Hello crafty friends, Latisha Yoast here and I am so excited for you all to join us in the Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop. If you came from Anna Komenda’s Blog, you are in the right place! Be sure to read to the bottom for your opportunity to win 37 different prizes too!
The very first time that I made a card (for real) with proper cardstock and stamps was in 2001! My husband was about to go on his very first deployment, our daughter was 5, and our son was just a baby so we were a very young family. At the time the only place to get a nice card was at the Hallmark store, and the number of cards I needed to send him off with… well, buying them was out of the question because we didn’t have that kind of money. So, I was at a new friend’s house, and she had all of these stamps and ink pads. I had no idea what I was doing but the thought of putting love into a card to bring someone joy made me absolutely giddy. I still feel that way every time I sit down and make a card. If someone would have told me back then, that one day I would work for craft companies and magazines, I would have laughed. But here we are 17 years later, I still love getting my fingers inky, and I love all of the wonderful people I get to call friends in this community and especially this magazine! Cardmakers truly are very special people and some of the nicest I have ever met.
Today I am sharing a few Christmas cards, both using the Festive Poinsettia Stamp set from Altenew.
It is always fun to use the same stamp in different ways! For this card, the poinsettia was stamped in a light yellow ink onto watercolor paper, then watercolored. Once dry the poinsettias were carefully cut out with scissors and popped up with foam tape to create lovely dimension.
This card is similar in that the images were watercoloured, but the poinsettia was stamped many times onto a panel to create the illusion of a bigger stamp!
Your next stop along the way is Kymona Tracey.
If you get lost along the way, here is the complete list of blogs participating.
For hopping along today, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners and one Altenew Academy class to 5 lucky winners. There are also 12 awesome friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:
- My Sweet Petunia: 3 MISTI stamping tools(Memory, Original, and Mini)
- Jennifer McGuire Ink: Altenew $50 gift certificate & 10 handmade cards
- Online Card Classes: 3 class spots
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- Chameleon Art Products: 1 pack of 5 Chameleon Pens
- Stamp & Scrapbook Expo: $25 gift certificate
- Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 gift certificate
- Simon Says Stamp: $25 gift certificate
- Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine: 2 copies of Scrapbook & Cards Today Fall 2018 issue (that’s us!!!)
- Scrapbook.com: $25 gift certificate
- Tombow USA: 1 pack of 10 Dual Brush Pens
**BONUS: We are also giving away a $20 Altenew Gift Certificate in addition to all the other amazing giveaways! Please leave a comment below telling us what your favourite holiday tradition is for a chance to win.**
Be sure to leave comments by Sunday, December 9th, 2018 for a chance to win!
37 winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on all of these blogs listed above and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on December 15th, 2018. The winner of the bonus $20 gift certificate will be announced on the 9th right here too!
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A big thank you to our friends at Altenew for asking us to be a part of this fun Crafty Friends blog hop! Good luck and happy hopping!
Love these cards! They are so vibrant and full of Christmas!
These cards are GORGEOUS!!! My favourite holiday tradition is celebrating each day leading up to Christmas and documenting our activities (December Daily).
Wow! Nice festive set!
These cards are just stunning. The delicate colors are so beautiful.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating cookies with my mom. I remember my excitement as a child when my mom would put the frosting on the cookies and my brother and I would pour (a few too many) sprinkles on top. Now that I am older, both my mom and I put the frosting on the cookies while my son and daughter pour (a few too many) sprinkles on top. It is one of the best times of the year!
lovely cards – my fav tradition is watching a holiday movie on Christmas Eve with my kids!!
We have so many traditions it is hard to pick a favorite! We hunt for the perfect tree to cut down, I give the kids a dated ornament each year, we frost sugar cookies, have lottery tickets in the stockings but my favorite has to be photos with Santa. I even bought a Santa suit so we could do them at home as my kids got too old to do this in public:):) Thank you for the opportunity!!
Lovely poinsettias. Our traditions are changing with my children growing up and moving away (far away) from home. Not sure what traditions will carry on…but baking cookies probably will.
Wow – How realistic are those poinsettias!! What a fabulous giveaway and all these projects are amazing!
Beautiful cards with lovely coloring!! The flowers are so pretty :) We don’t have any specific holiday tradition..
Lovely cards! The colouring is gorgeous! My favourite holiday tradition is having a seafood dinner on Christmas Eve and opening our gifts after dinner.
