 Hello my crafty friends and welcome back to a card making video. Today I'm going to share 7 cards using products from the latest release by Altenew. This way you can see most of the products in action and easier to choose what's best for you. This time the release is packed with really unique stamps and I absolutely love that. I'm starting with up and away, this is a really fun product and you can see the balloon from a different perspective as well as a smaller one. There is also a couple looking at the balloon as well as many sentiments. Just like always with all Altenew products you will get a leaflet in the stamp set that gives you some ideas on how you can work with it on a card but I'm planning to use the bigger balloon for an art journal. I absolutely love the big stamp that you get there so it would be a great focal point for my art journal and mixed media journeys. There are also matching products along with this set so you can get stencils. The stencils will help you to color easily both of the balloons so you will get four stencils for the bigger balloon and one stencil where you will find all the gaps that you need to color in the smaller balloon. And as always there are matching dies available. Now let's start with stamping. I'm using permanent ink to stamp that balloon because although I will mainly color it with a stencil because it is super easy but I will still need to color in the little basket at the bottom with my alcohol markers. For the balloon I decided to go with yellows and oranges. I think it would make a good contrast on the air in the front of blue sky. So I started with snapdragon then I went with sunny and I finished with marigold. However in these stencils you will find four different layers. For two of the layers I just went with the darker ink that I used marigold so I didn't use four colors. I absolutely love that now most of the stamps come with stencils that help you color them in. I don't really enjoy coloring my images with alcohol markers I prefer inking. That's why I love this technique so much. Still I need to color in the basket. I'm just using a matching color with the balloon. And I used the matching tie to cut it out. Now for my background I'm going to play with cloudy day 3D embossing folder. This is so unique I absolutely love the sky detail with the clouds that it gives you. I'm using just a piece of cardstock there and this I believe is by Simon's tab. I think it is only blue if I'm not mistaken. To help the design pop even more to break in more to life I'm going to do some inking. For that I'm using white pigment ink and my blending brush. Very lightly I go over those nooks and crannies. The white is going to grab where all those mountains are and it's going to help the design pop even more. Plus it gives that fluffy look on the clouds. For this technique to work just make sure that you don't load with ink your brush too much and also go very lightly over the cardstock. And one thing that I need to keep in mind since I'm working with pigment ink here I need to make sure that I leave this background aside to dry otherwise I'm going to end up with lots of smudging. At the bottom of this panel there is an area which is quite flat. This is where I'm going to stamp my sentiment. I went with the word dream from the same stamp set and I'm going to stamp that with embossing ink and apply white embossing powder. Now my card is almost finished. It's just a matter of putting things together. I'm going to stick this panel with foam tape at the back on top of my card base. Then here goes my balloon and I'm going to finish it off with an extra sentiment that says the sky is the limit. I just stamp that with black on a piece of white cardstock and finally I did spread a few enamel dots along the sky. Imagine all the possibilities playing with color for the balloon. You can even go rainbow order and you can add many more balloons on your sky for a really colorful outcome. Another favorite from this release is this stamp set Sea is the day. It gives you this part for the sea. There is a boat along with a lighthouse, clouds and many sentiments to play with along with a girl looking at the sea. You will also find seagulls. I find this is really great especially if you like to build nautical scenes. So I'm starting on a blue cardstock and I'm going to stamp the detail for the sea. Now for that you can either go with a different shade of blue so go for a tone on tone which would look great as well but for my design I wanted to have all the detail in white that's why I stamped that with embossing ink and then I'm going to apply on top white embossing powder and hit set it. Now I'm just going to use my scissors, follow the horizon and just cut along that white line. I did some very basic coloring on my boat. I went with red for the bottom of the boat and for the sails I just used light grey just to give a hint of shadow there but mainly keeping them white. Then I used the same color that was crimson that I used for my alcohol markers. Again I'm using crimson here to stamp the sentiment bon voyage on top of my panel and now with slightly darker ink that was velvet I only touched the bottom of the sentiment just to give it a little bit of a shadow. And now it's time to assemble my panel. I'm sticking down first the sea. I have foam tape at the back for some dimension. I'm also going to stick on top. Again I have foam tape