Hello and welcome to Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop! With this blog hop we’re celebrating our unique crafty community. This is a two days blog hop and today is the Day 1.
You probably came from Chameleon Art Products blog. If not – you may consider starting from the beginning at Altenew Card Blog and see what other participants of this cool blog hop have created. Also there are a lot of prizes to win.
I have two holidays cards to share with you today. They’re similar and different at the same time.
CHALKBOARD
For my first card I went with a chalkboard design. Chalkboard became very popular in design and cardmaking several years ago and I got imidiatelly hooked. Since then it became one of those looks I tend to come back from time to time.
I started by stamping the wreath onto a white cardstock using the Peaceful Wreath Stamp Set. I was stamping it along with another one, which I used on the other card.
The leaves of the wreath were stamped using the Aqualicious and Teal Cave Dye Inks. For berries I used the Pinkalicious and Rubellite inks. These colors are not quite holiday traditional. But I wanted to use something different in this case.
For the chalkboard I stamped an adorable deer from the Modern Deer Stamp Set using a white ink onto a black card base. And also I swiped some paper towel inked with the white ink all along the card front. To add this look of chalked surface.
I popped the wreath onto the card and added a banner with a sentiment stamped using the Rubellite Dye Ink.
BRIGHT CLASSIC
For my second card I went with more classic color scheme, although I twisted it a bit as well taking a lighter and brighter approach. I mead that these colors can be easily used on an Easter card for example. But I feel that they work for a holiday card as well.
And if the previous card was one of those designs I do quite often and feel comfortable with – the second card is rather my attempt to work in less comfortable for me style. Light cards, bright colors and unusual color combinations is not something that I feel easily by heart.
So the wreath was stamped using the Sweet Leaf and Just Green Inks for leaves and Coral Berry and Ruby Red inks for berries.
I stamped the modern deer using the Almond Butter and Milk Chocolate Die Ink and die-cut it with the matching die.
I foam mounted a White Woodgrain panel onto a mint card base and adhered the deer onto it. Followed by foam mounting the wreath on top.
Lastly I added the sentiment made using the Halftone Holidays Stamp and Die sets.
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PRIZES
Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners and one Altenew Academy class to 5 lucky winners.
There are also 12 awesome friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:
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My Sweet Petunia: 3 MISTI stamping tools(Memory, Original, and Mini)
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Chameleon Art Products: 1 pack of 5 Chameleon Pens
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Be sure to leave comments by Sunday, December 9th, 2018 for a chance to win! 37 winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on all of these blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on December 15th, 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 December 8th, 2018 for a chance to win. I will announce the winner here in this post on December 9th, 2018.
WINNER
The winner of $20 Gift Certificate is Diane T.
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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What a lovely hop and gathering of artists! I love your two deer cards!
I am always so inspired by your creations–thank you.
What fun! Thank you for the lovely inspiration and the giveaways!!
I have not seen the chalkboard technique before as I’m a fairly new card crafter. Thanks for sharing!
You just gave me inspiration to use the new white ink pad I purchased on the weekend. Love the chalkboard look. Thanks!
Love the chalkboard look
I just love both deer wreath cards. The shadow looking chalk background is very unique. Nice job!
Love the last card especially!
That chalkboard deer card is one of the most unique cards I have ever seen. How unexpected and beautiful.
Love it..
Beautiful Cards – they are the same but so different. I have always like the caulk board look.
The black card is a different take on the Christmas wreath……
Supercute cards!!!
love your wreath and deer cards!
Oh my goodness..what a neat chalkboard idea! Loving it! Both cards are awesome!
Thanks for sharing these beautiful cards.
Adore your cards today and I pinned them!!
I love the blue and pink on black!!
The chalkboard technique is cool and unexpected, therefore I love it!
SUch artistic and creative cards!
Not a fan of the chalkboard look, but this card is exceptionally nice. the second card is absolutely beautiful!
Love the colors! I love cards that use untraditional holiday colors!
Beautiful card samples. I love the color combos!
