Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Dynamic Blossoms Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

March 12, 2022December 24, 2022 ~ Sathya ~ 29 Comments

Hi All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Craft your Life Project Kit: Dynamic Blossoms Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Teresa Litchfield ‘s blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

I have made few cards using the variety of products in this Awesome Release.

Over to my cards,

This card features Dynamic Blossoms Layering Stamp and Die Set

Other products are:

Forest Glades Cube ink

Featured Sentiments Die Set

Did No line pencil coloring here. Die cut and matted over an Olive A2 sized top fold cardbase using foam adhesives. Added an Diecut word die with a sentiment banner diecut.

This card features Dynamic Blossoms Embossing folder, Layering Stamp and Die Set

Other products are:

Desert Night Cube ink

Jet Black Cube ink

Took a blue cardstock and ink blended with the above inks. Then dry embossed the panel with Dynamic Blossoms Embossing folder. Added the sentiment die cuts and few clear dew drops added as accents.

This card features Dynamic Blossoms Die Set for the focal point and Word die and for the sentiment used Layering stamp set.

Silver glitter cardstock on gray focal panel matted over a pale gray cardbase does the magic of sheer elegance. Few clear dew droplets are added to finish off the card.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway Prizes

$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $ 25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 03/18/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 03/20/2022.

The next Stop in Hop is Awesome friend, Nenette

Blog Hop List

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

I hope you were inspired by my cards and will try out these Wonderful products from this release.

I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Bloghop.

Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven’t already.

Happy Hopping!!

Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Sunburst Azalea Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

March 7, 2022December 24, 2022 ~ Sathya ~ 43 Comments

Hello All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Sunburst Azalea Release Blog Hop .

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from Awesome, Rosie’s blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

Made a floral card using this new, Layering Die Set Sunburst Azalea .

Over to my card,

Kept the card super simple. Firstly die cut the floral layers from lighter shade to darker shade of cardstocks and arranged as shown using liquid adhesive.
Diecut the leaves from a lighter green shade cardstock and ink blended it slightly to get an ombre shade.
Then generously splashed white acrylic paint on the florals and leaves and kept for air drying / sped up with heat tool.

Took a gray panel little shorter than A2 size and foam mounted the floral and leaves as shown.
Tied black beaded ivory shaded twine around the panel and foam mounted this on A2 sized ivory cardbase.
Sentiment is stamped using Altenew Jet black ink from BAF – Giant Bellflower stamp set and die cut it using Featured sentiment die set.
Then the banner is foam mounted onto the twine. Few clear dew drops are added as accents.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway 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 03/13/2022 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 03/15/2022.

Blog Hop List

Next stop in Hop is Lovely, Nandini

Altenew Card Blog

Hussena Calcuttawala

Nenette S. Madero

Rosie Neustaedter

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Nandini Karmarkar

Carol Hintermeier

Teresa Litchfield

I hope you are inspired by my card and will try out this Layering Die Set.

I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Bloghop.

Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven’t already.

Happy Hopping!!

Heartfelt Thanks | Altenew

December 29, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment

Hi ya Friends!

Am here to share a card which I made for Altenew’s A year in Review Bloghop. This is the last card for this year 2021.

Over to the card,

Took a white cardstock and diecut it using Altenew Mega Thanks die.
And dry embossed that using Altenew Daisy Bed 3D Embossing folder.
Added up another white cs layer of diecut to make it sturdy and kept aside.
Took a pastel blue A2 sized top fold cardbase.
Stamped Altenew Dainty Bouquet sprigs on either side of the card as above using Altenew Green cube ink.
On to a white cs stamped Altenew Mega Greetings ‘Heartfelt’ and die cut it using Altenew Featured Sentiment Die set.
The diecut word is place using liquid adhesive and the sentiment banner is topped using foam adhesive.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Crafty Hugs!!

You are |Altenew

December 17, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment

Hi Friends,

Today I have made a simple and clean design using Altenew’s Embossing folder, Die and Stamps.

Over to my card,

Took a 4×5.25 ” white cs and used Altenew Diamond stars 3D embossing folder on it to get a clean crisp embossed impressions.
On to a piece of white cardstock, ink blended DO – Wornlipstick and Scattered straw .
Stamped 3 sentiments from Altenew You are Stampset.
Diecut those with on of Altenew Featured Sentiments Die set.
Mounted the focal panel onto a white A2 sized top fold cardbase.
Then to it, foam mounted the diecut pieces as shown.
This finishes off my card.

