Laurel Beard

Influencer, Brand Ambassador, Blogger, Designer, Youtuber

Altenew March 2020 Stamp/Die/Stencil Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Greetings everyone! Today I have loads of cards to share with you all celebrating the Altenew March Release! Blog Hop means giveaways and prizes and loads of inspiration. You should have hopped over from Sveta Fotinia!  If you get lost along the way, head to the Altenew Blog! Alrighty! Let’s get on to my projects!! To see the full release, complete with paper and ink and dies and more stamps, click HERE!

 

Each card features different florals sets from the release along with different techniques. First up, masking – sort of! I just stuck a rectangle piece of paper in the middle of the card and painted a border. Easy right?

This floral is from the All Things Orange stamp set.

Next up, some Wildflower Doodles and Altenew Inks…. I simply stamped images over and over, some overlapping!

The “sun” is from the Spheres and Spirals stamp set…..

More Wildflowers……

And lastly, a sunset inspired card using an image and sentiment from the All Things Orange stamp set.

I love this sentiment. Especially during this time where it seems the whole world is shutting down temporarily.

Next up on the hop is:  Laurie Willison

GIVEAWAY/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 3/22/2020 for a chance to win.  We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $20 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 3/24/2020.

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Do you succ? Video, Giveaways and more!

Do you succ? I’ve got a great video to share with you today using the brand new Mondo Succulents stamp set and some other new goodies from the latest Ellen Hutson Release! I am part of a super fun blog hop complete with prizes! You should have arrived from Kelly’s blog!

I have a video that walks you thru the entire shebang from beginning to end creating two very different cards using the same stamp set. Welcome to the world Mondo Succulent Stamp Set……

 

Now let’s take a close up look at the cards. The first one stamp the succulent as it is intended. I love it because it looks like I masked areas of the stamp to create this succulent in a pot, but nope! It’s one stamp.

To jazz up the card further, I took the brand new Essential Squares die (NO CUTTING A PART THE DIES REQUIRED – YES YES YES), laid the right onto my watercolored piece and cut… The center square I popped up with some foam dimension. Cool, eeh????

The second card features the exact same stamp, just carefully colored with watercolor markers in small areas to create a totally different look. I didn’t want to take the time to paper mask (because I’m lazy) so doing it this way was perfect. Check out the video to find out how you can do this too!

And the sentiment? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! The Succulent Sentiments stamp set has so many funny sentiments it was hard to choose!

 

GIVEAWAY
We’ve got super fun prizes!!! One random & lucky commenter will win $25 to the EH shop and one will win the whole March Essentials by Ellen release!!! To enter for a chance to win, make sure to leave comments at each stop along the hop! Comment before Thursday, March 12th at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be notified by email.

 

Next on the hop is Emily Midgett!

 

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Altenew Educator “For the Love of Flowers” Blog Hop and Linky Party + Giveaway

Two very different floral cards is happening today Yep!  Before I get on to my projects, I wanted to welcome you to the FOR THE LOVE OF FLOWERS BLOG HOP! I hope you have arrived from Vicki Finger!!  Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 3 lucky winners! More on that in a bit! Also, for the next 24 hours, you can save 15% on ALL stamp & Die bundles by clicking HERE!

Here is a look at the first card I made using the Wallpaper Art stamp set and coordinating dies. 

Let’s start with the colorful florals against that black background. Nom Nom!!! I am using the brand new artist Altenew Watercolors. I love the color variety in this 24 pan set. I colored the large florals, die cut them and the foliage that I heat embossed in black and adhered it to a card base.

 

And look closely. I added some score lines to the black card base for a little extra extra.

 

Next up, I created a card using the Peaceful Reverie stamp set and coordinating die. I added a wash of watercolor to the background and then adhered the florals with some foam dimension!

I like the dots layer….

Next up on the hop is Teri Stokes!!

GIVEAWAY:  Please leave a comment here on the Altenew Card Blog by 3/11/2020 for a chance to win. We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog on 3/14/2020. There’s MORE! We will pick 2 of our favorite handmade creations from those who joined the linky party and they will each receive a $15 gift certificate to our store!

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Enjoy 15% off today only (click here)!

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Funny Happy Birthday Cards

Sometimes, all you need a good ‘ole sentiment to make some really fun birthday cards! For these cards, I used the sentiments from the That Thing You Did sentiment set from Ellen Hutson and hand painted some birthday cakes and make some really great, and funny, birthday cards! This first card is my favorite because I love the white cake against the gold washed background.

This next card features a few painted stripes to form the cake and then the addition of flowers and leaves here and there. Yes, I need to work on painting leaves.. They sorta look like blobs right now, but hey… the sentiment is funny.

 

 

If you aren’t a painter, you can draw the cakes with a pen or even some Crayola markers. Get creative! The recipient will love it…..

 

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Metallic Watercolored Amaryllis

Who doesn’t love metallic watercolored Amaryllises?  And best thing is, you need very few supplies to recreate this beauty! You don’t even need watercolored cardstock.  I stamped the flowers from Mondo Amaryllis several times with Embossing ink onto regular black cardstock and heat embossed using Wow’s Ultra Fine white embossing powder. Then I watercolored them with Altenew’s Metallic watercolors…. It’s so shiny and so pretty! Once that was all dry, I die cut them with the coordinating die and layered them onto a card base.  The sentiment is from the Totally Random Sayings 1 stamp set. I love the bold, thick font. I heat embossed with the same ink and embossing powder as the flowers. The sentiment is popped up with some X-Press foam tape (on sale I might add).

What do you think about the metallic watercolors on black cardstock? I like that some of the black still shows thru….

Goodies used:

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