Hi, there! Emily Midgett here with you today sharing some inspiration using our newest Craft-A-Flower: Cosmos Layering Die Set!! These wonderful layered floral die sets are so versatile and so very detailed, and you can come up with tons of different ways to create the variations of color on each layer!
Our Craft-A-Flower die sets are released monthly and celebrate the beauty of a wide variety of flowers! Each set includes all the pieces you need to create a multi-layered floral arrangement, inspired by our popular 3D flower dies. All you need is colored cardstock and a die cutting machine. We can’t wait to see what you create!
We can't wait for you to see how to use this gorgeous set; it is another stunner by Altenew! But first, here is the layering guide for your convenience. 
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Project
For this project, I kept things relatively simple, allowing the details on the blooms themselves to really shine from a deep green background. Let's get started with the details!
I began by creating the flowers from Craft-A-Flower: Cosmos Layering Die Set using three different shades of coral cardstock: light, medium, and dark, as well as some foliage cut from some deep green cardstock. These dies are so easy to put together, made even simpler when referencing the color layering guide included in the packaging for each die set. I adhered all of the layers using liquid adhesive, adding some bright yellow centers to maintain a fairly realistic aesthetic.
Then, I trimmed down an A2 card base from the same deep green cardstock from which I cut the foliage. I used the Metallic Watercolor 14 Pan set to flick some random, artistic gold speckles on the card base, which adds a bit of shine as well as some interesting texture and helps to differentiate the background from the foliage. I kept the card base the same color as the foliage to make certain that those beautiful Cosmos blooms popped off of the page!
Next, I adhered the Craft-A-Flower: Cosmos die-cut blooms in a cluster using foam adhesive, and then added the foliage using liquid adhesive. I only adhered the very center of each foliage die-cut, and then curled up the edges of each leaf to help make them pop up off of the background a bit and add even more texture to the card front. I added a Simply Hello die-cut, which I cut from some matte gold metallic foil, again using foam adhesive. Finally, I added a few metallic gold gems to help complete the “rule of three” for the metallic accents.
Well, that's all for my project today! Now, to celebrate this release, we have a blog hop full of inspiration and prizes!
Giveaway Prizes
$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $15 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 02/12/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 11 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 02/15/2021.
Blog Hop
What is a release without a blog hop?! Also, don’t you want to be inspired by all the lovely creations our designers created especially for you? C’mon then, start hopping! The next stop on the hop is the lovely Terri Koszler.
151 comments
Gorgeous card, Emily! and I adore this newest addition to the Layering Dies! Thanks, Altenew!
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Wow! Those flowers really pop on that background!
Another fabulous CAF set 😍! Love the bold colors on your pretty design Emily, thanks for the inspiration!
Your company just makes the best products.
stunning! i think this is my favorite layering flower set yet!
Beautiful!!
This is a fabulous set and I really love this card!
I have just discovered the craft a flower on Altenew. Contemplating signing up for monthly kit as all of the flowers are gorgeous.
Wowee! I hopped the whole hop except for the two blogs that haven’t posted yet and I swear you just can’t pick wrong colors for these flowers! They are going to be gorgeous no matter what you choose! TFS all the gorgeous inspiration I loved seeing all of them!
These are gorgeous flowers – love the colors you used!
I really like your easy layering and the versality for different cards is great. I’m looking forward to my delivery.
Merry Christmas to me, again.
Love the orange used for the flowers, beautiful!
All the different color combinations are SO beautiful. I had cosmos growing in our front yard for many, many years.
What gorgeous cards and a fabulous CAF!
Love the layers. I can envision so many uses ❤️
I like the color use and layering. Nice start to the hop.
Gorgeous!Ilove cosmos flowers.
I love the way you are able to,layer the flowers. You all do such a wonderful job at designing!
I love this on the green background!
Cosmos are one of my favorite flowers!!!! Gorgeous card!!
Great die, now I want to grow cosmos, never seen the real flower. Love the gold against that green background.
The Cosmos layering flower looks lovely with the warm orange tones against the bold green. Such a lovely card with this great new set.
Love the design of this card against the deep green. This is a beautiful craft a flower set!
This is my favorite CAF yet! Love this pretty cosmos, perfect size and lovely layering. BEAUTIFUL cards, and I love all the color combos that look wonderful for cosmos.
I have loved Cosmos since I was a child, my mom always planted one huge section of our garden with them. These dies perfectly capture the delicate beauty of the flower.
I don’t think that I would have thought to use a dark green background like you used and I love the contrast…Just beautiful!
OK there was no hesitation on ordering this set! I can’t wait to get it! Love, love, love the color combos. Hope the gradiant card stock is back in stock soon!
Cosmos! So sweet and perfect. I love to grow them, now I can craft them, as well.
This card is stunning, Emily and this cosmos is a must have for flower-loving crafters. tfs-stay well.
Lovely card. The softness of the apricot color against the green work really well together.
Love these flowers and now they are a card!
Love how these layered blooms look, so pretty!
Oh my this Craft-a-Flower Cosmos set is just beautiful!
WOW! The new Cosmos CAF is another beautiful addition to the collection. This card is absolutely gorgeous and the gradient card stock is a must-have tool.
Will definitely try out this color combo. Very striking.
I love these Cosmos! What should be called “happy flowers”! Just brings a smile to my face!!
Very pretty layering die set! Great shapes and sizes! Lovely samples Team! Thank you for the inspirations!
I have always liked Cosmos. These are also beautiful. I like the hint about leaving the foliage as texture with the same color as the background so as not to take away from the glorious blossoms. The gold splatter and sequins are the perfect embellishment. Thanks for the inspiration
Beautiful card and gorgeous designs from the team and guest designers.
Love this die set! Cosmos are one of my favorite flowers in my garden.
Gorgeous new dies and I love the vibrantly beautiful card!
I have recently discovered card making. I am so into it! It is really very nice to see your methods!
Such and interesting use of color! I think I love this set already. On to see what others have done with it.
I’ve looked at all the gorgeous inspiration from the designers and have fallen in love with this new CAF Cosmos. Many have used the water color medium for crafting their flowers and really shows off the technique to make these beautiful flowers their own.
Love this cosmos die collection!
Such a beautiful CAF addition! We have the yellow wildflower Cosmos flowering by the roadsides atm. They’re so pretty. Gorgeous card! 🙂
The coral Cosmos against the dark green background is spunning
Oooo that is a really nice layering set. The evergreen is an unexpected choice but it pairs really well with the peach.
I love the beautiful dark green background. It shows the dies to perfection
What a beautiful Craft-A-Flower set! Gorgeous color combo on Emily’s card!