Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 in Total Prizes!)

Altenew's latest Craft Your Life Project Kit is now available, and it's a stunning group of coordinating products! We're celebrating this new release with a blog hop!

Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence features a beautiful 6×8 stamp set with two different corner floral arrangements, coordinating layering stencils, corner cut-out dies, and a 3D embossing folder! Here's a peek at this month's kit.

Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence

Enjoy floral florescence with stunning flowering blooms. Stamp the two elaborate clusters of poppies, chrysanthemums, and daisies to bring floral beauty to your projects. They are perfect to fill card backgrounds or frame your scrapbook layouts. Color the floral intricacies with watercolor or brush markers for a vibrant touch. Finally, stamp any of the uplifting sentiments or quotes to brighten a loved one's day. 

Such a beautiful kit, right? This kit is available for $59.99, but you can always join the monthly subscription to be guaranteed to receive these kits each month, and at a discounted price! Check out all of the details on how to subscribe to the Craft Your Life Project Kits HERE.

Craft Your Life Project Kit Inspiration

I have two projects to share with you today using the new Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence, so let's get started with the details!

Both projects feature mustard as a prominent color, with some added golden gilding to add extra luxury. I also added some rich plum, maroon, and fuchsia watercoloring to create a unique and intense color palette.

For the first card, I used the super-detailed 3D Embossing Folder included in the Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence with some deep mustard cardstock.

I ran the embossing folder with the mustard cardstock through my die-cutting machine to create the raised image, then swiped my Embossing Ink pad over the raised areas. I then sprinkled some gold embossing powder over the sticky ink and heated it with my heat gun.

These shining gilded edges help to add such a luxurious feel to the card front!

I splattered some Metallic Watercolors on the gilded card front to add some extra metallic shine.

I wanted to emphasize the beautiful embossed image even further, so I used a Blending Tool and some Yellow Ochre ink to blend some deep gold around the edges of the card front, highlighting the raised image.

Next, I heat embossed a greeting from Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence onto another strip of the same mustard-colored cardstock then backed it with some gold glitter paper from the Gilded Cardstock Set. A few iridescent golden gems finished it off!

For my second card, I heat embossed one of the floral corners from the Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence stamp set onto an A2 panel of watercolor paper using the same rich gold embossing powder.

I taped the embossed panel down to my watercolor board, leaving a wide edge to create a white frame, then used the Artist's Watercolor 24 Pan watercolor set to add lots of intense yellow, plum, magenta, and maroon color to the image and the surrounding area, mixing and matching the colors in the palette to create these custom colors.

I removed the painter's tape from the edges of the card front once it had dried, then added a dimensional glittery gold die-cut sentiment from the Script Words 2 die set, cut from the Gilded Glitter Cardstock Set.

I also gold-embossed a greeting from Inside and Out: Thanks onto some coordinating maroon cardstock using the same gold embossing powder, then popped it up on the card front with foam adhesive. I added a few more iridescent gold gems for some added texture and sparkle.

Well, that's all for my projects today! I hope you enjoyed seeing the gorgeous new Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence kit in action. Now for some fun giveaway information!

Win one of these GIVEAWAY PRIZES!

$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $ 25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 05/18/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 05/20/2022.

Blog Hop List

Here's a list of all the wonderful designers joining today's hop. Your first stop is the super talented Jennifer McGuire! Make sure to leave lots of love on each blog hop stop! 

Altenew Card Blog
Jenny Colacicco
Mindy Eggen 
Virginia Lu
Cheryl Espie
Nathalie DeSousa
Nenette S. Madero
Terri Koszler
Angela Brennan
Jaycee Gaspar
Colleen Balija
Tenia Nelson
LauraJane
Maryam Perez 
Preeti Chandran
Reiko Tsuchida ***Note: Due to strict regulations in Japan, you might not be able to leave a comment on her blog post. 
Nandini Karmarkar
Laurie Patterson
Amy Hill
Bridget Casey
Linda Westfall
Eva Bussom
SathyaKala Sankaran
Ann Taylor
Rosie Neustaedter
Sande Woodson 
Susan Stagno
Daniel Diaz
Hussena Calcuttawala
Natasha Davies