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Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Seasonal Blooms Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi Altenew Friends & Fans!

Welcome to the Happy Arty Days blog!

I am so super excited to be participating in today's amazing

Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Seasonal Blooms Release Blog Hop + Giveaway!

Huge thanks to the amazing Jennifer McGuire for relaying you here!

Her projects are always mesmerizing!

If you haven't arrived here as part of the hop, or you're feeling a little lost please visit the Altenew Blog HERE to get started!

Like always, Altenew are celebrating in style....

With an amazing $300USD in total prizes!

Yes, you read correctly! $300USD in total prizes!

Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 07/18/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 07/20/2021.

Blog Hop Order

Start here ---> Altenew Blog

Jennifer McGuire

You are here ---> Amanda Baldwin

I am so thrilled to be part of this hop and introducing the first-ever

Altenew: Craft Your Life Project Kit!

This is an exciting monthly package that is sure to get the creativity flowing! Each month the Craft You Life Project Kit will include a 6x8 stamp set, coordinating die set, as well as a stencil and embossing folder to fit the theme - wow! So much awesome in one lil kit!

Here's a look at this month's Craft Your Life Kit: Seasonal Blooms

WOW!!!

Please note: These products are NOT sold separately - they are exclusive to the Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit!

Worried that the Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit will sell out before you get it into your cart?

Never fear!

You can secure early access to the Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit before it is released in-store by subscribing to the Craft Your Life Project Kit Monthly Subscription Plan! When you are subscribed to the monthly subscription, you are guaranteed a spot in the New Craft Your Life Project Kit each month.

You will also have the added benefit of a discounted price - only $49.99/ month! (plus shipping and tax)

What are you waiting for?

With the formalities taken care of, it's time for some inspiration!

Here's what I've created with the Craft Your Life Project Kit: Seasonal Blooms...

"Hello, I LOVE YOU" - 8.5 x 11inch scrapbook layout

Oh.my.heart!

I can't even begin...SO beautiful!

Scrapbooking & memory keeping are going to a whole new level thanks to the

Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit!

Altenew Supplies: Craft Your Life Project Kit - Seasonal Blooms, Permanent Black Crisp Dye Ink, Assorted Altenew Colored Stamping Inks, Detailed Blending Brushes, & Creative Edges: Scalloped Scallops Die Set.

Let's take a closer look...

You'll spy that I have stamped, stencil colored, & die cut those amazing Seasonal Blooms for maximum impact!

I layered these blooms onto a sheet of vellum, before foam mounting over the white Seasonal Blooms 3D embossed paper. Simple, beautiful, elegant!

I also used the Seasonal Blooms Stamps and Coordinating Die Set to form my layout title!

Perfect!

And I just had to make a card too...

Oh how elegant!!!

The Altenew 3D Embossing Folders are always impressive, but combined with the rose gold foil, well, they really are a match made in card making heaven!

So beautiful!

I think it's safe to say that I am locking in my monthly subscription to the

Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit now! Get yours HERE!

I really hope my projects have inspired you today!

You can see more of my crafty projects on Instagram HERE

***Please be sure to leave a comment on this post to be entered into the giveaway!***

Thankyou & Good Luck!

Time to send you hopping over to my favorite crafty guy, the super talented Jaycee Gaspar - blog HERE!

Thanks so much for visiting,

til next time,

Happy Arty Days,

Amanda xo

Hip Kit Club: Color Kit Fun!

Hi Friends!

Welcome back for more Hip Kit Club inspiration!

Today I have a fun December 2020 Color Kit layout to share with you all! If you're familiar with my creating, you'll already know how much I absolutely LOVE Shimmerz Paints! No surprises that I was over the moon excited to see one of my all time favorite Inklingz in the December Color Kit - Oakie Bear Blue! Oh.my.heart! Don't even get me started on my obsession with intensely pigmented blue paints! Needless to say, Inklingz Oakie Bear Blue takes center stage in today's painty post.

Here's what I created...

