Nonni's Handmade Cards: Altenew

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Sunday, 14 September 2025

Time out Challenges #297 Favorite Season + Inkspirational #350 Trees

Hi friends!

This week I'm combining two design team cards as one fun card project. :) Time out Challenges #297 Favorite Season and Inkspirational #350 Trees are both newly out from the card challenge oven and running for about two weeks! I hope to see you joining both challenges with your projects... And as you can see here, with a little planning you can join both with the same project!

Do click on the links above, they take you to the challenge blogs with all the challenge details and lots of DT inspiration.

I chose summer as my favorite season (fall comes as close second but nothing beats summer!) and played with two scene making products from Hero Arts:

Coastal Blooms Heroscape Stamp & Cut

Color Layering Harbor Stencils

I'm aware that the blooms of the stamp are supposed to be flower blooms or some sort of bushes... But by stamping some of the layers brown I turned them into hazelnut trees that I have in my garden, they really reminded me of them! The frame die is from Honey Bees Lovely Layouts: Posted and sentiment comes from Altenew. I used various inks from Hero Arts, Memento and Altenew to create the colorful scene.

I'd like to join:

Allsorts Challenge: Trees, Leaves and Plants

Crafty Calendar: Lots of Layers

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Lots of Layers

Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you joining us at Time Out and Inkspirational!

*The product links in this post are affiliate links. If you click and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. By using my affiliate links you are helping me to continue to create crafty inspiration. :) Thank you for visiting my blog and happy crafting!*

Saturday, 5 July 2025

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm glad to be back at Inkspirational after having a couple of months break! It was a good time to come back, because the challenge theme for the next fortnight was chosen by me when the challenges where put together for this year. :) I love adding 3 of something to cards and it's especially nice for CAS cards... which is the route I went this time too.

I've used a stencil and inks from Altenew for the blobs and combined them with my favorite Hero Arts butterfly stamp Special Day Stamp And Cut stamp and die set . This is already a third card I make with this stamp within a short time period, I can't put it away! The sentiment comes from I Appreciate You stamp set. After my stenciling and stamping was done, the card still looked a bit bare so I drew two black lines to it and added shimmery gel pen to the butterfly wings.

Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you joining us at Inkspirational!

*The product links in this post are affiliate links. If you click and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for visiting my blog and happy crafting!*

Sunday, 25 May 2025

Current Challenget at Time Out... Your Favorite Winged Thing!

Hi friends!

I'm a couple of days late with my post for Time Out Challenges... But better late than never! :)

Our current challenge is "Inspired by Your Favorite Winged Thing" and it was an easy choice for me... Definitely butterflies!

I played with some sparkly and shiny water color backgrounds I had made with water color and shimmer powders. I embossed one of them with an Altenew folder and then swiped white pigment ink on top of the embossing to make it stand out even more. I cut the Honey Bee butterfly from a different water color panel. The sentiment, also by Honey Bee, is simply white heat embossed on black and cut out. I love how moody and "dark academia" with a pop of color this turned out! :)

I hope to see you joining our challenge. There's lot's of more DT inspiration and all the challenge details available HERE.

Sunday, 8 December 2024

New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for Time Out Challenges, where our last challenge of 2024 is a fun photo inspiration! We are celebrating holidays of all kinds and hope to see you playing along.

I was inspired by the peppermint stripes of the letter "p" in the photo... And dark blue background and some greenery. I used a large Joy-die from Altenew and used the stencils that go with it for creating the stripes. The greenery and bow are Hero Arts dies. Background embossing folder is by Altenew. This was very fun to make! Some simple die cutting, inking and copic coloring (for the greenery) and of course lots of paint splatters. :)

Please head on over to our challenge blog for all the challenge details and lots of more DT inspiration from our DT members and talented guest designer Verena. Then it's your turn to Take Time Out and Craft!

Saturday, 2 November 2024

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for Inkspirational where we this time want to see some layers!

I chose to play with one of my Altenew CYL kits, Meadow Breeze, and used the floral stamp, coordinating die + matching embossing folder in my card. I've colored the images with Karin markers. The sentiment is from another Altenew CYL kit, Sunshine Flowers. My card has several layers and I've created also extra dimension by popping up the floral images with foam. I quite love how this turned out although I'm just learning with my Karin markers! Such beautiful color hues though.

Please head on over to our challenge blog HERE for all the challenge details and lots of more DT inspiration. I look forward seeing you joining us!

I'm joining:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Saturday, 21 September 2024

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

We have a very fun and unique challenge for you at Inkspirational for the next fortnight: Headwear! Here's what our fabulous Ink boss lady Carol says about the challenge:

"Ideas galore for this challenge: fashionable toppers, seasonal necessities, sports requirements, ceremonial headdresses, costume decoration - and so much more. If it goes on your head, it goes in our gallery."

