Hello and welcome to Altenew Build-A-Flower: Flourishing Zinnia Blog Hop. We’re celebrating the release of September Build-A-Flower set – Flourishing Zinnia.
You probably came from Enza Gudor blog. If not – you may consider starting from the beginning at Altenew Card Blog and see what other members of Altenew design team and guest designers have created. There are so many beautiful projects from talented designers. Also you on each stop you you have a chance to win a prize.
BUILD-A-FLOWER FLOURISHING ZINNIA
This new set features a flourishing zinnia elegant flower with five layering pieces to achieve a beautiful, detailed result. Zinnias come in a variety of colors so you can pick your favorite Altenew inks from pinks, reds, and purples, to greens, yellows, and oranges. In addition to the main flower, you can use the layered leaf image to complement your design and an encouraging sentiment to finish your card.
This special product is only sold as a set, not individually.
PROJECT
When I started making a card I wanted it to be a fall card. So I went to yellow inks to stamp the flower.
So I stamped the flower using yellow inks from Pocketful Of Sunshine Dye Ink Set and Jet Black for the flower center. I also stamped the leaves using Evergreen, Forest Glades and Frayed Leaf Dye Inks.
When it came to choosing the background I went through the ready to go backgrounds in my stash (in other words – created for another project but never made it into a project and saved for later) and found a blue one. Made by blending Ocean Waves Dye Ink onto a white panel.
Then I made a die-cut of Layered Medallions Cover Die B out of white cardstock to place between the flower and blue panel. But I didn’t like how it look. So before discarding this idea I decided to trim the outer part of the die cut (also known as a die-cut haircut :)) And in this shape it worked for me.
After that I foam mounter the panel onto a white card base, foam mounted the medallion die-cut onto the panel, followed by adhering the flower onto the medallion.
The sentiment, white embossed on black cardstock and mounted onto the card finished it off.
PRIZES
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to six lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog for a chance to win. Three winners will be announced on the Card Blog, and other three winners will be announced on the Scrapbook Blog on 10/9/2018.
I will also randomly choose a winner from comments left on this post and the prize will be $20 gift certificate to Altenew online store. Please leave a comment on this post by 10/6/2018 at 11:59 PM EST for a chance to win. I will announce the winner here in this post on 10/7/2018.
WINNER
The winner of $20 Gift Certificate is Tammy Hanson.
Congratulations!
I will be e-mailing you instructions of how to claim your prize.
Thank you everyone for your lovely comments! I really appreciate your attention to my works!
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Eva N
You’ve put together a very bright & cheerful card with this new set.
Eva N
You’ve created a very bright & cheerful card with this new set.
Vivian C
This is gorgeous, thanks for sharing.
Liz O
As always gorgeous design Svitlana! Love the bold colors you chose. This is a must have set! Thanks for the inspiration!
Debbie Rumpza
I love your bright and sunshiney card!
Mendy
Just beautiful, popped right off that page!! A ray of sunshine card. 🙂
Tammy B
love the colors – they mostly blend together and the last layer just pops. nice.
Lindar C
Beautiful card! I love Altenew’s Build-a-Flower sets.
Tammy Hanson
Oh boy do I love the “haircut”. I read the entire post just to find out where that piece came from. Nicely done!
Sharon Dolan
Such a bright and beautiful card. You are vert talented.
Cynthia Evanoff
Congrats…you have made a modern zinnia that is bright and beautiful.
REBECCA YAHRLING
Very pretty, Svitlana. I love the blue & yellow color combo (and the
yellow always reminds me of my mom since it was her favorite
color). Nice design!
Lisa Byers
Svitlana, this is such a bright and cheery card. Very beautiful and I just love the background.
Rose Mary Smalley
A bright and beautiful card. Thank you so much for sharing your work.
Jean Marmo
Another gorgeous flower and card!
Emmaline
Such a bright, happy card! Beautiful!
Mirella Rogan
Fantastic colours, love the combo you used on your card!
Nandini Karmarkar
Love the bold colours of the inspiration card. The new BAF set is awesome!
Haley
That truly is a awesome card! Good job
Diana B
Card really illustrates how you can’t go wrong with complementary colors.
