Today I have some ‘Mega’ tips in my video to share for the new release at Altenew! If you are hopping along you should have arrived from FLORA’s fabulous blog.
I have two cards and one video, starting with a very clean & simple design using the Neighborhood Stamp Set. This is a fun set with some great elements and sentiments and I decided to use just a portion of the main street image.
I added a subtle background by embossing the Pegboard Canvas Cover Die and popped up a Heart Beat red sentiment.
I had so much fun creating my second card using the background Mega Succulent Stamp Set and my Zigs to colour.
I thought it needed a bold sentiment so used the negative space of the Miss You die cut from some Jet Black cardstock.
I decided to film the process.
You can see my video here or Watch it in HD at Youtube.
***************************************************
Prizes:
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog by Thursday, March 29th for a chance to win. 6 winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 3/31/2018.
Also I will randomly choose a winner from the comments left on this post (only one comment per person) to win a $30 gift certificate to the Altenew online store, you have until midnight Thursday March 29th (AEST) and I will announce the winner here on Friday March 30th.
Blog Hop Order
Altenew Card Blog
Laura Bassen
May Sukyong Park
Laurie Willison
Enza Gudor
Heidi Jakobs
Erum Tasneem
Kathy Racoosin
Altenew Scrapbook Blog
Nina-Marie Trapani
Sandra Dietrich
Nicole Picadura
Vicky Papaioannou
Flora Monika Farkas
Therese Calvird
Anna Komenda
Yoonsun Hur
Kymona Tracey
Marge Yoon
Virginia Lu
Justine Hovey
Terhi Koskinen
Joni Andaya
Jennifer McGuire
Debby Hughes
Simon Hurley
Svitlana Shayevich
Lilith Eeckels
Carissa Wiley
Agnieszka Malyszek
Lydia Evans
Mayline Jung
Simon Says Stamp
I am sooo happy that you are hopping along, from here you are off to ANNA’s amazing blog. If you missed the beginning you can always start HERE. Keep hopping! Hugs
Happy New Home – Other Supplies: Copics – 0 / T0,2 / G20,24 / R05,14 / E31,33 / B000.
 Classic Crest Shop at: ALT |
 Neighborhood Shop at: ALT |
 Pegboard Canvas Shop at: ALT |
 Permanent Black Shop at: ALT | EH |
 Heart Beat Shop at: ALT |
 Tea Party Shop at: ALT |
 Silicon Mat Shop at: EH |
 Copic Markers Shop at: SB |
 Springcut Scissors 6.5″ Shop at: SB |
 MISTI Shop at: SB | EH |
 Guillotine Shop at: SB | EH |
 Paper Trimmer Shop at: SB | EH |
 Glue Tape Shop at: ALT |
 Foam Squares Shop at: SB | EH |
Miss You – Other Supplies: Zig Markers – Pale Green / Light Green / Purple.
Classic Crest Shop at: ALT |
 Jet Black Shop at: ALT |
 Foam Sheets Shop at: SB |
 Acetate Shop at: SB |
 Mega Succulent Shop at: ALT |
 Miss You Shop at: ALT |
 Embossing Ink Shop at: ALT | EH |
 Fluorescent Green Shop at: ALT |
 Heat Tool Shop at: EH |
 Crystal Katana Shop at: OTH |
 Clear Droplets 4mm Shop at: OTH | EH |
 Clear Droplets 6mm Shop at: OTH | EH |
 Zig Clean Color Shop at: SB | EH |
 Silver 4 Shop at: EH |
 Faber Castell – Water Cup Shop at: SB | EH |
Springcut Scissors 6.5″ Shop at: SB |
 Mini Blossom Shop at: ALT |
MISTI Shop at: SB | EH |
Guillotine Shop at: SB | EH |
Paper Trimmer Shop at: SB | EH |
 Precision Tip Shop at: SB | EH |
 Multi Medium Matte Shop at: SB | EH |
Glue Tape Shop at: ALT |
 Foam Squares Shop at: SB | EH |
 Scor Tape 1/8 Shop at: SB | EH |
Love this new release! Beautiful cards!
Your cards are fantastic ! The flower is stunning !
Therese, I adore your neighborhood… I want to live in the tiny red one – hoping you live in one of those on either side!!! I know this succulent is going to be hard to resist – or maybe not? off to watch!
=]
Therese, this is amazing! The touches of purple brought it to life. You’re genius.
Great cards. I love the little street scene!
