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Welcome to Altenew’s third Blog Hop! Altenew is a relatively new stamp company that opened it’s doors in April 2014. Today they are celebrating the release of their third collection of stamps. All the stamps that you will see here are available for purchase at the Altenew store and the Simon Says Stamp store.
I’m sharing a few modern holiday cards using two of my most favorite stamps – Festive Silhouettes and Invisible Aplha. These are super flat white + black + yellow cards. I was going for a non traditional color combo.
For my first card I stamped a holiday message in the background using Soft Vanilla ink from Hero Arts and added a reindeer with a bow and an ornament on top. I did some fake stitching on my sewing machine, or I should say I only pieced holes in my stamped panel, I did not want to add stitching to this card.
I also scattered a few woodgrain looking starts from Studio Calico and adhered my panel to a yellow card base:
For my second card I reversed the design – I first stamped the reindeer in Soft Vanilla, then added a sentiment in black:
I also used my sewing machine and added some random stitching to somehow frame this piece and finally added my panel to a yellow card base:
I also have one more card to share, this one has a more traditional design and is done in white and silver:
If you’d like to know how I made these cards, please watch my video below or on Youtube. Supplies for these cards are listed at the end of this post.
Prizes!
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away five stamp sets of choice to three lucky winners! The winners will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog.
But wait, there is more! I will choose a winner from comments left on this post and the prize will be two stamps sets of your choice. You have until Friday October 31, 11:59 EST to leave your comments. You may enter up to two comments on each blog:
- Comment on the project, or the stamps.
- Like Altenew on Facebook;
The winners will be selected and announced on Saturday November 1 at 9:00 am EST. Giveaway is now closed. Winner has been announced here.
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fantastic cards, always love your videos
the white and silver card is so elegant looking
like Altenew on Fb
love how the first two cards are similar but different!
I ADORE these cards. They are so stunning and modern and trendy. A job very well done.
Love the embossing technique. Very cleaver!
Love your cards! Very cool, and different, colors for Christmas. Beautiful work!!!
WOW! Beautiful cards…I especially like the white and silver. What a great combination! I’m going to have to try it! Thanks for the inspiration!
Your cards are very pretty and on trend!
I love the silver embossing on vellum-so elegant 🙂
Beautiful cards, simply stunning. I especially like the white one.
I really enjoyed the video. I have never tried that double embossing technique. Tfs.
Very chic cards and the colours are beautiful The all white is always an elegant design but always easy to achieve. You have done a great job!
Thank you for the super instructive video! Great techniques!
So beautiful – and a very cool modern take on holiday cards.
Greetings, Christine
Fabulous cards, Yana and thank you for the wonderful video ~ so informative ~ will definitely try the double embossing! Soooo inspiring 🙂
Liked Altenew on Facebook. Headed back to your Blog to view more of your videos that I may have missed!
Lovely cards! Love your Christmas themes.
Thank you for sharing your work. I am especially attracted to your white and silver card. I am not familiar with Altenew; will be checking them out!
I like your stitching. My favorite is the silver on white card. The vellum looks pretty on that white wood grain background.
Wow! I love the Invisible Alpha set! Great modern cards!
Nice card….
Three great cards! I really like the invisible alpha stamps – so much potential!
Yana, I love these new stamps from Altenew!
Hi Yana! I love all of your projects! What a neat idea, I never thought of stamping on both sides of vellum. I can tell you had a lot of fun with these new stamps. I LOVE that shadow alpha set, it’s so cool!
white plus yellow is a awesome combination! your cards look so beauitiful and the stamps are perfects!
Thanks for the idea of stamp for both sides of vellum, looks amazing!
The cards are great. I love the random stitching. The stamping on the vellum is so pretty. I finally heat-embossed my first vellum yesterday. wonderful technique.
thanks for sharing.
I forgot to tell you that I liked Altenew on FB..
My first time seeing your video. You explain things very well and all of your cards are lovely.
Your cards are absolutely gorgeous and I really think its inspiring. THanks for sharing
I follow ya’ll on Facebook
Such cool cards! Thanks for sharing your work!
I’m an Altenew FB fan
Love all your beautiful cards Yana! They are so enjoyable to look at and super inspiring too!!! thanks for being a part of this wonderful hop!!!
I adore all the new images your used! I think my favorite is the alpha silhouettes!!! They are all SO gorgeous and wonderful! 🙂
Wonderful cards! My two favorites (because I can’t just pick one) are the white and silver card and the invisible alpha stamp. Fantastic.
I find yellow is not easy to use on a card. You did such a good job.
Great cards! Love the clean simplicity, lots of white – literally, and general design. The Invisible Alpha stamp set is one of my “most wanted”.
OMG OMG OMG!! LOVING this and the New Release!! WOWOWOWZZZEERRRZZ!! What AWESOME Inspiration!! THANKS for sharing and for the chances to win!! Have a Fabulous Halloween Weekend!! =)