Beverly Jordan
So bright and beautiful!!! LOve the idea of making our own blue background to make this showpiece really POP!!! <3 <# <3
Brenda Kuder
Nice card. The blue and the yellow look really pretty together.
Gilda
Love your beautiful yellow zinnia.
sandy M
As usual your card is amazing. I love the layers and especially the die-cut hair cut. Great card.
Nelya
Bright colors! The blue definitely sets this card apart from the rest (in the blog hop).
Beverly Sizemore
Your zinnia card is so pretty and colorful. I grew ten large pots of zinnias in my yard this summer from seed packets. There were easy to grow and made the prettiest fresh flower bouquets for our home (and to share with friends). Another added bonus is they attracted butterflies so win win. 🙂 Needless to say I have added this set to my want list….it needs to come live with me! Stamping zinnias would be almost as much fun as growing them! ha-ha Plus I could have them in the winter months!!! 😉
Meghan Kennihan
oooo I really like yellow and blue! What a brilliant card!
Carla Hundley
Lovely coloring and
the colors are so
bright.
Carla from Utah
Carmela Douglas Hubler
Svitlana, this is very pretty. I love your blue background which highlights the yellow Zinnia.
Carmela Douglas Hubler
Svitlana, this is very pretty. I love your blue background which highlights the yellow Zinnia. Beautiful card!!
Angela Person
Lovely, cheery card. Love this latest “Build a Flower” stamp and die set.
eileen bochsler
Svitlana- what a beautiful card! Love the bold colors.
Linda BL
Wow! What a bright cheerful card. Great card fall and also one to cheer someone up!
Kathy Ferguson
Loved your background highlighting the beautiful zinnia you created. Your card is lovely. Thanks for sharing your time and talent with us.
Dawn T
what a colourful Zinnia. Great card Svitlana
Mindy Drummond
You crack me up Svitlana – die-cut haircut. I love it LOL. Your card is awesome – fall yellows against the sea blue & white background, very striking! Thanks for sharing your card and the laugh today 🙂
Tasnim Ahmed
Love the blue and yellow- one of my favorite color combinations from my childhood 😀 I love your bright and bold cards!
Cynthia Cole
Beautiful colors choices!
Kirsty Vittetoe
Love your gorgeous card with great colors on those Zinnias.
Dee Earnshaw
stunning card – LOVE the color combo!!!!!
Tara Prince
Wow! So gorgeous!!
barbara lassiter
This is a bold and beautiful design and perfect for the zinnia. love this set.
Dana M
Bold, vibrant, graphic and fabulous!
Karthikha Uday
What a bright choice of colors! Vibrant, bold and beautiful! 🙂
Annette Reed
This card is so bright and cheery. The background looks great.
Teresa Godines #6857
Love how your flower pops off the blue background. Beautiful projects. TFS
Helen
Svitlana, I just love the cheerful colors of your card. The layers show your zinnia to perfection. tfs
Wendy Lambert
I love the bright yellow on the bright blue. What a happy card!
Jeannine
Love the color combination of yellow and blue! Very nice card!
Charlotte Deerborn
I was wondering what you used for the backdrop. Diecut haircut, very creative.
Violet Rose
Love the big bold zinnia! Nice colors!
cyndi morris
Lovely card. I love the style and the beautiful yellow zinnia.
,Mary Holshouser
The haircut was a great idea.
The die cut is more interesting
than if it was complete.
Fantastic card.
thanks for sharing
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Annalisa
I did not recognize the background with its new haircut, but I really like how it turned out. I don’t have a die cut machine, but I’ll have to try a similar concept with my stencils. The bright yellow on the bright blue is so fun and happy; your card makes me smile looking at it. Thanks for sharing!
Cathy Lillie
Such a beautiful, bold look to your card! The yellows in the Zinnia really pop on the bright blue background.
Kelsey Thomas
Love how that bright yellow pops against that blue background. 🙂
Linnea Sundstrom
great happy design!
Carol Rossouw
This is such a pretty flower with so much dimension. Love It! Thanks for the beautiful inspiration! Your colour combo is amazing!