Chalkboard is beautiful!!
loving both cards – the traditional and non-traditional color combos are very inspiring!!
Wonderful cards. Love the chalkboard effect.
I think you did an excellent job with both cards, the colors are beautiful and I really must get that halftone Christmas greeting stamp – so cool!
I’m in love with the bright deer card! Stunning!
Great cards! I would not have thought to stamp the deer on black but I love the look. Thanks for the inspiration!
Both cards are beautiful and I think you can create in any style successfully! This is a wonderful craft community that we have access to and I’m grateful for the inspiration from you and everyone!
It is so great to see two cards in very different styles using the same stamps .. it helps me visualize how things will look. It also encourages me to go outside my comfort zone and try styles that don’t come naturally to me because I try to mimic the beautiful examples you provide.
I love the non-traditional colors you used. I love doing that for holiday cards.
Both cards are amazing! Love seeing these new ink colors used!!!
Lovely cards!Thanks for the inspiration! What a wonderful blog hop to celebrate this great international crafty community!
Love both cards but the new spin on using black is brilliant. Love it and will definitely try this technique.?
Beautiful cards.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Very nice cards! I love wreaths. I recently got a nice leaf wreath.
Beautiful cards ! The one with chalkboard technique is my favourite 🙂
These are so pretty! I love using deer/buck on my Christmas cards. And I love wreaths. The dark one is so striking!
Beautiful cards.
Love the chalkboard look, I’ve never seen that before, now I want to try it!
This blog hop is so inspiring!!! So many beautiful creations. Happy to be a crafter
Your cards are wonderful. Thank you for the inspiration.
This blog hop is so inspiring!!! So many beautiful creations.
LOVE the shadow look of the chalk – really cool effect!
Beautiful cards. Love different looks!
Ok, while I really love your traditional looking card, that chalkboard one is amazing! So unusual, but in a really, really great way!
Love the use of non-traditional colors on the chalkboard card. But, to be honest – I really enjoyed your world map video – it inspired me to purchase that stamp!
Love these wreath cards. They are so pretty.
Beautiful cards!!! Love the colors ?
Very cool wreath cards! ?
Love the bright colored deer card.
The subtleties of the two cards are so beautiful, love the backgrounds, nice!
BOTH of these cards are super cute!! Love them. Thanks for the chance to win.
I dont know much about the chalkboard look but will look it up. Your cards are lovely.
I haven’t seen the chalkboard look in ages and love how you freshened it up. Both cards are really lovely!
Stunning work! Love your cards!
Beautiful cards! I especially like the colors you used in the bright card. Very cheery!
I fell in love with this deer set the day I saw it. Had to have it. It is so beautiful. I love your cards. Making the black chalk card is one I would never have thought of but you pulled it off. Congratulations.
loving this hop. will definitely need to use a wreath on several. thanks
love the deer and blue card – simply beautiful! thanks for sharing!
I love both of these cards!!
These cards are so unique. Love the traditional and then the chalkboard card almost looks like the negative of the traditional. Great work.
I love your cards, they are so colourful and give off such a happy vibe. The black background really makes the colours on the wreath pop!
Never thought of using those colors. Thanks for opening my eyes to try and get out of the box!!
WOW..your chalkboard card is awesome. Love your cards!
Bright and fun! Happy holidays to you!
Loved your last card, so vibrant.
Love anything Christmas! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome samples — I am partial to the very awesome blackboard effect card 🙂
I really like your chalked deer.
Such lovely cards as always! I love your choice of bold colors!
wow, the chalkboard card is stunning!
I don´t know which card I like most. My favorite color is always turquoise but the black one is beautiful too.
Very pretty Christmas cards!
Thanks so much for sharing…
Love these! You did a wonderful job on both.
I really like the non traditional colors!
I have not seen the chalkboard technique before. What a good idea for something really different.
great hop and wonderful artists love the details in the card and the chance to win.
Both cards are beautiful. Love that wreath and deer.
Both of your cards are beautiful! Very pretty Christmas card!
These are gorgeous!! I love that you used the same products but the cards are totally different!! LOVELY design!
