Hey, are you hopping? And are you having fun? I certainly am, it’s time for an Altenew Stencil and Ink Spray release and you should have arrived here from KRISTINA’s fabulous Blog!
I have three cards and a video to share with you today starting with an ombre blended background and gee these new ‘Green Valley’ Altenew inks blended so well with this stencil and it’s not my technique, because as you know blending isn’t one of my strengths lol.
I used the Feathered Stencil and I must have been on a bird kick as I stamped out one of the Birds of a Feather nestling in some Wild Ferns.
I did a simple Mountain Mist Metallic Spray with the Wavy Grid Stencil for the background and seriously, you can see the metallic shimmer IRL.
I added a Inked Rose coloured with Altenew Artist Markers and a simple sentiment from the Thinking of You Stamp Set.
My final design has a video and I share with you yet another embossing technique and the stencil I used this time is called Sunburst.
I also thought it would be fun to do some watercolouring, but I didn’t use the Altenew palette or the Waterbrush Markers… can you guess what I used???
You can see my video here or Watch it in HD at YouTube.
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Also I will be giving away a $30 gift certificate to one lucky person. All you need to do is leave a comment on this blog post. You have until the 2nd December (midnight AEST) and I will announce the winner here on December 3rd 2018.
Let’s Hop!
Now it’s time to keep hopping and you are off to visit NATHALIE’s awesome Blog! I’ve linked all the products that I used below or you can find them here at Altenew. Have the most wonderful day,
Other Supplies: Artist Markers – C002 / R702 / R823.
Prismacolor Pencils – White / Black / Aquamarine / Cool Grey 50% / Indigo Blue / Violet Blue / Goldenrod / Jasmine / Light Umber
 Classic Crest Solar White 110lb ALT |
Classic Crest Solar White 80lb ALT |
 Jet Black ALT |
 Dark Gray ALT |
 Bristol Smooth Cardstock EH |
 Foam EH |
 Feathered Leaves ALT |
 Wavy Grid ALT |
 Sunburst ALT |
 Wild Ferns ALT |
 Wild Ferns Die ALT |
 Birds of a Feather ALT |
 Birds of a Feather ALT |
 Inked Rose ALT |
 Thinking of You ALT | EH |
 Charmed ALT |
 Sunkissed Ink Spray ALT |
 Orange Cream Ink Spray ALT |
 Mountain Mist Ink Spray ALT |
 Puffy Heart Ink Spray ALT |
 Permanent Black ALT | EH |
 Embossing Ink ALT | EH |
 Firefly ALT |
 Grass Field ALT |
 Shadow Creek ALT |
 Mountain Pine ALT |
 Silver Lake ALT |
 Hazelnut ALT |
 Ultraviolet ALT |
 Volcano Lake ALT | EH |
 Green Valleys ALT |
 Gentleman’s Gray ALT |
 Delecgtable Delights ALT |
 Enchanted Garden ALT |
 Sea Shore ALT | EH |
 Jet Black Spray ALT |
 Forest Glades ALT |
 Artist Markers – Set B ALT |
 Watercolor Brush ALT |
 Large Palette ALT | EH |
 Faber Castell – Water Cup OTH |
 New Day Enamel Dots ALT |
 Pure White ALT | EH |
 Heat Tool EH |
 Powder Tool EH |
 Prismacolor Pencils EH |
 Copic Multiliner EH |
 Blending Tool EH |
 Craft Sheet EH |
 Tweezers EH |
 Craft Knife EH |
 Spring Scissors EH |
 Scissors EH |
 Mini Blossom ALT |
 Bigshot EH |
 Silicon Mat EH |
 Acrylic Blocks ALT |
 MISTI ALT | EH |
 Bone Folder EH |
 Guillotine EH |
 Paper Trimmer EH |
 Mini Score Board EH |
 Precision Tip EH |
 Multi Medium Matte EH |
 Foam Squares small EH |
 Foam Squares EH |
 Painters Tape EH |
 Glue Tape ALT |
Gorgeous as usual. Wish all the delicious qualities of the ink sprays translated better in the videos. But I have every confidence that they are as gorgeous as you say they are.
Just beautiful Therese love the gorgeous oranges!!
Therere’s, adding the third color of orange gave it such vivid color. I love your bird card! Thank you for sharing💕
Love to watch you create!
So pretty! I do love using my stencils, when I remember them…
You made me giggle with this one.
You said, You can’t really see the embossing well, because it’s a clean and simple card.” You then proceeded to splatter black ink all over it.
Sorry, it made me laugh!
Nice card tho. 😉
Love your beautiful creation! What a great way to use the stencils and the sprays. Will definitely try this technique!
Beautiful projects! Great way to stretch those lovely stencils by using them to dry emboss!
Love your little bird on that cool background! So cute.
