cream Crisp Dye Ink. Once that was done, I colored the images using the coordinating Cherry Blossoms Bunch Layering Stencil Set. I used Strawberry, Orange Cream, Lemon Ice, Mint Choc, Blueberry, and Soft Lilac Crisp Dye Ink for the flowers and Pistachio Crisp Dye Ink for the leaves.

To add extra interest and the ‘faux sketched' look, I added details using Woodless Coloring Pencils. I traced around the outlines of the images and added simple shading to create this effect. I used Rubellite, Orange Cream, Maple Yellow, Grass Field, Volcano Lake, Tide Blue, Midnight Violet, and Yellow Ochre Pencils. Once I completed the panel, I trimmed 1/2″ off of one edge. Before adding this to my card base, I added a strip of patterned paper from the Essential Black & White Paper Pack. The sentiment is from Bold Sentiments Stamp Set.To see how this card came together, please watch the video below. Or over on YouTube:

Giveaway Prizes

$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 11/03/2022 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 11/04/2022.

Blog Hop List

Here's the list of all the amazing designers joining the Blossoming Creativity Blog Hop. Make sure you drop by each stop and leave them plenty of love!

Altenew Blog

Adriana Arminio

Caly Person

Jeanette Jones

Lilith Eeckels

Michelle Short

Annemarie Caister

Betty Wright

Donna Walls

Meghan Kennihan

Michelle Burnier

Amy Hill

Bridget Casey

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you find loads of joy and inspiration with our Blossoming Creativity Blog Hop!

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