Altenew’s Frosted Garden

This is my second guest post for Blitsy.com and I’m creating some cards with and awesome Altenew set called Frosted Garden. I love shopping at Blitsy for several reasons one is they have one of the lowest prices for craft items with super fast shipping. Plus shipping is free after $30 and customer service is great! You can find the post here.

I love this new Frosted Garden floral stamp set from Altenew. This set produces beautiful flowers. I made three different cards using different techniques with this set versatile set.

This first card uses a faux water coloring technique and is easy to do.

For this technique you will need:

Bristol Smooth Paper or Watercolor Paper
Stamp Positioner (MISTI or Stamp Platform)
Waterbased Inks (I used Altenew)
Spray Bottle (I used Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer)
Versamark Ink Clear Embossing Powder Heat Tool
Watercolor Pens – (I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pen)
Waterbrush or Paint Brush – ( I used Prima’s Water Brush Pens)
Optional – Tonic Nuvo Drops

First, place a piece of Stratmore Bristol Smooth paper in a stamp positioner. Pick out a couple of inks that go together, I used Altenew’s Puffy Heart, Purple Wine, and Cosmic Berry. Take the lightest color and stamp the flower portion of the images. Then take the middle color and ink up various portions of the flowers. Do the same with the darkest ink, however before you stamp it, spritz a little water on the stamp. The Altenew inks are water based and so the image will spread a little and look like you watercolored the flowers. Repeat the same process with the leaves. I used Altenew’s ink in Frayed Leaf, Forest Glades, and Evergreen.

For the background, take a Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pen, I used Blue Gray and loosely color the background with the waterbrush pen.

Once it is all dry, add your sentiment. I used Altenew Puffy Heart ink and then stamped Versmark ink and clear heat embossed it and adhered it to a navy card base using Tombow Xtreme Adhesive Tape Runner. To add a little sparkle, I used Tonic Nuvo Crystal Drops in Metallic Navy Blue.

For my 2nd card, I used Ken Oliver Color Bursts. Color Bursts are fun and easy to use and always produce gorgeous backgrounds.

For this card I used Color Bursts in Violet and Orchid with some Ken Oliver Platinum Mineral Bursts. The Mineral Bursts add a pretty shimmer to your project.

For this technique you will need:

Bristol Smooth Paper
Ken Oliver Color Bursts
Spray Bottle
EK Success Powder Tool
Versafine Ink
Clear Embossing Powder
Heat Tool
Optional – Stamp Positioner (MISTI or Stamp Platform)
Ken Oliver Mineral Bursts

Make your background by lightly adding color bursts to the paper and spritzing with water.

Once the background is dry, use the EK Success Powder Tool to dust and prepare it for embossing. Take the Verafine ink and stamp the image and clear heat emboss it. The sentiment is from the Altenew’s new release Birthday Builder that has lots of happy birthday fonts, a staple for creating all those birthday cards. I added some clear Nuvo Drops at the end for some embellishments.

For my 3rd card, I used alcohol inks to make a bright background. There are so many ways to play with alcohol inks, some of my favorites include staining glass, coloring metal ornaments, and creating bright backgrounds for cards.

For this technique you will need:

Yupo Paper
Washi Tape
Clipboard
EK Success Powder Tool
Versamark Ink
Embossing Powder
Heat Tool
Alcohol Inks
Optional –Tim Holtz Alcohol Blending Pen or Solution and Cotton Swabs

First start by prepping the Yupo Paper by taping it down with washi tape to the clipboard. This will help reduce the warping when embossing. Take the powder tool and lightly dust the Yupo paper. Stamp the image with the Versamark Ink and sprinkle the embossing powder on the image. Make sure your Heat Tool is very hot (wait a minute or two for it to fully warm up) and then quickly emboss the paper to limit warping.

Carefully add the alcohol inks to the paper to achieve the desired look. I used Raspberry, Wild Plum, and Purple Twilight. I used the Blending Pen and cotton swabs to wipe of any ink that landed on my flowers.

Once the paper was dry, I added vellum with a sentiment from the same stamp set and heat embossed it in gold as well.

Optional – since I used Vellum I took out my Xyron 250 Create a Sticker Machine and ran it through. It applied a light sticky coating to the back of the vellum so I didn’t have to worry about glue marks showing through.

Supplies:

Altenew – Birthday Builder Shop at: BL \| Alt	Altenew – Frosted Garden Shop at: BL \| Alt	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Alcohol Ink Yupo Paper – White Shop at: BL	Strathmore – Bristol Smooth Shop at: BL
Strathmore – Watercolor Paper Pad Shop at: BL	Tonic Studios – Nuvo Collection – Crystal Drops Gloss – Metallic Blue Shop at: BL	Tonic Studios – Nuvo Collection – Crystal Drops Gloss – Morning Dew Shop at: BL	Hero Arts Embossing Powder – Detail Clear Shop at: BL
Tombow Xtreme Adhesive Tape Runner Shop at: BL	Altenew Crisp Dye Ink Cubes – Green Fields Shop at: BL \| Alt	Altenew Crisp Dye Ink Cubes – Rose Petal Shop at: BL \| Alt	Tsukineko – VersaFine Pigment Ink Pad – Onyx Black Shop at: BL
Tsukineko – VersaMark Ink Pad Shop at: BL	Ranger – Tim Holtz – Alcohol Blending Pen Shop at: BL	Ranger – Tim Holtz – Alcohol Blending Solution Shop at: BL	Ranger – Tim Holtz – Mixatives – Pearl Shop at: BL
Ranger – Tim Holtz – Nature Walk Shop at: BL	Ranger – Tim Holtz – Summit View Shop at: BL	Ranger – Tim Holtz – Valley Trail Shop at: BL	Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz – Stamp Platform Shop at: BL
Xyron 250 Create A Sticker Maker Shop at: SC	Kuretake – ZIG – Clean Color – Real Brush Marker Shop at: BL	Ken Oliver – Color Burst – Brights Assortment – 6 Pack Shop at: BL	Ken Oliver – Color Burst – Caribbean Brights – 6 Pack Shop at: BL
Ken Oliver – Mineral Burst – Platinum Shop at: BL