I look forward seeing what you'll create!

I made my card with Honey Bee Stamps hat die and combined it with a sentiment from Altenew. I'm pretty happy about the CAS design but keep wondering if the amount of hats should have been more or less lol! I just couldn't decide and went with 6 hats in the end... But how about 7 hats and a sentiment in the place of an eight hat?!? Or 5 hats and a sentiment in the place of an sixth hat?!? Hmm!! Let me know what you think!

Thursday, 29 August 2024

New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends,

today I'm here with a quick post with my DT card for Time Out Challenges! We are having our annual Friendship/Encouragement/Support challenge, which is one of my favorite challenges of the year. This year I decided to "send a virtual hug" with Altenew products... I've cut the floral panel out of black card stock and attached it on an alcohol ink background that also has some gold foil on it. This card has beautiful shine IRL. The base card is embossed with an old folder from my stash, no idea of the maker of that unfortunately.

Please head on over to our challenge blog for all the challenge details and lots of DT inspiration! This time Uniko sponsors the challenge with a coupon to our winner. The winner also gets called to guest design in a future challenge and this time our GD is the very talented Nancy Leppek.

I look forward seeing you joining us!

Saturday, 10 August 2024

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for Inkspirational, where we are inspired by a cute, summery moodboard! I drew my inspiration from the top left corner of the moodboard and tried to replicate the sunset sky look with some inking and stenciling. I stamped a floral image with black ink for a simple, CAS look on top of my sunset. All products by Altenew! I hope to see you joining us, don't miss any of the DT inspiration and all the challenge details HERE.

Saturday, 27 July 2024

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm popping in to share my DT card for the new "Woodland" challenge at Inkspirational! Our challenge runs for about two weeks. Don't miss any of the challenge details or DT inspiration, click HERE!

I decided to make a sort of contemporary and whimsical take on the theme -or that's at least how I see these dies from Waffle Flower Crafts! The frame actually has six openings but I cut it down to four little windows. I used ombre colored patterned paper for the sky. The trees I colored with Copics and then covered them with Versafine ink and clear sparkly Wow embossing powder for extra whimsy! The sentiment I die cut from two different green card and glued them offset so that the darker version makes a shadow. The green base card is die cut with an Altenew cover plate.

I'd like to join:

Die Cut Divas: Add Glitter

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Add a Sentiment

Cut It Up: CAS (I hope it's CAS enough! I do think it's a pretty clean look!)

Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you joining us at Inkspirational!

Saturday, 13 July 2024

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for the new challenge at Inkspirational. Our challenge theme is chosen by my talented team mate Marlena and it is to use products from two or more different companies. Fun, right!!

If you follow me on Instagram you might be thinking that you already saw this card on Monday... and you are not completely incorrect!! This is a re-make of Monday's card with a different background stamp and a different sentiment. I got some requests to make a tutorial for the "faux letterpress with heat embossing" that I used for the flower and I'm currently working on a little video tutorial... So I naturally had to re-make the card for the tutorial. I then realized it would be pretty perfect for our challenge because the flower die is by Altenew, background stamp is by Catherine Pooler, sentiment comes from Hero Arts and if I remember right, the embossing folder for the background is by Spellbinders. So if you feel you already saw this... My apologies!! My video will be ready some time on Sat evening ( GMT) so if you are interested, do check it out from my Instagram HERE.

I hope to see you joining us at Inkspirational! Plenty of fabulous DT inspiration and all the challenge details in the challenge blog HERE.

I'm joining:

ABC Christmas: Off the edge

Stamping Sensations: Anything Goes

We Love Stamping UK: Anything Goes

Saturday, 29 June 2024

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm back with a DT card for Inkspirational, where we want to see you using stencils. Head on over to our challenge blog for all the challenge details and lots of more DT inspiration! We also have an optional twist of "use paste" but I chose not to this time.

Creating this card was super easy although it did require some steps and drying time. The first step was debossing the Altenew florals with their 3d embossing folder on patterned paper that had random earthy colors on it. Next I did the "black out"-technique, where you swipe black ink on top of your debossed design so that what ever is debossed, shows clearly, and other areas turn black. I let this dry overnight. I then took a STAMPlorations stencil and stenciled the geometric pattern with white ink around the flower. I used Hero Arts white pigment ink which is the only white ink that I've been ably to get completely dry without setting it with anything... It does help setting the ink if you dry it with the heat tool in the beginning... But I anyway did let this one set for some hours before turning the panel over and attaching it to the card base.