"SO Happy"

Whoa!!! SO very happy, indeed! From that darling photo to those painty hues and those brightly colored stripes - this layout is all kinds of happy! As well as the beautiful December 2020 Color Kit paints, I have also featured the December 2020 Main Scrapbook and Embellishment Kit. So much gorgeousness! Let's take a closer look...

Those torn and distressed paper trims at the top of my page are errrrything! Both patterns are from the Keeping Cozy: My Happy Place paper & clearly I had difficulty choosing a favorite! Not only do they act as an anchor to balance out all the color at the base of my page, but the contrast between spots and stripes really creates a visual point of interest. Spots and stripes for the win! Yay!

I framed my sweet photo with one of the fabulous Keeping Cozy Chipboard Stickers, then layered it onto another Chipboard Sticker, and a bed of black and white Floral Ephemera die cuts from the Embellishment Kit. So simple and yet, such effective and lovely layers of interest!

But it's that mixed media layer that I just can't stop looking at! It was sooooooo much fun to create! I started by masking off the cardstock with some old washi tape from my stash at the 6 inch mark. I then added lots, and lots, of water below the masked area before using a dropper to apply the Inklingz Oakie Bear Blue color. I allowed the paint to swirl into the water pools and react, and then dried it all off with a heat gun.

I then used a round tip paint brush to apply the Shimmerz Christmas Cheer gold paint around the blue areas. Once applied, I held the cardstock up vertically & sprayed the paint with lots of water to encourage more of that drippy paint appearance. I dried this off, and repeated the same application process for the Inklingz Naughty or Nice color. LOVE it!

I added a few paint splatters by flicking my paint brush over my mixed media background, and once all my paint was dry I removed the washi tape to reveal that perfectly straight edge.

I created a mixed font title with the Keeping Cozy Black Puffy Alphabet Stickers & Puffy Word Stickers from the Embellishment Kit. I also scattered some sweet black stars from the Let's Celebrate Clear Stickers, as well as sprinkled some of the Main Kit Keeping Cozy: Enamel Dots. For a finished look, I added a few hearts, and some colored cotton thread from my sewing supplies.

So very striking and SO happy! I really hope that my playful, mixed media layout has inspired you to get a lil paint today!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

til next time,

Happy Arty Days,

Amanda xo

Hip Kit Club: Cut File & Color Kit Inspiration Plus Process Video!

Hi Friends!

Welcome back for more Hip Kit Club awesomeness!

I can't begin to tell you how awesome the January 2020 Hip Kit Club Cut Files are!

I mean, seriously, SO good!

If you know me, I can't go past florals, so I'm featuring the floral wreath cut file in my scrapbook layout today. As I type this though, my January 2020 Hip Kits are still in transit, so.....

for today's post I'm sharing how I have 'stretched' my December 2019 Hip Kits to make one more detailed, and very pretty page!

I've even included a process video at the end of this post, so you can see exactly what I'm meaning ;) But first, here's my lovely take on the floral wreath cut file.....

"Cherished Pretty Girl"

Wa wa wow!!!

As well as being all about the florals, I'm also huge on creating very pretty things - especially when it comes to my darling girl! Isn't she the sweetest?!

For this page, you'll spy lots of floral clusters and foliage but I had used a ton of my supplies in my recent HKC mini album (watch here if you missed it), so I had to get a little creative with my 'left over' items to form all those pretty details!

See if you can spy the snowflakes and stars forming my florals....

Gah! It's just so gor-jus!!!!

To create this page, I started by painting up a few scrap pieces of white cardstock with the Lindy's Gang Magicals: Martina's Marigold & Andrea's Azalea (from December 2019 Color Kit). I then used these pieces of paper to back the cut file leaves and blooms, as well as cut a few more of my own flower shapes and leaves with.

Next, I painted the wreath 'rings' with the Lindy's Gang: Magicals in Jana's Jade - so pretty!

I embellished the wreath with a mix of floral clusters which are created from fussy cut stars and snowflakes from the Crate Paper Snowflake Joyous Specialty Foil Accented Paper (exclusive to the December 2019 Paper Kit), So Frosty Decorative Vellum Star Die Cuts, So Frosty Mixed Ephemera, So Frosty Winter Florals and Die Cut Tags,and fussy cut shapes created from the Color Kit Magicals! To complete the look, I added the Prima Adhesive Gems to the centers of these stacked flowers - perfect!

