No Line Pencil Colouring Dahlia Blossoms + WINNER of June 2017 Release

Hello everyone.

I have a new card to share over at the Altenew blog.

You can check it out HERE and read up on the details.

Also, I have to announce the winner of June 2017 release.

The winner is

 Amy's Card Obsession

CONGRATS!!!

Please send me a message using the contact form on the right hand side or write to winner@altenew.com by 7/31/2017.

You can also attach a link to my post confirming you are the winner.

Happy shopping!!

Altenew Build-a-Flower: Ranunculus Release

Hello friends.

Like every month on the 15th Altenew releases a new flower+die combo.

This time it is a beautiful Ranunculus.

I heat embossed my flower using Pure White Crisp Embossing Powder.

Watercoloured it using Warm Sunshine Metallic Shimmer Ink Spray.

The leaves were watercoloured using Pumice Stone distress ink.

I diecut all the images and popped them on my card front using foam tape.

I have used Spicy Yogurt cardstock for my card front and to it I have added a light colour wash with Pumic Stone distress ink and a few black splatters.

The sentiment is also heat embossed using Pure White Crisp Embossing Powder. I added a thin strip of gold glitter tape to it.

I hope you like it!

I really like the colour combination of my card.

The flower is oh so shimmery!

I will be sharing a video of the shimmer on my Instagram if you wish to check it out.

See you soon.

Erum

Loose Watercolouring with Metallic Ink Sprays

Hello friends :)

I have a new post over at the Altenew blog.

You can read how I made this card HERE.

Altenew June 2017 Release Blog Hop + GIVEAWAY

Hello!!

Welcome welcome to my humble blog.

I am SO excited today.

Like always this release too is AWESOME!

Altenew has knocked it out of the park with this stencil release.

I love it and I know you will too!

You must be here from the amazing Yoonsun Hur's blog.

Lets start with my first card using the Tree Ring Stencil.

I used the stencil to emboss the tree ring.

I had to use a metal shim for the lines to really show up properly.

I cut out the embossed area and inked it just like a wood slice would look.

After I was done inking, I popped it over on to my Spicy Yogurt card front using foam tape.

I stamped and diecut a sentiment from Halftone Hearts and popped it over the tree ring cut out.

I added some hearts (from the die in New Day Card Kit) with some glossy accent to add a pop of colour.

Next up Graffiti Scribble Stencil.

I made two cards out of one panel that I coloured using Crayola Markers.

I first outlined the stencil with a permanent black pen then shifted it a bit to offset it and added more lines to make one side of the drawn line bolder.

I hope you understand what I am saying.

I turned one card into a shaker card and kept the other very CAS,

Here are the cards individually.

I added a bit of shading in the white areas, "the scribble" with a grey colour pencil.

The "hello" is cut out by Bold Alphas dies. 

The sentiment is from Crafty Friends stamp set which is popped over Silver Glitter Tape.

Here is the next card.

This one looks SO GOOD in person.

I used the cut outs from the first card on this one by layering them four times.

All letters are straight except for the "E" which is a little tipped to the left.

I have added glossy accents on the letters and it looks great.

The enamel dots are from the New Day Card Kit. You can also purchase them individually.

The sentiment is from Crafty Friends stamp set.

My final set of cards featuring the Layered Kaleidoscope Stencil - B.

Again I did the same thing and made two cards out of one panel.

Here I watercoloured the panel using Gansai Tambi watercolours.

I cut out a strip from the panel after watercolouring. Placed the pieces on my base with foam tape.

Placed the diecut "everything" in silver foil from Halftone Everything like it's holding the two pieces together. Added a smaller sentiment on a black cardstock which was embossed using Pure White Crisp embossing powder.

Again, I really like this one. I have noticed I am leaning more towards CAS, less cluttered cards.

I have used the Halftone Everything stamp set again for this card.

What makes this different is that I added glossy accent to the watercoloured areas.

It looks like ceramic, vintage crockery with embossed fruits if you can recall?

Take a look.

I am loving the clean look of this card.

Thats all!

Now on to the prizes.

To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to FIVE lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog or/and Scrapbook Blog by Tuesday, June 20th at 11:59pm EDT for a chance to win. The winners will be announced on the Altenew Card/Scrapbook blogs on Thursday, June 22nd.

In addition to this, I will be giving away a $30 gift certificate to Altenew store.

The winner will be picked out from the comments left on this post till June 20th.

I will announce the winner on June 21st here.

Hope you liked the cards!

See you tomorrow over at the Altenew blog,

I have a lovely floral card to share with you.

Now hop on over to the lovely Laura Bassen's blog.

much love,

Erum

Altenew Card Blog

Jennifer McGuire

Altenew Scrapbook Blog

Sveta Fotinia

Sandra Dietrich

Yoonsun Hur

Erum Tasneem (this is me)

Laura Bassen

Enza Gudor

Agnieszka Malyszek

Lydia Evans

Kymona Tracey

Debby Hughes

May Sukyong Park

Terhi Koskinen

Svitlana Shayevich

Virginia Lu

Therese Calvird

Lilith Eeckles

WINNER Altenew May 2017 Release Blog Hop

Hello everyone!

Just a quick and short post to announce the winner from May release blog hop.

The winner of the $30 gift certificate is

 Isabelle

YAY!!!

Please get in touch with me via the contact form on the right hand side. Or you can contact Altenew directly at winner@altenew.com with a link to this post by 7/31/2017.

Thank you everyone for leaving comments and liking my cards, you guys are absolutely amazing.

-Erum

PS: In case you missed it, original post is HERE.