I love how this turned out although it does have a melancholic vibe... I actually needed a sympathy card so I added a Finnish condolences sentiment to this, heat embossed on vellum. I keep thinking if it's too dark and not comforting enough for a sympathy card... But it is quite beautiful and has a tranquil feel. I want to try this method with more happy colors in the future!

I hope to see you playing along at Inspirational!

Thursday, 6 June 2024

New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

I'm back with a quick post to share my DT card for the new challenge at Time Out.

It's time for one of our Inspired by Words challenges. You can be inspired by the whole quote or just choose one words/some words from it as your starting point.

The quote is:

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”– Henri Matisse

I have used Altenew Deco Cover die set, Versatile Greetings die set and Decorative Florals 3d embossing folder in creating my card. I used acetate as my card base to really showcase the delicate frame. The florals are embossed on gold card stock and I then gently wiped white pigment ink on top. I set the ink by heat embossing it with clear sparkly powder. This card is very glitzy! Is that even a word lol!

I hope to see you joining us!

Saturday, 18 May 2024

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for Inkspirational where our DT member Pia has chosen a very fun theme for the next fortnight... Spotlight technique! There's many possible ways to execute this technique and there's great DT samples in the challenge blog. You can also make a quick google search and find many videos, tutorials and more image inspiration!

In my card I've used Altnew's CYL kit Meadow Breeze stamp with coordinating stencils. I stamped and stenciled the image twice: my first image was stenciled with only grey ink... And my second image was stenciled with very colorful inks!

I cut an arch shape out of the colorful version and placed it on top of the grey one and voila, I used the spotlight technique! :) The die cut sentiment is from Altenew's CYL kit Seasonal Blooms. I splattered with black water color this time and it was a bit runny... Some Altenew enamel dots cover a couple of crazy looking splatters... Luckily they fell into a pretty nice visual triangle lol!

I hope to see you joining our challenge!

I'd like to join:

Altenew May Inspiration Challenge

The Flower Challenge for May: Color Your Flower

Stamping Sensations May Challenge: Anything Goes

We Love Stamping May Challenge: Anything Goes

Saturday, 4 May 2024

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for Inkspirational! Our challenge for the next fortnight is "Seasonal". That means we want you to either choose an occasion related to a Season (like winter/Christmas) or use images specifically related to some season.

I have chosen Summer as my season and sunflowers as my specific image. Sunflowers are wonderful in late summer... many Finns grow them all the way from seeds and yet they become huge and bloom amazing come July/August!

. I colored in a Waffle Flower classic image, Sunflower Love, with Copics and Altenew pencils. I've die cut it with matching dies and created a card layout with patterned paper and some scraps from my scraps box. The white panel is heat embossed with a background stamp by the Ton with white pearl powder. I heat embossed a white sentiment (by Altenew) to the grey circle. I always get so happy when I'm able to use elements from my scraps box lol!

I'd like to join:

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: Anything Floral Goes

Simon Says Stamp: Feminine

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Feminine

Thursday, 25 April 2024

New Challenge t Time Out!

Hi friends!

I'm here with a DT card for our new challenge at Time Out. For the next fortnight we have a photo challenge for you and this time it's an extra special one: we are inspired by a purse by Running Stitch Design and this purse will also be the prize for our winner! How fun is that! Running Stitch Design is owned by one of our former DT members Kim and we are very happy to collaborate with her in this challenge. Our winner also gets called to guest design in a future challenge and this time it's the super talented Cornelia -do visit her amazing blog!

My card might look very different from the purse with a quick glance, but I was actually inspired by the blue dots in the fabric (I used LOADS of them lol) and of the stripes of the brown fabric (have a look at my background paper, lots of stripes there!).

The flower stamps and coordinating coloring stencils are by Altenew and so is the sentiment.

The dot stencil for the background comes from Hero Arts.

I'd like to join:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Anything Goes

We Love Stamping: Spring/Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations: Anything Goes

Stencil Fun for April: Spring/Anything Goes

Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you joining us!

Saturday, 20 April 2024

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for the new challenge at INKspirational! This time we want you to be inspired by a very fun moodboard, here it is:

Here's my card:

I was inspired by "You are Cool" text and also of the flowers in the middle of the moodboard. I had received this patterned paper and card topper as a freebie with a crafty supplies order from a Finnish web shop... And I think they go perfectly with the moodboard! The flowers are Sunburst Azalea dies by Altenew. I chose the leaves from another Altenew flower set, Belllower, I like the shape of them better. :) The arched rectangle die is a new product for me, by Spellbinders... I've seen so much of this arches everywhere that I had to jump in and by a die for myself too. Love it!!

