Welcome to the August Subscription Blog hop! If you are following along you have come from the marvelous Mugdha Gujarathi. Your next stop is Jenny Martin or you can start at the beginning at Altenew Card Blog.
My two favorite subscriptions with Altenew are the Craft-A-Flower and the Craft Your Life Project Kits – such a great value for your money. You can see all of the Monthly Subscriptions available here: https://altenew.com/collections/marvelous-monthly-series-august-2022
This month I have a very bright and sunny card using the Craft Your Life kit: Magnolia & Blooms. I created a slim line card an coloring with the stencil to get three different colors in the flowers and two colors in the leaves. Just following the stencil guide I completed the card front. I likes the sentiment from the stamp set that says : “let you light shine through” but I modified it slightly by die cutting the word Shine with the Shine Die Set. First I cut one layer with green glitter paper and also three layers of white cardstock. I offset the green on top of the white to help give more dimension and create a small shadow on the main word of the sentiment. The rest of the sentiment was stamped from the set and just cut out.
My second card is from the Craft-A-Flower: Open Peon Layering Die Set. It’s rather unusual to see yellow and pink peonies but I have a plant received through my local Master Gardeners Club called the Itoh Peony pictured below. Every petal and every bloom is a bit different but the plant is magnificent when in bloom –usually in June.
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I tried to capture this gorgeous flower thru this set by highlighting the edges of the flowers in Buttercream ink and then using the Woodless Coloring Pencils pink pencil to draw in the texture of the petals. After layering the flower I also added a few more petals floating in the air as if the wind caught the flower. All this was added onto a white card front splattered with blue for texture and some bling.
I hope you enjoy these cards.
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I really enjoyed your projects, and the reference photo! Thank you for the inspiration.
Love these!
Gorgeous cards! The colors are lovely.
The lines on the flower look really great. I like the subtle, yet not too subtle, look.
I LOVE your slimline! GORGEOUS Cards and flowers!
Beautiful slim line card. I really like your yellow flowers. Thank you.
Oh so goreous! I love the magnolia card n yellow – so pretty!
These are so beautiful. Thanks for the inspiration.
Love this!
Gorgeous cards–love the new sets this month!
Beautiful cards. I like them all. Great choice of colors.
That’s one gorgeous peony, and what a lovely sentiment to go with it.
Thanks for sharing your lovely cards!
Awesome cards
Wow such stunning cards. I love the colors you used in the first card, it is simply amazing and gorgeous. The inspiration you used for the second card is beautiful and I believe you did a great job with your card using that picture.
Your cards are beautiful! I love the yellow magnolias!
Lovely cards! I especially love the yellow magnolias!
Look at the petals flying off in the wind. What a great detail.
Love your open Peony card. The soft colors. So pretty.
Gorgeous cards. Love all the florals.
Thanks for sharing.
I like your pretty floral cards.
Your cards are so pretty! The yellow flowers are wonderfully happy and beautiful. And the peony card is stunning.