Very pretty cards. I wish I was home to be creative but I’m on break at work lol.
Gorgeous! I love stencils so much! The purple flower you did is just beautiful! Great job on the new release!
Love the embossing with these new stencils, the sprays are an added bonus. Beautiful!
So very beautiful!!
I like that you used the new inks to color the flower on the last card. Looks awesome! I bet IRL it looks even better. They all look great.
Absolutely beautiful! I love your work!
Great cards! I love them all.
Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful card, Therese! Your videos always makes me smile. Love your sense of humor…
Thanks so much for sharing your talent.
Beautiful, beautiful cards 😍
Thanks for sharing these beautiful cards.
Beautiful cards – I can’t wait to try the dry embossing technique!
Gorgeous cards, Therese! Time to shop 🙂
True confession time? I’m a hoarder too. But don’t tell anyone as I’m still in denial about it!!!!!! I am starting to push myself a bit to use what I have instead of holding on to what I have. It’s a hard habit to break. Is there a 12 Step program for a hoarding problem????!!!!!! Anyway, I often times get stuck on how to use the stencils I have. I don’t understand the block, but am well aware it’s there. So, I appreciate the reminder that using them to dry emboss is another possibility. Thanks, Therese!!
The Feathered Stencil gives such a great organic background. I forget that stencils are also little embossers. Thanks for the reminder.
Beautiful selection of cards Therese. Always inspirational. Thank you,
Your last card is my favorite! That “Charmed” stamp set has been on my wish list for so long! And I love the subtle use of the stencil underneath!
I can’t decide if I love that beautiful bird or the purple flower the most. These cards are stunning!!!!
Beautiful cards, love the dry embossed technique too! Thanks for the great reminder to get more out of those stencils. The feather stencil looks sooooo pretty with the sweet bird and I’m into to birds these days (in spring it may change to butterflies, lol).
Love the new release. And the inspiration cards are really awesome. I especially love the last card.
Gorgeous cards! Love them!
Awesome technique embossing with stencils, I must try that soon.
Love your water colored bouquet Therese, beautiful combination of pretty shades.
Thank you for the amazing video and inspiration and for the chance to win.
Hugs.
Maria Rodriguez.
I loved the way you used the Sunburst stencil to make the card’s background. I love those new spray colors and how you used them to color the flowers.
So many beautiful cards. I love all the colors and ways you use the stencils.
Beautiful cards! Love all the new products!
Your cards are so lovely!! I enjoyed your video.
Wow! Just beautiful cards as usual! 💛✨I just love your colors. (Greens and blues on your bird, aqua and lavender, and then happy oranges!) Altenew’s stencils are amazing and this new batch is no exception. Thanks for all the wonderful ideas and inspiration! 💫🌸🍀
Love your cards. thank you for the video tutorial. Stencils are amazing.
Love the cards and the new stencil ❤️
Therese, You are a wonder! This card is excellent! Your video is excellent as well! Thanks for this demo and your ability to make simple, easily understood directions!
These are beautiful. My favorite is the one with the charmed stamp set. I love that set. I like the idea of using the stencils for embossing ,because my storage for embossing folders is full and I can use my stencils and won’t have to buy more folders (so she said…LOL!)! I can buy more stencils. That storage isn’t full yet! 🙂
Gosh, Therese … that bird in the tropical forest is gorgeous … and what a beautiful colour combo on the rose card! Love the final floral cluster against the subtle embossing … that Charmed set is in my basket at this very moment, so I’m delighted to see you colouring it and making it look so stunning! Hugs, Anita 🙂
Thanks to you for reminding me about using stencils for background! I have beautiful stencils that only have been pulled out to use with mousse or paste but this will launch me into some Christmas background ideas! Thanks to your beautiful card your shared here!
I always love the look of embossing with a stencil but never remember to do it. Thanks for reminding me.
Lovely card. Thanks for the chance.
I really love the Wavy Grid stencil and I thought your watercolor technique with sprays was genius, I would never have thought of that!
gorgeous designs – love your cards:)
Time to get out my stencils!!!!! TFS!
Wonderful cards! Great techniques with the new stencils and love all the bright colors.
Wonderful cards, fantastic new release from Altenew, and am loving your card with the embossed background (another use for our stencils) and apricot/orange flowers, it is so pretty. These spray colours are amazing. Thank you for sharing and for your inspiration Therese.
I really love the last (embossed) one!
What a great idea to watercolour with gorgeous shimmery sprays. Love the bold bright colours Therese. Thanks for showing how to emboss with a stencil.
Great birthday card!
these are stunning
Beautiful cards as always. Love the second card where the stencil fades into splatter, very cool!!
Love all the cards that you made. I love to watch you color in real time, you seem so relaxed and enjoying the process.