I'd like to join:

Snippets Playground Challenge #478: use scraps

(flowers all all cut from scrap pieces of card stock)

Die Cut Divas: Spring

(spring is all about flowers, right!)

Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you joining us!

Thursday, 15 February 2024

New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

At Time Out Challenges we have a very special post for you today. We are celebrating our 10th birthday. Yes, 10th!! We therefore have 10 sponsor prizes for grabs... And also as a special treat Time Out co-founder Sandie is joining us in the fun. Head on over to Time Out Challenges for all the challenge details and lots of inspiration!

I wanted to play with an Altenew image (they are one of our sponsors) and I decided to choose one from my stash that I hadn't ever colored in yet. I've made several cards with this stamp but always using the coloring stencils. Coloring in your images of course makes more time... But it is so relaxing for me and always makes me feel very creative. My plan for 2024 is to find more time for coloring in!

For the sunflowers, their leaves and tulip leaves I used my new Altenew watercolor brush markers -love love love them. I have the winter- and spring sets. Such a beautiful product!! For the tulips and small flowers I had to grab some other mediums to have suitable colors for Altenew February Inspiration challenge color palette -this obviously means I need more of those water color brush markers, right?!? :)

I hope to see you playing along at Time Out.

I'm playing along:

Altenew February Inspiration Challenge

Seize The Birthday: Splatter

Saturday, 13 January 2024

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for Inkspirational, where we want you to use stencils... With an optional twist of two or more stencils/layering stencils.

I played with two Hero Arts stencils.

I begun with the Daisy Mosaic stencil and inked dark blue and black inks on navy card stock. I let it dry overnight (without removing the stencil) and then placed another Hero Arts stencil, Large Sprinkled Dots, on top and inked the circles with white HA pigment ink (the best white pigment ink if you ask me!). This looks kind of crazy and kind of cool I think! It looks almost glowy although all the inks are matt. A fun experimental project!

The Altenew sentiment is heat embossed with white HA powder and then die cut and popped up with 3d foam stickers.

Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you joining us! Please head on over to our challenge blog for all the challenge details and lots of DT inspiration.

I'd like to join:

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge: New (new stencil)

Moving Along With Times: New Craft Item (new stencil)

Stay Crafty With a Bog Named Hero: Everything old is new again

-I used the Daisy Mosaic stencil that I've had for a while already together with Large Sprinkled Dots which I used for the first time here... And together this new and old stencil created a "new" third stenciled image! :)

Friday, 27 October 2023

New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for Time Out Challenges -sorry for being one day late with my card and post!

Our challenge for the next fortnight is Inspired by Words:

"When we focus on our gratitude,

the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes on"

Kristin Armstrong

You can use the whole quote as your starting point or just be inspired by one word or some words like "tide", "gratitude" or "love". Plenty of possibilities here!

We are sponsored by Poppy Stamps with a generous $20 gift voucher and our winner also gets called to guest design in a future challenge. This time our inspiring GD is Deb Horst. Don't miss her fabulous card or any DT inspiration and challenge details, click HERE!

I was inspired by tide (made me think of waves) and love. My card ended up having a sort of maritime color palette, so I went into the direction of a masculine love-card. The stripy wavy die from my stash is unbranded, I unfortunately don't remember where it's from... But the sentiment and background die (more waves!) are by Altenew. Hope you like and thank you for stopping by!

I'll join:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge: Anything Goes

Tuesday, 19 September 2023

Altenew September 2023 Marvelous Monthly Series Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi friends!

I'm here today with a very special post -I'm joining the Altenew September Marvelous Monthly Series Release Blog Hop! In this hop you'll see fabulous projects made with the new Marvelous Monthly Series products.

Have a look at all of the new products HERE.

You'll see all the blogs participating in the hop in the Inliktz tool below. The blog hop begins at Altenew's blog HERE. You should have come here from

Bonnie's blog

and the next one on the list is

Lisa

There's $300 in total prizes to be won! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $100 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $40 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 09/25/2023 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 6 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 09/27/2023.

*The winner of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog.

Now let's have a look at what I made! The first two cards are made with using the Craft Your Life Project Kit Sunshine Flowers that is available until 3rd of October. Get yours HERE

The next two cards are a set that I made with the Build a Garden Frilly Begonia stamp set and matching coloring stencils. Get yours HERE

Last but not least... A quick stenciled and stamped CAS card made with Dynamic Duo: Wildflower Bouquet set. Get yours HERE

Do let me know which one of my cards is your favorite! Below is the Inlikz tool with all the blogs joining the hop for you to refer to in case you need it! Happy happy hopping!

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