Hope you like this simple card.

Embossed Card | Ink Blending | Altenew Challenge

November 20, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 2 Comments

Hi Friends,

Am here today to share a card using Altenew Current Challenge colors. Those vibrant autumn leaves’ shades inspired me to create this ink blended floral daisy bed.

Over to my card,

Took a watercolor cardstock smaller than A2 size cardbase and dry embossed with Altenew Daisy Bed Embossing Folder.
Then inkblended the dry embossed panel with various Altenew crisp ink cubes.
Sentiment from Altenew :You are is stamped and die cut using Featured Sentiments Die Set.
The inkblended panel is foam mounted onto a white A2 sized top fold card base and the sentiment is foam mounted centrally on panel as shown.
Few clear dew drops are added for interest.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Linking to Altenew November Challenge

Hello Floral card | Altenew

September 14, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 1 Comment

Hi Craftypeeps,

Made a floral card today using Altenew’s Sweet Cluster Stamp & Die set along with the beautiful Diamond Stars 3D Altenew Embossing Folder. These stuffs are new in my stash and was there for more than a month now. Just got time to ink it away today for the current Turquoise challenge over at The Flower Challenge.

Over to my card,

Stamped Altenew’s Sweet Cluster mini stamp over a watercolor cardstock using Antique Linen DI to do No line watercoloring.
Karin brushmakers are used for Watercoloring.
Then diecut using co-ordinating die and foam mounted onto a white focal card which is dry embossed using Altenew Diamond stars 3D embossing folder.
Sentiment from same stampset is white heat embossed over a black cardstock and cut and foam mounted on dry embossed panel.
Then the panel is mounted over a Teal A2 cardbase.

Hope you like it!

Full Bloom : Altenew

April 19, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 9 Comments

Hiya Friends,

Am here today with a floral card using Altenew’s Book club stamp & Die. Colours are inspired by current Altenew challenge.

Enjoyed colouring this floral spray using Karin Markers Pro.

Stamped the floral spray onto a Canson Montval watercolor cardstock using DI Antique Linen and attempted noline colouring.
Diecut the colored image and mounted onto a textured embossed card panel using focal adhesive. Used dry embossing technique with WRMK weaves Embossing Folder, which was already diecut using a A2 stitched rectangle die.
Mounted the focal panel onto a lavender A2 sized Top fold cardbase using foam adhesives.
Sentiment is stamped over a circle diecut and mounted centrally over the floral spray.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stoping by!

Linking this to following challenge:

Altenew April 2021 Challenge

Simon Wednesday challenge : CAS

HLS Watercolor challenge

HLS April Anything goes with Dies Challenge

The Flower Challenge : Pretty Pastels

Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Antique Rose Layering Die Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

March 7, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 81 Comments

Hey Hi All, Welcome to Antique Rose Layering Die set Release Blog Hop.

SO excited to join Altenew for this Release Hop.

You should have arrived from lovely. Seeka’s blog . Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

I have created a card today using the Beautiful Antique Rose Layering Die Set .

To create my card, first I diecut all the respective floral layers from Watercolor cardstock. Then colored all 4 layers using Summer Afternoon Dye ink cubes. Darkest inner layer Paper Bag to lighter top layer Buttercream applied using ink applicators. This is my first time using Die cut layerings and am absolutely enjoy colouring and building the layerings. Gorgeous Antique Rose blooms are made once the layerings are arranged as per guide sheet.

Then for the three layered leaves, diecut with Watercolor cardstock, sponged with Green Fields Crisp Dye ink cubes . Arranged the diecuts and splattered heavily with watered down white acrylic.

Mounted the floral spray onto white card panel and sentiment is stamped using Altenew Jet black ink from Forever in Love stampset .

Matted this panel over a corrugated cardstck and tied a beaded natural twine for an added interest. Added then to a black A2 sized top fold cardbase.

And now for the most interesting part : Giveaway!

Giveaway 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 03/12/2021 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 03/15/2021.

Blog Hop List

You are in the last stop, Hop to Altenew Card blog to check the complete Hop list.