Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Poppy Release Blog Hop

 

Welcome to the Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Poppy Release Blog Hop + Giveaway!  Each month on the 7th, Altenew releases a new Craft-A-Flower.  I love these three-dimensional blooms that are a fantastic way to use up scraps from your scrap bin or to use with the Gradient Cardstock Bundles from Altenew.

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Get 25% off ALL Washi Tapes and receive a FREE Gift (Crafting 101 - Washi Tapes class) from 11/07/2020 at 12:01 AM EST until 11/08/2020 at 11:59 PM EST. Shop HERE:  https://altenew.com/collections/washi-tapes.  Not valid on previous orders. Free gift will be added to your cart automatically. (Offer excludes November 2020 release products). 

Giveaway Prizes:
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog by 11/12/2020 for a chance to win. Altenew will 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 Winners Page on 11/16/2020. 

You should have arrived here from the blog of the beautiful Erum Tasneem!  If you need to go back to the beginning of the hop, here is your blog hop order:

Altenew Card Blog

Svitlana Shayevich

Emily Midgett

Norine Borys

Nathalie DeSousa

LauraJane

Nicole Watt

Keisha Charles

Tania Ahmed

Amanda Baldwin

Erum Tasneem

>>>>>Vicki Finger<<<<<

Virginia Lu

Dana Joy

Therese Calvird

Jenny Colacicco

Laurie Willison

Victoria Calvin

Amy Hill

Kelly Griglione

Tenia Nelson

Nenette S. Madero

Terri Koszler

Whenever I am working with the Craft-A-Flower products, I head over to my scrap bin and start pulling colors from there that will work together. I have a huge basket of scraps to work with and pull from, so thus far, I haven't failed in this endeavor.  As you may be already aware, Poppies come in a wide variety of colors.  There are Red, Orange, Blue, Turquoise, Purple, etc.  When you imagine a poppy in your mind, I think most people picture a red Poppy.  This particular variety is called Queen Alexandra Poppy.  I love this one and my mom has one or two of these in her yard.  They have been my favorite variety for many years.  So I tried to choose my papers to get a similar color and look to this particular variety.  My cardstock is multiple shades of pink with the deep black centers as you see in the photograph on the left.  

Assembly Instructions are available in the packaging and the set includes two bloom sizes and styles, three different leaves, and a stem.

For my card, I started with a piece of pale pink cardstock and did some ink blending in the lower left-hand corner using some Frayed Leaf.  The idea was to give the impression of other foliage in the background.  

I die cut all the blooms pieces to start.  There are two different sizes of poppy blooms in this set.  Poppies tend to be on these super delicate stems and they wave and flow in the breeze. Can you just imagine a whole field of pink and purple poppies swaying in the breeze?  Wouldn't that be a sight to see?  You always see photos of fields of red poppies and while they are beautiful, I can't help imagining the same fields in the pinks and purple hues that are available.  

These were quick and easy to put together.  I pulled some Black Iridescent sequins to pull that color together from the flower center.  

You can purchase your Craft-A-Flower: Poppy Die Set here: https://altenew.com/products/craft-a-flower-poppy-layering-die-set

Thanks for stopping by today to see my Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Poppy card!  The color possibilities are endless with all of the Craft-A-Flower releases.  I hope you'll pick one up and share your projects if you make something.  

You can also sign up for the Monthly Subscription to all the Craft A Flower releases here: https://altenew.com/products/craft-a-flower-monthly-subscription.  

Thanks again for stopping by today.  Enjoy all the stops along the hop!  Your next stop is the so very Kind, Virginia Lu!  Have an awesome rest of your day!