Love your cards. Great release from Altenew. Thanks for sharing…
Love all you make, but especially when you are working with Altenew. Now I have to make some choices has what to buy. TFS
The succulent flower is absolutely stunning! Lovely!
luv your use of the green embossing powder on the succulent!! OH NO! another “need” the neighborhood set…….
Gorgeous inspiration = longer shopping list! Thank you for the smile-making showcases!
~carol
Your succulent turned out beautiful. I also love your neighborhood card. TFS!
Love the Succulent coloring
The succulent is my favorite of the release. Love you card using zigs.
Beautiful creations and wonderful colouring. Thank you for sharing.
Your new home card is just so sweet, Therese! Beautiful design. But, that succulent card…SWOON! Absolutely gorgeous!
The colors in the succulent card are fantastic. I really enjoy your blog.
such pretty cards – love your coloring:)
Love your succulent card!
Beautiful cards! Love the tiny neighborhood one and the succulent is just gorgeous.
Gorgeous cards! Love the bright colors and the designs. Thanks for the how to!
Lovely cards! I am inspired. Each stop on the hop gets better and better. The coloring on the succulent card is fabulous!
Love your two cards. The first one is very simple, but with lots of interest added in the embossed pegboard background. The second one is beautiful with terrific Zig water-coloring and love how the negative die cut image is used. TFS your talent and great technique ideas!
That succulent stamp is stunning and I love how you used the die cover plate to emboss. Very cool!
Beautiful cards!! The first one is super adorable and the coloring on the second one is just stunning, love the new “Mega Succulent” set. 🙂
Your neighborhood card is really sweet, and I loved your use of the mega succulent design. That one is a bit tricky to use, I would think, but your card is beautiful. Thanks for the tips! 🙂
Wowza! Your succulent is amazing!! I really like the style of the Neighborhood stamp set.
I love that neon green embossing powder! It goes so well with the zigs green. I have to get this stamp!
That little neighborhood is adorable.
Your second card
is lovely and I love the
neighborhood card! It
is just adorable.
Carla from Utah
Wow your cards are so striking, absolutely beautiful!
Awesome card, zigs worked great.
Wonderful cards! I love how the little neighborhood pops against the white dotted background.
Thanks for the inspiration these cards are amazing!
I love your style! The house card is wonderful
Your creations are always wonderful. The new large succulent stamp is very interesting and certainly has many uses. Thank you for your video.
The new home card is really cute
These are lovely cards! The Mega Succulent really makes a bold statement and is so modern and fresh.
Your cards are lovely. I really like the embossed background on the New Home card. Thank you for the inspiration.
Beautiful examples. Thanks for sharing.
So beautiful!
I love how you used these products, I especially love the second card, fabulous!
Your creative mind coupled with Altenew’s wonderful products equals perfection in my mind!
That card is just WOW! Love the rose with the miss you negative space. So very pretty!
Great cards. Love the embossed background on the first one.
slrdowney at hotmail dot com
Wonderful cards. Love your home card and love your succulent coloured in green.
Love the giant flower!!
WOW! What an amazing release! I absolutely love the floral stamps – especially the sweet rose bouquet – and I love to stitch on cards, so I can’t wait to get the cross stitch die. Thanks for all the inspiration! Your cards never disappoint!
Absolutely GORGEOUS succulent and I love how you added the embossed background to your ‘neighborhood’ card…so sweet!
So lovely 🙂
I adore your sweet little house card!!
Gorgeous!!! I love this release!!
Beautiful coloring on the succulent! Thanks for sharing.
I love how you have embossed the background with the pegboard die. I keep forgetting you can use dies to emboss. I just love the simple look of the new home card. Very inspirational
I really really love this stamp image! It’s going to the top of my list after watching your video!!!
Super cute cards! They are lovely!
Your cards are stunning!
What a beautiful succulent card! I’m really thinking about ordering that stamp! So much fun!
those houses are adorable.. thank you inspiring me!
Great release!!
Wow, love the succulent card.
The greens are so beautiful and I really like the fact that it fills a whole card front.
Already on my Altenew wish list!
Love both the cards you’ve created.
Cheers
Lisa
Beautiful cards!! That pegboard die isn’t pretty awesome!
STUNNING cards… those little houses are darling.
I have a succulent in my back yard that I love and care for, which means having a love/hate relationship with a Cardinal that comes to chew the leaves and eat them. He’s lucky that he’s so pretty. ha-ha Cute cards.