I am in LOVE with Latisha’s poinsettia cards. I want to make them myself!!!
Our favorite Christmas tradition was my parent’s annual Open House after the community Christmas tree in our small town. We sang carols around the tree in our safe little town, Santa arrived on our antique fire truck, and then everyone came back to feast on food the wonderful cooks prepared. It was truly a wonderful memory!
Mother always decorated with poinsettias so these cards spell happiness, safety, security, and lots of Christmas LOVE!
Beautiful!I love the December to remember! Time spent with family is what makes our holiday so special and definitely the best memories!
Lovely cards! Favorite tradition is making an ornament for each of my girls. It has been a great way to try out new mediums.
Beautifully crafted cards, love all the inspiration!
I love these beautifully detailed cards. They are both just stunning.
Love these cards…tfs. My favorite tradition is baking cookies for my company cookie exchange…so much fun!
Both cards are so lovely!
Beautiful card. Thanks for sharing your story.
Love both cards, so christmasy!
Both cards are fabulous
This flower stolen my heart! It’s so adorable ????
The one of the importante tradition is to get All the family together! Big table a lots of food, everyone is laughing. Warm and cozy atmosphere.
Both beautiful cards – but I especially love the brighter, bolder one – it is so incredibly festive and gorgeous!
Beautiful cards!
I love these poinsettias. The petals aren;t
tightly bunched. Real poinsettias have space
and that’s what this stamp has – looks more
realistic. thanks for sharing.
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My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with my family (all the aunts, uncles, cousins, my grandfather, etc, and celebrating on Christmas day! We’ve been doing this my whole life and I can’t imagine any other way to spend Christmas!
Wow”! Those cards are gorgeous. Altenew has the best flowers. My favourite holiday tradition is lighting the candles every night for eight days.
WOW ! how fabulous ! The artist talent shows through these cards simply beautiful !
I like the soft blue background.
Beautiful cards, they just pop!
There is something special about stamped cards and filled in with watercolor. They always look so real. These ones are especially beautiful!
Love these beautiful and festive cards! Gorgeous poinsettias!
Love these cards. I have this set and have been playing with it a lot!!
Beautiful cards – love the bow!
These cards are spectacular! I have to play with those!! I can’t imagine a more, Christmas cards, making them from hand!
Beautiful cards! I love the dimensional one, where the poinsettias pop off the page.
My favorite holiday tradition is taking time off during the holidays to spend time with family. We can just sit around in our pajamas and watch movies (which actually, is one of my favorite things to do!), or we can get dressed up and go to a holiday event…it doesn’t really matter, because we’ve got time off to relax, laugh, and enjoy each other’s company. Good stuff for the holidays!
Beautiful card!
Beautiful cards, I love the poinsettia stamp. My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas eve gathering at church, which always ends in candlelight with everyone singing Silent Night
I love our Elf on a shelf. We have two, a girl elf for our daughter and a boy elf for our son. My kids love looking for their elves every morning. Our elves are in many of our Christmas photos and scrapped in my December Daily.
Oh, Latisha! These poinsettias jump off the front if these cards in their realness and gorgeousness! I would have loved to see you watercolor these in a video. Don’t you just love Altenew goodies?!
Beautiful cards! Thanks!
Both cards are stunning!! Thank you for sharing. My favourite tradition is doing the Christmas baking because when all is said and done, I arrange platters for several people, my mom first and foremost. I remember baking with my mom as a youngster, it carries many memories for me.
Lovely!
Beautiful cards, I love the poinsettia stamp. My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas eve reading the Polar Express in NEW pajamas… yes, even as adults!
Beautiful cards. Always nice to see new ideas. Love the Christmas season.
I just love putting up the Christmas tree! (Now if only someone else would take it down…)
Beautiful cards! We play “minute to win it” games every year and it’s just the best tradition. Lots of laughter!
My favorite Holiday tradition is when my husband reads Twas The Night Before Christmas to our family even if the kids are growing up and grown up. I can’t decide which card I love more. The vivid red is striking and the lighter card is so realistic. I am just going to love them both the same!
Amazing cards and fantastic winnings. My favorite holiday tradition is going out to cut down the tree, having a whiner and marshmallow roast along with a bonfire and some sliding, finished off with dragging the trees onto the back of the trucks. Sometimes they fall out 3 or 4 times on the way home.
Lovely cards!! One of our traditions is going on holiday light tours!