Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Altenew July 2025 Release Blog Hop! If you came here from Therese Calvird’s blog, you're on the right track. If not, be sure to go back the Altenew Blog, and start from there so you don't miss a thing!
$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $100 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $50 gift certificate to 4 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by July 17th for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 5 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew's Blog Hop Post on July 19th, 2025.
The winner of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog.
Today I’m sharing two simple cards created with products from the July 2025 Release collection.
For the first card, I used the charming Creative Cuts: Cozy Homes Layering Die Set. It’s a perfect set for crafting winter villages or quaint neighborhoods. However, if you choose to skip the snow layers, it easily transforms into a versatile design for any season. I opted for a summery look by adding climbing flowers on the elevations, using alcohol markers to bring them to life with soft, vibrant colours. This little detail adds a beautiful character to the houses.
I started by die cutting all the elements from white cardstock, then used markers from the Cosmic Garden Artist Alcohol Markers Set A to add colour to selected pieces.
To finish the card, I added the word “Home”, created using the Fine Alphabet Die Set to complete the cozy neighbourhood scene.
For my second card, I used the Mini Delight: Time to Celebrate Stamp & Die Set. This set features a lovely arrangement of flowers and leaves along with cute gift box dies, making it perfect for creating fun and festive handmade cards for birthdays, anniversaries, or holidays.
I used the floral stamp to create a background and coloured it using markers from the Cottage Garden Artist Alcohol Marker Set N.
As a final step, I created the cute little gift boxes with green bows and combined them with a birthday sentiment. This brought the whole design together and added a playful, festive touch to the card.
That’s it for me, your next stop is Svitlana Shayevich.
You can find the full line up below.
Thank you for stopping by today!
Aga
To finish the card, I added the word “Home”, created using the Fine Alphabet Die Set to complete the cozy neighbourhood scene.
For my second card, I used the Mini Delight: Time to Celebrate Stamp & Die Set. This set features a lovely arrangement of flowers and leaves along with cute gift box dies, making it perfect for creating fun and festive handmade cards for birthdays, anniversaries, or holidays.
I used the floral stamp to create a background and coloured it using markers from the Cottage Garden Artist Alcohol Marker Set N.
As a final step, I created the cute little gift boxes with green bows and combined them with a birthday sentiment. This brought the whole design together and added a playful, festive touch to the card.
That’s it for me, your next stop is Svitlana Shayevich.
You can find the full line up below.
Thank you for stopping by today!
Aga
Your showing how to use these as other than Christmas is such a helpful thing. Great job on your cards, as well as showing off Altenew's new products.
ReplyDeleteYour cards are so fresh and unique!
ReplyDeleteI just love your ideas for these new products!!! Thank you for sharing your creativeness!!!
ReplyDeleteYour cards are so classic and elegant, I love them!!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, I LOVE the house with flower/vines. And the second card is just beautiful, too. These might even be my favorites....
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the CAS home card! And stunning presents!!!
ReplyDeleteThese are very pretty!
ReplyDeleteFabulous CAS designs!! I think I'll HAVE TO buy the Cozy Home Layer die set, I really like how you used it on your card! It'll be perfect for a house warming.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! Those little houses are so cute!
ReplyDeleteOh how creative! Absolutely love both cards!
ReplyDeleteLove your cards!! I love the home die set and the gift box die set!!
ReplyDeleteThese cards are beautiful and delicate. Just looking at your Home card made me feel nostalgic.
ReplyDeleteDear Aga - The Cozy Homes card has a vintage Mad Men feel to it. LOVE it!! The second card is stunning for its delicacy and tight color scheme.
ReplyDeleteLori S in PA
Gorgeous cards, I love how you paired the presents with the gorgeous background.
ReplyDeleteWhat fun cards! Love the new release! Faves are the zero waste and lush berries but the houses and larkspur are close behind!
ReplyDeleteMarisela Delgado said: Such lovely cards 💜 mariandmonsterd@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI love the frame of flowers around the gifts. Beautiful card!
ReplyDeleteI love how you added flowers to the front of the houses. Very unique! The gift boxes look great nestled among the flowers in your 2nd card.
ReplyDeleteLove your beautiful 'Home' card, and the floral design with the gift boxes! Wonderful cards!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards! Love that you combined the flowers with the presents
ReplyDeleteSuch wonderful cards. I love how you created a summer house with the alcohol markers.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous cards! Your card using the Cozy Home set is so beautiful. The addition of the flowers was clever and took it to the next level.
ReplyDeleteFantastic! So beautiful! Love your pretty little home card and the 2nd one with all of those pretty little flowers too....so pretty!
ReplyDeleteThe cosmic garden home with the pink door!!! Eeek! So cute.
ReplyDeleteWow! Your cards are so beautiful! I love how the presents and flowers look together!
ReplyDeleteLovely cards Agnieszka! Love the clean look. The birthday card is so pretty with the floral images.
ReplyDelete