Well very pretty indeed. I had a laugh as I thought I was the only nutcase who took out paper admired it and put it away again with out cutting it out. I do the same with quilting material… it cheers you up and then you can put it all away again for next time you need a pick me up.
Pretty cards – thanks for showing how to emboss with stencils – never knew to try that!
Beautiful cards! The sprays work so well as colouring media!
Beautiful!!
Hi Therese from another impatient crafty hoarder😁. Gorgeous cards as usual….. I just love that little bird. Tfs
Wow just aweome cards such talent
Another beautiful and amazing group of cards crafted with the new products! I really like your work!
Thank you for sharing your cards. I love what you did with the feathered stencil. And also appreciate the stencil embossing video.
Therese you always produce such clean and beautiful cards. Love Altenew designs and products
very pretty card, but over 3 days!!! I thought I was the only one that did things like that .. haha .. also love the new release stencils, would love to see more about how to use them creatively
The bird card is adorable. And your coloring of the orange cards is great – a good reminder that metallic sprays can be used in a different way.
Were! Thanks for demonstrating how to emboss with stencils. I’d heard of that a long time ago but it’s just one of those things I’ve never tried. Now I will! Just lovely cards here. Thanks so much for the inspiration.
I had never thought of dry embossing with my stencils. Super genius idea. And I LOVE the ink sprays. I only have two and just used them for the rare journal page. Thanks for all the inspiration!!
I enjoyed your video. Thanks for sharing your embossing technique.
Wow! The Feathered stencil sure looks great with the Wild Ferns. Each of your stencil projects look wonderful and thanks for the stenciling tips.
Beautiful purple flower. Thanks for the video.
Love the bird card! Well, I love all of the cards, but the bird is so adorable. thanks for another great video, too.
These cards are beautiful! The colors are so shimmery on these sprays and there are some great stencils.
You did a lovely job showcasing this new release with your cards
Each card is very lovely! I was happy to learn how to use the stencil as an embosser and OMGosh! Watercoloring with the inks! Gorgeous and very cool!
So beautiful yet again Therese! I havent yet tried the ink sprays, but they look sparkly and awesome. The inked rose stamp looks beautiful coloured up too.
Keep up the fantastic work, absolutely love your tutorials.
T x
Your cards are all very lovely.
Beautiful, beautiful,beautiful. I love embossing with stencils. It gives such a subtle but elegant background.
I loved the card you did on you tube! I have tried to emboss with my stencils but so far it has not worked. So now I know to try a little thicker shim! Thank you for sharing your techniques with us!
Beautiful card have to try embossing like your card.
Fantastic cards. The first is my favorite.
Temperature is down in the low 20s and the
tropical feel of that card helped warm me.
thanks for sharing
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Each one of these cards is beautiful, but the colors in the Charmed card speak to my heart!!!! 😍❤
I’ve never dried embossed before but it looks like fun, and I like that the new sprays.
Beautiful cards and video! I will have to try using the sprays to watercolor as I do love to watercolor.
I love the watercolor with the spray it is just so happy
I love how you used the oranges and pinks in those flowers. Your a very talented card maker. Love your sense of humor. Good luck!
Love your cards! The Feathered leaf stencil card with the little bird jumps right out at me.
Pretty stuff! It’s interesting how adding black splatter to the background just dials up the whole design. Luv it!
Adorable scene and lovely coloring. I love what you created!
Beautiful cards!! I love your use of stencils! <3
Love your cards! I have never embossed with a stencil so I really enjoyed your video. I am loving this release. Can’t wait to try some new things!
You always create cards that give me inspiration to try some new techniques. Each of these is lovely so I’ll definitely be blending & embossing with stencils in the near future.
Oh my that bird is gorgeous!
Love that you water colored with the ink sprays. I haven’t tried them yet, didn’t realized they had shimmer. They are now on my wish list.
Your cards are fabulous! Like you, I fell in love with the orange spray. The stencils you used are some of my favorites. Thanks for the inspiration.
Totally love your first card.I think that bird nestled in the greenery is just brilliant..You have showcased the the stencils so well from this release .All three of your cards are fabulous !
Your cards are beautiful and love the dry embossing technique with the stencil. You amaze me with your brilliant ideas.
All the cards are fabulous and loved the watercolouring of your flower with the sprays. The embossed background turned out so pretty
I haven’t watched the video yet as I’m a little behind, just now watching your inlaid die cut video but did you use the ink pads? Love your cards and especially the last one, looking forward to that video! Thanks so much for the inspiration!
I have never thought to use my stencils like this. The new sprays are Awesome. Thankyou for sharing these beautiful cards
Love the way you used the stencil in the last card (yes I watched a video! – insert embarrassed face cause I don’t always – sorry!). All 3 cards are gorgeous.