Thank you for the inspiration, beautiful work!
Really like the woodgrain texture on the card – fits in well with the deer.
Similar but different – love it
I love the different color schemes!
Love these cards!!!
Its amazing how the same products can yield such different results just by changing the color combo! I always start out my holiday cards in traditional colors but half way through I need a change in color palette to keep me sane, and come up with many untraditional color combos!!!
These are SO UNIQUE! I love the wreaths! They frame the deer perfectly!
very different—the chalkboard one. I will have to give it a try
Great chalkboard idea!!
Really like the chalk look! Great cards!
Lovely cards
Love both of your cards! Especially like how you combined the deer and wreath images.
Thanks for showing your two wreath cards. They are both wonderful!
love the different xmas looks – great job – angelkisses
What a different result with change of colors.
Wonderful cards…who says you have to use traditional holiday colors!
Pretty cards with the wreath framing the deer.
I love that last card. So bright and welcoming!!
Svitlana! Your deer stamp sure grabbed my attention! I promptly put that Modern Deer bundle in my cart! Thanks for the coloring key and the inspiration!
Very pretty cards , love the chalk borde effect !
You did such a nice job on your cards. I really liked the wood effect background.
Wow these are both very pretty; I love seeing cards made with same stamps but have different personalities; it’s so fun !
Both cards are so
pretty. Love this
wreath.
Carla from Utah
Svitlana, these cards are lovely…especially like the chalkboard one. tfs
Love these wreath cards. Creative!!
These are wonderful cards!! 🙂
Very nice love the colors
You did that very cute deer proud! I like the idea of doing him in chalkboard style!
Love the wreath and the vibrant colors. The chalkboard black really brings out the colors. Love it!
Love your two deer and wreath cards! Very different cards even with the same stamps.
oh these are just beautiful, love that deer inside!
very nice
I love how you made both cards unique even though they are similar. I do love the bright colors more. I am glad you stepped out of your comfort zone.
Love the different looks you achieved with the stamps. Just stunning cards.Thanks for sharing your art. ?
Like the addition of the deer to your peaceful wreath design. Love both card, but am partial to the pastel one as it looks more like a holiday card to me.
Wow both cards are awesome. I like the chalk look.
Света, открытки прекрасны!!
Two inspiring looks for the same deer. Love the black background with the color pop on it.
I like the non-traditional color combinations.
Beautiful cards as usual! Love your color combos!
The colors you used is stunning. You always make THE most beautiful cards, I love this one!
Two lovely cards – love your unique approach to color and composition…
I remember the chalkboard phase of crafting and appreciate that you did it again. I loved the colorful card you created because it is more my style and very festive in appearance! Thanks for sharing your time and talent with us.
love the spring colors with a Christmas design
Both your cards are totally fabulous !!!
Lovely!!! It’s amazing how you can change the look of a card by changing the background or inks. Both cards are fantastic.
Love both versions of the card design. They are like yin and yang!
I have the deer set already, it’s so great to get new inspirations.
Looks like a great inspiration for new users of my stamps.
Both cards are beautiful but i love, love ,love the colours you used for the chalkboard,, Stunning!!
Thank you for sharing your techniques with us! I loved the cards. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks for the inspiration! And also, thanks for sharing your techniques with us!
Gorgeous cards! Thanks so much for sharing! ?
The bright wreath against the black is so striking! Gorgeous!
Love the non traditional colors! Thank you for the inspiration!
I love your pretty cards. I always love holiday cards that don’t use traditional colors. I love the deer in the center of the card, the effect is so cool.
The chalkboard card was so creative. I never saw a card like it, very original. Other wreath card was so pretty. Love the colors.
These are both awesome Svitlana, I am kind of partial to the chalkboard card myself, it’s a fun look.
I just love the chalkboard, it’s one I would not have done myself but well now. Thanks for sharing your designs
Love both cards, different and yet alike. These ideas always give me new ideas of how to use things I already have in my stash, in a different way. Thank you.
Both cards are lovely but the chalkboard inspired design with the pop of teal and pink is stunning!
