Notable Nest: Altenew January 2024 Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 in Total Prizes!)

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Altenew January 2024 Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 in Total Prizes!)

Hi Friends! The holidays are barely over and already the inspiring new releases start, including the new Altenew January Release! I had a lot of fun as you can see ...

You may have hopped over from the lovely and talented Mindy Eggen, but if not feel free to start this blog hop at the beginning with Altenew.

Let's start with a pretty flat card, featuring the Mega Blossom Stencil Set. It always amazes me how much "oooh and ahhh" you can get from just a humble set of [well-designed] stencils!

I used this floral stencil three times, and then added a fourth rendering of the leaf tip on the upper left to fill the card space.

To further fill the space, I loosely added dots in the empty spaces with the OG Feeling Dotty stencil, which is probably my most-used stencil in my craft room! You can see some dots bled into the large leaf, but don't stress, totally fine for this casual garden look.

This card features two new goodies! The Dynamic Duo: Floral Whimsy and the Outlined Love You die.

These flowers are a bit unique in that the stamped image is only the centers! The included stencil set provides you the overall flower shape and then you just stamp the center. I love that this saves a bit of room in the stamp set (giving you more images/sentiments), but also is much more forgiving because you don't have to laboriously match up the stamp and stencil exactly. So smart! All of these flowers and leaves are from one round of the stencils and die. So many!

The Love You outline die is just beautiful in gold. It's wonderful how you can change up the colors underneath to coordinate with your card. There's no die for that, but I traced around the outline die and easily cut it out myself.

This is such a beautiful die! The Dear Heart Die gives you an elaborate "heart doily" to feature on your cards.

Since it's so finely detailed, there's not much else you need. I just cut two of the dies, adhered one directly to the center of the card, cut the other heart in half, and added each piece to the top and bottom.

Only thing missing is the sentiment. This one is from the new One Go Loving Sentiments Stamp Set and features several different loving thoughts, all meant to coordinate with the One Go Birthday Greetings Die. Like the title, "one go" and you've cut out 12 different sentiments!

After inking up the first heart on the prior card, it left such a nice impression on the background paper that I decided to make it into a simple card. I inked the second heart on a card front as a quick 2-for-1 set. After pulling away the heart die, I grabbed another one of the “one-go” sentiments and adhered it on. Done!

Finally, let’s kick it up a notch! Lots of impact here, but not necessarily lots of effort.

To make this I inked up two heart dies on one side only, folded them down the middle, and adhered them right next to each other on the card.

To me, this is the best kind of dimension on a card because it folds flat for mailing and storage.

Love the hint of color underneath. For the sentiment, you guessed it, I grabbed several of the leftover one-go sentiments. One is popped up higher than the others for a bit of focal point.

These were honestly such a fun and quick set of cards to make with the Dear Heart Die!

Finally, I leave you with a sneak peek for the February release ; ) Come back during next month’s hop for all the details!

Giveaway Prizes

$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $100 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $50 gift certificate to 4 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 01/17/2024 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 5 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 01/19/2024.