Thanks for sharing such lovely projects.
This is lovely! I love the coloring. I also like the negative space sentiment. It looks really nice. I enjoyed your video as well. I wish I had these markers.
Just lovely!
Stunning card!
Love that house card!
Sure would love to win…
I love your cards, they are amazing!
Gotta get the zigs out! The succulent stamp is a good one for it. TFS your wonderful creations.
Such pretty cards – love these new sets.
That mega succulent stamp is so lovely. Excited to see you use it.. I love your new home card as well, the prettiness of simplicity is the style I am drawn to ..
great cards
Cute “happy new home” card!
Your card is just stunning. Love the use of green.
Your cards are beautiful, Altenew has done it again, great release.
love the way you colored that new succulent stamp and the “new home” card is so cute!!
Absolutely gorgeous cards! Your new home card is just adorable and I will be watching your video when I get home from work 🙂
Love your cards.
The way you colored that succulent is stunning! I love how you used a touch of purple. And the color of embossing powder added some fun! Thank you!
Great new tools! Wow your succulent is amazing! Really appreciate the techniques shared in the video!
Therese, you’ve used two of the three favourites I have in this release & I just love what you did with them! The neighbourhood is such a cute die & I adore the mega succulent too. You coloured it so very well. Thanks for the video.
Love your card it’s amazing so realistic.
OMG what you did with the succulent is nothing short of gorgeous!
What a beautiful card!
Fabulous cards!! Love this new release. Love the Neighborhood stamp set!
What a great stamp. I really like succulents and embossing with green, great idea. That card is awesome Therese. Love watching you work.
Aren’t the zigs fun to color and blend with….lovely job!
Your watercoloring of the succulent is beautiful! The resulting card is so lovely! Really like this stamp!
Great cards! You have a very appealing clean design aesthetic.
Love the new release and your wonderful cards. Especially like the succulent.
Wonderful cards! The first one…such a sweet card (and I’m not usually a fan of buildings, but love this one). The succulent….what can I say…I’m a wee bit partial. LOVE it. Beautifully done ♥
Both your cards are just so amazing.I am head over heels in love with your neighborhood card and the perfect little scene you have created there…Your coloring on the succulent is beautiful too.
You are such an amazing designer!!
Using that green embossing powder for this stamp was a genius idea….love the look of your card…absolutely gorgeous…!!
Such a stunning card! I really like how you used the florescent green embossing powder for that extra pop of color. Since I have that embossing powder and the zig markers I’m stealing your idea as soon as i can order the stamp!😁. BTW, succulents have leaves so you were spot on with your guessing. TFS. I’m a loyal follower who is always watching my inbox for videos from you!!
A fabulous new release from Altenew! I’ve commented on the succulent card via youtube, but I’m back to compliment you on the clean and simple New Home card – I just love it! That happy red is super – especially in the sentiment!
Awesome cards! Love that Neighborhood Stamp Set!
Stunning card.
Beautiful cards! Love your use of colors…
Very beautiful cards from a great release. I especially love the succulent card with the pretty coloring and the use of negative space for the sentiment.
Terrific cards. I love the neighborhood stamps. It makes such a nice card for a new neighbor or someone getting a new house. Thanks for sharing!
I’m absolutely loving that succulent image! Can’t get enough.
Beautiful card! Nice water coloring with zig markers.
Awesome cards! Thank you for the inspiration!
Oh Therese. These cards are so pretty love them all. Great fabulous creation . Love the embossed background and the waster colored rose.
WOW – FABULOUS cards!
LOVE the texture and sweet little houses, ADORE your STUNNING miss you and creative negative sentiment!
Thank You for sharing and INSPIRING 🙂
PS – I had two favourites from this release (the Cross Stitch Canvas Die & the Dearest Friend stamp set) but have to confess that the more I hop along, the longer my wish list grows
Seriously beautiful cards! I love the clean look of the first card, and the stunning colouring of the succulent!
I love all of the new ideas!
Just adore both the cards.
Love what you’ve done with the succulent stamp though. The colours are amazing and really enjoyed how you’ve used the reverse image of the word die, so very clever.
Cheer
Lisa
Love this new release. So many great ideas. TFS
Oh my goodness Therese your neighbourhood card is adorable, ♥ it! Of your you did an amazing job on your succulent, just gorgeous.
Loving all the textures!
With the risk of repeating myself I just love your work, your style and your kindness – great cards and such a great company to work with – Altenew is so innovative no wonder they are so popular
Great cards!! I love how you colored the Mega Succulent!!