Great example of how the same design can look so different. That is what s fun when a group of friends make the same card and they come out so different
very pretty!
what a great idea!
Thanks for sharing and being a part of this blog hop. Love the deer. You are truly an inspiration.
The wreaths are fantastic.
I especially love the card with
the deer on the chalkboard.
Very striking design.
thanks for sharing
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Your lettering is AMAZING! I’m new to crafting and really found this blog informative and inspiring.
Very nice carxs–I especially like the more traditional one. I’m so sorry you are out of your comfort zone with that one–you did a beautiful job. TFS and have a very blessed day.
Very nice cards–I especially like the more traditional one. I’m so sorry you are out of your comfort zone with that one–you did a beautiful job. TFS and have a very blessed day.
Where have I been??? I have not seen the chalkboard technique. Yikes! I love it and will have to try it. Also like how your cards are the same, but different. Both are tremendous!
Both cards are beautiful. I love the chalkboard look. Gives me ideas for all that black cardstock I bought. TFS!
These are so amazing. The chalk look is quite interesting. Have a wonderful holiday.
Wonderful cards, the deer are so sweet. I don’t ever think of black or dark backgrounds myself, but I really love them when I see it in someone else’s projects, and this one is no exception.
Love that wreath!
Beautiful cards, great colour combination!
What a neat idea, traditional and modern cards using the same elements. Thanks for being part of the blog hop.
I love that you created a dark and light version of the same card! It’s hard to pick a favorite, I do think it’s so striking in the dark colors though!
Nice to see unconventional Christmas card colors.
I love the deer card. It is my fave!
I love your bright and festive deer in the colorful Christmas wreath! This is a beautiful design and an amazing design!
Awesome cards – I love the two different styles you showed – that chalkboard one is really intriguing!
Beautiful! Thank You!
Super sweet cards!!
Beautiful!
I love seeing different styles of cards with the same stamps – thank you! And I like that you pushed yourself out of your comfort zone on one, but not the other – I feel like I need to do that more often as well. Thanks again!
Great cards-love the chalkboard look!
Adorable cards. I particularly liked the black one, it was so different. Thanks for the great ideas.
Love both of these, especially the classic one!
Beautiful wreath and deer cards, I still LOVE that chalkboard look and I’m drawn to that one, it’s just stunning.
Beautiful cards! I’ll definitely have to try the chalkboard look, too. Thanks for sharing!
The chalkboard idea is wonderful! Definitely something different and dramatic.
So pretty!! I have this stamp set and am anxious to use it now!
What pretty cards! I’m really enjoying this blog hop – now I have another lovely card blog to follow! Hooray!
While I was initially more drawn to your traditionally-colored card, the more I looked at the modern take, the more inspired I was to step out of the box when it comes to colors. Thanks!
Hi Svitlana. You never fail to challenge! Love both the cards and especially the unusual colouring of the aqua and hot pink wreath. The deer behind it is so subtle, I didn’t even see it at first because I was just attracted to the different colouring of the wreath, but when it emerged I just thought “wow, what a great look this card has”. However, I still love the more traditionally coloured one. Thanks so much for the inspiration as always.
Even though I do not like deer…we get so many here and they eat everything! I do really love your car designs. Really striking chalkboard look.
especially love your chalkboard card, Svitlana – the deer peeking thru is fantastic!
I love both cards! It’s good to stretch our creative muscles and I think the brightly colored card turned out beautifully!
Awesome cards! 🙂 I really like the black version of this card. It looks so neat!
Lovely cards, I really like the brightly colored one.
Your chalkboard card is so cool! Thanks for sharing!!!
Beautiful cards! I like how you combined the wreath and the deer stamps on your projects. The wreath is one of my favorites! That chalkboard technique is gorgeous and so unexpected for a holiday card. Great job!
I’m really enjoying this blog hop. It’s been very unique & fun!
I like both of your cards Love the non-traditional look. I have never made a card with the caulkboard look. might have to try it out. Thanks!
marcia m PS Love all of your cards.