Don't they look fantastic?!

A really simple but effective way to use up your 'scraps' to create more embellishments.

I separated a few of the wreath, tree and branch pieces from the Crate Paper Copper Foil Phrase & Icon Thickersto create the appearance of more foliage around the wreath. I also added in a few fussy cut leaves which I snipped out from the So Frosty Decorative Vellum Star Die Cuts, as well as the previously painted Lindy's Gang Magicals papers. I combined these with my leafy So Frosty Winter Floral die cuts to build up the wreath and create lots of shape, interest and form.

I tucked my So Frosty framed photograph into the florals on the left hand side, and continued to embellish away! The tiny, floral, So Frosty Flair Button from the December 2019 Embellishment Kitwas the perfect adornment to my baby girl's framed photo - I just love this small, but oh so pretty detail!

With a shortage of letters in my Thickers supplies, I opted a mixed font title with alphas from both the December Main & Embellishment Kits. Again, a great way to combine and mix your kits to stretch them that lil bit further! For a polished and finished look, I added some soft splatters and droplets of Jana's Jade Magicals around the wreath, and a few more of the Prima Gems. Beautiful!

Wanna see more? Please watch my process video HERE

Thanks so much for watching!

I hope you enjoyed seeing how my layout with the January 2020 Hip Kit Club Cut Files & December 2019 Color Kit came together, and that I have inspired you to get creating today!

Til next time,

Happy Arty Days.

Amanda xo

Shimmerz Paints + Cocoa Vanilla Studio = Beautiful Layout & Process Video

Hi Creative Friends!

Welcome back for more shimmery inspiration!
Today I am sharing a gorgeous layout & process video with the fabulous
Shimmerz Paints April Color Kit!

This exclusive Color Kit is absolutely GOR-jus & I just couldn't resist creating with it again -
while I anxiously await the June Kit release in a few days time!

**Hint, hint! Set your alarms for June 1st kit reveal day - it's going to be epic!**

If you missed the April Color Kit, it looks like this.....

SO divine!

***These are limited edition kits, BUT there is one or two remaining in the store - if your quick!***

Shop the April Color Kit HERE

The kit contents are:

1 package of Spiegelmom Scraps Sequins in “Pick Your Plum”

• 1 2oz bottle of “Quit Yer Wine-n” Vibez

• 1 Jar of “Lapis Dance” Creameez

• 1 Jar of “Pink-a-Boo” Inklingz

• 1 Jar of “Angel Wings” Shimmerz

Here's the layout I have created with this fabulous Color Kit....

"Beautiful"

Sigh! Beautiful indeed!

Such a pretty page for my darling ballerina!

Here's a closer look for you....

Swoon! So much gorgeousness!

I can't even!!!

From that pretty Pink-A-Boo Inklingz, to the richness of the Vibez Quit Yer Wine-n & those stunning pops of Lapis Dance Creameez - well, it's just pure bliss!

And don't even get me started on the Pick Your Plum sequins!!!

La La LOVE this kit!

I have combined it with the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Midnight collection, as they're clearly a match made in heaven!

Here's a few pretty close ups for you.....

Just look at those colors!

So much loveliness in the April Color Kit!

Such a soft and pretty page for my darling ballerina!

You can watch how I created this pretty heart page design on the Shimmerz channel HERE

Happy watching!

I hope you enjoyed my seeing how my layout came together.

I just adore the April Color Kit & I hope I have inspired you to use yours!

(Or race to the store for the last remaining one HERE! )

Thanks so much for visiting,

til next time,

Happy Arty Days,

Amanda xo

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Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Seasonal Blooms Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hip Kit Club: Color Kit Fun!

Hip Kit Club: Cut File & Color Kit Inspiration Plus Process Video!

Shimmerz Paints + Cocoa Vanilla Studio = Beautiful Layout & Process Video