I love how you used the pegboard cover die to add texture to the happy home card…what a wonderful way to add texture. The mega succulent card is GORGEOUS! I absolutely love the coloring you did and using the negative space for the greeting was a great touch
Great texture on the first and love the big succulent card.
Love this release and your cards. The little house scene is adorable and I love the background you paired with it too. Beautiful job.
Your cards are awesome! The succulent worked out so well.
The card using the neighborhood stampset is soo perfect ! Your cards are lovely thank you so much for sharing .
Love the succulent die and the way it covers the front of a card. You bought it to life with your colouring, amazing. Di.
That is one seriously beautiful stamp, and you have given me the courage to attempt to paint those colors. I keep wondering how to get the pink tips without making a muddy color, but it seems to work ok, so I am willing to give it a try! Thank you.
I really like the card you created with the neigborhood stamp set. TFS!
I always look forward to seeing what you’ve created when you participate on Altenew blog hops. You have an fun ability to put a fun twist on using the supplies in a somewhat unexpected way. Love todays cards – you absolutely lived up to my expectations – these cards have the unexpected touches and are beautiful!
Love your cards! The greens you used for the succulent are just perfect! Stunning.
The cards are just beautiful…. great new products, want them all.. TFS
Wow! That succulent is so gorgeous and bold. I love your water color technique and tips along the way. It turned out beautifully. Thank you for sharing.
The first card is adorable, how cute! The second card is very nice as well, I also love the mega succulent stamp.
Your shading on the succulent image is just wonderful…perseverance certainly pays off! I really also like the Pegboard Canvas CD…it looks wonderfully useful, this is a HUGE hop! I will have to set some hours aside to go visiting, Dix
Loved this…
Stunning succulent card & the tiny houses are adorable! Love them both!
Gorgeous card!! Love your color choices-perfect!!!
Love your cards. The houses are cute and I love the flower.
Oh My Goodness! I love the large succulent and the small Neighborhood stamp.
Lovely cards – they are so different and so beautifully designed.
How utterly sweet!
Beautiful cards. That succulent is amazing. Thanks for sharing
I love the result – what a great coloration!
What a sweet little neighbourhood, Therese … delicious background texture! Your succulent is stunning … there’s such a fantastic sense of depth and dimension to your colouring … loved seeing it all happen! Hugs, Anita 🙂
Love that succulent, and I always enjoy your videos.
Love the fun that you share. Wish i could spend a few days card making with you
Awesome cards I especially LOVE THE MEGA SUCCULENT CARD!
That Mega Succulent card is awesome! Every card I’ve seen with that stamp is so fun and unique!
Loving all the white space on the first card, the houses are darling, and the succulent is just so bold and beautiful in the second!
Such beautiful cards – I particularly like the Succulent! I am rather new to cardmaking and certainly learned from you well-done video. Thanks!
Wonderful cards. Loved your cards especially the succulent
Fantastic cards! Just the crispness of color and wonderful CAS layout of the first. The second is just stunning with the wonderfully colored succulent.
love your cards! Love this release! Thanks for the inspiration.
A fabulous video for a beautiful card ! Love your green embossing, so cool to outline the succulent petals. And I love your creative way for the sentiment. Stunning showcase. Thanks for sharing !
I always love your ideas and am so glad you usually have videos too. I love this mega succulent. I am going to have to get that in my mailbox 🙂
Therese, am in love with your warm and sweet home card! The succulent card is gorgeous too!! Am so enthralled with the inspiration of this talented line up of designers!
I love that card with the street scene, very cute indeed. The cactus stamp looks great and I think using that bright green embossing powder was quite inspired. Thanks for sharing the video.
I am in love with both of your cards, Therese! That first card is just so cute…I love cards with a lot of white space! And the succulent card is colored so beautifully…it is a real eyecatcher!! Thanks so much for making a video that shows us how you made these very creative cards. I so appreciate it!!
Love the colors. Cute cards! Thanks for sharing!
Love both of your cards Therese! I really enjoyed watching you watercolour the succulent with the Zigs and it turned out beautifully!
Gorgeous! I appreciate the video showing the steps. You made it look doable!
Two very different cards, and both are wonderful!
That succulent is gorgeous, Therese, and the green embossing powder was the way to go. I have a tendency to blend out my Zigs too much so I enjoy picking up tips as I watch you color.