Stamp Focus: Best Buds and Budding Thanks

I have a new Stamp Focus post over at the Altenew blog.

You can check it out here.

-Erum

Altenew May 2017 Release Blog Hop + GIVEAWAY

Hello everyone

Welcome to Altenew's May 07 release.

You must be here from Flora Monika Farkas blog.

Apart from the stamps and dies, Altenew will be releasing SIX shades of embossing powders!

Lets get on with the projects.

First card using the Enchanted Iris Stamp Set.

I have used Woodgrain White cardstock for my card front.

I stamped the flowers and leaves with Versamark and used the new and gorgeous Golden Peach embossing powder to heat emboss them.

Isn't it just beautiful?

You have to see this in real life, the embossing powder is gorgeous! It has a peach tinted sheen.

I used Altenew Crisp Inks in Warm Sunshine, Puffy Heart, Purple Wine, Cosmic Berry, Deep Iris and Midnight Violet as my watercolours for the flowers.

I also added some hard lines with colour pencils.

The leaves were watercoloured with Bamboo, Parrot and Moss Crisp Inks.

The panel that the flowers are placed on is inked using Mountain Mist Crisp Ink.

I have used Warm Sunshine Crisp Ink as watercolour to add splatters to my background.

On to the next card, this one uses Halftone Hearts.

This is such a simple card and it came together so quickly!

I stamped different sizes of hearts using Purple Wine, Lavender Fields, Autumn Blaze, Coral Berry, Volcano Lake, Parrot and Warm Sun Shine Crisp Inks.

I stamped the "Hugs & Kisses" directly over the hearts and then added a bit of glossy accent on it.

You can even use the coordinating die to diecut the sentiment and pop it up. That was my plan initially but I didnt have the dies when I made this card but now I do and I will be making more of these to send out to my blog buddies. Oh and speaking of buddies...

Next up, Crafty Friends.

LOOK at the number of AWESOME sentiments on this one!!!

Perfect for your crafty friends (pun intended)

I heat embossed one of the larger sentiments using Pure White Crisp Embossing Powder.

I masked off the floral design on the stamp and replaced it with the cute envelope stamp.

I watercoloured my background with Distress Stains using four colours, Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers, Squeezed Lemon and a bit of Mustard Seed.

I heat embossed another sentiment on a strip of black cardstock, layered it over some black and white washi tape and popped it on my card front.

Now on to my last card for today featuring the Mosaic Dome die set.

Ramadan is just around the corner and I thought this die was perfect for Ramadan/Eid cards.

I kept the card really clean and simple, just added a bit of gold border with a marker.

I made a shaker card and did a bit of inlaid diecutting. 

I used the sentiments from Ramadan Greeting Stamp Set.

Heat embossed them in Antique Gold Crisp Embossing Powder.

To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to THREE lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew blog by Thursday, June 1st at 11:59 pm EDT for a chance to win. The winners will be announced on the Altenew blog on Saturday, June 3rd.

I will also be picking out a winner from the comments left here on this post for a $30 gift certificate.

All the comments left here till June 1st will be entered for a random draw.

The name of the winner will be announced on June2nd here.

Hop on over to the amazing Keeway Tsao's blog!

I hope you liked the cards. See you guys soon :)

much love,

Erum

Complete hop list is as follows:

Altenew

Jennifer McGuire

Virginia Lu

Lilith Eeckels

Nina-Marie Trapani

Svitlana Shayevich

Laura Bassen

Raquel Bowman

Joni Andaya

May Sukyong Park

Lydia Evans

TaeEun Yoo

Kavitha

Marika Rahtu

Lisa Spangler

Nicole Picadura

Yoonsun Hur

Amy Sheffer

Therese Calvird

Debby Hughes

Carissa Wiley

Flora Monika Farkas

Erum Tasneem (This is me)

Keeway Tsao

Eunyoung Lee

Sveta Fotinia

Agnieszka Malyszek

dsx

Stamped Around The World + GIVEAWAY from Tonic Studios

Hello friends!

Hope you guys are doing well.

Today I am participating in a special event hosted by my awesome friend Maria Sabina, you may know her as Lollyrot.

Here is a little word from Maria herself.

"The point of the ‘’Stamped around the world’’ is to bring a smile and to make people feel a bit special by writing a few positive words. Not only that the card is handmade and gets to travel to so many countries and to so many people, but a part of you will travel too. It is important to put technology aside and go back to the old days when words were really appreciated by writing a letter or a note. You can find all the details HERE"

A big thank you to Tonic Studios for sponsoring our hop.

Please leave a comment on each stop on the hop for a chance to win a goody bag from Tonic Studios.

I have added the complete hop list at the end of this post.

Winner will be announced on May 27th over at Maria's blog Lollyrot Scrapbooking.

For my one layer card I used Altenew's Bamboo Roses stamp set.

I coloured the stamps with Altenew Artist Markers and the butterfly was coloured with Crayola pip squeaks.

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I heat embossed the sentiment in white. This is the only other dimensional thing apart from the sequins. Wanted to keep this as mail friendly as possible.

That is all from my side!

Dont forget to leave a comment on every stop of the hop, it's a small list I know you can do it!

Ellen Hax

Alina Bartan

Tonic Studios

Nina-Marie

Maria Sabina

Erum Tasneem --- You are here

Olesya Kharkova

Altenew: One Layer Card With Garden Treasure Stamp Set

Hello everyone!

I have a new card to share over at Altenew.

You can check it out HERE.

Altenew: Painted Butterflies

Hello!

I have a new card to share over at Altenew.

Please come check it out and leave me a comment.

Thanks a million!

-Erum