Enjoying the Crafty Friends blog hop! So many fabulous creations! Love these beautiful Modern Deer cards! One of my favorite sets! The colors on your 2nd card are awesome!
My husband would like these. He loves deer. I like the chalkboard effect. It is very subtle and interesting. I also like the wood grain on the second card. It looks great with the deer and is a perfect match.
Sweet design and great colors.
Beautiful cards!
First time at your blog, love the colors you used.
Both cards are very pretty! The chalkboard card reminded me of deer running around our field at night. It was very neatly done!
Merry Christmas, whoever came up with this idea is brilliant. I never knew there were so many craft sites
Beautiful cards! I love the chalkboard style!
Great cards. Love the color choices and that delicate deer is just perfect.
both are beautiful cards, I love the different colors you used on your holiday cards.
thanks for sharing
All versions of the card are so creative! The one with the chalkboard back is so striking! Thank you for the inspiration!
Such a dramatic difference in style and color! TFS
Both cards are lovely! I just made a card using this cute deer stamp.
Both of your cards are so pretty! They are vastly different even though they are the same. Thank you for inspiring us!
Both cards are truly fab, I love seeing the traditional next to the non-traditional, it gives a great comparison! Thanks for your lovely inspiration!
What a terrific chalkboard look! And I love the fab dimension of those berries!!
Great colors for the wreaths. =)
wow! the black background with the bright colors really works.
The nontraditional colors make the card pop. Love it!
I’m already so enjoying this bloghop. I love seeing crafty people get inspired and try different things. I think you did an amazing job on both cards. I often forget the chalkboard look, but I really enjoy it, so I’m going to have to whip that out sometime soon. And the new browns are the perfect colors for the deer. Thanks for sharing with us!
Love that chalkboard effect and the color choices! it’s different and inspiring. thanks for sharing your idea with us!
Thanks for sharing so beautiful work and excepcional giveaway
I am a traditional Christmas person, but I like the chalkboard effect. I’ll have to remember that technique. Thanks.
So different but both lovely. I lean more to traditional colours but it’s nice to throw in some non-traditional to change it up.
Beautiful cards…love the variation…
Both cards are gorgeous Svitlana, although my preferece is the bright classic the chalkboard card is a great change on the classic cards. So thank you for this great inspiration and I sure would try a chalk look for one of my cards.
Love this cards.
Hi Svetlana! Your cards are always so inspiring! I’ve been seeing quite a bit of chalk look again…so stylish you are! I really love the bright classic card….so cheery and uplifting! Thanks for sharing your work with us 🙂
Awesome cards
Those are some beautiful cards! Love the colours you chose. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful cards, I especially love the chalkboard card!
Very pretty cards! I love the woodgrain background on the white one
Great cards!
Love the chalkboard design! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful especially love the card with black background.
What eye-catching cards! The color palette on the black one is very original, it reminds me of a chalkboard!
Both of your cards are beautiful although I like the white one best. Great job.
It looks good anyway you color it!
The chalkboard effect is pretty cool.
Wow, I have to buy some of Altenew’s inks. I love those colors. Those wreaths are so beautiful. The chalkboard one is very nice but I love the other one so much!!
Beautiful cards! I am really liking those non traditional colors!
Love how different the two cards turned out…love those wreaths!
Lovely cards! I’ve never seen the chalkboard technique. Thanks for teaching me omething new!
great cards. luv that you used woodgrain background on your colorful card! 🙂
Absolutely Gorgeous cards! Thanks for the inspiration.
Both cards are gorgeous! I can’t decide if I like the light or dark the best, I guess I just have to try both hehe. Thanks for the always awesome inspiration.
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Pretty cards, loved the wreath.
Love both the cards especially the blue n pink combo against black
Pretty cards, love both looks and the details on each one.
Thank you for the inspiration, Svitlanta! I have the modern deer stamps and haven’t tried them yet. I love how the deer looked on the dark background.
Such unique cards!
Beautiful job!
Your cards are always so creative with a great use of color. Thanks for sharing this inspiration with these fun products.