Happy Monday! Hope your week is off to a great start. In case you need a bit of mood booster for Monday blues, I have a quick project to share with you. We are celebrating a brand-new release for May and you are going to love it!
Altenew just released a new set of stamp sets and die sets. Some are coordinating dies and some are stand-alone dies! You are going to find at least 1-2 products that you fall in love with, so make sure to check out the full release HERE.
I am joining a fun release blog hop to provide some project ideas using the new release products. For those that love clean and simple cards, today’s project would be right up on your alley!
There are various ways to color in the outline stamp images when creating projects. Colored pencils and watercolors have been so popular in cardmaking world, and I wanted to try something different. Not to long ago I came across a new-to-me coloring medium, pastel pencils.
Patel pencils allow us to create a well-blended look effortlessly. You can press the pencil as hard as you want, or as light as you like to add a various degree of textures and lines. I find it much easier to blend colors if I lay down all of them at once and blend them together. But, you might find that different methods work better for you. So I encourage you to practice and try variations of blending when working with this medium.
Today’s card features one of my favorite stamps from the release, Crown Bloom. The large petals of the flower make it so easy to create focal points. You can easily layer the images together to create a cool flower arrangement, or color the outline images like I did here.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project I prepared to share! Join me in the conversation below – have you ever used pastel pencils? What do you like and don’t like about them? If you are new to them, would you want to give them a try?
SUPPLIES
See below for all the products used in today’s project. Click ATN for Altenew, EH for Ellen Hutson, SSS for Simon Says Stamp, or AMZ for Amazon. I participate in several affiliate programs where I get a small commission at no additional cost to you when products are purchased through links I share here. Thank you for your support!
GIVEAWAYS
There are TWO giveaways you can enjoy!
- Altenew is giving away SIX $50 gift certificates to Altenew store! Make sure to visit their blog and leave a comment to win.
- I am also giving away $30 gift certificate to Altenew store! Please leave me a comment below by May 25th, 11:59pm PST. I will post a winner here on the 26th. Good luck!!
WINNER
Congrats, Beverly! You are the lucky winner of this giveaway! Please contact Altenew at [email protected] by 6/10/2018 with the subject line Altenew May 2018 Stamp/Die Release Blog Hop Winner from Nicole’s Blog to redeem your prize. Thank you for leaving me a lovely comment!!
BLOG HOP
We are celebrating the release with a very fun blog hop!
Next stop on the hop is Nina-Marie Trapani! Make sure to stop by and leave some love for her! Please see below for full blog hop list.
- Altenew Card Blog
- Agnieszka Malyszek
- Sandra Dietrich
- Jessica Frost-Ballas
- May Sukyong Park
- Debby Hughes
- Paige Evans
- Virginia Lu
- Simon Says Stamp Blog
- Lilith Eeckels
- Vicky Papaioannou
- Therese Calvird
- Justine Hovey
- Enza Gudor
- Chari Moss
- Gayatri Murali
- Altenew Scrapbook Blog
- Yoonsun Hur
- Anna Komenda
- Jenn Shurkus
- Reiko Tsuchida
- Laurie Willison
- Kymona Tracey
- Jennifer McGuire
- Svitlana Shayevich
- Raquel Bowman
- Lydia Evans
- Kelly Latevola
- Nicole Picadura — You are here!
- Nina-Marie Trapani
- Terhi Koskinen
- Rubeena Ianigro
- Sveta Fotinia
- Emily Leiphart
- Flora Monika Farkas
- Laura Jane
- Michelle Short
- Erum Tasneem
- Kimberly Wiener