here, the boat and I'm going to embellish the background with the clouds. And I do cut the excess cloud with my scissors and then stick it on another side of the card so that I have three clouds since I always like to work with odd numbers. Now this is where I decided that I want a secondary sentiment that's why I had to peel off the boat, no harm was done there. I'm going to stop my secondary sentiment again this is from the same stamp set and then put the boat back in place. A great card for those who love travelling and also includes a lovely quote perfect for my art journals since travelling is one of my favourite themes. Now I'm putting together a very simple card just to showcase the feathered French dye set. In this set you will find this bird that I'm using now and in three different sizes so this one that I'm using is the larger one but you will find two smaller ones included. All I did was to die cut it from a white cardstock I'm using foam tape at the back and stick it on top of a panel by the way the panel was created exactly as I did the first card. Just repeat the same technique, stamp the word shore which comes from the stamp set with the balloons and you end up with a stunning card in no time. And you see you don't always have to overthink or work too much on a card to make it beautiful and to have a big impact. One thing that I absolutely love about the journal is by Altenew is the absolutely unique stamps this time. This one is called spectacular adventures. Now this is going to be the exact opposite of the previous card where I did almost no work at all just die cut a bird so here I'm going to take you to the next level I'm going to have lots of fun with it instead of using just one of the glasses three of them on my card so that I can use all the different scenes included in the stamp set just to have fun and this way you will be able to see what you get. So here all I'm doing is stamping the glasses three times I'm making sure that I have enough spacing between them because I'm going to use the matching die to cut them out Of course you can make it completely flat like it looks here but also I have to pop those glasses on my panel Now I did stamp that one more time on masking paper this is masking paper I'm going to cut out the inside of the glasses I'm cutting out a little bit of that black line as well to make sure that I have enough opening and I'm actually creating a mask for the glasses The idea is to use this mask on my glasses so that I can easily ink them up with the background for the stamping later on Then I align the mask on top of the first glasses and I'm inking them up this time I'm going with pink for the bottom and then I'm going to add orange and add the top and you can go crazy with those color combos you can have your glass looking really cool for the second pair of glasses you will see I'm going with blues and purple at the top and then I'm going to peel off the mask one more time and you see my mask isn't holding too well it's already in three pieces but that's not a problem I can always easily put them back together after all I need these to hold just for three glasses So for the third one I went with orange and yellow at the top and I love how this is so cool and unique it's a stamp set that I have nothing like it in my stash and I have hundreds of stamp sets since this is my job and now that my backgrounds are ready let's start stamping the reflections which are absolutely stunning and they are going to turn this into looking so cool So the first one that I'm going with is the city, the row of buildings there I'm going to stamp that with black ink by the way I'm stamping everything with Altenew black pigment ink with a very dark black impression Now if you don't align them completely well it's not a problem, you see I have a gap at the bottom but I'm going to fill it in with my alcohol marker later on Now for the orange and pink background I'm going with the palm trees reflection and you know if you want at the end you can go ahead and add glossy accents on top to make them shiny if you like or even emboss them with clear embossing powder I didn't do it for this card but it would be a great effect at the end Now for the orange and yellow one I went with the third and last impression which is a landscape, just mountains and some trees There is a matching dye to cut them out which I used and to make my card look super cool I decided to use a black panel so that I have a big contrast with the sunglasses I'm also matching that with a purple to bring the purple of one of the backgrounds So these three glasses can be a focal point on different cards you can make three out of them However I decided to stick them all in a row and I already embossed the sentiment this comes from the same stamp set as the glasses with white embossing powder and I'm going to call this card done Super cool, absolutely in love with this stamp set Now the next card is going to be again quick and simple this time I'm using stencil let's play with stencils and inks this is the polka dot pads just two stencils that you layer one on top of the other and you can have so many different variations with that one I'm going monochromatic just using two different shades of blue however you can have every row with a different color if you like or another variation is to use one stencil with one color and then for the second stencil you can go with