Loved the video! Great tip on drying between layers…such a beautiful result if we’re patient enough. Love the new ink sprays and stencils.
Gorgeous cards! I love how you used the Sunburst stencil for dry embossing!
Love the green in your first card. The background stencil.
Pretty card. Those inks look very pretty n
Great cards. I like the tropical look of the first one.
Wonderful video about using a stencil for embossing. Nice to know I can watercolor with the spray inks.
Beautiful card, and terrific video. Love that subtle detail that the dry embossing adds! And, I hoard patterned paper too!
All of your cards are amazing! I especially love the first one, the little birds fits so perfectly on your background!!
WoW! These are all so beautiful! I can’t even begin to choose a favourite. You’ve done it again Altenew. And these cards are simply beautiful!
Beautiful card ideas!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Beautiful cards!
These cards are so pretty. Love who you use these stencil
Gorgeous cards! Beautiful and creative use of the new stencils.
Beautiful cards! I love the combination of the wavy stencil with the metallic spray. Thanks for the inspiration.
Wonderful – you chose the perfect stencils for your card designs! Stencils are so fun and versatile – so much one can do with them! And they’re inexpensive, too! 🙂
I love stencils and these new ones are so wonderful. Love your lovely bird on those green feathers. Great color. Happy stenciling…..
Such lovely cards! Lovely colors, too.
Beautiful cards – Love the green stenciled background – it does make me think of wavy leaves/palm fronds, so is a lovely match with the bird and leaf image!
So creative Therese – three gorgeous cards all unique. Love your work…
Loved the watercolor with the inks! Hooray for orange!
I realize the focus of this bloghop is the stencils and ink sprays (which are lovely), but I have to mention how much I love the soft coloring of your bird. It looks amazing; I just want to keep staring at it! And the way that the feathered background and the fern stamp set work together is just lovely. Thanks for sharing with us!
Fantastic cards! That feather stencil was perfect for the bird theme and looks great. I love the metallic spray on your second card. It is a stunning card. I’ve never thought about water coloring with the sprays. What a cool idea! I’m going to have to try that.
Who knew you could watercolor with sprays?!? What a great idea! Your card turned out beautifully. Thanks.
Absolutely stunning card, I love your water colouring
Wonderful video and the use of the sprays for watercolor. So much patience….waiting for colors to dry. Love them!
Your cards are beautiful! I am new to card making and had no idea what dry embossing was until I saw your video. I love the sunburst stencil and now have a new technique to try!
As always, your creations are just so pretty. What a fantastic ideas to use your sprays to watercolor. A good way to stretch your supplies.
Therese, you always make such beautiful cards. I love the way you used the sprays on the stencils. What a great technique. Keep bringing us new ideas!!
Beautiful cards! Thanks so much for the great video. I didn’t know I could emboss with my stencils. Didn’t realize the ink sprays could be used to watercolor either. Thanks!
Your cards are always gorgeous!
Fabulous cards! I love the different techniques you used with the stencils!
Beautiful cards! Altenew never disappoints with the great stamp and die sets. Love them!
This bloghop is very inspiring! So many beautiful creations. Happy to be a crafter!!
These are gorgeous cards
Aw, the little bird is so sweet!
I am really loving this new release, the stencil embossing looks just beautiful!
So much new fun.
Beautiful cards! I love these stencils and ink sprays- it’s amazing how much you can do with both of these products! You’ve reminded me to emboss with my stencils.
So glad I went back to the beginning to review each of the participants as somehow I missed you the first time through Therese. Loved the ‘waiting for the ink to dry’ comment. Bit like waiting for paint to dry, or grass to grow. I had a good chuckle 🙂
I’ve tried ink sprays before but I always make such a mess — I love the idea of water coloring with them. I also love the dry embossing with stencils technique. Your cards are so gorgeous as are these wonderful new stencils and ink spray colors.
Stunning cards! Thanks for the inspiration! Love the first one!
These cards are beautiful! Love your technique for using the stencils to emboss! Thanks for sharing these with us.
Love your cards and video (always).
Your cards are delightful. Loving these stencils.
I think your cards are a breath of fresh air, the colors are so light it just makes one happy looking at them. By the way, Merry Christmas and I hope everyone has a lovely holiday!
beautiful cards…
Gorgeous cards, I always really enjoy watching your video’s, you make them fun & full of advice. Thank you for sharing another.
I love the grid and mountain mist spray look! Looks so pretty
I love how you use small details, like the embellishments and the use of the bird. Very creative!
Beautiful cards. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful cards as always! I especially love the little bird, so adorable. Thank you for sharing and the always amazing inspiration. (mardy14@bellsouth.net)
What a great way to use the new Altenew inks and stencils. Ingenious. Opens up a new world for us. Gorgeous cards.