Hi Therese. LOVE your designs as always. Am loving this release with all those fabulous stamps and dies, but find I keep getting drawn to the Hope stamps and dies. ANOTHER product for my wish list, which is becoming ridiculously l o o o o n g. Thanks for your inspiration. Am going hunting back through your designs for your grey flower and leaf cards. I’ve never thought of using greys, but your designs have just stuck in my head and I’ve started colouring / cutting greys, but I’m not satisfied with my designs, so off to find yours for more inspiration, hehehehe. TFS. BEv.
I’m back again – so sorry. I found your grey and purple peony 3d die card, but I’m really rotten on the computer, and I’m sure you have done others as well with the grey flowers. That one stuns me every time I look at it. I wonder if you’d mind if I tried to replicate it? I don’t have the same cardstock, so it wouldn’t be exactly the same. Anyway, won’t do anything about it until you say I can. Do you have somewhere I can find all your cards? Sorry, I’m a giant pain in the butt, I know.
Hi Bev,
It would make me very happy if you CASE’d my card design, that’s why I put them out there and that’s where I get inspiration too. What a wonderful community we have, and if you want to, I would love to see your design! Have a fabulous day, Hugs Therese
I love your cards Therese.
Fantastic cards. Love the little houses.
Beautiful cards, lovely neighborhood card.
Using the green embossing on the succulent was perfect. Lovely colouring as well. Plus your other card is just lovely too
Such cute little houses. In the second card I love the contrast between the green and black.
I’m glad you stuck with it through the ugly hot mess stage of the watercolouring process – the finished result looks awesome
You’re water colouring was so worth the little hassle hot mess stage as the finished result is soooooo brilliant, wish even my hot messes looked as good as yours, must mail you a shot of a real oow ! Loving the neighborhood die, really needed that 6 months ago when my daughter got her first ‘ adult’ house.
Beautiful creations!! The new home one is amazing! Thanks for sharing your inspirations with us 🙂
Lovely projects! Thank you!
I’m coveting the cross stitch and the canvas cover dies because I like how they are so versatile. I like how you embossed it to get a completely different look for the background of your card.
Wonderful ideas! TFS!
Wonderful cards. Beautiful coloring on the Mega Succulent card.
Beautiful coloring of the succulent! Love the village card and the background.
I loved the elegance of “happy new home”. the embossed white background made your die cuts and coloring stand out even more so! Thank you!
Your cards are fab, love your idea for the first card. Unique and amazing!
Beautiful work, I’m loving this March release, so many great things!! Thanks for sharing!!
Awesome cards! 🙂
Gorgeous cards! The embossing on the first card added a great backdrop to both the sentiment and the row of houses. Thanks for the inspiration.
Wow. I would not have looked twice at the mega succulent stamp. But watching how beautiful it became with your water coloring, I am in love with it! Thank you for all your inspiration!
Lovely cards! I am amazed at how realistic your coloring is on the succulent card ! Thanks for the video instruction.
AMAZING Inspiration!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE all of the Ideas!!
Such SWEET New Products too!!
THANKS SO MUCH for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!!
You might be the only person ever to look at that neon green and think “I could no-line with that!” 😀 But somehow, it works! The magic of soldiering on with watercolor. I really like how you got those purple shades in there. I think I would have been to scared to try it, but you can’t argue with those results! Also, what a great idea to use the negative space of the sentiment. I think that creates an entirely different look than the positive and adds a lot of interest. Thanks for sharing such a great card with us!
Gorgeous designs Therese, love both cards, love that mega succulent stamp! thanks for the inspiration!
Love your little row of houses! So sweet! Your Miss You card is lovely! I love how you used the negative for the sentiment!
Stunning card! So relaxing watching you paint 😀 Thanks for the acetate tip when using the negative space for the sentiment. ♥️
I’m going to have to have that pegboard canvas and houses stamp set… love how you’ve used them together and the succulent looks awesome too xx
Fantastic cards! Love the mega succulent!
Love the mega succulent card!
Beautiful card! I love that succulent stamp, it really makes a statement! Love the idea of using the green embossing too!
I have to get my hands on the succulent stamp! Big Bold and Beautiful!
Wonderful – love the first card. Wonderful texture!
Great cards! Like the way you used the negative for the sentiment on the succulent card.
Ahhh, that succulent. But it scares me to have to color it…
Fun projects. Love the Clean design of your new home card card. TFS
Super pretty cards..
Beautiful cards and lovely release. Thanks for the inspiration.