Altenew Educators “Alphabet Name Game” Blog Hop and Linky Party + Giveaway

We have another fun Blog Hop with the Altenew Educators. This time we were asked to use a technique/style/tool that started with the letter of our first name. Since mine is Fiona I could have done foiling, fraying, folding (you get the idea) anyway I decided to use stamping Foam.

I had recently been at a Craft Show with Neha Aggarwal where I was demonstrating a new craft foam and fell in love with it. You just heat it with your heat gun for 20/30 seconds and then press it onto the surface of what you would like to use. The possibilities are endless, you can use stamps, dies, background stamps, embossing folders, stencils, anything! And the results you get are similar to block printing. What I really like is that it gives you another look from products you already own.

So as you can imagine I went crazy and designed four cards for you. Let me know in the comments below which one was your favorite.

It is important to remember to swipe the ink pads across the foam. Do not treat it like a stamp. You don’t want to get the ink into the crevices. I was able to get some lovely ombre effects using Altenew’s Crisp Dye Inks.

Thanks to Joylita Dsouza for sending you here if you started the hop from the beginning.

Don’t forget that there are $200 in total prizes! Altenew is giving away a $35 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 10/09/2021 for a chance to win. 

There’s MORE! What’s a hop without YOU?! We have included an Inlinkz at the Altenew blog for you to enter your gorgeous Altenew “Alphabet Name Game” creations. We will pick 2 of our favorite handmade creations from those who joined the linky party and they will each receive a $15 Altenew gift certificate!

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 10/11/2021.

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This was probably my favorite card. I really love the Sweet Dreams Ink Set.

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I put two examples here so that you could see how adding some doodling detail really changes the results.

Supplies used

• Stamping foam
• Altenew Flower Vine Stamp set
• Altenew Sentiment Strips Stamp set
• Altenew Crisp Dye Inks – Sweet Dreams Set
• Altenew Fine Liner – 01
• Neenah Solar White Classic Crest cardstock 80lb and 110lb
• Black cardstock
• Waffle Flower A2 Layers Die
• Versamark embossing ink
• Hero Arts white embossing powder
• PinkFresh Jewels – Stargazer

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  I swiped the ink cube onto the cardstock to get a nice texture.

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  I then built this up with 3 pieces of cardstock behind.

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  And wrapped some gold thread around securing it with double sided tape.

To complete this card I die cut a snowflake from gold glitter cardstock and then stamped my sentiment onto a smaller circle.

Supplies used

• Stamping foam
• Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Poppy stamp set
• Altenew Sentiment Strips stamp set
• Altenew Crisp Dye Ink – Four Scoops set
• Altenew Breezy Bouquet stamp set
• Altenew Layered Snowflakes Die
• Waffle Flower A2 Layers Die
• Waffle Flower Nesting Circles Die
• Neenah Solar White Classic Crest cardstock 80lb and 110lb
• Gold glitter cardstock
• Gold thread

I used only part of the Miss You Die for this card. It was inked up with the darkest ink and then embossed with Shimmering Pearl embossing powder.

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  I chose the lightest ink and then embossed the entire card piece with shimmering pearl embossing powder.
  

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  My sentiment was cropped so that it matched the rounded corner.

Supplies used

• Stamping foam
• Altenew Our Friendship Blooms stamp set
• Altenew Sentiment Strips stamp set
• Altenew Miss You Word Die
• Altenew Crisp Dye Ink – Tranquility set
• Neenah Solar White Classic Crest cardstock 80lb and 110lb
• Hero Arts Rounded Rectangle Infinity Dies
• Versamark embossing ink
• Nuvo embossing powder – Shimmering Pearl
• Silver embellishments
• Silver thread
• We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper

You can even use word dies with the stamping foam, but you must use the back side otherwise you will get the word written in reverse. I found that it gave me a nice shadow effect.

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Supplies used

• Stamping foam
• Altenew Fancy Thanks Die
• Altenew Sentiment Strips stamp set
• Altenew Crisp Dye Ink – Summer Afternoon set
• Neenah Solar White Classic Crest cardstock 80lb and 110lb
• Black cardstock
• Black and white bakers twine
• Waffle Flower A2 Layers Die
• Waffle Flower Nesting Circles Die
• Versamark embossing ink
• Nuvo embossing powder – Shimmering Pearl

Now it’s time to visit Michelle Ochoa Murray who is next on the blog hop.

Below is the full list of participants on the blog hop for you.

Altenew Blog

Virginia Lu

Joylita Dsouza

Fiona Duff – You are here

Michelle Ochoa Murray

Irina Fonina

Penny Pynnonen

Anna Patricia Mahtani

Kari VanNoy

Bridget Casey

Rachael Shedeed

Ann Taylor

Neha Aggarwal

Annemarie Caister

Helen Kalb

Sandra Woodson

Nancy Souza

Nandini Karmarkar

Pam Boedeker

Eva Bussom 

Terri Marie Koszler

Karen Brown

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you are inspired to try something new.

Fiona