Altenew Build-A-Flower: Begonia Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi Folks! Welcome to the new Build-A-Flower: Begonia release blog hop! You may have come from the blog of Therese Calvird, but if not feel free to start at the beginning with the Altenew Card Blog. 

What an awesome flower this month, with all those details in the Begonia! As soon as I was done stamping the first flower I smiled to myself thinking how flippin' long it would take me to color this all by hand.

I graduated with an accounting degree from University of Illinois (not sure if you knew that, I never really talk about it) so I'm often wanting to quantify things. Mathematically, if you consider there are about 20 petals on this flower, and an average of 15 brush strokes per petal, and two main color layers with brush strokes, that comes out to ...
600 BRUSH STROKES

and if you consider there are two flowers on this card ...
1,200 BRUSH STROKES

Whew! One would really need to rest their arm after that. So, I guess it's a darn good thing the layer stamps do everything for us! :

You may have noticed I referred to two flowers on this card. One trick I like to do to be more efficient with my time and supplies is to slice a flower in half and make it into two partial flowers. I adhered the larger section of the flower on the left margin of the card, and I flipped around the smaller section of the flower and adhered it to the right margin of the card.

The background of the card is a subtle pattern from blending charcoal ink through the Flowing Drops Stencil on the gray cardstock. The sentiment comes with the BAF Begonia set, and I selectively embossed the "you" in gold. I kept the leaves simple and only stamped the outline of the veins in light aqua.

If you don't have a lot of Altenew Inks, or even just any series of inks in the same color family for the BAF layering, Altenew offers the Build-A-Flower: Begonia Ink Bundle at a discount. It has the stamps, dies, four coordinating ink cubes for the flower, and four coordinating ink cubes for the leaves. Of course these ink cubes can also be used for any of the other BAF sets you own.

Prizes:

To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog 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 blogs on 02/09/2020.

You have now officially finished the blog hop! I hope you've come away with some good inspiration, and perhaps one new technique, layout, color combo, etc. to try.


Thanks so much for stopping by!
-Kelly  

PS. Do you find yourself loving each Build-a-Flower when it comes out? I always think to myself, OK, I've got enough, but then when I see the next flower it's somehow different than all the others! If you're the same, the monthly subscription plan might be for you. When signed up, you are guaranteed a spot in our monthly BAF releases and will receive a set each month - at a specially discounted price! ($35.00 →$29.99):

Supplies Used (thanks so much for your support!)

Altenew BAF Begonia

Flowing Drops Stencil