Altenew BAF: Laelia release and giveaway

Hello! it is the first of the month and you know what that means! A new Build-A-Flower release from Altenew. This month is the Laelia Orchid which is a stunning flower which I thought was best on a slimline card. If you are hopping along you came from everybody’s favorite crafter, Erum Tasneem. Your next stop is my fellow crafty Altenew Educator, Colleen Balija. 
Altenew generously supplied this stamp set for me so I could share inspiration with you. Please read on for how I used the Laelia to make a delicate and pastel slim line card. 

The Laelia flowers are delicate with longer stems that I thought would look great on a slimline card. To give my flowers a background that would make them pop, I took a piece of watercolor paper and cut it down to 8″x 3.5″. I added water and then added Dusk Altenew Watercolor Brush marker ink and continued with water until the panel was covered. I then stamped a large vase from the Versatile Vases 2 set using Obsidian Black ink. The sentiment is from Sentiment Strips 2 and was stamped in embossing ink and then in Altenew Antique Gold Embossing powder. The sentiment was die cut with the Featured Sentiment Dies and attached with foam tape. 
For the flowers, I wanted a soft look like a no-line watercolor look. I stamped the outline image in Vanilla Cream. The gray/purple flower used inks from Rock Collection and Enchanted Garden.  The pink flower used inks from Cherry Blossom.    The leaves used inks from Green Valley. The flowers were cut out with the coordinating dies. I then added these flowers to the card front and added the base to a slim line card. 

Giveaway Prizes
$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 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 10/07/2021for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 10/09/2021.​

Love flowers? Love layered floral stamps? Don’t miss a moment creating with the Build-A-Flower series that is released on the first of every month. Check out the subscription details on theAltenew website. 

Thank you so much for joining the blog hop. Your next stop is Colleen Balija. I really appreciate your lovely comments and would like to know if you make slimline cards.  If my card inspired you today, please tag me with your creations on Instagram @sevenscrafts. I would love to see what you make!