Altenew | Elegant Vintage Roses Background

Hello crafty friends!

Today I’m sharing an elegant card featuring new and old Altenew products. Altenew celebrated 10th anniversary this year and designers were asked to use older products along with the new ones in one of our projects. It took me absolutely no time to decide which old product I would be using.  Vintage Roses Stamp Set was the immediate answer.

My deep love for Altenew started with this set. I remember hunting it down as it was so popular that was always sold out in all stores (and shortly after that, I went for another hunt to get coordinating dies, which were released later). To this day, I’m absolutely in love with all the images from the set, which features several very realistic roses and a bunch of leaves.

Today, there are a lot of realistic layering sets on the market from many different companies, but at the time Altenew was one of the pioneers of such products.

I was immersed in crafting nostalgia as was stamping the one-layer rose pattern background for my card. It was a bit tedious, but definitely a fun crafting session.

All the images of the Vintage Roses Stamp Set are designed in such a way that it’s very easy to align them. But also they’re very forgiving if not aligned perfectly.

I was using paper masks to protect overlapping elements from being stamped upon. To avoid excessive masking, I strategically only overlapped flowers over leaves, this way I only needed to mask off flowers.

When you plan a one-layer design that involves masking, remember to first stamp elements that you want to have on top (or “closer” to you), mask them off, and then stamp elements that need to be located beneath.

Another trick I use when working with one-layer designs – I only stamp the first layer (i.e. the most solid one), mask it off, stamp the overlapping elements, remove the mask, and stamp the rest of the layers of the masked-off element at the end. This way, if I screw up and need to start over I’m not devastated much about investing lots of time into stamping all those layers.

I used the Red Cosmos Fresh Dye Inks to stamp the roses, using the Green Fields Fresh Dye Inks for the leaves.

After stamping the vintage roses background, I added ink blending using the Cloud White Pigment Ink along the edges. It added some coziness to the design and made the center pop.

Next, I used the very new product, released this month – Sparkled Frame Die. I die-cut it 3 times out of white cardstock and stacked them to add thickness to the frame.

The frame was adhered onto the vintage roses background, which in turn was foam mounted onto a white card base.

To make the sentiment label, I used another oldie but goodie, one of the first stamp sets released by Altenew – Label Love. This stamp set will come in handy if you want to create a label sentiment that matches perfectly stamping on your card. I used the Forest Glades Fresh Dye Ink to stamp the sentiment, matching it seamlessly with the colors used for the stamped leaves.

After popping up the sentiment label, I added the Iridescent Gem Sparkles into the corresponding debossed circle areas of the frame, which finished off the card.

SUPPLIES

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