Altenew A Year In Review Blog Hop

Hello hello!!

You are here from the talented Sveta Fotinia's place. If you just happen to stop by my blog, consider yourself extremely lucky and know that I am part of Altenew's A Year in Review blog hop and there are prizes to win too! I absolutely LOVE this company and I know a lot of my friends love Altenew too!

You can find the HOP LIST at the bottom of this post.

Can you believe I am part of this hop?! ME! I am still pinching myself! LOOK at that hop list! Incredible!

We are showcasing our favourite cards that we made using Alenew products in 2016. Here are a few of mine.

I have added the link to the original post of my projects below the photo (in case you want to read the details) with a link to Altenew stamps.

Original post HERE

Stamps: Golden Garden, Wild Hibiscus, Label Love, Painted Butterflies

Original post HERE

Stamps used: Magnolias for Her, Golden Garden

Original post HERE

Stamps used: Hennah Elements, Label Love

Original post HERE

Stamps used: Beautiful Day

Original post HERE

Stamps used: Peony Bouquet

Original post HERE

Stamps used: Peony Bouquet

Original post HERE

Stamps used: Beautiful Day

Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners - selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop.

You have until Wednesday, January 4th at 11:59 PM ET to enter, and the winners will be announced on the Altenew blog on Friday, January 6th.
There is another prize!

If you win, you will also be getting a card from ME!
One more reason for you to comment!
I will announce the winner on my blog here on Thursday, January 5th. Please don't forget to check back here!

Altenew is running a special shipping promotion now through Friday.

Make sure to enter the code at checkout to take advantage of this special deal!

Your next stop on the hop is the totally amazeballs Jennifer Mcguire!

Here is your complete hop list in case you get lost in all the creative goodness!

Altenew

Yana Smakula

Sveta Fotinia

Erum Tasneem (That's ME!)

Jennifer McGuire

May Sukyong Park

Virginia Lu

Hussena Cal

Laura Bassen

Svitlana Shayevich

Laura Jane

Therese Calvird

Isha Gupta

Marika Rahtu

TaeEun Yoo

Anna Kossakovskaya

Kristina Pokazanieva

Natalia Zubkova

Debby Hughes

Before I leave here's wishing all of you a very happy new year!!!

Stay safe, have tons of fun!

-Erum

You can find me on Instagram too! Click the photo below.

Papericious: Fairy Land

I have a new card up over at PAPERICIOUS blog today!

Hop on over to check it out!

Thank you!

Erum

A Year In Review Inspiration Challenge

Playing along with Altenew's "A year in review" challenge. I picked Amy's inspiration board (June 2016). I have always loved it and wanted to try it.

Here is my take on it.

Beautiful Day stamp set is watercoloured using distress inks. The stripes on the base are also watercoloured. I fussy cut the flower and added it on a foam tape. 

I added a few diamante to the flowers on the vine for a little bling.

Hope you like it!

hugs,

Erum

Advent Calendar Extravaganza with Taheerah Atchia

Hello everyone!!!!

I am one of the stops today, i.e. the 6th day of  the Advent Calendar Extravaganza by the totally awesome Taheerah Atchia!

So excited and absolutely honoured to be part of this event again!

Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season!

This ‘hop with a twist’ was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day! Joining in the fun with Taheerah are ONE HUNDRED special guests - each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you’ll never know where you’re going to be visiting next until you ‘open the door’!

And that’s not all! With 25 *amazing* sponsors taking part as guests as well, your crafty wish list is bound to get a boost with a chance to win a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

Join in the fun every day at taheerah-atchia.com to see what special surprises await behind the door!

It’s not a party without a prize - and with prizes every day there are several chances to win!

Today’s prize is generously supplied by Altenew so you’ll definitely want to win!

Simply leave a comment on this post - then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too! 

I made two cards for this event. Here is my first card:

For both my cards I used Altenew's Peony Bouquet stamp set.

Here I used masking to create a floral border. I coloured the flowers using white Faber Castell classic pencil and a white gel pen.

The word "merry" is cut using Silhouette and I glittered the alphas to add the christmasy touch.

And my next card is a shaker card!

This one looks a lot like the one I made last year for Advent Calendar Extravaganza but I really wanted to make a typical red and gold Christmas card this time too and followed the inspiration graphic by Altenew. Here I have watercoloured the flowers using distress inks and added black paint splatters to the background.

You must leave a comment on Taheerah’s blog as well as mine in order to be eligible to win!

Don’t forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah’s blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more!

You have until 23:59 EST on 31st December 2016 to enter.

Don’t forget Advent Calendar Extravaganza runs from 1st-25th December inclusive so make sure you visit taheerah-atchia.com every day for fabulous inspiration and amazing prizes every single time!

Merry Christmas!

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