embossing paste with glitter paste just to add dimension and sparkle it's a great way to create your very own pattern paper using your favorite colors and all you have to do then on top is to just stick a die cut and you are good to go now I started with the first layer and I used icy water and now for the second layer shade which is winter lake by the way I'm working on my misty so that I can take advantage of that edge I just align the stencils with the bottom right corner and they fall exactly in the position that they should be so here is my background I'm going to cut it down to be slightly smaller than the standard size I die cut the word amazing and this has also the word as well as the shadow it's from the new all about you word die set you can mix and match different words from this one and I think they make great sentiments especially for very busy background like mine here so I'm adding some silver gems at the center of all those flowers and they match beautifully with the silver cutstock that I used to cut out the word amazing and this is going to finish off my panel all I need to do is to stick it on top of a standard card that's 4.25x5.5 and of course you cannot have an alternate release without wonderful flowers thumb set this is called sisters of the heart it gives you lovely bunches of flowers you will get the outline so if you are the type who loves coloring with your alcohol markers or any other coloring medium you will sure have lots of fun with that and I love that it comes with lovely sentiments that you can stumble on the inside of the card but you know me instead of coloring inside the black lines I prefer going with the matching stencils there are many stencils included in the set here I started with the leaves there are two layers for the leaves the first one is lime here the ink that I used then for the second layer I used the darker shade which is fresh leaf and also notice that I always use some masking tape to cover up any gaps if there are any in the stencils so that they don't make a mess this is especially important if you are working on a flat card I'm going to cut it out so if I have any smudges outside of the main design it's not a big problem and for all those pinks I went with inks from the cherry blossom set by Altenew I did die cut the whole bunch of flowers and then for the background you are going to be amazed I used the waffle diamonds 3D I'm using a cardstock which is on the lighter side and this is going to give me an amazing result it's so dimensional you almost have to use a foam tape at the back of all those mountains to save them from squashing if you put them back inside the card this is absolutely amazing just stunning that flower bouquet and this beautiful background dimensional background really make this card looking so stunning I finished it off with a simple sentiment and added a few gems and here are some close up photos and let's move on to the last card for today for this one I'm playing with mighty waves 3D embossing folder and this really is another showstopper you can see here the result cardstock it is just stunning absolutely love the design especially now that it is summer and I'm just playing here with colors trying different cardstocks and such I did die cut it from white cardstock here which is actually the panel that I will be playing with for this video today and I'm going to show you what I did to bring this beautiful texture into life so I'm going to use wax and this is wax mat by Prima the color that I'm using is patina blue I'm using a very stiff brush and the brush is completely dry so the technique I'm going for is dry brushing I'm going to lightly go over all the paper and you will be able to see how those mountains all the peaks in the design grab the wax I don't load my brush with too much product I prefer to go back again and again to build up the layers and the color instead of just going with too much and then I won't be able to move it around if you don't have a wax you can do this technique with your acrylic paints the thicker the acrylic paints that you have especially those in a tube the better the technique is going to look if you go with liquid acrylics for example it's going to be quite difficult because it tends to run on the inside of those embossed areas so you will not have paint only at the mountains but also in the valleys and then you will end up with a flat looking project again you can also use your brush to do that here I'm using my mini blending brush and I'm just introducing a second color slightly darker just to have some variation on the color I did use my scissors to fuzzy cut around the design and this is going to be my main panel I used foam tape at the back I'm going to stick it down and I do have dots of glue at the top of the wave so they don't pick out I don't want to do anything else on this card I think it looks stunning as it is all I did was to add a sticker sentiment and spread out along the waves a few gems and these were the cards for today as I was playing with products from the latest release by Altenew I hope this kind of videos are helpful as you can see the new products in action and hopefully you can choose what's best for you also make sure to visit my blog there is a blog hope going on for the new release with lots and lots of giveaways thank you all so much for joining me today and I hope that you had fun and that you got inspired