Eva Bussom: Altenew Build-A-Garden: Magnificent Branch Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($200 total prizes)

Hello and welcome back! Today I'm guest designing with Altenew.com . In case you don't know who I am, I'm Eva Bussom I do Facebook Lives, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday's. I look forward to seeing you there with me and my crafty friends at 4:00pm MST. I hope that you enjoyed Ann Taylor amazing designs, but if you didn't come from their blog, you can start here or jump over to Altenew's Card Blog.

Build-A-Garden: Magnificent Branch Product Description:

Love genuinely, and bloom with grace. Create two card fronts at once with this first-of-its-kind floral stamp set! The imaginative set features a magnificent tree branch bearing flowers that you wouldn't normally see together in nature. Cut the design just right for a card featuring the cupped rose and another card featuring the flat rose. Stamp the heartwarming sentiments and quotes to inspire your loved ones. We hope you love this stamp set as much as we do!

Enjoy our Build-A-Garden project set, an exciting monthly package that is sure to get the creative juices flowing! Each month includes a stamp set along with a coordinating stencil set and/or die set PLUS a customer-favorite Mini Blending Brush! Build your collection of brushes from month to month so you will never be left looking for the perfect tool while crafting.

This set contains the following products:

- one 6" x 8" stamp set containing 10 stamps made in the USA from high-quality photopolymer

- one layering stencil set containing 4 stencils that coordinate with the stamp set

- one Mini Blending Brush for ink blending

Note: These products are NOT sold separately.

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 05/07/2022 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 05/09/2022.

I started by deciding which side of this gorgeous stamp set was I going to use. I decided on the branch portion itself. Starting with the outline stamp, then moving to the matching stencil set. I used my Detail Blending Brushes for each of the layers on the stencil. Then I grabbed my snips and began fussy cutting it out. For my colors I used Tea Party and Tropical Forest Crisp Dye Inks along with Artist Markers Y204 and R101.

The Fine Frames die set was used on Gold cardstock and looks Devine, as a pair. I added a simple sentiment in Obsidian Black and my design is complete. I didn't add any other embellishments because I thought the gold was the bit of wow every card needs.