Altenew Educator “For the Love of Flowers” Blog Hop and Linky Party + Giveaway
Altenew Educator “For the Love of Flowers” Blog Hop and Linky Party + Giveaway
It’s an Educator Blog Hop!
Occasionally, Altenew organizes a special blog hop featuring the Altenew Certified Educators. Now that I’m one of them, I get to join in on the fun! Our theme is “For the Love of Flowers” so, get ready to see lots of ideas featuring Altenew’s signature product line – their floral stamps! If you are arriving from fellow Educator Maryam Sharara you’re in the right place! If you’d like to start from the beginning, head over to the Altenew Card Blog. There’s a Linky Party too, so link up your favorite recent floral creation and you could win one of the giveaway prizes!
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Raiding Scraps
As you might know, one of my favorite ways to showcase florals is with geometrics. I love the way the two play together and really creates a refined, modern look.
Now, to be honest with you, I started this project for something completely different, and didn’t have the florals added. Well, it seemed kind of plain, so I raided my scraps stash and found all of these lovely floral bits left over from other projects.
I’m so glad I raided the stash, because I might not have come up with such a wonderful floral spray! I am guilty of sticking with a single floral stamp set per project. However, I learned that paring different sets together can create some amazing results! The florals come from three sets – Retro Plantines, Painted Flowers, and Lacy Scrolls. They look so good together, right?!
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Inlaid Squares Look
The other cool detail of this project is the overlapping squares. Believe it or not, they’re not overlapping, but inlaid. I have a video here to help you achieve the look!
Thank You!
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Now, about that GIVEAWAY…
Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 3 lucky winners! Please leave a comment here on the Altenew Card Blog by 3/11/2020 for a chance to win. We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog on 3/14/2020.
There’s MORE! We will pick 2 of our favorite handmade creations from those who joined the linky party and they will each receive a $15 gift certificate to our store!
GOOD LUCK!
Time to hop along!
Be sure to hop over to our amazing Educator Coordinator Virginia Lu for another amazing project. And don’t forget to leave comments along the way to enter all the giveaways!
Altenew Card Blog
Michelle Ochoa Murray
Nandini Karmarkar
Terri Marie Koszler
Irina Fonina
Amy Hill
Vicki Finger
Laurel Beard
Teri Stokes
Neha Aggarwal
Nenette S. Madero
Nancy McClelland
Eva Bussom
Amber Rain Davis
Rosie Neustaedter
Patty Mello
Helen Kalb
Teri Wilson
Christine Pennington
Maryam Sharara
>>> Nicole Watt <<<<
Virginia Lu
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Beautiful card and great video. Thanks for sharing!
I love your squares!! Èly
I love your card, Nicole. Great inspiration!
Save the scraps is my device – love your project Nicole!
And congratulations on becoming part of the Altenew video team!
Great ideas, thanks for all the inspiration
A beautful card Nicole, congrats on joing the Video inspiration team
nice way to create depth and interest
Very cool modern card. Thanks for the inspiration!
Lovely cards, Nicole!!! I love how you used black to make your card stand out!
I use up my scraps, too. I love to get rid of the little bits afterward. Love your simple look.
Always so fun to rummage through scraps and find hidden gems! Love your color palette and the mix of geometrics and florals. Hugs!
awesome bold design Nicole! Thank you for the inspiration!
What a beautiful card! Great design! 🙂
Great Card Nicole , Always love watching you and your work. Regards Neha
So awesome. They remind me of Art Deco.
Wonderful cards and video! I enjoy your videos! Thank you for making my day so enjoyable.
Hi Nicole,
Nice job with the inlaid squares and pretty flowers.
Love the combination or floral and geometric, great work!
Beautiful! And yeay for finding stuff in your scrap pile that work so perfectly!
Fun geometric card. Gives such a sharp modern look!
Great card Nicole. And great video.
Great video on how to get the cuts to fit. I like the mixed leaves.
I like how you combined geometric and floral!
I love that combination of florals and geometrics, I’ve never done it, now I have to give it a try, Thanks for the inspiration. By the way, I subscribed to your youtube channel a couple of days ago, it’s great!
Cool card, Nicole. Love all the beautiful layering.
They do look great together. Right! I would not have thought of putting Painted Flowers on a retro card. But it really works!
Pretty flowers and I like the squares.
That Thank You die cut is very eye catching! Great card!
How delightful, love the mix of geometric element and florals!!
thanks, Nicole, for showing how to fit the frames together seamlessly – great color combo!
I love the retro look! Great black and color contrast!
Wonderful card. Love that stamp set ♥
You have definitely inspired me to raid my scraps! Thanks, Nicole!
I love the inlaid squares. Thanks for showing us how to do it. This card is beautiful.
Your card is gorgeous! I love the inlaid technique-thank you for sharing and the video-which was great.
Your cards look great. I love those black bold sentiments. Thank you for sharing the video.
This is such a fun, bold design. Beautiful.
Wonderful card. I love that geometric background and the colors are gorgeous.
I love this geometric style
Great video and card. Great idea for using up those extra diecuts and scraps.
This is just brilliant!!! You are so awesome!!
Thank you for being part of this hop!
Your card is amazing. I love how everything fit perfectly. Thank you for sharing
Very pretty and creative! Thank you for the tutorial!
Oh I love your color combo!
Beautiful card! Great use of shapes on your card. I don’t think to use them as a background but it works really nicely. Thanks for sharing.