Altenew Dynamic Die Cutting Blog Hop + Giveaway (CLOSED)

Hello and welcome to Altenew Dynamic Die Cutting Blog Hop! Today we’re celebrating Altenew Dies!

You probably came from Laurie Willison  blog. If not – you may consider starting from the beginning at Altenew Card Blog to see how other members of Altenew design team and guest designers rocking die-cutting. Also you on each stop you you have a chance to win a prize.

Die-cutting has a sweet spot in my heart. Don’t get me wrong – I love different techniques. Stamping, embossing, ink blending. But sometimes I feel like not getting out stamps at all and only play with dies.

Also.. I’m a very seasonal person and tend to have a lot of traditions related to different seasons.

Like for example the whole October I watch horror and supernatural movies to be primed for Halloween (keep in mind that I came from the country where we don’t celebrate Halloween and I only celebrate it for 4-5 years). Or for example I don’t like pumpkin taste. When I was growing up I had only a couple of products i couldn’t eat as they were totally non tasty for me. Pumpkin was one of those.
But after coming to US where fall and pumpkins are inseparable I started liking it. Of course when it comes to decor I have dozens of those around my house. And I also do pumpkin baking and cooking.

With that being said – in this season in cardmaking I’m very traditional too and when I’m thinking about a card theme it’s always fall or winter holidays.

So the card I’m sharing today as you may see is a fall one. I decided to kind of invert colors and make leaves white with the very fallish background. The technique I used here is die-cut inlay.

First I die-cut several leaves out of a white panel using dies from the With Gratitude Die Set. It’s a set of matching dies for the With Gratitude Stamp Set. But they can be totally used as standalone dies too.
With this technique you first die cut an element you want to be kind of on top. And then die cut the one located right after it. And so on. The same idea as with masking.

I also die-cut a thanks word using a die from the Script Words 2 Die Set.

After that I inked the panel using the Autumn Blaze Dye Ink. After that I added splatters of the Caramel Toffee and Jet Black Ink Sprays.

I trimmed the panel edges to make it of 5×3 3/4 and adhered onto a white card base. And then adhered all elements inside of their negative die-cuts. You can see that some white die-cuts go behind the orange panel – that’s what I was going for. When I was die-cutting them initially I new that I want to create this effect and was placing some dies pretty close to the edge.

Lastly I added several Rain Drops. Those are like round clear drops, but in a shape of a rain drop. Absolutely must have for fall cards 🙂

SPECIAL PROMOTION

Save 15% off on all dies including alphabet dies, cover dies, 3D dies, layered dies, and coordinating dies from 10/25/2018 until 10/27/2018 at 11:59 PM EDT or while supplies last. No code needed to enjoy this sale! Not valid on previous purchases.

PRIZES

Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to five lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog by Wednesday, October 31st for a chance to win. Five winners will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog on 11/4/2018.

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 11/1/2018 for a chance to win. I will announce the winner here in this post on 11/2/2018.

WINNER

The winner of $20 Gift Certificate is Barbara Walborn.

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!

GET HOPPING!

The next stop in the blog hop will be Hannelie Bester. If you got lost, please go back to Altenew Card Blog.

BLOG HOP

Altenew Card Blog

Vicky Papaioannou

Lydia Evans

Kristina Pokazanieva

Anna Komenda

Norine Borys

Kymona Tracey

Olga Moss

Heidi Jakobs

Therese Calvird

Gayatri Murali

Virginia Lu

Dana Gong

Zinia Redo

Laurie Willison

Svitlana Shayevich

Hannelie Bester

Mona Tóth

Sveta Fotinia

Sara Naumann

Isha Gupta

Agnieszka Malyszek

Laura Jane

SUPPLIES

If you’re interested in the supplies I’ve used – they’re listed below. Where available I use compensated affiliate links (which means if you make a purchase I will get a small commission with no additional cost for you). Click on the letters below to go to a favorite store: Simon Says Stamp (SSS), Studio Katia (SK), Altenew (AN), Ellen Hutson (EH), Scrapbook.com (SC), Amazon (AZ), Spellbinders (SB), etc.
I truly appreciate your support!

Altenew Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock Click A Shop: AN	Altenew With Gratitude Die Click A Shop: SSS | AN	Altenew Script Words 2 Die Set Click A Shop: SSS | AN	Altenew Autumn Blaze Dye Ink Pad Click A Shop: SSS | AN	Altenew Jet Black Ink Spray Click A Shop: SSS | AN
Altenew Caramel Toffee Metallic Shimmer Ink Spray Click A Shop: SSS | AN	Ek Success Craft Tweezers Precision Tip Click A Shop: SSS | SC | EH	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Ink Blending Tool Click A Shop: SSS | SC	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foams Click A Shop: SSS | SC	Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting And Embossing Machine Click A Shop: SSS | SC | SB
Studio Katia Clear Rain Drops Click A Shop: SSS | SK