Altenew Inspiration Challenge February 2024

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I'd love to see in person the mural that Kelly used for the inspiration for Altenew's February Challenge.  It is so colorful and beautifully done, as are the cards Kelly was inspired to make.   

Here's how it inspired me.

I pulled out three of Altenew's Craft-a-Flowers: Cosmos, Garden Picks and Virginia Rose.  The Cosmos was cut with different shades of white with the center inked in yellow and orange.  The other two were colored with shades of Altenew ink, as were the leaves from the Garden Picks and Cosmos.  They are arranged on dark gray cardstock that was embossed with the Checkered Squares folder.  

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Altenew Inspiration Challenge July 2023

I finally had a chance to make a card for the Altenew Inspiration Challenge.

I recently got the Delicate Garden set and wanted to use it for the challenge.  This is my third try to get the color like I wanted it.  Using the stencil, I colored with Puffy Heart and Hydrangea to get a mix of pink and purple.  The leaves are Bamboo and Parrot.  I didn't check the image placement on my card and couldn't run it through the embossing folder without creasing the corners which was a disappointment.  The sentiment is from Heartfelt Sentiments. 

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Altenew March Inspiration Challenge - 2023

With all my Altenew stamps it would be a shame to not enter their monthly Altenew Inspiration Challenge.  

For my card I pulled out the Hello Beautiful Craft Your Life kit.

The one of the images was white heat embossed on kraft cardstock and colored using the stencil and Altenew inks.  The kraft and card base were partially die cut and a sentiment from One-Go Birthday was added.  

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Altenew Inspiration Challenge - February 2023

Look at this gorgeous sunset photo that is the inspiration for this month's Altenew Inspiration Challenge.

I found two flowers already stamped in my B & P bin and used them as the focal point on my card, adding another blossom and leaf branches.

The flowers are a combination of Beautiful Day and Garden Treasure, outlined in black and the second layer stamped in Evening Gray.  For the background I smooshed Pinkalicious, Rubellite and Razzleberry on watercolor cardstock.  The sentiment is from One-Go Birthday Greetings. 

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Altenew Inspiration Challenge - October 2022

I have so many Altenew flowers that it would be a shame to let the Inspiration Challenge slip by without making a card.  Here's the beautiful inspiration photo from Jenny.

I went back and forth through my stamps and settled on Poppy Garden.

I was inspired by a video from Erum Tasneem to color my poppies with Artist Markers in Blush and Rouge.  With all the green in the background of the photo, I decided to use my Distress Sprays, both mica and regular, on a panel that I embossed with the Always Sunshine folder.  The sentiment is from their One-Go Birthday. 

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Can You Handle the Pressure? Fall 2022 and Altenew Inspiration Challenge September 2022

Do you like coloring embossed images?  It's even easier when there is an accompanying stencil.  That's what I did for the challenge at Can You Handle the Pressure?

The embossing folder is from Altenew's Always Sunshine Craft Your Life Project Kit.  Using the stencils, I colored it with Distress Inks, then added the foiled sentiment.  

I'm not sure this is quite the color combination for Altenew's Inspiration Challenge but since I have leaves I'm going to send it to them anyway.  

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Altenew Inspiration Challenge - August 2022

Today's card is for the Altenew Inspiration Challenge.  It took me a while to come up with a design using this photo and color combination.

Craft Your Life Kit: Hello Beautiful to the rescue.

The kit comes with stencils.  I used Heartbeat and Vineyard Berry for the flowers and Parrot and Olive for the leaves.  It needed a background so I used the grid cover die in brown.  The sentiment is from the new One-Go Birthday Greetings, heat embossed in gold.  

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Altenew Inspiration Challenge - June 2022

I have made myself an unspoken rule that when I win a challenge I play in the next challenge.  I was lucky enough to win Altenew's April Inspiration Challenge with this card, so I have a card today for the June challenge.  I don't know how I missed the May one.  

I masked and stamped two of the images from the Hello Beautiful Craft Your Life kit, then colored them with stencils using Puffy Heart and Burnt Red for the flowers and Bamboo and Parrot for the leaves.  I have been having a tough time with sentiments lately. 😞 The one I had stamped on the panel looked awful - squashed letters, fuzzy ink and it didn't really fit the spot.  Okay, now what?  I fussy cut the image and put it all on a panel embossed with the Organic Linen folder and left it sentimentless.  If that's not a word, it is now.  😁  

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Altenew Inspiration Challenge - April 2022

I hadn't used my Altenew Sweet Violets in a while and thought they looked similar to the pansies in the photo at the Altenew Inspiration Challenge.

They are stamped with the Enchanted Garden set of ink cubes, with the leaves stamped in the Green Valley set.  The background is the Watercolor Stripes cover die over some light yellow cardstock with the sentiment from MFT stamped on one of the stripes.

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Altenew April 2020 Inspiration Challenge

I knew I had the perfect stamp to enter a card in this month's Altenew Inspiration Challenge. 

I used the Cattleya stamp, omitting the first layer to maintain the white portion of the orchid.  It's resting on the Rustic Linen background stamped in Charcoal. The sentiment came from the Dainty Swiss set, heat embossed on dark gray.  Here's the inspiration photo.

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