Altenew Build-A-Flower: Bearded Iris Release Blog Hop+ Giveaway

Hello and welcome to Altenew Build-A-Flower: Bearded Iris Release Blog Hop!

You probably came from Nenette S. Madero. 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 have a chance to win a prize.

ALTENEW BUILD-A-FLOWER: BEARDED IRIS

If you are looking for the most elegant and realistic iris, you are in the right place! This stamp set prominently features a gorgeous bearded iris outline with four additional coloring layers, along with its stems and leaves. You may use the other iris outline as background foliage, or simply add it to floral arrangements stamped as is or colored in with your favorite coloring medium.

BUILD-A-FLOWER SUBSCRIPTION PLAN

If you’re a fan of Build-A-Flower products and would like to receive it every month there is a Monthly Subscription Plan.

This is a monthly subscription plan for our Build-A-Flower set. When signed up, you are guaranteed a spot in our monthly BAF releases and will receive a set each month – at a specially discounted price! ($35.00 →$29.99)

CARD

If you’ve been around for some time you probably already know that when it comes to choosing a color scheme for a card I’m either go with something pretty bold (and often non traditional for an object in question) or shift to an opposite side of the spectrum and only use one lonely color for a card (just kidding, I love making monochromatic cards). So today is the bold and non traditional side of the spectrum as you may see below. Although now the flower diversity is so broad that probably any colors can be seen in real life,,,,

Anyways, for my card design I went with a simple one layer (almost) design.

First I stamped two flowers in bright purple (the inks I used are linked below) onto a white panel. I used masking paper to make a couple of masks for the flowers. First I stamped the first one (located in front), then placed a mask onto it and stamped the second one “behind” it.

After that I put the mask onto the second flower and stamped the leaves in teals.

Leaving the flowers masked off I inked the panel from the bottom to the top using the same teal inks I used to stamp the leaves. Since the same ink was using for both blending and stamping I didn’t need to mask off the leaves.

After I finished the ink blending I sprinkled the background with water to add some texture. After that I removed the mass from the flowers.

The sentiment I decided to stamp along the panel side edge, mimicking the way text is placed on a Japanese vertical writing you may see on botanical pictures. Or course my sentiment is not quite vertical, but I like how both simply and unusual it looks.

To finish off the card I foam mounted the panel onto a white card base using the Instant Dimension Foam Tape and added several clear droplets to accentuate it.

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), Scrapbook.com (SC), Amazon (AZ), Spellbinders (SB), Papertrey Ink (PTI), Ink To Paper (ITP) etc.
I truly appreciate your support!

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PRIZES

$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 07/07/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 07/09/2021.

GET HOPPING!

This is your last stop of the hop. If you got lost you can find the full list of blog hop participants below.

BLOG HOP

Dear design team members and guest designers,

Thanks for joining in today’s blog hop. I have updated the blog hop list below with the appropriate links. Please update your blog posts with these links as soon as possible. You do not have to include the entire list in your post, but please do include the link right before and right after yours. Let me know if you have any questions.

Altenew Blog

Jaycee Gaspar

LauraJane

Tenia Nelson

Jenny Colacicco

Emily Midgett

Amanda Baldwin

Virginia Lu

Michelle Short

Verity Biddlecombe

Seeka

Carol Hintermeier

Dana Joy

Nathalie DeSousa

Sandhya Iyer

Daniel Diaz

Bridget Casey

Justine Hovey

Keren Baker

Linda Westfall

Nenette S. Madero

Svitlana Shayevich