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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How awesome are these cards great colorcombination and design. Also liked your video. Thanks for showing and the chance to win.
Lovely contemporary CAS designs! Am loving the variety of styles in the hop!
WOW! Great designs and inspiration. I just love the new stamp sets. Your cards really put you in the holiday mood and motivate to start my own holiday cards. Thanks and what a great Blog Hop!
Яна, я просто АбАжАю ваши работы – столько вкуса и чувства стиля; всегда с большим удовольствием смотрю видео, точнее всегда с нетерпением их жду. / Really, Seriously, LOVE Your Designs a LOT!!!
Love your cards and the video.
beautiful cards. great job with all of them! this release is so cool…can’t believe they’ve only been around since April.
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I like your modern look on these cards. Nice!
Like the technique of double stamping/embossing on the vellum…very effective!
I absolutely LOVE the shadow alpha!!! Thanks for the tutorial. What a great idea on how to emboss two images!
Oooh! LOVE these! I am a huge fan of Christmas cards. Thank you for the inspiration.
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Love the non traditional holiday colors of yellow and black. It’s such a festive and happy color combo.
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Lovely Christmas cards! Love the design.
Great job. I particularly like the white and silver. Itexudes class.
Love your color scheme for these cards!
Love the graphic look of your first two cards!!! And that double-embossing technique is awesome!!! Thanks so much for sharing that! I definitely want to give it a try! Brilliant!
Great use of non traditional colours with this great release. Love the last one too with the silver embossing.
I really like how both of you cards look. Nice color combo.
Wow I love the stamping you did with the letters and your cards are beautiful! I’m loving the new stamps…TFS.
Hugs and Happiness,
Briana C.
Your silver and white card is very pretty. Thanks for the chance to win.
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These cards are awesome! I love the Invisible Letters stamp set. So cool! Your vellum card is sooo awesome! I never would have thought of that! Thanx for the chance to win two stamp sets! How cool is that? 🙂
Love your cards,they are so pretty, especially the white double embossed one, I need to try that technique, thank you. These new stamps are awesome.
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What a cool alpha! I enjoyed your cards!
Awesome…love the vellum card!!
Love the new stamps!
Gorgeous cards! Lovely colours together and the white and white card is beautiful!
Looks like you had fun making these cards. Y
Thank you for a chance to win.
Love your Christmas card, they have a different feel to it! Perhaps it’s not the traditional red, green and white color Christmas card! 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
New views and traditional; you covered it all so well.
Thank you.
Your cards are always really cool and trendy! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful cards! Thank you for sharing them with us.
I love these fun cards, the alphabet and deer head are my favourites! I always enjoy your videos which are very inspiring 🙂
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Love the white on white project the best! All are wonderful!
YELLOW IS THE NEW GREEN AND RED!! Love the new color combo you’ve used =o) you inspired me!!
Fabulous cards!! I just love the alphabet set!!
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Beautiful cards–very charming!
What sweet cards. Great video. Thank you for showing us how to. I just adore those beautiful alaphabet stamps and the deer. Love the silver embossing on velumn. So nice.
Beautiful cards! Love how classy and elegant these cards look! The ornament hanging from the stag’s mouth is very cute!
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I really like that alpha set and I love the last card you did with the vellum and the tress. Neat idea to stamp one color on one side and another on the opposite.
You are so very creative, showing us very different ways to use these new products.
Love your unique style and non traditional colors for your Christmas cards.
I like how you used the same colors two different ways. They are really nice cards.
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